A Crash Course in C

• The Handout: Postscript; PDF; DVI.
• This course as: a unix tar-ball, a postscript file, a DVI file, a PDF file.
• Date: 05 Feb 2002.

• Now!
• Page Zero

Introduction

• What is C?
• A Little History
• On why you should use C
• On why you should use !C
• A First C Programme
• Programme Structure

C at UMIST

• C at UMIST
• Accessing Cosmos via X (using eXceed)
• Compiling and Running Simple Programmes with GCC

Hands-On

• Practical A

Types, IO and Control...

• Types and Declarations
• Macros: define
• Input and Output
• IO: Character-by-character
• IO: Formatted
• Expression Values
• True and False
• Control Statements

Hands-On

• Practical B

Functions, Pointers, Arrays, Call-by-reference...

• Functions
• Function Prototypes
• Pointers
• Arrays
• Strings
• Function Arguments (Again)
• Returning Pointers to Local Variables

Hands-On

• Practical C

More...

• Header Files and Libraries
• Structures

Hands-On

• Practical D

Appendices...

• What we've missed out
• Common Mistakes
• Mixed Language Programming
• Lint
• Installation of GCC
• Object-Oriented C
• References and Other On-Line Material