Advanced C Programming

Summary

This course gives C programmers practical experience applying advanced C programming techniques. The course is operating system independent.

Prerequisites

Participants must have a working knowledge of C programming language, or have attended the C Programming course.

Course Objectives

On completion of this course, the student should be able to

Use the enhancements offered by ANSI C
Use all the functions in the ANSI library
Write sophisticated applications using multiple source files and separate compilation
Implement algorithms involving complex data structures
Describe all of the techniques and facilities for error trapping and error recovery
Identify potential barriers to portability

Length

5 Days

Format

Instructor-led course, with practical computer-based exercises.

Course Outline

Debugging
- Debugging tools
- Code view - Microsoft C
- sdb and dbx
Working with Multiple Files
- Compilation and linking
- Scope rules revisited
- Include files
MAKE
- Basic features
- Makefile macros
- The Makefile description file
- Adding new rules
The Standard C Library
- Character handling
- Mathematical functions
- Standard I/O
- General utilities
- String handling
- Block memory functions
- Date and time functions
- Regular expression
The Standard C Library
- Dynamic data structures
- Self-referential structures
- Linked lists
- Doubly linked lists – queues
- Binary trees
- Balanced (AVL) binary trees
- Flattening the search
Behavior of Complete Programs
- The invocation environment
- Command line parser- getopt
- Interfacing to whole programs
- Program termination
- Exception handling
- Controlled backtracking

Hardware and Software Requirements

An ANSI C compiler running on any platform.

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