C Programming For Beginners

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Step 1 - Getting Ready
- Welcome to the course
- C Editors and IDEs
- Install CodeLite (Windows or Mac)
- Install a C compiler on a Mac
- Introduction to CodeLite
- Using C++Builder
- Importing C Projects into C++Builder
- Programming C with NetBeans
- Importing Projects Into NetBeans
- Compiling C programs at the system prompt
- Using Visual Studio
- The Little Book Of C -- (download)
- C Basics
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Step 2 - C programming basics
- A first program - Hello world
- Arguments and return values
- Passing commandline arguments to your program
- How to open a command prompt on Windows or OS X
- Printf
- Comments
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Step 3 – Variables, constants and types
- Variables and types
- Integers and floating point numbers
- Constants
- More about constants
- Naming conventions
- Variables and constants
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Step 4 – Operators, tests and user input
- Operators – equality and assignment
- Operators – tests and comparisons
- Compound assignment operators
- Increment and decrement operators
- if and else tests
- Problems with gets() and fgets()
- Input, buffers and flushing
- My own line-reading function
- Logical Operators
- Operators and tests
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Step 5 – Functions, arguments and switch
- Functions
- Arguments
- Switch statements
- Switch statements in more detail
- Functions and switch
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Step 6 – Arrays, loops and break
- Arrays
- Initializing arrays
- while’ loops
- ‘do..while’ loops
- break
- break and continue
- Multidimensional arrays
- Arrays and loops
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Step 7 – Strings, chars and pointers
- Strings, pointers and addresses
- Null-terminated strings
- Char arrays and pointers
- Arrays, pointers and assignment
- Strings and functions, stack and heap
- String functions
- Char functions
- chars and strings
- Pointers and Strings
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Step 8 – Structs, enums, header files and scope
- Structs
- Typedef
- Enums
- Header Files
- A custom header file
- Scope
- Scope and external files
- Static functions and variables
- Compiling from the commandline
- Structs, enums, headers and scope
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Step 9 – File-handling
- Opening and closing files
- File modes
- Reading and writing a text file
- Counting lines in a text file
- Search in a text file
- Files
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Step 10 – Binary files and memory allocation
- Binary files
- Allocating and freeing memory
- Types and type casts
- Creating a CD database
- Saving and loading records in a binary file
- Adding records to a binary file
- Modifying records in a binary file
- Memory and pointers
- And finally…

Learn to program C

Course Curriculum

Step 1 - Getting Ready

Step 2 - C programming basics

Step 3 – Variables, constants and types

Step 4 – Operators, tests and user input

Step 5 – Functions, arguments and switch

Step 6 – Arrays, loops and break

Step 7 – Strings, chars and pointers

Step 8 – Structs, enums, header files and scope

Step 9 – File-handling

Step 10 – Binary files and memory allocation

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