C Programming (5 day)

About this class

This course provides a thorough coverage of the C programming language. It discusses all major aspects of C and the standard functions available to C. The course provides a good mix between theory and practice with terminals available for each candidate. Each topic has a complete set of example material and exercises.

What prerequisites are required

This course assumes no prior C programming knowledge. However, a good understanding of computing principles, operating systems (especially command driven, e.g. DOS or Unix), filesystems and text editing is essential.

Contents of this class

• Introduction
• K&R and ANSI C. Preprocessor, compiler, assembler, linker
• Compiling a simple C program
• Simple main() printf() program. Comments. Using the cc compiler
• Variable types, definition and initialisation
• Variable names, variable types. Declaring and initialising variables.
• Enumerators, sizeof(), typedef()
• printf()
• printf() layout and arguments, % formatting types. \ characters.
• Scanf()
• scanf() layout and arguments, formatting information.
• Modifying variables
• Arithmetic, bitwise, incremental and assignment operators,.
• Precedence, implicit and explicit type conversion (casts)
• if, relational operators and switch
• if, else if, else. && and . Relational operators and switch
• Loops
• While, do and for loop. Break, continue & exit. Gotos and labels
• Introduction to Functions
• Defining a function. Input variable declarations. Local variables.
• Return statement, void. Declaring functions. Calling functions.