NTRODUCTION

• The Origins of the C Language
• Differences between the various versions of C
• C is a medium level language
• Key words
• Structure
• Comments
• Libraries
• Terms

DATA TYPES

• Identifiers
• Declaring a variable
• Formal parameters
• Access modifiers
• Storage class types
• Variable initializations
• Constants
• Backslash character constants
• Assignment statements

OPERATORS

• Precedence of operators

FUNCTIONS

• Passing an array to a function       
• Passing parameters to main
• Returning from a function
• Function prototypes
• The importance of prototyping

PROGRAM CONTROL STATEMENTS

• Selection statements
• Iteration statements
• Jump statements
• More about ?
• Continue

ARRAYS

• Single-dimension arrays
• Passing single-dimension arrays to functions
• Strings
• Two-dimensional arrays    33
• Passing two-dimensional arrays to functions
• Arrays of strings
• Array initialization

THE C PREPROCESSOR

• define      35
• #error
• #include
• #if, #else, #elif, #endif    
• #ifdef, #ifndef     
• #undef
• #line
• #pragma
• Predefined macro names

INPUT AND OUTPUT

• Input      
• Output
• Direct console I/O

POINTERS

• Pointer variables
• Pointer arithmetic
• Pointer comparisons
• Dynamic memory allocation
• Arrays and pointers
• Problems with pointers

STRUCTURES

• Declaration of structures
• Passing structures elements to functions
• Passing entire structures to functions
• Structure pointers
• Arrays and structures within structures
• Bit fields
• Unions
• Enumerations
• typedef

FILE I/O

• Buffered streams
• Random access using streams
• Handles
• Advanced file I/O
• Predefined I/O streams

LINKING, LIBRARIES AND HEADER FILES

• The linker
• Declaration versus definition
• Relocatable versus absolute code
• Library files versus object files
• Header files

STRINGS

• Strtok()
• Converting numbers to And from strings
• Text handling

DYNAMIC MEMORY ALLOCATION