Course - C Language

Introduction

• Introduction to computers
• Computer characteristics
• Introduction to C
• Some simple C programs
• Desirable program characteristics

C Fundamentals

• The C character set
• Identifiers and keywords
• Data types
• Constants
• Variables and Arrays
• Declarations
• Expressions
• Symbolic Constants

Operators And Expressions

• Arithmetic Operators
• Unary Operators
• Relational and Logical Operators
• Assignment Operators
• The Conditional Operator
• Library Functions

Data Input and Output

• Prelimaries
• Single Character Input - getchar Function
• Single Character Output - The putchar Function
• Entering Input data - The scanf Function
• More about the scanf Function
• Writing Output Data - The printf Function
• More about the printf Function
• The gets and puts Functions
• Interactive (Conversational) Programming

Preparing And Running A Complete C Program

• Planing a C program
• Writing a C program
• Entering the program into the computer
• Compiling and executing the program
• Error diagnostics
• Logical Debugging

Control Statements

• Preliminaries
• The While Statement
• The do-while statement
• The for statement
• Nested loops
• The if-else statement
• The switch statement
• The break statement
• The continue statement
• The comma operator
• The goto statement

Functions

• A brief overview
• Defining a function
• Accessing a function
• Passing arguments to a function
• Specifying argument data types
• Function prototypes
• Recursion

Program Structure

• Storage classes
• Automatic variables
• External variables
• Static variables
• Multifile programs
• More about library functions

Arrays

• Defining an array
• Processing an array
• Passing arrays to a function
• Arrays and strings

Structures And Unions

• Defining a structure
• Processing a structure
• User-defined datatypes
• Structures and pointers
• Passing structure to a function
• Unions

Data Files

• Opening and closing a datafile
• Creating a datafile
• Unformatted datafiles

Pointers

• Fundamentals
• Pointer declaration
• Passing pointers to a function
• Pointers and one dimensional arrays
• Operations on pointers
• Pointers and multidimensional arrays
• Array of pointers
• Passing functions to other functions
• More about pointer declarations

Self Referential Structures

• Linear linked lists
• Doubly linked lists
• Binary tree
• Stacks
• Queues

Command Line Arguments

• argc, argv

Low Level Programming

• Register Variables
• Bitwise operators
• Bit fields