Course Deliverables/syllabus

Getting Started

• Introduction about c
• Sample program
• Components of a C program
• Data types
• Naming conventions for variables
• Printing and initializing variables

Functions and Operators

• Functions
• Invoking functions
• Elementary operators
• The operator= operators
• The conditional operator
• Increment and decrement operators

Simple I/O operations

• Character i/o
• Handling end of file
• Simple i/o examples
• Redirecting standard I/O
• i/o with character arrays

Control Flow Constructs

• if statement
• if else statement
• while loop
• for loop
• Endless loops
• do while loop
• break and continue statements
• switch statement
• else if

Working with Functions

• Function declarations
• Returning a value or not
• Function prototypes
• Arguments and parameters
• Organization of C source files
• An extended example
• Main function
• The gets function
• The strcmp function

CHAPTER 5: PLANNING A PROJECT

• Develop a Project Management Plan
• Plan Scope Management
• Collect Project Requirements
• Define Project Scope
• Create a WBS

Strings

• Fundamental concepts
• Aggregate operations
• String functions

Arrays

• Defining arrays and access through subscripting.
• Higher Dimensional Arrays
• Array dimensions
• An array as an argument to a function
• Arrays of strings

Structures

• Fundamental concepts
• Describing a structure
• Creating structures
• Operations on structures
• Functions returning structures
• Passing structures to functions

Pointers

• Fundamental concepts
• Pointer operators and operations
• Changing an argument with a function call
• Null pointers.
• Using pointers with functions and arrays.
• Pointer arithmetic.

File I/O

• File Handling
• The Stream File
• Text File Functions
• Binary File Functions
• File System Functions
• Command Line Parameters