C Programming

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, loops and conditions. The for loop. Do and while. Break and continue. If and else. The conditional expression.

The basic operators. Shortcuts. Increment and decrement, prefix and postfix. Logical and bitwise operators. Precedence and parentheses.

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.

Defining and using arrays. Array safety. Multi-dimension arrays.

Introducing memory management. Using pointers. Pointer manipulation and arithmetic. Arrays and pointers. Arrays and pointers as function arguments. Function pointers.

Strings and characters in C. Strings as arrays and pointers. Standard string functions. Writing string functions.

Data structures. Passing structs by value and pointer. Dynamic structs. Variable length structs. Unions. Nesting and complex structures. Typedef.

Console input and output. Formatting. Dealing with errors. File and device I/O.

How the preprocessor works. #define and constants. Conditional compilation. Macros. Passing arguments to macros.