Learning to Program in C - training course

For delegates with no prior programming experience

Duration: 3 days. • Price: $1720.00 or £1030.00 +VAT (with hotel room), or $1450.00 or £850.00 +VAT (without room), • Venue: Melksham, England

COURSE START DATES

• Monday 8 July 2013	• Monday 14 October 2013
• Monday 13 January 2014

DESCRIPTION

"Programming in C" is an intensive 2 days course, during which our tutor takes you from the fundamentals of the C language through techniques and principles such as pointers, structures, unions and dynamic memory allocation. With these skills learned, you'll be well equipped to read, write and maintain C code and to progress to learning C++ which adds to the principles and syntax of C. 2658

PREREQUISITES

No prior programming experience is required for this course.

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SUBJECT BACKGROUND

The C language is the bedrock of modern computing - it underlies your operating system, and it's the language in which other languages are written. However, only a small proportion of programmers actually need to develop and maintain code in C these days, as for the majority of applications the higher level languages that are themselves written in C are going to be more efficient.

COURSE CONTENT

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Learning to Progam (module Q100) What is programing? Why are there so many langauges? Which language for what purpose? How to plan your progamming project. Making best use of existing resources.

Programming Principles (module Q101) Stored programs - running from file. Sequential operation. Very fast, but an IQ of zero. Variable and variable types. Conditions and conditional code. Loops and named blocks of code. Collections. Libraries. Pointers and references. Compilers and Interpretters. Program and system design.

C Basics

Introduction to C (module C101) What is C? What are C++ and Java? When should I use C? Flavours of C.

C Language Fundamentals (module C201) "Hello World" - shortest program in C. Compiling, loading and running a C Program. Comments. Exercise.

A first practical program (module C202) Variables, types and numeric types. Float and ints. Short long and double. Calculations. Basic use of printf. Exercise. Input from the user. Conversion and type casting. Multiple assignments. Exercise.

Conditionals and Loops (module C203) The if statement. Writing conditions in C. Exercise. if, else, elseif. switch, case, default. while. ++ and += operator families. Exercise. do while. for. break and continue. goto and labels. Layout of your blocks, and comments revisited. Exercise.

Functions, Macros and programs in multiple files (module C204) Defining functions. Parameters and return values. Exercise. Function prototypes. Variable scope and global variables. Constants. Header files and other Macros.

Arrays (module C205) Declaring and initialising an array. Techniques for iterating through an array.

Character Strings (module C206) Defining string variables. String manipulation functions.

Pointers and references (module C207) Declaring and using a pointer. Pointer arithmetic. Passing pointers. The use of pointers.

Programming techniques and tools (module C208) The Preprocessor and Macros. Libraries. Enumerators. Using command line parameters and environment variables.

Structures and Unions (module C209) Combining data into structures. Creating your own data types. Programming techniques for structures. Overlapping data within unions.

File Handling (module C210) stdio.h and other headers. Files and other streams. Opening and closing. Reading and writing. Checking files and directories.

Standard Libraries and other headers (module C211) The C preprocessor. locale.h. stdarg stddef stdio and stdlib.h. math and limits.h. errno ctype and time.h.

Memory Management (module C212) Malloc calloc realloc free and cfree. Using Pointer arithmetic. Creating variable length arrays and strings.

Techniques for C Programming

Secure C Programming (module C221) Pointer issues. Portability issues. Handling Binary data. Scrubbing user input.

C Web Programming (module C222) What is CGI programming? A Simple CGI program in C. Reading from a form. Introduction to sessions.

TUTOR and COURSE AUTHOR

Graham Ellis - graham@wellho.net [email] [about Graham]

VENUE

Melksham, Wiltshire , England. A taxi transfer can be arranged if you'll be arriving by air from United States. Private Courses can be arranged on site in your country.
Public courses run at Well House Manor - our own purpose fitted training centre and business hotel / conference centre in Melksham.
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PRICE

1 student	2 students	3 students	For 4 or more students from the same company, please consider a private course.
With hotel room $1720.00 ($2064.00 inc VAT) or £1030.00 (£1236.00 inc VAT) Without room $1450.00 ($1740.00 inc VAT) or £850.00 (£1020.00 inc VAT)	With hotel rooms $3340.00 ($4008.00 inc VAT) or £1960.00 (£2352.00 inc VAT) Without rooms $2800.00 ($3360.00 inc VAT) or £1600.00 (£1920.00 inc VAT)	With hotel rooms $4960.00 ($5952.00 inc VAT) or £2890.00 (£3468.00 inc VAT) Without rooms $4150.00 ($4980.00 inc VAT) or £2350.00 (£2820.00 inc VAT)
Notes: • Multiple discount applies to bookings for second and subsequent delegates on the same running of a course, and on same order. • Hotel rooms are available for arrival the night before the course starts, for departure after the end of the course on the last day.

FOLLOW UPS

If you're going to be embedding C code into applications written in other langauges, you might also be interested in Perl for Larger Projects PHP Programming Tcl Basics or Python Programming.

Upon completion of your course, you'll have online access to the source code of all the examples from the course, and you'll have access to the "Ask the Tutor" forum where you can raise questions. We also encourage you to email the tutor, and to visit us again to use our library as appropriate.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

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