Optimizing and Debugging ANSI C Programs

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
C is a general purpose language with standards specified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). This course demonstrates how to work with various built-in functions and use format specifiers. It covers storage classes, volatile variables, data modifiers and dynamic memory allocation (DMA). It also covers how to use the C preprocessor to optimize C programs. In this course, the instructor uses some non-standard Microsoft extensions. In these instances, the instructor uses quotes around the library names rather than the standard <> symbols.

Target Audience
Programmers who want to learn how to use program iterations in ANSI C and use C functions and pointers

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.0

Lesson Objectives

Optimizing and Debugging ANSI C Programs

start the course

use built in functions such as system(), delay(), and sleep() in C

use built in functions ceil() and floor()

use built in functions such as rand(), srand() to generate random value

list the categories of maths' functions such as cos() in C and demonstrate their use

use ctime to output date and time string using C

use format specifiers in C

describe storage classes, and describe, and use storage class specifiers

describe and use storage class modifiers

use volatile variables in C

describe the sign bit, use a signed data modifier to enable it for int or char data types, and use an unsigned modifier to disable it

use the short and long modifiers and change format specifers to change the data size of variables in C

describe dynamic memory allocation (DMA) and associated C functions and use dynamic memory allocation for strings in C

use dynamic memory allocation for structures in C

use dynamic memory allocation for arrays in C

reallocate memory in C

describe and generate linked lists using C

manipulate linked lists using C

describe the C preprocessor, and contrast it with the compiler

use the #define directive to define macros and use #undef to remove the definition in C programs

use the #include directive in a C program to include files

use conditional compilation directives in C programs

use the #pragma directive in C

use preprocessor directives such as _DATE_ , _TIME_, _FILE_, and _LINE_

describe methods to debug C programs and use the assert macro

understand how to optimize and debug ANSI C programs

Course Number:
sd_ansi_a04_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate