Introduction to C Programming

What will I study?

This is an intensive introduction to ANSI C programming. At the end of the course attendees should be reasonably confident in reading and writing ‘C’ programs and have a good practical understanding of advanced topics such as the use of C pointers, the relationship between pointers and arrays, as well as dynamic memory allocation and memory management.

Course Outline

1

Introduction

  • C Program history

  • How the C compiler works

  • The basic anatomy of a C program

2

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

  • Assignment operators

  • Expressions

  • Operator precedence

  • Casting and type conversion

3

Program flow control

  • if - else

  • switch

  • while , do-while and for-loops

  • Statements and blocks

4

Functions

  • Functions and function prototypes

  • Returning values from functions

  • External variables and scope rules

  • Static variables

  • call by value and recursion

5

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 initialization

  • Strings and string functions

6

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

7

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)

8

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

9

Further topics

  • The MACRO pre-processor and how to use it wisely

  • Unions

  • Bit fields

  • C Standard Library Functions

10

Reviews and Discussion

Course Completion Certificate after Assessment
The course is also suitable for recent engineering and computer science graduates who need to "cure" any bad (programming) habits they might have picked up at University.
Method of study: Trainer led with practical demonstrations and exercises.
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