Complete C programming training course description
A hands-on introduction to programming in the ANSI C programming language. The course initially moves at a fast pace in order to spend as much time as possible on the subject of pointers - the area which cause the most bugs in C programs.
What will you learn
Write ANSI C programs
Use the C libraries
Debug C programs
Examine existing code and determine its function.
Complete C programming training course details
Who will benefit:
Programmers wishing to learn C.
Programmers wishing to learn C++ or Java.
Prerequisites:
None, although experience in another high level language would be useful.
Duration
5 days
Complete C programming training course contents
Getting started
The compilation process, comments, main(), statement blocks, printf().
C data types and operators
char, int, float and double, qualifiers, arithmetic and assignment operators, precedence, Associativity.
Basic I/O
C libraries, stdin and stdout, getchar(), putchar(), printf() formatting.
Flow control
if else, dangling elses, else if, while and for loops. switch statements, the null statement, break, continue and gotos.
Functions
Function calls, arguments and return types, function declarations (prototypes), function definitions, scope of variables.
The preprocessor
Preprocessor actions, macros, #include. Libraries and their relationship with header files. Conditional compilation.
More data types and operators
Logical, bitwise and other operators, type conversion, casting, typedefs and access modifiers.
Arrays
Declaring and handling arrays, common gotchas, multidimensional arrays.
Pointers
What are pointers? Why they are so important, declaring and using pointers,The three uses of the *,pointer example - scanf, pointers as arguments.
More pointers
Golden rules of pointers and arrays, pointers to arrays, pointer arithmetic, arrays of pointers, multiple indirection.
Character/string manipulation
Arrays of characters, string definition, working with strings, String library.
Program arguments
argc and argv, example uses,char *argv[] versus char ** argv.
Program structure and storage classes
Globals (externals), multi source programs, the look of a C program.
Structures
Declaration, the . and - operators, unions and bitfields.
Library functions
File handling, fopen and fclose, reading from and writing to files, fseek().calloc() and malloc()