This class provides students with a foundational study of the C programming language, C23 standard. Classroom lectures stress the strengths of C, which provide programmers with the means of writing efficient, maintainable, and portable code. Lab exercises throughout the class test and reinforce understanding of the concepts.
This class is best taken as the first of a two-class series. The concepts in this class are further developed in the follow-on class, Intermediate C Programming. Completing both these classes will take a developer without C knowledge to become a capable C programmer.
Cumulative graded assessments available for group training.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this class, students will be able to the following in C:
- Build and run simple C programs.
- Name, declare, initialize, and manipulate numeric values in variables.
- Define and manipulate arrays.
- Create and call functions.
- Control program flow through conditionals and loops.
- Define, manipulate, and call functions with strings (character arrays).
- Perform basic I/O with a console and on-disk files using library functions.
- Declare, define, initialize, and manipulate new struct types.
- Search, parse, and split strings using library functions.
- Debug the behavior of a running program.
Framework Connections
The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):
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