ANSI C Language Fundamentals

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 covers the fundamentals of C including working with data types, variables, and operators. It also demonstrates how to implement program flow using conditional statements and branching. 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 the fundamentals of ANSI C

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.2

Lesson Objectives

ANSI C Language Fundamentals

start the course

describe the characteristics of ANSI C, describe C tokens, and describe and step through the structure of a C program

write a simple program in C

compile a C program and execute it and describe the associated files

describe and use fundamental data types and qualifiers in C

describe data types introduced in C99 including bool, and demonstrate how to use bool

describe implicit and explicit type conversion and implement type conversion in C

describe constants and use numeric constants in C

use character and string constants and represent integers with character constants in C

use escape character constant escape values and symbolic constants in C programs

use enumeration constants in C programs

describe and use variables in C programs

describe variable scope for C programs, blocks, nested blocks, and functions

describe operators and expressions and implement arithmetic operators in C programs

implement relational operators in C programs

implement logical operators in C programs

implement assignment, increment, and decrement operators in C programs

implement bitwise operators in C programs

implement the sizeOf operator in C programs

implement the comma operator in C programs

describe and use examples of operator precedence and associativity in C

describe and use if statements including nested statements in C programs

describe and use if-else statements in C program

use nested if-else statements in C programs

use the switch statements with case values in a C program and review the rules for switch statements

use the C conditional operator ?: in C programs

use goto for unconditional branching in C programs and describe issues with it

to learn how to use fundamental C programming features

Course Number:
sd_ansi_a01_it_enus

Expertise Level
Beginner