Topics

• Getting started with C Language
• Operators
• Arrays
• Undefined behavior
• Random Number Generation
• Preprocessor and Macros
• Variable arguments
• Files and I/O streams
• Assertion
• Linked lists
• Function Parameters
• Pointers
• Structs
• Command-line arguments
• Compilation
• Identifier Scope
• Bit-fields
• Strings
• Common pitfalls
• Valgrind
• Typedef
• Standard Math
• Literals for numbers, characters and strings
• Storage Classes
• Declarations
• Formatted Input/Output
• Inline assembly
• Getting started with POSIX
• Initialization
• Structure Padding and Packing
• Memory management
• Enumerations
• Jump Statements
• Create and include header files
• Testing frameworks
• <ctype.h> — character classification & conversion
• Side Effects
• Multi-Character Character Sequence
• Inlining
• Common C programming idioms and developer practices
• Interprocess Communication (IPC)
• Comments

Examples

• Hello World
• Assignment Operators
• Arithmetic Operators
• Logical Operators
• Missing return statement in value returning function
• Permuted Congruential Generator
• Signed integer overflow
• Use of an uninitialized variable
• Simple Assertion
• Static Assertion
• Accessing memory beyond allocated chunk
• Copying overlapping memory
• Conditional Operator/Ternary Operator
• sizeof Operator
• Access Operators
• Using an explicit count argument to determine the length of the va_list
• Open and write to file
• Simple data structures
• Freeing Memory
• Allocating Memory
• Original "Hello, World!" in K&R C
• Common errors
• Reallocating Memory
• The Linker
• File Types
• The Preprocessor
• The Compiler
• Printing the command line arguments
• Dereferencing a Pointer to a struct
• Predefined Macros
• Print the arguments to a program and convert to integer values
• Function Prototype Scope
• Bit-fields
• Simple Enumeration
• Bitwise Operators
• Modify string literal
• Header Include Guards
• Mistakenly writing = instead of == when comparing
• Get lines from a file using getline()
• Forgetting to allocate one extra byte for \0
• Forgetting to free memory (memory leaks)
• Comparing floating point numbers
• Initializing Pointers
• Typedef for Structures and Unions
• FOREACH implementation
• Double precision floating-point remainder: fmod()
• Flexible Array Members
• Copying strings
• Doing extra scaling in pointer arithmetic
• Using bit-fields as small integers
• Macros are simple string replacements
• Same Asterisk, Different Meanings
• Undefined reference errors when linking
• Printing the Value of a Pointer to an Object
• Conversion Specifiers for printing
• Passing a null pointer to printf %s conversion
• Using character constants instead of string literals, and vice versa
• What is POSIX?
• Introduction
• Using fflush on an input stream
• A doubly linked list
• Initialization of Variables in C
• Initializing structures and arrays of structures
• Hello World
• Function scope
• Function-like macros
• Adding a semicolon to a #define
• Multidimensional arrays of variable size
• Overstepping array boundaries
• Using designated initializers
• Recursive function — missing out the base condition
• Checking logical expression against 'true'
• Using return
• Bit-field alignment
• realloc(ptr, 0) is not equivalent to free(ptr)
• Introduction
• Idempotence
• Self-containment
• Minimality
• Include What You Use (IWYU)
• Notation and Miscellany
• CppUTest
• Introduction
• When are bit-fields useful?
• Pre/Post Increment/Decrement operators
• Trigraphs
• Digraphs
• Example of function returning struct containing values with error codes
• User-defined memory management
• Passing structs to functions
• Inlining functions used in more than one source file
• Simple Uses of Typedef
• Object-based programming using structs
• alloca: allocate memory on stack
• Length modifiers
• Printing format flags
• Using terminator values to determine the end of va_list
• Implementing functions with a `printf()`-like interface
• gcc Inline assembly in macros
• Do not leave the parameter list of a function blank — use void
• Semaphores
• Most common errors encountered while using Valgrind
• Typedef for Function Pointers
• /* */ delimited comments
• // delimited comments
• Don'ts for bit-fields
• Commenting using the preprocessor
• Structure padding
• Possible pitfall due to trigraphs