In this 5 day instructor led class, students will learn how to write efficient programs using the C programming language. This class will provide the information and hands on labs to learn;
- Structured Program Develepment in C
- C Program Control & Functions
- Programming with Arrays, Pointers & Charactor Strings
- Formatting Input / Outputs
- How to use of C Structures, Unions, Bit Manipulations & Enumerations
- File processing and data structures
Class Outline
1 Introduction to Computers, the Internet and the Web
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Computers: Hardware and Software
1.3 Computer Organization
1.4 Personal, Distributed and Client/Server Computing
1.5 The Internet and the World Wide Web
1.6 Machine Languages, Assembly Languages and High-Level Languages
1.7 History of C
1.8 C Standard Library
1.9 C++
1.10 Java
1.11 Fortran, COBOL, Pascal and Ada
1.12 BASIC, Visual Basic, Visual C++, C# and .NET
1.13 Key Software Trend: Object Technology
1.14 Typical C Program Development Environment
1.15 Hardware Trends
1.16 Notes About C and This Book
1.17 Web Resources
2 Introduction to C Programming
2.1 Introduction
2.2 A Simple C Program: Printing a Line of Text
2.3 Another Simple C Program: Adding Two Integers
2.4 Memory Concepts
2.5 Arithmetic in C
2.6 Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators
3 Structured Program Development in C
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Algorithms
3.3 Pseudocode
3.4 Control Structures
3.5 The if Selection Statement
3.6 The if…else Selection Statement
3.7 The while Repetition Statement
3.8 Formulating Algorithms Case Study 1: Counter-Controlled Repetition
3.9 Formulating Algorithms with Top-Down, Stepwise Refinement Case Study 2:
Sentinel-Controlled Repetition
3.10 Formulating Algorithms with Top-Down, Stepwise Refinement Case Study 3:
Nested Control Structures
3.11 Assignment Operators
3.12 Increment and Decrement Operators
4 C Program Control
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Repetition Essentials
4.3 Counter-Controlled Repetition
4.4 for Repetition Statement
4.5 for Statement: Notes and Observations
4.6 Examples Using the for Statement
4.7 switch Multiple-Selection Statement
4.8 do…while Repetition Statement
4.9 break and continue Statements
4.10 Logical Operators
4.11 Confusing Equality (==) and Assignment (=) Operators
4.12 Structured Programming Summary
5 C Functions
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Program Modules in C
5.3 Math Library Functions
5.4 Functions
5.5 Function Definitions
5.6 Function Prototypes
5.7 Function Call Stack and Activation Records
5.8 Headers
5.9 Calling Functions By Value and By Reference
5.10 Random Number Generation
5.11 Example: A Game of Chance
5.12 Storage Classes
5.13 Scope Rules
5.14 Recursion
5.15 Example Using Recursion: Fibonacci Series
5.16 Recursion vs. Iteration
6 C Arrays
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Arrays
6.3 Defining Arrays
6.4 Array Examples
6.5 Passing Arrays to Functions
6.6 Sorting Arrays
6.7 Case Study: Computing Mean, Median and Mode Using Arrays
6.8 Searching Arrays
6.9 Multiple-Subscripted Arrays
7 C Pointers
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Pointer Variable Definitions and Initialization
7.3 Pointer Operators
7.4 Passing Arguments to Functions by Reference
7.5 Using the const Qualifier with Pointers
7.6 Bubble Sort Using Call-by-Reference
7.7 sizeof Operator
7.8 Pointer Expressions and Pointer Arithmetic
7.9 Relationship between Pointers and Arrays
7.10 Arrays of Pointers
7.11 Case Study: Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation
7.12 Pointers to Functions
8 C Characters and Strings
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Fundamentals of Strings and Characters
8.3 Character-Handling Library
8.4 String-Conversion Functions
8.5 Standard Input/Output Library Functions
8.6 String-Manipulation Functions of the String-Handling Library
8.7 Comparison Functions of the String-Handling Library
8.8 Search Functions of the String-Handling Library
8.9 Memory Functions of the String-Handling Library
8.10 Other Functions of the String-Handling Library
9 C Formatted Input/Output
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Streams
9.3 Formatting Output with printf
9.4 Printing Integers
9.5 Printing Floating-Point Numbers
9.6 Printing Strings and Characters
9.7 Other Conversion Specifiers
9.8 Printing with Field Widths and Precision
9.9 Using Flags in the printf Format Control String
9.10 Printing Literals and Escape Sequences
9.11 Reading Formatted Input with scanf
10 C Structures, Unions, Bit Manipulations and Enumerations
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Structure Definitions
10.3 Initializing Structures
10.4 Accessing Structure Members
10.5 Using Structures with Functions
10.6 typedef
10.7 Example: High-Performance Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation
10.8 Unions
10.9 Bitwise Operators
10.10 Bit Fields
10.11 Enumeration Constants
11 C File Processing
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Data Hierarchy
11.3 Files and Streams
11.4 Creating a Sequential-Access File
11.5 Reading Data from a Sequential-Access File
11.6 Random-Access Files
11.7 Creating a Random-Access File
11.8 Writing Data Randomly to a Random-Access File
11.9 Reading Data from a Random-Access File
11.10 Case Study: Transaction-Processing Program
12 C Data Structures
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Self-Referential Structures
12.3 Dynamic Memory Allocation
12.4 Linked Lists
12.5 Stacks
12.6 Queues
12.7 Trees
13 C Preprocessor
13.1 Introduction
13.2 #include Preprocessor Directive
13.3 #define Preprocessor Directive: Symbolic Constants
13.4 #define Preprocessor Directive: Macros
13.5 Conditional Compilation
13.6 #error and #pragma Preprocessor Directives
13.7 # and ## Operators
13.8 Line Numbers
13.9 Predefined Symbolic Constants
13.10 Assertions
14 Other C Topics
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Redirecting I/O
14.3 Variable-Length Argument Lists
14.4 Using Command-Line Arguments
14.5 Notes on Compiling Multiple-Source-File Programs
14.6 Program Termination with exit and atexit
14.7 volatile Type Qualifier
14.8 Suffixes for Integer and Floating-Point Constants
14.9 More on Files
14.10 Signal Handling
14.11 Dynamic Memory Allocation: Functions calloc and realloc
14.12 Unconditional Branching
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