CSPP 51081 - C Tutoral Page - Fall 2008

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Useful links

If you're new to UNIX, I recommend learning a screen-based text editor such as vi or emacs. Here's a quick vi tutorial and another vi tutorial.

The Lab3 FAQ has a link to a gdb turorial   Also, here's a lab on the gdb debugger, that I wrote for CS 154 in Spring 2005.

For a howto on Makefiles, see the Deconstructing Make tutorial also linked from the Lab3 FAQ

Tutorials

• main,#include directive
• Data types and typedef
• printf
• function basics - arguments, return type, body
• Control structures (especially, switch and ?:
• Arrays and String, getting started with

• More on Arrays and Strings (briefly:string library function)
• Pointers - Overview, declaration, * and & operators, what is a segmentation fault
• operator precedence
• Structures, struct (and typedef again), pointers to structs

• Bitwise operations and operators: | & ^ ~ << >>
• Basics of file I/O
• Command line arguments to main
• macros with arguments

• Getting started with the gdb debugger
• ifdef preprocessor directive
• Questions on Makefile

• Multi-dimentional arrays
• More pointer review, pointers as function arguments
• Dynamic Memory Allocation - purpose, getting started w/malloc
• gdb with running processes processes, attach

• More Dynamic Memory Allocation: structures, arrays of structres
• realloc and calloc
• Common bugs - memory leaks and memory corruption

• Building a stack data structure, using dynamic memory allocation
• file I/O library functions: fopen,,fprintf,fscanf,etc
• static variables and functions

• Function Pointers: purpose and syntax
• Using function pointers: sorting, qsort
• Enumerations, enum keyword