The text and two disks comprise a self-paced study of the C language. Tutorials, lab exercises, and on-line quizzes allow beginning students to move through material on formatted data input and output, expressions and operators, program control statements, and string functions. Students who pass the course's mail-in final exam receive a certificate from the University of Phoenix and a chance to take a more advanced test for three units of course credit. The disks contain a streamlined version of Borland's Turbo C++ compiler. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.