Topics

• Getting started with C Language
• Function Pointers
• Operators
• Data Types
• Undefined behavior
• Preprocessor and Macros
• Function Parameters
• Pointers
• Compilation
• Strings
• Common pitfalls
• Selection Statements
• Storage Classes
• Threads (native)
• Getting started with POSIX
• Threads
• Signals
• Processes
• Initialization
• Memory management
• Implementation-defined behaviour
• Case statement

Examples

• Hello World
• Missing return statement in value returning function
• Copy and Concatenation: strcpy(), strcat()
• Dereferencing a pointer to variable beyond its lifetime
• Comma Operator
• Freeing Memory
• Allocating Memory
• Original "Hello, World!" in K&R C
• Passing in Arrays to Functions
• Common errors
• The Compiler
• Introduction
• Dereferencing a Pointer
• Basic introduction to strings
• Mistakenly writing = instead of == when comparing
• Forgetting to copy the return value of realloc into a temporary
• Initializing Pointers
• String literals
• if () Statements
• if () ... else statements and syntax
• Parameters are passed by value
• Convert Strings to Number: atoi(), atof() (dangerous, don't use them)
• static
• Passing a null pointer to printf %s conversion
• Inconsistent linkage of identifiers
• switch () Statements
• Start several threads
• Simple Thread without Arguments
• Introduction
• Create child process and wait until it exits
• Simple Mutex Usage
• Initialization of Variables in C
• Initializing structures and arrays of structures
• _Thread_local
• Bit shifting using negative counts or beyond the width of the type
• A process committing suicide using kill()
• Representation of signed integers
• Polymorphic behaviour with void pointers
• Modifying the string returned by getenv, strerror, and setlocale functions
• Returning from a function that's declared with `_Noreturn` or `noreturn` function specifier
• Variadic arguments macro
• Simple case statement
• Case statement with fall through
• Fall through only if subsequent pattern(s) match
• Using designated initializers
• if()...else Ladder Chaining two or more if () ... else statements