Course outline for c programming
- 1. PRESENTATION ON C PROGRAMMING Presented By Rokonuzzaman Rony CSE 2B Department of Computer Science & Engineering Northern University of Business and Technology Khulna
- 2. Chapters: Absolute basics Languages: natural and artificial Machine languages High-level programming languages Obtaining the machine code: compilation process Recommended readings Your first program Variable – why? Integer values in real life and in “C”, integer literals
- 3. Data types Floating point values in real life and in “C”, float literals Arithmetic operators Priority and binding Post- and pre -incrementation and -decrementation Operators of type Char type and ASCII code, char literals Equivalence of int and char data Comparison operators Conditional execution and if keyword printf() and scanf() functions: absolute basics
- 4. Data type Flow control Conditional execution continued: the “else” branch More integer and float types Conversions – why? Typecast and its operators Loops – while, do and for Controlling the loop execution – break and continue Logical and bitwise operators
- 5. Arrays Switch: different faces of ‘if’ Arrays (vectors) – why do you need them? Sorting in real life and in a computer memory Initiators: a simple way to set an array Pointers: another kind of data in “C” An address, a reference, a dereference and the sizeof operator Simple pointer and pointer to nothing (NULL) & operator Pointers arithmetic Pointers vs. arrays: different forms of the same phenomenon
- 6. Array Using strings: basics Basic functions dedicated to string manipulation Memory management and structures The meaning of array indexing The usage of pointers: perils and disadvantages Void type Arrays of arrays and multidimensional arrays Memory allocation and deallocation: malloc() and free() functions Arrays of pointers vs. multidimensional arrays Structures – why? Declaring, using and initializing structures
- 7. Array Pointers to structures and arrays of structures Basics of recursive data collections
- 8. Functions Functions – why? How to declare, define and invoke a function Variables' scope, local variables and function parameters Pointers, arrays and structures as function parameters Function result and return statement Void as a parameter, pointer and result Parameterzing the main function External function and the extern declarator Header files and their role
- 9. Files and streams Files vs. streams: where does the difference lie? Header files needed for stream operations
- 10. FILE structure Opening and closing a stream, open modes, errno variable Reading and writing to/from a stream Predefined streams: stdin, stdout and stderr Stream manipulation: fgetc(), fputc(), fgets() and fputs() functions Raw input/output: fread() and fwrite() functions Preprocessor and complex declarations Preprocessor – why? #include: how to make use of a header file #define: simple and parameterized macros
- 11. File structure #undef directive Predefined preprocessor symbols Macro operators: # and ## Conditional compilation: #if and #ifdef directives Avoiding multiple compilations of the same header files Scopes of declarations, storage classes User defined types-why? Pointers to functions Analyzing and creating complex declarations