C COURSE CONTENTS

GETTING STARTED

• What is C?
• Sample Program
• Components of a C Program
• Examples
• Data Types
• Variables
• Naming Conventions for C Variables
• Printing and Initializing Variables
• Array Examples
• Compiling and Executing a C Program

FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

• Examples of C Functions
• Functions
• Sum Invoked from main
• Invoking Functions
• Elementary Operators
• The operator= Operators
• The Conditional Operator
• Increment and Decrement Examples
• Increment and Decrement Operators

CONTROL FLOW CONSTRUCTS

• Examples of Expressions
• if else
• while
• for
• do while
• switch

SIMPLE I/O

• Character I/O
• End of File
• Simple I/O Examples
• Simple I/O Redirection
• I/O with Character Arrays

MORE ON FUNCTIONS

• Extended Example
• The getline Function
• The strcmp Function
• The check Function
• The atoi Function

HIGHER DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS

• Array Dimensions
• An Array as an Argument to a Function
• String Arrays

SEPERATE COMPILATION

• Compiling Over Several Filess
• Function Scope
• File Scope
• Program Scope
• Local static
• register and extern
• Object Files
• Libraries
• The C Loader
• Header Files

POINTERS

• Fundamental Concepts
• Pointer Operators and Operations
• Changing an Argument with a Function Call
• Pointer Arithmetic
• Array Traversal
• String Functions with Pointers
• Pointer Difference
• Prototypes for String Parameters
• Relationship Between an Array and a Pointer
• The Pointer Notation *p++

STRUCTURES

• Creating Structures
• Operations on Structures
• Functions Returning Structures
• Passing Structures to Functions
• Pointers to Structures
• Array of Structures
• Functions Returning a Pointer to a Structure

FILE I/O

• System Calls vs. Library Calls
• Opening Disk Files
• fopen
• I/O Library Functions
• Copying a File
• scanf
• printf
• fclose
• feof

USEFUL LIBRARY FUNCTIONS

• strstr
• strchr, strrchr
• system
• strtok
• strspn, strcspn
• Math Functions

MORE ON FUNCTIONS

• General
• Function Declarations
• Returning a Value or Not
• Arguments and Parameters
• Organization of C Source Files

STRINGS

• Fundamental Concepts
• Aggregate Operations
• String Functions