Practical Programming in C
Lecture Notes
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LEC # |
TOPICS |
LECTURE NOTES |
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Introduction. Writing, compiling, and debugging C programs. Hello world. |
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2 |
Variables and datatypes, operators. |
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Control flow. Functions and modular programming. Variable scope. Static and global variables. |
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More control flow. Input and output. |
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Pointers and memory addressing. Arrays and pointer arithmetic. Strings. Searching and sorting algorithms. |
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User-defined datatypes, structs, unions, bitfields. Memory allocation. Linked lists, binary trees. |
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Pointers to pointers, pointer and string arrays, multidimensional arrays. Stacks and queues. |
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Void and function pointers. Hash tables. |
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External libraries. B-trees, priority queues. |
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C standard library: stdio.h, ctype.h, stdlib.h, assert.h, stdarg.h, time.h |
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Dynamic memory allocation, malloc and valgrind, garbage collection. |
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Multithreading and concurrency. |
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Multithreaded programming. Sockets and asynchronous I/O. |
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Linux inter process communication. |
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Labs
This section contains the labs and final project.
Lab Assignments
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LAB # |
LABS |
SOLUTIONS |
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Lab 1: Game of life |
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Lab 2: Data compression |
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Final Project
Final project description (PDF)
Assignments
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ASSN # |
TOPICS |
ASSIGNMENTS |
SOLUTIONS |
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Writing, compiling, and debugging programs; preprocessor macros; C file structure; variables; functions and problem statements; returning from functions |
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2 |
Types, operators, expressions |
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Control flow, functions, variable scope, static and global variables, I/O: printf and scanf, file I/O, character arrays, error handling, labels and goto |
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Pointers, arrays, strings, searching and sorting algorithms |
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5 |
Linked lists, trees |
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6a |
Pointers to pointers, multidimensional arrays, stacks and queues |
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Function pointers, hash table |
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Using and creating libraries, B-trees and priority queues |
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