C Programming

Course Code: GN-312  Duration: 4 Days

This course teaches the C programming language which is still widely used despite competition from its newer offspring. It can also include system programming for Windows or Linux if required.

Course Content

Getting Started

• Writing, building and running a C Program.
• Language structure.
• The main function.
• Basic console input/output.
• Declaring and Initializing variables.
• Fundamental data types.
• Literal strings.

Control Flow

• Control flow, loops and conditions.
• The for loop.
• Do and while.
• Break and continue.
• If and else.
• The conditional expression.

Operators

• The basic operators.
• Shortcuts.
• Increment and decrement, prefix and postfix.
• Logical and bitwise operators.
• Precedence and parentheses.

Functions

• Functions and argument passing.
• Predeclarations and prototypes.
• Using multiple source files.
• Using header files.
• The switch statement.
• Variable scope - local, static, global.
• Variable lifetimes.
• Casting.

Arrays

• Defining and using arrays.
• Array safety.
• Multi-dimension arrays.

Memory management and Pointers

• Introducing memory management.
• Using pointers.
• Pointer manipulation and arithmetic.
• Arrays and pointers.
• Arrays and pointers as function arguments.
• Function pointers.

Strings

• Strings and characters in C.
• Strings as arrays and pointers.
• Standard string functions.
• Writing string functions.

Structures and Unions

• Data structures.
• Passing structs by value and pointer.
• Dynamic structs.
• Variable length structs.
• Unions.
• Nesting and complex structures.
• Typedef.

Input and Output

• Console input and output.
• Formatting.
• Dealing with errors.
• File and device I/O.

The Preprocessor

• How the preprocessor works.
• #define and constants.
• Conditional compilation.
• Macros.
• Passing arguments to macros.

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