Computer training C

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C Training

First steps

• How C became
• Getting to know the GNU C compiler
• The basic anatomy of a C program

 

Data types, operators and expressions (the basics)

• Base data types and their sizes
• Constants and declarations
• Variable names
• Arithemetic operators
• Relational and logical operators
• Increment and decrement operators
• Increment and decrement operators
• Assignment operators
• Expressions
• Operator precedence
• Casting and type conversion

Program flow control

• if - else
• switch
• while , do-while and for-loops
• Statements and blocks

Functions

• Functions and function prototypes
• Returning values from functions
• External variables and scope rules
• Static variables
• call by value and recursion

Pointers and arrays

• Pointers and addresses
• Pointers as arguments to functions
• Arrays
• The relationship of pointers and arrays
• Pointer arithmetic
• How C deals with multi-dimensional arrays
• Arrays of pointers - their uses and initialisation
• Strings and string functions

Structures

• Fundamentals of structures
• Passing structures as arguments to functions
• Returning structures as return values from functions
• Arrays of structures
• Pointers to structures
• Using pointers to structures to pass values to a function and return values from a function
• Typedef and its uses in developing well structured and maintainable code

An introduction to data structures and algorithms

• Sorting arrays of records
• Allocating and freeing memory (malloc and free)
• Linked lists and queues
• Indexing (table lookup, binary trees, hashing)

Input-output

• Standard input and standard output
• Formatted output - printf
• Formatted input - scanf
• The dangers of scanf
• File access and file I/O
• An overview of input-output in a windowing environment

Further topics

• The MACRO pre-processor and how to use it wisely
• Unions
• Bit fields
• Date and Time functions in the C Standard Library
• Diagnostics- the assert macro

Makefiles, Libraries, RCS and CVS

• Simple make files
• MACROS in make files
• Use of dummy targets
• Recursive makefiles
• Building and using libraries
• The importance of version control
• RCS and CVS

 

C Programming: course description

Description: The goal of this course is to provide developers the most important concepts of the C programming language

Duration: 3 days

Prerequisites : preferably 3 months programming experience

Introduction

• program-structure
• flow of control
• I/O
• declarations of variables (scope)
• initialization

Expressions

• constants
• types (int, short, void, pointer-types, …), type-casting
• unary operators (pre- post- operators, pointer operators, …)
• binary operators (logical-, bitwise-, arithmetic-operators, …)
• ternary operators

 Statements

• if…then , switch, do…while, for, break, return, …
• functions (stack mechanism
• parameters: by value, by reference, const
• best practices
• recursion

Arrays strings and pointers

• arrays
• strings
• pointers
• pointer arithmetic
• best practices

Preprocessor, command-line

• compilation process (1st part)
• preprocessor-functions
• parameters of main: command-line arguments

Structures and lists

• structures, unions, enumerators, constants
• structures and pointers
• the heap and dynamic memory allocation ( malloc(), free() )
• linked lists

Storage classes

• scope and lifetime
• declarations: automatic, static, extern, register
• global vs local variables: best practices
• linking
• process memory map

Libraries

• compilation process (2nd part)
• standard libraries (stdio, string, stdlib, time, …)

Datatypes

• typedef
• priority of operators
• multi-dimensional arrays
• common mistakes
• unaffordable constructions

 

 

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