Instructor-Led Red Hat Training
Intermediate C Programming
5 days
This course will present the syntax and constructs of the ISO Standard C programming language. Programs in the course are designed to work on any Linux platform that supports a C 99/11 language compiler. The course objective is to introduce intermediate and advanced level concepts and techniques of the ISO C standard language. The goal is to have participants at a functional coding level by the completion of the course. The course will be delivered on a Linux platform, using the gcc compiler suite, along with profiling tools.
Prerequisites: Introduction to C or equivalent experience and participant has used an interactive computer system, specifically, use of a text-file editor.
Course Outline
C language background
C language timeline
C programming structure
main routine layout
C data types
statements used to allocate storage
radix specifiers
classes of variables
auto
static
register
typedef
Basic operators
unary
binary
logical
conditional
cast(ing)
bitwise (left and right shift)
sizeof
Beginning input and output in C
printf( ) function
scanf( ) function
Commands for C program development
editor development / IDE
compile
link
run (and attributes / layout)
documentation
Linux man(ual) pages
Loop constructs
for statement
while statement
do while statement
break
continue
Decision statements
if blocks
if - then
if - then - else
if - then - else if
switch block
Arrays
layout
dimensioning
single / multiple
accessing
(character) strings
Character string operations
null-terminated strings
C run-time string functions
Structures
struct statement
accessing structure members
structures containing arrays
structures containing structures
structures containing bit/flag fields
single- and double-linked
Defining and using functions
prototyping
data declarations
passing arguments
by value
by address / location / pointer
returning values
File I/O operations
the FILE structure
standard C file functions
interfacing with the command line (argv)
Defining macros
pre-processor directives
including directives at compile time
conditional compilation
usage in bit-level operations
header file
definition
usage
Pointers
concepts and rationale
usage
with atomic data types
with indexed arrays
with structures
with functions
with character strings
void
Dynamic memory
malloc( )
calloc( )
realloc( )
free( )
Variable argument lists
the va_ functions and macros
Debugging and profiling
symbolic debugging
gdb
profiling
gprof
gcov
assert( )
C programming standards
C99 / C11 standards additions / modifications