Advanced Programming Techniques in C

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15 Challenges

26 Quizzes

This course includes

179 Playgrounds

15 Challenges

26 Quizzes

Course Overview

In this course, you will learn advanced programming techniques in C. This course is perfect for you if you have prior knowledge of programming concepts, like data types, variables, loops, conditional statements, and functions in C. You will start by covering the most common secondary data types including: pointers, arrays, strings, structures, and enums. You will then learn some more advanced concepts around functions such as function pointers, typecasting, bitwise operators, and bit fields. In the latter...Show More

Course Content

Introduction

Who Should Take This Course?

Course Learning Outcomes

Pointers

Memory Addresses

Introduction to Pointers

Pointer Operators

Double Pointers

More Pointer Types

Challenge: Calculate the Area and Perimeter

Solution Review: Calculate the Area and Perimeter

Arrays

Accessing an Out of Bound Index

Printing Addresses and Accessing Elements of an Array

Defining the Size of an Array

Copying Arrays

Challenge: Multiply Array Elements by 3

Solution Review: Multiply Array Elements by 3

Quiz on Arrays

Strings

Introduction to Strings

Traversing Strings

Difference Between a Numeric Array and a String

Multi-Word Strings

Pointers and Strings

Challenge: Convert a String Into an Integer

Solution Review: Convert String Into an Integer

Quiz on Strings

String Functions

Standard Library Functions

Finding String Length

Copying String

Concatenating Two Strings

Converting String to Uppercase

Comparing Two Strings

Outputting Strings

Challenge: Generate the Nth Fibonacci Word

Solution Review: Generate the Nth Fibonacci Word

Quiz on String Functions

Structures

15 Lessons

Union

6 Lessons

Enumerations

4 Lessons

Function Pointers

5 Lessons

10.

Variable Argument Lists

5 Lessons

11.

Working With Bits

18 Lessons

12.

Recursion

11 Lessons

13.

Classical Recursive Problems

4 Lessons

14.

Static and Dynamic Memory Allocation

8 Lessons

15.

Type casting and Typedef

5 Lessons

16.

C Under Linux

8 Lessons

17.

Command Line Arguments

3 Lessons

18.

Creating Libraries

7 Lessons

19.

Debugging C Programs

8 Lessons

20.

Conclusion

1 Lesson

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