GBdirect's C Training Course Modules

The History of C Programming

The Structure of the C Program:

• Compiling a C Program

Variables & Constants:

• Variable Names; Data Types; Declarations
• Assignment Operator; Constants
• Initialisation of Variables; Enumeration Types
• printf( ); getchar( )

Expressions & Operators

• Arithmetic Operators; Expression Evaluation
• Increment & Decrement Operators
• Bitwise Logical Operators
• Compound Assignment Operators
• Type Conversion; Comma Operator
• Order of Precedence

Flow Control of a Program

• Types of Flow Control Statements
• Logic States; Relational Operators
• Boolean Logical Operators; if-else Statement
• if-else-if Chain; Nested if Statements
• Conditional Operator; Compound Statements
• Switch Statement; While loop; Do-while Loop;
• For Loop; For Loop Variations
• Break & Continue Statements
• exit( ) Statement; goto Statement

Arrays

• Theory of Arrays; Range Checking; Initialisation
• Unsized Array Initialisation

The Standard I/O Library

• getchar( ) & putchar( ); gets( ) & puts( )
• printf( ); scanf( )

Functions

• The Definition of a Function; Function Parameters
• Non-Returning Functions; Void Functions
• The Return Statement
• Functions Returning Non-integers
• Passing Arrays to Functions; Recursive Functions

Scoping

• Storage Class Types; Automatic Variables
• Register, Static & External Variables
• Initialisation Rules for the Storage Classes

Pointers

• The & and * Operators
• Pointers & Function Arguments
• Pointer Arithmetic; Pointers & Arrays
• Arrays as Function Arguments
• Pointer Initialisation; Arrays of Pointers
• Pointer to Pointers; Command Line Arguments
• Pointers to Functions

File Handling

• The File Pointer; fopen( )
• stdin, stdout & stderr File Pointers; fclose( )
• fgetc( ); fputc( ); ungetc( ); fgets( ); fputs( )
• fprintf( ); fscanf( ); fread( ) & fwrite( )
• fseek( ); ftell( ); rewind( ); fflush( ); File Status

Structures & Unions

• Members of a Structure Variable
• Pointers to Structures
• Structure Initialisation & Assignment
• Structures & Functions; Nested Structures
• Bit Fields; Unions; sizeof( ); typedef;

The C Preprocessor

• The Pre-processor Operation
• #include; Defined Constants
• Defined Macros; Macro Side Effects
• Deleting a Definition; Conditional Compilation
• #ifdef & #ifndef; #line

ANSI/ISO C Standard Header Libraries

• assert.h, errno.h, math.h
• stddef.h, stdlib.h

Character & String Manipulation

• stdlib.h, ctype.h, string.h, memory.h,
• String Formatting Function

Date & Time Functions

• time.h, clock( ), time( ) & ctime( )
• The tm structure

Memory Allocation

• malloc.h, malloc( ), free( ), calloc( ),
• realloc( ), Dynamic Arrays, Link Lists

System Call I/O

• stdio.h, open ( ), creat ( ),
• Higher Order Open Modes
• close ( ), read ( ) & write ( ), Iseek ( )
• File Access via both System & Standard I/O Functions
• Temporary Files

File Handling

• File Access, File Status
• Change Access & Modification Times
• unmask ( ), chmod ( ), chown ( )
• link ( ) & unlink ( )

Directory Handling

• Change Working & Root Directory
• Making & Removing a Directory
• File Tree Walking

UNIX Command Execution

• System ( )
• Piped UNIX Commands

Environment Information

• Program Environment Arguments
• getenv( ) & putenv ( )

Multiprocessing

• Initiating Processes; Parallel Processing
• Inter-Process Communication; dup ( ), fcntl ( ) Process Control
• Process Exit & Process Abort
• sleep ( ), nice ( ), brk ( ) & sbrk ( ), ulimit ( )
• Process Identification
• Signal Handling

User Information

• Real & Effective User & Group IDs
• /etc/passwd Information
• /etc/group Information

Function Control

• Variable Parameters
• Inter-function Jumps

The Curses Library

• Using the Curses Library
• The Basic Curses Routines
• Moving About & Writing to the Screen
• Reading from the Screen
• Input & Output Modes
• Screen Editing
• Screen Attributes
• Creating Windows
• The Window Routines

Makefiles

• How Make Works; The Makefile
• Multiple-file Programs; Make Variables
• Suffix Rules; Program Libraries
• Shell Commands
• Command Line Options
• Miscellaneous Features

The Source Code Control System

• SCCS Tree Structure
• The admin Command; The Get Command
• Ungetting a File; The Delta Command
• Other SCCS Commands
• Running SCCS from a C Program

The Concurrent Versions System

• CVS Overview
• Creating a repository
• Setting Up Your Repository
• CheckIng Out A Working Directory
• Making changes to files
• Merging changes
• Committing changes
• Adding and deleting files
• Renaming Files
• Writing good log entries
• Handling conflicts
• Identifying Conflicts:
• Resolving Conflicts
• Understanding Conflicts
• Locking