Programming in C (PDF 85P)

Programming in C (PDF 85P)

This note covers the following topics: why use c, an example c program, variables and expressions, variable declaration, variable types, variable names, assignment, arithmetic operators, increment and decrement operators, cast operators, bitwise operators , promotions and conversions , parsing rules , symbolic constants and the preprocessor, input and output, formatted output printf, conversion specifiers, literal constants, formatted input scanf, character io getchar putchar, endoffile, flow of control, relational and logical operators, conditional branching if, conditional selection switch, iteration while for, local jumps goto , short circuit behaviour , problems, declaring array variables, initialising array variables, functions, building blocks of programs, return value, function parameters, variable function parameters, function definition and declaration, function prototypes, scope blocks and variables, blocks and scope, variable storage classes , declaration versus definition, initialisation of variables , arrays pointers and strings, pointers are addresses, pointers are not integers, the and operators, declaring pointer variables, pointers and arrays, dynamically sized arrays, the null pointer and pointer to void, pointer arithmetic, strings, files, file pointers, opening a file, program arguments, io streams , redirection of io streams , structures unions and fields, enumerated types, defining new names for types with typedef, structures, unions , fields , more advanced topics , comma operator, conditional operator, name spaces, type qualifiers , functions as parameters, preprocessor macros, assertions, managing c programs, separate compilation, conditional compilation,  using projects in borland c, unix and c, header file locations, memory usage , text area, data area, the stack, the heap, possible problems, c and the ibm pc , memory organisation, bios basic io system interrupts, dos interrupts, dynamic link libraries dlls, windows application programming interface api, why c, evolution of the c language, c and operating systems esp unix, comparison with pascal and fortran, availability, portability, efficiency, modular programming and libraries, applications, kernighan ritchie c vs ansi c, criticisms of c.

Author(s): Stephen Gough

85 Pages