C Programming Introduction, Thales Training Consultancy

C PROGRAMMING INTRODUCTION

Duration:

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

Price:

On Request

Locations Available:

Suitable For:

This course is intended for delegates with programming experience wishing to gain detailed knowledge of the language.

It is ideally suited for software engineers and application and system programmers working with the C language. Participants should have previous programming experience in either high-level or assembly languages.

This course relies entirely on a ’hands-on’ approach. Candidates, 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 an editor, compiler and linker to create and run C programs
Implement algorithms using C’s operators and control structures
Structure a solution using C’s function and parameter passing mechanisms
Utilise existing components from the C standard library
Create data structures using C’s composite types
Perform file operations in C
Manipulate heap memory

Course Outline:

Numeric Types

Integer and float types – variables and literals
Arithmetic operators
Type conversion and promotion
Console input and output

Control flow

Branching - ’if..else’ and ’switch’
Looping - ’while’, ’do..while’ and ’for’
’break’ and ’continue’
Nested control structures

Operators and Expressions

Relational and logical operators
Bitwise operations
Indirection and pointer types
The conditional operator
Increment and decrement
The assignment operators

Functions

Program structure and library routines
Passing parameters by value
Passing pointers
Using the return mechanism
Scope and linkage considerations

Arrays

Index notation and pointer arithmetic
Array initialisers
Arrays of pointers
Two-dimensional arrays

Strings

The C string convention
String variables and literals
Arrays of strings
Command-line parameters
String library functions

Record Structures

Field access via the ’dot’ operator
Structs, struct tags, struct initialisers
Complex data structures
Unions

File Operations

Opening files for reading and writing
Using library routines for file I/O
Text versus binary files for structs

Dynamic Memory

Dynamic memory allocation using ’malloc’
Heap management and memory leakage