This course covers the powerful C programming constructs; functions, symbolic constants, macros, and arrays. It describes the principles and processes of writing user-defined functions, the difference between user functions and C library functions, function headers and definitions, passing data among functions, and recursive functions. It also provides an understanding of life span or scope of program variables, which are crucial to the successful execution of any C program, function prototypes and recursive functions. The course concludes as the student is shown how to use #define to create symbolic constants and macros and how C structures enable related data to be managed and manipulated as a group. This course is not written to a specific version.
Unit 1: Functions
- Writing Functions
- Return Statements
- Floating Point Functions
Unit 2: Scope of Variables
Unit 3: Prototypes and Recursion
- Function Prototypes
- Recursive Functions
Unit 4: Defines and Macros
- Symbolic Constants and Macros
- Parentheses in Macros
- Enumerators
Unit 5: Strings and Arrays
- Character Strings
- String Functions
- One Dimensional Arrays
- Two Dimensional Arrays
- Using Arrays to Pass Data