Advanced C Programming

Course Overview

The C Development Environment

• The cc(1) Command
• Include Files
• Libraries

Basic and Derived Data Types in C

• Simple C data types
• Integral data types
• Floating point types
• Derived data types
• Array data types - single and multi-dimensional
• Structure data types
• Simple pointer types
• Pointers to structures/multiple pointers
• Pointers to functions
• The const qualifier
• Bit operators
• Using typedef

Function: Calling, Passing, and Returning Values

• Anatomy of a function
• Parameter passing - pass by value
• Parameter passing - pass by reference

Standard I/O

• Standard I/O streams
• File access
• Formatted I/O
• String I/O
• File positioning operations
• Block I/O

Low Level File I/O

• Standard I/O vs system I/O
• File access
• Direct I/O
• File Positioning
• Error Handling

Memory Allocation with malloc and calloc

• Dynamic memory allocation overview
• malloc(), calloc()
• realloc(), free()
• Structure Pointers
• Array of pointers to structures

Memory Organization and the Scope of Variables

• Command line arguments (argc, argv)
• The memory layout of a C Program
• The stack segment
• The heap segment

Data Structures - Linked Lists

• Array limitations
• Linked lists
• List operations - formation
• List operations - delete

Prerequisites

C Programming