Advanced C Programming Course

Course Description

The Advanced C course provides a deeper look into the C programming language. It covers advanced topics such as debugging techniques, algorithms, memory management. The emphasis is always on portablity, compiler independence and professionalism.

Course Objectives

Delegates who complete the Advanced C Programming course will be able to:

• Understand advanced C programming development techniques.
• Understand and use all types of pointers.
• Use self-referencing structures and link lists.
• Manage memory within C applications.

Intended Audience

Programmers who have developed in C for at least 6 months, and who need to learn more advanced techniques. It is also useful for engineers developing embedded applications.

Course Prerequisites

Our Standard C Programming course or equivalent experience in C programming.

Please ensure you meet the prerequisites for the Advanced C Programming Course before you attend the course. Read the importance of course prerequisites to understand why this is necessary.

Course Contents

Introduction

Professionalism. •  Portability. •  Modularity. •  Structured programming. •  Coding standards. •  Standard library functions. •  Non-standard functions. •  Under-utilized functions.

The C compiler

Technical aspects. •  Startup module. •  Modifications for embedded / custom systems. •  Translation order and tokenization. •  Object modules. •  Compiler switches.

The C Preprocessor

Conditional compilation. •  Token concatenation. •  Stringization. •  Charization. •  Compilation units. •  Trigraphs. •  Advanced macros.

Expressions, Types and Variables

Expression evaluation. •  Operator association and precedence. •  Sequence guarantee points. •  Implicit/explicit type conversions. •  Literals. •  Escape characters. •  Type hierarchy. •  Derived types. •  Bitfields. •  Portability.

Functions, Statements and Program Structure

Overview. •  Stack usage for local variables and parameters. •  Function returns. •  Function call operator. •  Variable number of parameters. •  Structured programming vs OOP techniques. •  Libraries and make files.

Arrays and Pointers

Array names. •  Array manipulation. •  Multi-dimensional arrays. •  Pointer variables. •  Indirection. •  Dynamic arrays and pointers. •  Pointers to structures and functions.

Memory management

The C runtime memory. •  Stack, heap and static data areas. •  Dynamic memory. •  Fragmentation of memory. •  Memory management techniques.

Data Structures

Creating and using structures. •  Self-referencing structures. •  Linked lists. •  Generic data structures. •  Portability. •  Memory management. •  Information hiding.

Debugging Techniques

Stabilization: lexical, syntactic, execution and logic errors. •  Locating errors: lexical, material and referential proximity. •  Debuggers. •  Memory initialization. •  Structure sentinels. •  Stack errors. •  Conditional compilation.

Miscellaneous

Introduction to numerical methods, encryption, sorting and algorithm evaluation. •  Introduction to C++. •  Graphical User Interfaces.

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