C How to Program

Table of Contents

PART 1: (Introductory) Programming Fundamentals Quickstart

• Introduction to Computers and C: Test-Driving Microsoft Visual Studio, Apple Xcode, GNU gcc, and GNU gcc in a Docker container
• Intro to C Programming: Input, Output, Types, Arithmetic, Decision Making
• Structured Program Development: Algorithmic Development, Problem Solving, if, if/else, while
• Program Control: for, do/while, switch, break, continue, Logical OperatorsFunctions: Custom Functions, Simulation, Random-Number Generation, Enumerations, Function Call and Return Mechanism, Recursion, Recursive Factorial, Recursive Fibonacci

PART 2: (Intermediate) Arrays, Pointers, and Strings

• Arrays: One- and Two-Dimensional Arrays, Passing Arrays to Functions, Searching, Sorting
• Pointers: Pointers operators & and •, Pass-By-Value vs. Pass-By-Reference, Array and Pointer Relationship
• Characters and Strings: C Standard Library String- and Character-Processing Functions

PART 3: (Intermediate) Formatted Input/Output, Structures, and File Processing

• Formatted Input/Output: scanf and printf formattingStructures, Unions, Bit Manipulation and Enumerations: Creating Custom Types with structs and unions, Bitwise Operators, Named Constants
• File Processing: Streams, Text and Binary Files, CSV Files, Sequential and Random-Access Files

PART 4: (Advanced) Algorithms and Data Structures

• Data Structures: Dynamic Memory Allocation and Deallocation, Lists, Stacks, Queues, Binary Trees
• Computer-Science Thinking: Sorting Algorithms and Big O Insertion Sort, Selection Sort, Merge Sort, Additional Algorithms including Quicksort in the Exercises

PART 5: (Advanced) Preprocessor and Other Topics

• Preprocessor: #include, Conditional Compilation, Macros with Arguments, Assertions
• Other Topics: Variable-Length Argument Lists, Command-line Arguments, Multiple-Source-Pile Programs, extern, exit/atexit, calloc/realloc, goto, Numeric Literal Suffixes, Signal Handling

Appendices

• Operator Precedence Chart
• ASCII Character Set
• Numerical Integration
• Number Systems
• Multithreading/Multicore and other C18/C11/C99 Topics
• Intro to Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
• Online Appendices
• F-H. Using the Visual Studio Debugger, Using the GNU gdb Debugger, and Using the Xcode Debugger

Case Studies

• System Programming Case Studies
• Systems Software: Building Your Own Computer
• Systems Software: Building Your Own Compiler
• Embedded Systems Programming: Robotics with the Webots Simulator
• Performance with Multithreading and Multicore Systems
• Applications Programming Case Studies
• Random-Number Simulation: Building a Casino Game
• Random-Number Simulation: Card Shuffling and Dealing
• Random-Number Simulation: The Tortoise and the Hare Race
• Intro to Data Science: Survey Data Analysis
• Direct-Access File Processing: Transaction-Processing System
• Visualizing a Sorting Algorithm: Merge Sort
• Artificial Intelligence/Data Science: NLP: Who Wrote Shakespeare's Works?
• Artificial Intelligence/Data Science: Machine Learning with the GNU Scientific Library
• Game Programming: SpotOn Game with the raylib Library
• Game Programming: Cannon Game with the raylib Library
• Security and Cryptography: Implementing a Vigenère Cipher
• Visualization with gnuplot: Law of Large Numbers AnimationWeb Services and the Cloud: libcurl and OpenWeatherMap

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