C Programming Basics Central

Course details

This C training will start with basics in programming, building up introducing the C language and how it handles complicated structures. This is a hands on course, participants will spend 75% of their time coding various examples.

Who Should Take This Course:

Programmers building software for Embedded systems, Device drivers, Operating system routines, Systems programming need to learn C Programming, as it is the language of choice when it comes to working with low machine level registers or interacting with the hardware directly.

This is also ideal for first-time programmers who wish to understand programming concepts in general and gain the understanding of how compilers work.

C is reasonably close to the machine. When you're working with pointers, bytes, and inpidual bits, things like optimization techniques start to make a lot more sense. Besides it also serves as great first starting language, to make concepts in programming very clear and straight forward.

We Guarantee the learning of all participants - We will increase the number of sessions if required to ensure learning of participants.

Course Content:

Introduction to Programming

• What is Programming and why do we need it?
• What are the different types and categories of programming languages available today?
• What is the purpose of C programming in the world today?

C Programming Language

Throughout the course you will be using a series of flowcharts to determine the logic of your program / task. You will be taught how to program based onyour design.

Data Types

• What is a Data Type?
• Storing data in memory
• Memory used by primitive data types

Identifiers

• What is an Identifier?
• What is the purpose of an Identifier in C?
• Names given to Data Types
• Naming Conventions in C

Variables

• What is a Variable?
• Purpose of having place holders in memory
• Role of Variables in a program
• Assigning values to a variable

Keywords

• In built words in that define the programming language structure

Operators

• Mathematical Operators
• Operators for performing addition, subtraction, multiplication and pision
• Evaluating mathematical expressions using the BODMAS acronym
• Using the Math.h library functions for complex computations such as square root, max, min and absolute values.

A simple C Program

• Setting up the IDE / Environment on your machine
• Understanding the different parts of a C Program
• Pre-Processor Directives
• Compiling the program
• Executing the program

Decision Constructs

• Logical Operators
• What are logical operators?
• Use of logical operators in C to evaluate conditions or change the behavior of your program
• If statement
• If.. else statement
• Nested If .. else statement
• Switch statement

Repetitive Statements (Loops)

• Types and uses of Repetitive Statements
• FOR Loop
• WHILE Loop
• Do-WHILE Loop
• Conditions to use each kind of Loop
• Nested Loops
• Write programs to print patterns by using the above loop concepts

Arrays

• What is an Array?
• How to use an Array in C?
• Declaring an Arrays
• Storing Values / Elements in an Array
• Performing Operations on the Values / Elements stored in the Array
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of Arrays

Functions

• What is a Function and why do we need it in C?
• How to create a function?
• Types of Functions
• Procedural Functions
• Value Returning Functions
• Differences and Usage
• How to decide which code should be written as a function?
• Advantages of using many smaller functions over one main function

Pointers

• What is a Pointer?
• How to declare and use a Pointer?
• What is the need for a pointer?
• Pointer with Functions
• Pointer as a return type of a function
• Pointer as an input to a function
• Difference between Call by Value & Call by Reference
• Pointer with Arrays
• Using Pointers to pass an array to a function
• Keeping track of memory locations of elements in the array using a Pointer
• Array name as a pointer

Recursion

• Recursive Functions - Function that calls itself
• Advantage of a recursive function over a normal function

Strings

• Collection of Characters as a character Array
• Collection of Characters as a character Pointer
• Manipulating Strings using functions from the String.h library

Structures & Linked Lists

• Introduction to Structures
• Need for using Structures
• The struct keyword
• Creating Complex Data Types using Structures
• Discussion & Introduction to Linked Lists

Console I/O

• Using functions of the stdio.h library to get user input and display content to screen
• printf(), scanf()
• getchar() - putchar()
• gets() - puts()
• File I/O
• Use of files in C to store and retrieve data
• Introduction to the FILE Pointer
• File Modes and their meaning
• Read, Write, Append
• Using functions from stdio.h library to read and write contents from files
• Open File, Close File
• Read & Write characters
• Read & Write Strings