C Essential Training

Get started programming with C. Explore the fundamentals of this powerful language, including code structure, data, program flow, and functions.

Introduction

• Plunging into C
• Getting everything ready

1. The Fundamentals of C

• 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
• Challenge: Build the foundation
• Solution: Build the foundation

2. Variables and Values

• Understanding C language data types
• Declaring variables
• Working with variables
• Exploring the printf() function
• Using constants
• Challenge: Make variables and constants
• Solution: Make variables and constants
• Understanding variable scope
• Making new data types
• Specifying characters and strings
• Specifying integers and real numbers
• Typecasting a variable
• Challenge: Basic I/O
• Solution: Basic I/O

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
• Challenge: Binary math
• Solution: Binary 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
• Challenge: Work the grid
• Solution: Work the grid

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
• Challenge: Complete the code
• Solution: Complete the code

Conclusion

• Next steps