C: Data Structures, Pointers, and File Systems

Learn the C language, including simple I/O to data storage, structures, pointers, file operations, and interacting with the operating system.

Introduction

• Diving into C
• Configuration and setup

1. C Programming Fundamentals

• Coding your first program
• Challenge: Write your own code
• Solution: Write your own code
• Getting into the C language
• Reviewing code structure
• Working the C development cycle
• Challenge: Find and fix the bugs
• Solution: Find and fix the bugs
• Exploring the preprocessor
• Understanding header files and libraries
• Adding comments
• Chapter challenge: Building the foundation
• Chapter solution: Building the foundation

2. Variables and Values

• Understanding C language data types
• Declaring variables
• Working with variables
• Exploring the printf() function
• Using constants
• Challenge: Making variables and constants
• Solution: Making variables and constants
• Understanding variable scope
• Making new data types
• Specifying characters and strings
• Specifying integers and real numbers
• Typecasting a variable
• Chapter challenge: Adding variables and constants
• Chapter solution: Adding variables and constants

3. Operators and Math

• Working with math operators
• Challenge: Do some math
• Solution: Do some math
• Using assignment operators
• Obeying the order of precedence
• Challenge: Get the order correct
• Solution: Get the order correct
• Working with relational operators
• Using logical operators
• Understanding bitwise operators
• Shifting bits
• Exploring unary operators
• Chapter challenge: More math
• Chapter solution: More math

4. Decisions and Loops

• Making a decision
• Exploring the possibilities
• Using the ternary operator
• Working with the switch-case structure
• Challenge: Select an item
• Solution: Select an item
• Creating a for loop
• Setting up a while loop
• Challenge: Repeat some text
• Solution: Repeat some text
• Nesting loops
• Breaking out of a loop
• Avoiding the goto keyword
• Chapter challenge: Interpreting commands
• Chapter solution: Interpreting commands

5. Functions

• Understanding functions
• Creating a function
• Challenge: Writing a function
• Solution: Writing a function
• Returning a value from a function
• Challenge: Returning a value
• Solution: Returning a value
• Passing arguments to a function
• Challenge: Passing values
• Solution: Passing values
• Using the main() function's arguments
• Retaining values in a function
• Creating recursive functions
• Chapter challenge: Write the functions
• Chapter solution: Write the functions

6. Arrays and Structures

• Understanding arrays
• Working with arrays
• Challenge: Creating an array
• Solution: Creating an array
• Passing an array to a function
• Working with multi-dimensional arrays
• Building a structure
• Nesting structures
• Challenge: Constructing a structure
• Solution: Constructing a structure
• Putting structures into an array
• Working with structures and functions
• Chapter challenge: Manipulating a structure
• Chapter solution: Manipulating a structure

7. Characters and Strings

• Using single character I/O
• Testing and converting characters
• Challenge: Character I/O and conversions
• Solution: Character I/O and conversions
• Understanding strings in C
• Fetching string input
• Sending string output
• Challenge: Using printf placeholders
• Solution: Using printf placeholders
• Exploring string functions
• Manipulating strings
• Chapter challenge: Reading commands
• Chapter solution: Reading commands

8. Pointers

• Understanding pointers
• Using pointers to manipulate data
• Doing pointer math
• Comparing arrays and pointers
• Challenge: Output a string
• Solution: Output a string
• Allocating storage
• Working with a pointer array
• Using pointers in structures
• Challenge: Allocating structures
• Solution: Allocating structures
• Passing pointers to functions
• Returning pointers from a function
• Chapter challenge: Processing input
• Chapter solution: Processing input

9. Files and the Operating System

• Reading from a file
• Writing to a file
• Challenge: Writing and reading files
• Solution: Writing and reading files
• Working with raw data
• Using random file access
• Challenge: Access database records
• Solution: Access database records
• Manipulating files
• Exploring the path
• Reading a directory
• Getting file information
• Chapter challenge: Managing files
• Chapter solution: Managing files

10. The Interesting and Extraordinary

• Calling the operating system
• Doing advanced math
• Working with time functions
• Creating random numbers
• Sorting data
• Chapter challenge: Sorting a grid
• Chapter solution: Sorting a grid

Conclusion

• Next steps