WA1079 Advanced C Programming Course Outline 1. The C Development Environment The cc(1) Command Include Files Libraries 2. Basic and Derived Data Types in C Simple C data types Integral data types Floating point types Derived data types Array data types - single and multi-dimensional Structure data types Simple pointer types Pointers to structures/multiple pointers Pointers to functions The const qualifier Bit operators Using typedef 3. Function: Calling, Passing, and Returning Values Anatomy of a function Parameter passing - pass by value Parameter passing - pass by reference 4. Standard I/O Standard I/O streams File access Formatted I/O String I/O File positioning operations Block I/O 5. Low Level File I/O Standard I/O vs system I/O File access Direct I/O File Positioning Error Handling 6. Memory Allocation with malloc and calloc Dynamic memory allocation overview malloc(), calloc() realloc(), free() Structure Pointers Array of pointers to structures 7. Memory Organization and the Scope of Variables Command line arguments (argc, argv) The memory layout of a C Program The stack segment The heap segment 8. Data Structures - Linked Lists Array limitations Linked lists List operations - formation List operations - delete