Course Description
C is a general purpose language with standards specified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). This course covers the fundamentals of C including working with data types, variables, and operators. It also demonstrates how to implement program flow using conditional statements and branching.
In this course, the instructor uses some non-standard Microsoft extensions. In these instances, the instructor uses quotes around the library names rather than the standard symbols.
Learning Objectives
C Basics
- start the course
- describe the characteristics of ANSI C, describe C tokens, and describe and step through the structure of a C program
- write a simple program in C
- compile a C program and execute it and describe the associated files
Data Types
- describe and use fundamental data types and qualifiers in C
- describe data types introduced in C99 including bool, and demonstrate how to use bool
- describe implicit and explicit type conversion and implement type conversion in C
Constants
- describe constants and use numeric constants in C
- use character and string constants and represent integers with character constants in C
- use escape character constant escape values and symbolic constants in C programs
- use enumeration constants in C programs
Variables
- describe and use variables in C programs
- describe variable scope for C programs, blocks, nested blocks, and functions
Operators
- describe operators and expressions and implement arithmetic operators in C programs
- implement relational operators in C programs
- implement logical operators in C programs
- implement assignment, increment, and decrement operators in C programs
- implement bitwise operators in C programs
- implement the sizeOf operator in C programs
- implement the comma operator in C programs
- describe and use examples of operator precedence and associativity in C
Conditional Statements and Branching
- describe and use if statements including nested statements in C programs
- describe and use if-else statements in C program
- use nested if-else statements in C programs
- use the switch statements with case values in a C program and review the rules for switch statements
- use the C conditional operator ?: in C programs
- use goto for unconditional branching in C programs and describe issues with it
Practice: Fundamentals of ANSI C
- to learn how to use fundamental C programming features