New year, new C Course

For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))

Well - not completely a new course. New delegates, and lots of new examples written for them during the first day to that they can see not only WHAT work but also HOW the design of what works is put together during the day. Click on the individual source code examples, and you'll find programs to which I added further comments after we were done for the day.

Basics ...
Commenting in C - [source]
Also uses a function from another file - [source]

Loops and conditionals ...
Repeating code in a while loop - [source]
Good and bad for loops- [source]
If and else and use of blocks- [source]

Functions ...
Variable scope in blocks - [source]
Returning values from a function - [source]

Arrays ...
Returning values from a function - [source]
Pointers v Arrays - [source]

Pointers ...
First pointers demo - [source]
Passing a reference - [source]
Passing complex data via a single pointer - [source]

Preprocessor Directives ...
Some common preprocessor directives - [source]

See [here] for details of more upcoming public C courses.

(written 2011-01-05, updated 2011-01-08)

Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles

C207 - C and C based languages - Pointers and references
  [1155] Pointers in C - (2007-04-19)
  [1478] Some new C programming examples - files, structs, unions etc - (2007-12-19)
  [1497] Training Season Starts again! - (2008-01-07)
  [2005] Variables and pointers and references - C and C++ - (2009-01-23)
  [2572] The what and why of C pointers - (2010-01-13)
  [2670] Pointers to Pointers to Pointers - what is the point? - (2010-03-10)
  [3004] Increment operators for counting - Perl, PHP, C and others - (2010-10-18)
  [3238] Bradshaw, Ben and Bill. And some C and C++ pointers and references too. - (2011-04-09)
  [3242] How to return 2 values from a function (C++ and C) - more uses of pointers - (2011-04-10)
  [3386] Adding the pieces together to make a complete language - C - (2011-08-11)
  [3399] From fish, loaves and apples to money, plastic cards and BACS (Perl references explained) - (2011-08-20)
  [4128] Allocating memory dynamically in a static language like C - (2013-06-30)
  [4560] Variables, Pointers and References - C and C++ - (2015-10-29)

C205 - C and C based languages - Arrays
  [1614] When an array is not an array - (2008-04-17)
  [2002] New C Examples - pointers, realloc, structs and more - (2009-01-20)
  [2840] Just pass a pointer - do not duplicate the data - (2010-06-30)
  [3118] Arrays of arrays - or 2D arrays. How to program tables. - (2011-01-02)
  [3144] Setting up arrays in C - fixed size at compile time, or dynamic - (2011-01-24)
  [3245] Collections in C and C++ - arrays, vectors and heap memory blocks - (2011-04-12)
  [4338] Passing arrays into functions in C - (2014-12-02)
  [4566] C - why is slow to write and debug) but fast to run? - (2015-11-01)

C203 - C and C based languages - Conditionals and Loops
  [353] Wimbledon Neck - (2005-06-20)
  [962] Breaking a loop - Ruby and other languages - (2006-12-03)
  [1191] Smart English Output - via PHP and Perl ? : operator - (2007-05-18)
  [1220] for loop - how it works (Perl, PHP, Java, C, etc) - (2007-06-06)
  [1582] Ruby, C, Java and more - getting out of loops - (2008-03-19)
  [1696] Saying NOT in Perl, PHP, Python, Lua ... - (2008-07-04)
  [2570] Function Prototypes in C - (2010-01-11)
  [3200] How a for loop works Java, Perl and other languages - (2011-03-12)
  [3243] Breaking the running sequence - an introduction to conditional statements and loops - (2011-04-11)
  [3384] Loops - a comparison of goto, while and for - (2011-08-10)
  [3397] Does a for loop evaluate its end condition once, or on every iteration? - (2011-08-18)
  [4322] Learning to Program - the conditional statement (if) - (2014-11-21)
  [4323] Learning to program - Loop statements such as while - (2014-11-22)
  [4337] Learning to program sample program - past its prime, but still useful - (2014-12-02)

C202 - C and C based languages - A first practical program
  [888] Turning C from source to a running program - (2006-10-06)
  [2580] C course inspires new teaching examples - (2010-01-16)
  [3236] C - a first program that does something useful for you - (2011-04-09)
  [3590] Defining, declaring and initialising variables in C - (2012-01-24)
  [4632] Remember to ask the question before you listen for the answer - (2016-01-26)

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