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C Programming

This course teaches the C programming language which is still widely used despite competition from its newer offspring.

The 4 day course costs £2360 in total for up to 6 students, plus VAT and the instructor's reasonable expenses. Each student beyond 6 would cost £20 for the additional course materials. If you are interested in this course, please contact us by email at enquiries@tgn.co.uk or by phone on +44 (0)1285 713297.

Course Outline:

Getting Started	Writing, building and running a C Program. Language structure. The main function. Basic console input/output. Declaring and Initializing variables. Fundamental data types. Literal strings.
Control Flow	Control flow, loops and conditions. The for loop. Do and while. Break and continue. If and else. The conditional expression.
Operators	The basic operators. Shortcuts. Increment and decrement, prefix and postfix. Logical and bitwise operators. Precedence and parentheses.
Functions	Functions and argument passing. Predeclarations and prototypes. Using multiple source files. Using header files. The switch statement. Variable scope - local, static, global. Variable lifetimes. Casting.
Arrays	Defining and using arrays. Array safety. Multi-dimension arrays.
Memory management and Pointers	Introducing memory management. Using pointers. Pointer manipulation and arithmetic. Arrays and pointers. Arrays and pointers as function arguments. Function pointers.
Strings	Strings and characters in C. Strings as arrays and pointers. Standard string functions. Writing string functions.
Structures and Unions	Data structures. Passing structs by value and pointer. Dynamic structs. Variable length structs. Unions. Nesting and complex structures. Typedef.
Input and Output	Console input and output. Formatting. Dealing with errors. File and device I/O.
The Preprocessor	How the preprocessor works. #define and constants. Conditional compilation. Macros. Passing arguments to macros.