C Programming Language

Course No. 2300

Description This course is intended to provide experienced programmers with an understanding of the basic elements of the
C programming language. The course uses extensive hands-on workshops to develop a complete application in
C, to reinforce the topics covered in each chapter. By the end of the course, students will have developed and
debugged C programs that use branching, loops, functions, arrays, pointers and structures, and will have used file
I/O functions to read and write data files to disk.

Audience Programmers, systems analysts and managers who will be using the C programming language for development.

Prerequisites Programming experience with at least one other programming language such as Basic, COBOL, or Pascal is helpful
but not required

Objectives • Develop applications that use simple variables for screen output and data capture from the keyboard.
• Use branching to control the flow of program statements.
• Use loops to perform one or more statements a number of times.
• Write applications that use functions to perform structured programming techniques.
• Understand and use arrays and strings in C programs.
• Write programs that use pointers for fundamental operations. Use structures to create and manage
records of data.
• Perform file I/O operations such as reading and writing disk files

Major Topics • Introduction to C

• Building Blocks
• Operators, Expressions, and Statements
• Branching
• Loops
• Functions
• Arrays and Strings
• Pointer Concepts
• Structures
• File I/O
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Format Lecture and Hand-On Format

Duration 1 day

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 Course Contents

1. Introduction to C •  Statements
•  What is C? •  Putting It All Together
•  Features of C 4. Branching
•  History of C •  Overview
•  A Simple C Program •  Relational Operators
•  Style in C •  Equality vs. Assignment
•  Using an Editor •  True and false
•  Compiling the Program •  Logical Operators
•  The Program Development Cycle •  Logical AND
2. Building Blocks •  Logical OR
•  Overview •  Conditional Operator
•  Basis Data Types •  The if Statement
•  Variables •  Common Errors with if Statements
•  Strings •  The if-else if Statement
•  Formatted Output With printf( ) •  Common Errors
•  The printf( ) Format Specifics •  Nested if Statements
•  Conversion Characters •  The switch Statement
•  Field Width •  Using the switch statement
•  Precision 5. Loops
•  Escape Characters •  Overview
•  Receiving Input with scanf( ) •  Looping and Iteration
•  Using scanf( ) •  The for Loop
•  Problems with scanf ( ) •  Operation of a for Loop
•  Character Functions •  Elements of a for Loop
•  String Input •  Multiple Statements in for Loops
3. Operators, Expressions and Statements •  Common Errors in for Loops
•  Overview •  while Loops
•  Variables •  Combining Increment and Text Statements
•  Identifiers •  Common Errors in While Loops
•  Reserved Words •  The do-while Loop
•  Declaring Variables •  Infinite Loops
•  Common Errors Declaring Variables •  break
•  Constants •  continue
•  Operators •  Using continue
•  Integer Arithmetic •  Nested Loops
•  Increment/Decrement Operators •  Summary
•  Mixing Data Types •  Debugging
•  Casting 6. Functions
•  sizeof( ) •  Overview
•  Assignment •  Using Functions
•  Expressions •  Simple Functions
•  Precedence

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 •  Declarations vs. Definitions •  Common Pointer Problems
•  Passing Values to Functions •  Pointer Operations
•  Passing Arguments by Value •  Pointer Arithmetic
•  Return Type •  Using Pointer Arithmetic
•  Returning a Value •  Call by Value
•  Macros •  Call by Reference
•  Problems with Macros •  Returning Multiple Values
•  Visibility and Lifetime •  Allocating Memory
•  Automatic Variables •  Returning a Pointer from a Function
•  Static Variables •  argv and argc
•  Using Static Variables 9. Structures
•  External Variables •  Overview
•  Declarations vs. Definition •  What is A Structure?
•  Storage Class •  Structure Members
•  Setting a Program List •  Defining a Structure Template
•  Writing Large Programs •  Using the Structure Definition
7. Arrays and Strings •  Declaring a Structure Variable
•  Overview •  Accessing Structure Members
•  What is an Array? •  Arrays of Structures
•  Declaring an Array •  Assigning Structures
•  Initializing an Array •  Pointers to Structures
•  Accessing Array Elements •  Passing Structures to Functions
•  Exceeding Array Bounds •  Passing Structures by Reference
•  Two-Dimensional Arrays •  Returning Structures from Functions
•  Arrays and Memory •  Application: Linked List
•  Array Restrictions •  Using malloc( ) with Structures
•  Passing Arrays to Functions 10. File I/O
•  Value vs. Reference •  Overview
•  Strings •  Files
•  Array of Strings •  Opening a File
•  String Functions •  File Access
•  Using String Functions •  Text and Binary Modes
8. Pointer Concepts •  Characters and Strings I/O
•  Overview •  String Output
•  Using Pointers •  String Input
•  What is a Pointer? •  Block or Record I/O
•  Three Steps to Using Pointers •  fwrite( )
•  The Indirection Operator •  fread( )
•  Pointers and Data Types •  Sequential and Random AccessCustom Tags and JSTL
•  A simple Pointer Example

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