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This course is designed for the practising software developer and allows delegates to gain a better understanding of the language, run-time library, and software engineering techniques available with the C language.

'Advanced C' increases delegate's knowledge and understanding of the language, including the recent ISO 9899:1999 (C99) standard changes, and helps delegates to gain experience in areas of C that previous work may not have covered. Delegates will also be better equipped to write and maintain large C programs, and will also gain a better understanding of the way the language works and is implemented.

Between three and six months of concentrated C programming experience Experience of structured data types
Experience of the declaration and use of pointers
The course will also benefit self-taught C programmers wishing to gain a formal education in the language.

Please note: Before attending this class delegates must have a Microsoft account (signing up one is free). The instructions on how to set up a Microsoft account can be found here.

At the end of this course you will be able to:

Read and write complex data declarations and type definitions
Use advanced pointer techniques to construct and work with complex data structures Use advanced standard library functions, including process control, searching and sorting Handle memory allocation
Exploit features of C99

Chapter 1: C Standards

Review of C standards
K&R1 and STDC functions
C99 inline functions
Enumeration
const, volatile, Boolean, and floating point types
Limits

Chapter 2: The Preprocessor

Predefined macros
Conditional compilation
Advanced directives (including assert)
Trigraphs and C99 digraphs
C99 Variadic macros

Chapter 3: Declarations

Reading and writing declarations
Using typedefs effectively
Using casts

Chapter 4: Advanced Pointers

Levels of indirection
Void pointers
Defining and using function pointers
C99 restricted pointers

Chapter 5: Advanced Arrays

Arrays and functions
Pointers and arrays
C99 Variable Length Arrays
memset

Chapter 6: Arrays of Arrays

Declarations
Initialisation
Arrays of arrays as function arguments

Chapter 7: Advanced Structures

Declaring and defining structures
C99 changes
Bitfields
Packing and padding
Reading and writing structs to files

Chapter 8: Dynamic Memory Management

Allocating arrays
Allocating structures
Error detection and debugging techniques
Writing your own error detection library

Chapter 9: Standard Library - Process Control

Running another process
Process termination
Exception handling (setjmp/longjmp)
Environment variables

Chapter 10: Standard Library - Useful Functions

Calling conventions
Writing variadic functions
Date and time functions
Random numbers

Chapter 11: Sorting and Searching

qsort
Comparison functions
Indirect sorting (pointers)
bsearch

Chapter 12: Linked Lists

Linked list principles
Using recursive functions
Implementing a circular list
Implementing a self-adjusting list

Chapter 13: Binary Trees

Binary tree principles
Using trees for sorted data
Insertion
Deletion

Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our United Kingdom facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

Classroom / Virtual Classroom

24 May 2024