Advanced C Programming

Overview
This practical 3 day course is designed to give programmers using C a better understanding of the language. It is targeted at developers who are using C in their day to day work and wish to increase their knowledge of the features available. There are exercises throughout the course to assist understanding of the subjects covered.

Pre-requisites
The syllabus is designed for C programmers who have at least 6 months experience of coding in ISOC. Attendees should have a good understanding of aggregate data types (structures/unions/arrays), use of pointers, dynamic memory allocation using malloc and free, functions(pass by reference/pass by value).

Audience
Programmers who are using C in their day to day work and wish to increase their knowledge of the features available.

Student Numbers
The maximum recommended student to instructor ratio is 12:1

Objectives
By the end of the course, the delegates will be able, with the aid of course notes to:

· Use advanced library functions such as qsort and bsearch.
· Program using advanced pointer techniques.
· Code programs using pointers to functions.
· Edit Input Messages using IPRSE.
· Process multi-dimensional arrays.

Course Outline

Introduction	Review of current C knowledge
Arrays	Multidimensional Arrays Pointers and Arrays Arrays and Functions
DLMs	Building Assembler Programs into a DLM. Compiler Options and their effect Understanding Linkage and the DLM Map.
Dynamic Data Structures	Link Lists - Overview Declaring structures for Link Lists Adding and deleting Link List items Dynamically Sized Arrays
Pointers	Void pointers explained Pointers to pointers
Functions	Pass by Reference reviewed Functions and pointers to pointers Using Pointers to Functions Arrays of Pointers to Functions
Parameters	Using argv and argc Processing parameters
Input Messages	IPRSE - an input message editor Using Grammars
Built in Functions	Sorting data using qsort( ) Searching using bsearch( )