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Course Outline

Module 1 - Course Intro

• Intro to C
• Intro to Computers, OS, High Level Languages
• Sample C Program
• C Program Development Environment
• Compiling, Linking and Executing a C program

Module 2 - Variables, Data Types and Arithmetic

• Variable Declarations and Initialization
• Variable Naming Conventions
• Integer, floating point and Boolean types
• Constants
• Arithmetic Operators
• Assignment Operators
• Casting and Type Conversion

Module 3 - Program Looping

• For-Loops
• While loops
• Do-while loops
• Endless Loops
• Break and continue statements

Module 4 - Making Decisions

• if and if-else statements
• else-if statements
• Compound conditions and short-circuit evaluation
• switch statement
• Boolean variables, true/false
• The conditional ( ? : ) operator

Module 5 - Working with Arrays

• Defining and initializing and array
• Character arrays
• 2-d arrays
• Variable length arrays

Module 6 - Working with Functions

• Defining and calling a function
• Passing arguments by value
• Function prototypes
• Functions that return a value
• Functions calling other functions
• Functions and arrays
• Function Documentation
• Storage classes – global, static, local
• Recursive Functions

Module 7 - Working with Structures

• Structure definition
• Using structure members
• Structure assignment
• Structures as function arguments
• Initializing structures
• Arrays of structures
• Nested structures
• Structures containing arrays
• Structure variants

Module 8 - Character Strings

• Array of characters
• Initializing and displaying strings
• String input with scanf
• Character input
• Escape characters
• Strings, structs and arrays and sorting – a dictionary
• Character operations, and ASCII values
• Character and string library functions

Module 9 - Pointers

• Defining a pointer variable
• Pointer operators and pointer expressions
• Pointers to structures
• Structures containing pointers
• Self-referencing structures
• Intro to linked lists
• Pointers as function parameters
• Pointers and arrays
• Pointer arithmetic

Module 10 - Bit Manipulation

• Binary bits and bytes
• Bitwise AND operator
• Bitwise OR operator
• Bitwise XOR operator
• Complement operator
• Shift operators

Module 11 - The Preprocessor

• #define for constants
• Program extendibility with #define
• Program portability with #define and sizeof
• #define for macros
• #include
• Conditional compilation (#ifdef, #endif, #ifndef)

Module 12 - More Data Types

• Enumerations
• Creating aliases with typedefs
• Casting and automatic type conversion
• Unsigned integer types
• Sign extension
• Argument conversion

Module 13 - Working with Larger Projects

• Dividing your program into multiple files
  
• Separate Compilation from the command line
  
• Using Header Files
  
• Guarding Header Files
• Scope and lifetime

Module 14 - Input and Output Operations

• Char I/O with getchar/putchar
  
• Formatted I/O with printf/scanf
  
• Detecting end-of-file
  
• Opening and closing files
  
• Formatted file I/O with fprintf, fscanf
  
• Line input with fgets/fputs
  
  
Module 15 - Advanced Features

• Dynamic memory allocation
  
• Pointers to pointers
  
• Dynamic arrays
  
• Dynamic 2-d arrays
  
• Freeing heap memory
  

Module 16 - Miscellaneous Topics

• unions
  
• Command line arguments
  
• atoi, atol, atof
  
• Random numbers with srand/rand
  
• Utility functions
  
• Math library