Advanced C

Course #WD02

5 Days

Benefits:

This course covers advanced features of C and the use of C in more advanced applications. Approximately 50% of class time will be spent in hands-on workshops and labs.

Target Student:

Programmers who are already familiar with the basics of C, but who want to "round out" their knowledge of the language and become more proficient in their programming.

Prerequisites:

Introduction to C Programming (WD01), or equivalent experience. A minimum of three months C Programming experience is suggested.

Course Outline:

Review of C

▪          Variables, declarations, types

▪          Limits, conversion and overflow

▪          Constants

▪          Storage classes, initialization, scope

▪          Operators and flow of control

▪          Functions and the standard library

▪          The pre-processor

▪          Arrays and pointers

▪          Command line arguments

▪          Structures and files

Structured Design

▪          Structured problem solving

▪          The tools of structured design

▪          Black boxes

▪          The structure chart

▪          The data flow diagram

▪          The data dictionary

▪          Flow charts and pseudo-code

▪          The transition to source code

More Complex Structures

▪          Structures with pointers and arrays

▪          Nested structs, arrays of structs

▪          Pointers to structures

The Cast Operator

▪          Type coercion

Dynamic Memory Allocation

▪          Using malloc and calloc

▪          The sizeof operator

▪          Allocating memory - Example

Bit Manipulation

▪          Bitwise operators

▪          Bit fields

Enumerations

▪          Enumeration constants

Recursion

▪          Recursive functions

▪          Recursive algorithms

▪          When to use recursion

▪          Self-referential structures

▪          Linked lists

▪          Linked lists and memory allocation

▪          Stacks and queues

▪          Doubly-linked lists and deques

typedef

▪          New names for existing types

▪          New names for array types

▪          New names for derived types

▪          Incomplete data types

▪          When to use typedef

Unions

▪          One variable, more than one type

▪          Embedded unions

Pointers to Functions

▪          Declaring pointers to functions

▪          Using pointers to functions

Tree Structures

▪          Binary trees

▪          Balanced binary trees

▪          Multi-way trees

The Operating System Interface

▪          System calls

▪          Unix system calls

▪          Common Unix system calls

▪          The file system in memory

▪          Additional Unix file system calls

▪          The creation of a Unix process

▪          The exec system calls

▪          The fork system call

▪          Pipes

▪          Error handling