Procedural Programming with C
Undergraduate course, Giresun University, Department of Computer Engineering, 2023
C is a general-purpose programming language widely used in systems programming, embedded software, operating systems, compilers, and performance-sensitive applications. It combines portable high-level constructs with low-level access to memory and hardware-related operations. C gives programmers substantial control over data representation, memory allocation, and program execution. This control can enable efficient software, but it also requires careful handling of memory, types, and undefined behavior.
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Course resources
- V22.0201 Computer Systems Organization course
Preliminary Materials:
Chapter 1: Introduction to C Programming
- Origins and evolution of the C language
- Features and benefits of using C
- Setting up a development environment
- Basic structure of a C program
- Variables, data types, and operators
- Input and output functions
- Compilation process and execution
Chapter 2: Control Flow
- Decision-making statements (if, else if, switch)
- Looping statements (for, while, do-while)
- Break and continue statements
Chapter 3: Arrays and Strings
- Declaring and initializing arrays
- Manipulating arrays: accessing, modifying, and traversing
- String manipulation and string library functions
Chapter 4: Functions
- Function declaration, definition, and calling
- Function parameters and return values
- Recursive functions
Chapter 5: Pointers
- Understanding pointers and memory addresses
- Pointer declaration and initialization
- Pointer arithmetic
- Dynamic memory allocation with
malloc,calloc,realloc, andfree - Checking allocation failures
- Memory leaks, dangling pointers, and double-free errors
- Ownership and lifetime of dynamically allocated memory
Chapter 6: Structures
- Structure declaration and initialization
- Accessing structure members
- Nested structures and arrays of structures
Chapter 7: File Handling
- Working with files in C
- Opening, reading, and writing files
- File positioning and error handling
- File I/O using standard libraries
Chapter 8: Enumerations, Unions, and Bit-Level Operations
- Enumerated types
- Type aliases with
typedef - Unions
- Bitwise operators
- Bit masks and bit manipulation
- Bit-fields and their portability limitations
Chapter 9: Preprocessor Directives
- Macros and their usage
- Conditional compilation
- Separating declarations and definitions
- Designing header and source files
- Include guards
- Avoiding multiple-definition errors
- Building multi-file programs
- Debugging using preprocessor directives
- Scope and lifetime of variables
- Local, global, and static variables
- Internal and external linkage
- The
const,static, andexternqualifiers
Chapter 10: Advanced Concepts - Part 1
- Memory management techniques
- Function pointers and callbacks
- Understanding static and dynamic libraries
- Recursion: principles and applications
- Call stack behavior in recursive functions
- Base cases and recursive cases
- Recursion depth and stack overflow
- Recursive versus iterative solutions
Chapter 11: Advanced Concepts - Part 2
- Introduction to data structures (linked lists, stacks, queues)
- Implementation and usage of data structures
- Introduction to algorithms (sorting, searching)
- Time and space complexity analysis
- Variadic functions
- Program arguments with
argcandargv - Program termination and exit status
Chapter 12: Error Handling and Debugging
- Common compile-time, link-time, and runtime errors
- Checking function return values
- Error reporting with
errno,perror, andstrerror - Assertions with
assert - Defensive programming techniques
- Debugging with compiler warnings and debugging tools
- Introduction to sanitizers and static analysis
Chapter 13: Introduction to C++ (Optional)
- Basic differences between C and C++
- Introduction to object-oriented programming
- Classes, objects, and constructors
- Basic input/output in C++
Chapter 14: Project and Review
- Individual or group project using C programming concepts
- Review of key concepts and topics covered throughout the course
- Q&A session and final assessment
Sample projects
🗒️Questions and answers
🗒️Multiple choice questions