Description
This course gives C programmers practical experience applying advanced C programming techniques. The course is operating system independent.

Audience
Systems and applications programmers and software designers who will be using C for software development and need to understand every aspect of the C programming language.

Prerequisites
Participants must have a working knowledge of C programming language, or have attended Arkoa’s C Programming course.

Hardware and Software
An ANSI C compiler running on any platform. The systems should be able to load a 3.5” DOS-formatted solution disk.

Format

• Presentation
  
• Hands-on
  

Objectives
After completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Use the enhancements offered by ANSI C
• Use all the functions in the ANSI library
• Write sophisticated applications using multiple source files and separate compilation
• Implement algorithms involving complex data structures
• Describe all of the techniques and facilities for error trapping and error recovery
• Identify potential barriers to portability

• Debugging tools
• Code view - Microsoft C
• sdb and dbx

Working with Multiple Files

• Compilation and linking
• Scope rules revisited
• Include files

MAKE

• Basic features
• Makefile macros
• The Makefile description file
• Adding new rules

The Standard C Library

• Character handling
• Mathematical functions
• Standard I/O
• General utilities
• String handling
• Block memory functions
• Date and time functions
• Regular expression

  
  

Data Abstraction and Advanced Algorithms

• Dynamic data structures
• Self-referential structures
• Linked lists
• Doubly linked lists – queues
• Binary trees
• Balanced (AVL) binary trees
• Flattening the search

Behavior of Complete Programs

• The invocation environment
• Command line parser- getopt
• Interfacing to whole programs
• Program termination
• Exception handling
• Controlled backtracking