Overview of This Tutorial

This tutorial contains some information on what a programmer needs to keep in mind when writing a module for Pike using the C or CMOD API. The aim is to describe how C level implementation is to be done, not how Pike level design is done. It is however an attempt to describe the writing of a module both using CMOD and not using CMOD. The descriptions are first of general kind. Later on in this tutorial these descriptions are exemplified by a very small module called 'Rev'.

The document contains some terms that are C or CMOD API specific. Therefore it is recommended to read the documentation of the C API and the documentation of the CMOD API before or in parallel with this tutorial.