This book is designed for novice programmer who are new to programming and filled with fear. In this concise and highly trimmed book, a brief history of the evolution of C language is presented. This is followed by the selection and installation of compiler. Although, MinGW compiler is used, the user is free to choose any other compiler of his/her choice. This chapter only gives a brief introduction of C to the beginners. Most of the complicated features(like Arrays, Pointers, Structures, Unions File handling etc.) of the language is avoided to keep the book simple.