Advanced C Programming

Take your C programming skills to the next level with these tips for writing more efficient, more functional code.

Introduction

• Go beyond the basics of C programming
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. Programming: Weird-Symbol Roundup

• Assignment operators
• Challenge: Use an assignment operator
• Solution: Use an assignment operator
• Understand the ternary operator
• Challenge: A ternary-operator decision
• Solution: A ternary-operator decision

2. Main Function Arguments

• Work with arguments in the main() function
• Challenge: Reading command-line arguments
• Solution: Reading the command line

3. Beyond Basic Variables

• Set up an external variable
• Typecast variables
• Challenge: Specifying a cast
• Solution: Specifying a cast
• Take advantage of static variables
• Challenge: Setting up a static variable
• Solution: Setting up a static variable

4. Arrays and Structures

• Sort an array
• Challenge: Sort a string
• Solution: Sort a string
• Work with arrays and functions
• Challenge: An array-modification function
• Solution: An array-modification function
• Send a structure to a function
• Challenge: Create a structure function
• Solution: Create a structure function
• Build an array of structures
• Challenge: Sort an array of structures
• Solution: Sort an array of structures

5. Pointer Tips

• When to use the ampersand operator
• How to bind the asterisk operator
• Challenge: Incrementing a pointer
• Solution: Incrementing a pointer
• Understanding arrays and pointers
• Challenge: Displaying an array
• Solution: Displaying an array
• Obeying the order of precedence

Conclusion

• Next steps