C Programming Advanced, Thales Training Consultancy

C PROGRAMMING ADVANCED

Duration:

5 Days (available on in-house or customised basis only)

Price:

On Request

Locations Available:

Suitable For:

This course is intended for delegates with existing C programming experience wishing to further their working knowledge of the language.

Delegates should have previous C programming experience, equivalent to the learning content of our Introduction to C Programming course.

This course relies entirely on a ’hands-on’ approach. Delegates, under the trainer’s guidance, develop example programs to illustrate features of the language and are encouraged to experiment with these to promote a full understanding. In parallel are programming exercises intended to utilise the newly learned techniques in a problem-solving context.

Objectives:

By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

Use expressions confidently with knowledge of precedence, promotion and sign implications
Interpret complex C declarations
Use function pointers where appropriate
Use pointers and arrays confidently and with insight
Use features of the C99 standard
Organise source code into compile units and libraries
Control source code dependencies
Utilise operating system services
Use the features of the C pre-processor to the full
Perform list processing

Course Outline:

Language Features

Operators and operator precedence
Issues concerning signed/unsigned operations
Promotion and type conversion
Enumerated types
’Goto’ and labels

Arrays and Pointers

Index notation versus pointer arithmetic
Array name versus pointer to array
Two-dimensional arrays and arrays of pointers
Command-line parameters

Declarations

Declarations versus definitions
Interpreting and creating C declarations
Abstract declarators
Typedef used to avoid complex declarations

Function Pointers

The ’()’ operator
Function name versus pointers to function
Arrays of function pointers
Passing function pointer parameters

The C Pre-processor

File inclusion
Problems with macros
Conditional compilation and inclusion

Code organisation

The role of the header file
Source code dependencies and the ’make’ utility
Maintaining a source code library

The C99 Standard

History of C standards
Features introduced by the C99 standard

Systems Programming

Process and file information
Accessing environment variables
Low level file operations
Creating processes
Working with signals

List processing

Single-linked lists
Maintaining an ordered list
Circular lists
Binary trees and recursion