About the course curriculum

CE1: C Essentials – Part 1

Module 0: Installing And Using Your Programming Environment

• Introduction to IDE
• Online tools
• Edube Interactive

Module 1: Absolute Basics - Introduction to Computer Programming

• languages: natural and artificial,
• machine languages,
• high-level programming languages,
• obtaining the machine code: compilation process,
• writing simple programs,
• variables,
• integer values in real life and in C,
• integer literals,
• comments.

Module 2: Data Types, operations, and the basics of flow control

• floating-point values in real life and in C,
• float literals,
• arithmetic operators,
• priority and binding,
• post- and pre-incrementation, decrementation,
• operators of type op=,
• the char type and ASCII code,
• char literals,
• equivalence of int and char data,
• comparison operators,
• conditional execution and if keyword,
• the printf() and scanf() functions

Module 3: Flow Control (continued), more data types, computer logic

• conditional execution: the else branch,
• integer and float types,
• conversions,
• typecast and its operators,
• loops: while, do, and for,
• controlling the loop execution: break and continue,
• logical and bitwise operators.

Module 4: Aggregating Data Into Arrays

• switch: different faces of ‘if’,
• arrays (vectors),
• sorting in real life and computer memory,
• initiators,
• pointers,
• an address, a reference, a dereference and the sizeof operator,
• simple pointers, pointers to nothing (NULL),
• the & operator,
• pointer arithmetic,
• pointers vs. arrays: different forms of the same phenomenon,
• strings,
• string manipulation.

Module 5: Memory Management And Structures

• array indexing,
• using pointers: perils and disadvantages,
• the void type,
• arrays of arrays and multidimensional arrays,
• memory allocation and deallocation: the malloc() and free() functions,
• arrays of pointers vs. multidimensional arrays,
• structures,
• declaring, using and initializing structures,
• pointers to structures and arrays of structures,
• the basics of recursive data collections.

End of Part 1

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CE2: C Essentials – Part 2

Module 6: Functions

• functions,
• how to declare, define and invoke functions,
• the scope of variables, local variables and function parameters,
• pointers, arrays and structures as function parameters,
• function result and the return statement,
• void as a parameter, pointer and result,
• parameterizing the main function,
• external functions and the extern declarator,
• header files and their role.

Module 7: Connecting to the Real World - Files And Streams

• files vs. streams,
• header files needed for stream operations,
• the FILE structure,
• opening and closing streams, open modes, the errno variable,
• reading and writing to/from a stream,
• predefined streams: stdin, stdout, and stderr,
• stream manipulation: the fgetc(), fputc(), fgets(), and fputs() functions,
• raw input/output: the fread(), and fwrite() functions.

Module 8: Preprocessor And Complex Declarations

• preprocessor,
• #include - how to make use of a header file,
• #define - simple and parameterized macros,
• the #undef directive,
• predefined preprocessor symbols,
• macrooperators: # and ##,
• conditional compilation: the #if and #ifdef directives,
• avoiding multiple compilations of the same header files,
• scopes of declarations, storage classes,
• user-defined types,
• pointers to functions,
• analyzing and creating complex declarations.

End of Part 2

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