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Introduction to C Programming

Type of course: Classroom

Course details

Fee	£1900
Days	5
Course code	CCINTRO

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Overview

This course is designed to teach ANSI Standard C to programmers in other high-level languages. ANSI Standard C is a general-purpose programming language that is widely used in areas as diverse as operating systems and games. This course will teach you how to read and write ANSI Standard C code. The course explores concepts and syntax through lectures, discussion and hands-on lab exercises.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have practical experience of programming in a high-level language.

Delegates will learn

• how to program in ANSI Standard C
• good coding practice and idioms for the safe and sensible use of language features

Course Outline

Introduction

• Origins of C
• C standards
• Feature overview
• “Hello, world!”

Data types, variables and operators

• Data types – integers, characters, floating point
• Declaring variables
• Arithmetic operators
• Logical operators
• Bitwise operators
• Precedence and associativity
• Casting and type conversions

Control flow

• If/else statements
• Switch statements;
• Do and while loops
• The for loop
• Goto
• Break and continue

Functions

• Declaring functions
• Function prototypes
• Using header files
• Passing arguments
• Return values
• Compile/link model

Arrays

• Array representation in memory
• Array declaration and access
• Multi-dimensional arrays

Pointers

• Pointer concepts
• Declaring and assigning pointers
• Dereferencing pointers
• Pointer arithmetic
• Pointers and arrays
• Passing arrays to functions
• Dynamic memory allocation
• Function pointers
• Typedef

Strings

• Strings as character arrays
• Initialising strings
• Working with strings
• Command line arguments

User-defined types

• Enums
• Structs
• Declaring and using structs
• Passing structs to functions
• Pointers and structures
• I/O – printf
• Format specifiers
• Scanf
• File I/O
• String I/O

The preprocessor

• Preprocessor directives
• Defining and using constants
• Conditional compilation
• Preprocessor macros

Advanced topics

• Storage classes
• Building programs using make