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Practical Programming in C

Subjects: Engineering · Language · Programming

Art: Palmer, Edward, 1803-1872, Figures 113-123. Plate Electrical Machines, 1840 · Public domain

Instructors: Daniel Weller, Sharat Chikkerur
Term: January IAP 2010
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 12 problem sets · 9 solutions · 1 lecture note · 19 other files · 4 web pages
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Practical Programming in C

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Lecture 1: Introduction. Writing, compiling, and debugging C programs. Hello world.

Lecture 2: Variables and datatypes, operators.

Lecture 3: Control flow. Functions and modular programming. Variable scope. Static and global variables.

Lecture 4: More control flow. Input and output.

Lecture 5: Pointers and memory addressing. Arrays and pointer arithmetic. Strings. Searching and sorting algorithms.

Lecture 6: User-defined datatypes, structs, unions, bitfields. Memory allocation. Linked lists, binary trees.

Lecture 7: Pointers to pointers, pointer and string arrays, multidimensional arrays. Stacks and queues.

Lecture 8: Void and function pointers. Hash tables.

Lecture 9: External libraries. B-trees, priority queues.

Lecture 10: C standard library: stdio.h, ctype.h, stdlib.h, assert.h, stdarg.h, time.h

Lecture 11: Dynamic memory allocation, malloc and valgrind, garbage collection.

Lecture 12: Multithreading and concurrency.

Lecture 13: Multithreaded programming. Sockets and asynchronous I/O.

Lecture 14: Linux inter process communication.