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C Programming

Course Methodology:  Lecture, Participatory Activities, Instructor Guided Lab Exercises

Course Length:  4 Days

Course Outline

Getting Started with C

• Hello World
• Adding Two Integers
• Memory Handling with C
• Arithmetic in C
• Equality and Relational Operators

Structured Programming

• If Statement
• If...else
• While Statement
• Assignment Operators
• Increment and Decrement Operators

C Program Control

• Counter-Controlled Repetition
• for Statement
• switch... case
• do...while
• break and continue
• Logical Operators

Function in C

• Program Modules
• Math Library Functions
• Programmer Defined Functions
• Function Definitions
• Function Prototypes
• Call Stack
• Headers
• Call By Value vs. Call by Reference
• Generating Random Numbers
• Storage Classes
• Scope
• Recursion

Arrays in C

• Defining Arrays
• Passing Arrays to Functions
• Sorting Arrays
• Searching Arrays
• Multiple-Subscripted Arrays

Pointers

• Pointer Variable Definitions and Initialization
• Pointer Operators
• Passing Arguments to Functions by Reference
• const
• sizeof
• Pointer Expressions and Pointer Math
• Relationshiop between Pointers and Arrays
• Arrays of Pointers
• Pointers to Functions

Characters and Strings

• Character-Handling Library
• String Conversion Functions
• Standard I/O Library Functions
• String-Manipulation Functions
• Comparison Functions
• Search Functions
• Memory Functions

C Formatted I/O

• Streams
• Formatting Output with printf
• Printing Integers
• Printing Floating-Point Numbers
• Literals and Escape Sequences
• scanf for formatted input

Structures, Unions, Bit Manipulations and Enums

• Structure Definitions
• Initializing Structures
• Access Members of Structures
• Structures and Functions
• typedef
• Unions
• Bitwise Operators
• Bit Fields
• Enumeration Constants

File I/O

• Data Hierarchy
• Files and Streams
• Creating a Sequential-Access File
• Reading Data from a Sequential-Access File
• Random Access Files
• Creating Random Access Files
• Writing Data to a Random Access File
• Reading Data From a Random Access File

Data Structures

• Dynamic Memory Allocation
• Linked Lists
• Stacks
• Queues
• Trees

The C Preprocessor

• #include
• #define
• Conditional Compilation
• #error
• #pragma
• Line Numbers
• Symbolic Constants
• Assertions