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Introduction to C Language
| Duration: 5 days |
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Course Summary:
This course is for programmers who need a detailed and thorough introduction to the basics of C language. More than 150 complete sample programs with input and output as well as a case study will assist students in mastering all topics quickly. Students will create moderate level application programs using compiled statements, preprocessor directives, and calls to standard library functions. Three optional units are covered if there is time. |
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Prerequisites:
- Experience with any programming language. |
| Format: 50% lecture, 50% hands-on lab exercises. |
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Topics Covered In This Course:
- Unit 1, Overview Of C Language Overview of C Language Documentation First Program: Three Ways to Say Hello Notes, First Program Compiling in Unix, Linux, and Windows - Unit 2, Identifiers, Basic Data Types, Constants, Declarations, Printf Identifiers, Keywords Basic Data Types Constants Declarations and Actions Printf Conversion Specifications Ascii Character Code - Unit 3, Expressions, Operators, And Scanf Expressions, Precedence and Associativity of Operators Arithmetic Operators Scanf Conversion Specifications Assignment Operators Comparison Operators Sizeof Compile-Time Operator Cast Operator Type Conversion Ternary Operator Aka Conditional Expression Nested Ternary Operator - Unit 4, Compound Statements And Conditionals Compound Statement, Aka Block If Switch - Unit 5, Loops, Break, And Continue While Do While For Break And Continue - Unit 6, Arrays, Getchar, And Putchar Declaring an Array and Referencing an Element Two- and Three-Dimensional Arrays Two Views of a Two-Dimensional Array Initializing Arrays Getchar, EOF Putchar - Unit 7, Introduction To Pointers Declare, Reference, Dereference a Pointer Null Pointers Pointers and Arrays, Scaling - Unit 8, Strings And String Functions Strings Printf with %s Scanf %s Gets and Puts Fgets and Fputs Str... Functions Strlen, Strcpy, Strcat, Strcmp Standard Library Functions to Process Char Arrays - Unit 9, User-Defined Functions Defining Functions Arguments, Parameters, and Return Values Return Statement Exit Function Declarations and Prototypes of Functions Prototypes, Void, and Argument Evaluation Addresses and Pointers as Arguments Pointer and Array Notation in Parameters - Unit 10, Storage Classes The Dynamic Area External Variables, Extern Declarations The Data Area and Static Variables Solving a Problem with Pointers - Unit 11, Structures, Unions, Typedef Structure Definition and Declaration Padding Bytes in RAM Members in a Structure, Padding Initializing and Assigning a Structure Pointers to Structures Function Calls with Structures Nested Structures Unions Typedef - Optional Unit 12, The Preprocessor The Preprocessor Symbolic Constants, #Define Conditional Compilation Two Rules for Macros Comparison of a Macro to a Function Call Including Header Files Assertions - Unit 13, File I/O Preprocessor Terms Used In I/O Fopen, Fclose Character I/O, Getchar, Putchar, Getc, Putc, Fgetc, Fputc Formatted I/O, Printf, Scanf, Fprintf, Fscanf, Sprintf, Sscanf Binary I/O, Fread, Fwrite - Optional Unit 14, Pointers To Pointers Double Indirection Pointers to Strings Array of Pointers to Arrays and Strings Argc, Argv - Optional Unit 15, Memory Allocation And Deallocation The System Function Memory Allocation and Reallocation Free Allocated Space Suggestions for Further Study |
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