Learn C programming fundamentals like data types, control flow, functions, pointers, and memory allocation while exploring debugging, profiling, and optimization tools like GDB and gcc.

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RunC

RunCwithGNUflags

RunCwithlmflag

Run_go_file 

RunC-without_warning_flag

Compile-only

doNothing

Posix

RunCFileGo

Compile-go-file

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OpenMP

Make

MPI4Threads

MPI8Threads

Octave

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This comprehensive course covers the fundamentals and advanced concepts of C programming to build a solid foundation for your programming journey. You’ll learn about essential topics like data types, variables, constants, and C statements, along with deeper explorations of control flow in C, including for loops and conditional statements in C. You’ll also learn about C functions, scope of variables, function arguments, and work with arrays, strings, and pointers in C.

You’ll gain hands-on experience with dynamic memory allocation, stack vs. heap, C standard library, and advanced topics such as binary files, input and output streams, and header files. The course also teaches compiling in C, linking in C, and debugging with tools like GNU debugger (GDB) and gprof for code profiling. By mastering these concepts, you’ll confidently program in C and optimize your code using gcc optimization flags.

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# Declaring a variable in C

**Declaring a variable** means to specify the name of the variable (and possibly its data type) so that the programming environment can reserve space in memory for that variable. Once a variable is declared, values that are assigned to it are held in the memory location reserved for it.

Unlike in languages like Python, R, Octave/Matlab, etc., which are #key# dynamically-typed languages: In a dynamically-typed language, variables types do not have to be declared explicitly and are determined at run time depending on the type of value stored in it. #key#, the C language is a #key# statically-typed language: In a statically-typed language, variable types have to be declared explicitly and are known at compile time #key#. From a practical point of view, this means that in C we have to declare, up front, the type of every variable we use. 

In languages like Python we can do crazy stuff like this:

Learn the C syntax required for declaring variables of different types and .

Declarations

Introduction to C Programming

Data Types in C

C Operators and C Expressions

Control Flow in C

Functions in C

Complex Data Types

Stack vs. Heap

Pointers in C

C string

Input and Output Stream

Macros and the C Preprocessor

Header Files, Compiling and Linking

C Debugger

Code Profiling

Parallel Programming in C

Project: Using a Bootstrapped t-test

Conclusion

Miscellaneous

Appendix: Setting Up the Environment

Declarations

Declaring a variable in C