C Programming Essentials
Course Description
This course helps learners gain a strong foundation in C programming, covering both fundamentals and advanced topics. It emphasizes structured programming, memory management, and debugging through practical exercises and projects.
Course Outcome :
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Master the syntax, operators, and control flow of C programming.
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Build structured programs using arrays, functions, and loops.
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Work with pointers, structures, and unions for advanced logic building.
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Manage memory dynamically and handle files effectively.
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Implement advanced debugging and error-handling strategies
Course Curriculum
This course helps learners gain a strong foundation in C programming, covering both fundamentals and advanced topics. It emphasizes structured programming, memory management, and debugging through practical exercises and projects.
- History and features of C
- Structure of a C program
- Basic syntax and compiling a simple program
- Data types, variables, and constants
- Arithmetic, relational, logical, and bitwise operators
- Assignment and increment/decrement
- Operator precedence and associativity
- Writing meaningful expressions
- if, if-else, nested if-else
- switch-case logic
- for, while, and do-while loops
- break, continue, and goto statements
- Declaring and defining functions
- Passing parameters and returning values
- Variable scope and lifetime
- Recursion and inline functions
- 1D, 2D, and multidimensional arrays
- Array manipulation, sorting, and searching
- String handling functions and operations
- Array of strings and string-based projects
- Pointers and pointer arithmetic
- Pointers with arrays, strings, and functions
- Dynamic memory allocation (malloc, calloc, realloc)
- Pointer to pointer, memory leaks, and debugging
- Defining and using structures
- Nested structures and arrays of structures
- Unions and their applications
- Bit fields and memory optimization
- Standard input and output
- Working with text and binary files
- Using fprintf, fscanf, fgetc, fgets, etc
- Command-line arguments and directory handling
- #include, #define, #ifdef, #ifndef
- Macros and conditional compilation
- Use of #pragma and #undef
- Writing safe and modular header files
- Understanding compiler and runtime errors
- Using assertions and logs
- Debugging techniques using gdb/IDE
- Best practices for writing robust code
- Memory fragmentation and performance optimization
- Multi-threading basics (pthreads introduction)
- Linked lists, stacks, queues, and trees
- Sorting and searching algorithms in C