PRF192 - Programming Fundamentals Using C

Course's description

• General information

  • Class: SE18D, semester: Spring 2024 and Summer 2024

  • Instructor: Dr. Trinh Hoang Minh

  • Time: Monday (Slot 4) and Friday (Slot 3) from {01/01/2024 to 24/03/2024} - Spring semester and {07/05/2024 to 19/07/2024} - Summer semester 

  • Place: Room 418, Beta Building, Quy Nhon AI Campus, FPTU, Binh Dinh

• References

  • E. Weaver, Foundations of Programming Using C, Seneca College, 2006.

  • A. Kelley, I. Pohl, A Book on C Programming in C, 4th Edition, Addison Wesley, 1998.

  • B. W. Kernighan, D. M. Ritchie, The ANSI C Programming Language, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall Software Series, 1988.

  • FPTU Slides and Workshops PRF192.

  • Instructor's slides.

Course's contents

0 Introduction to C                                      

• Course's policies

• C programming language

• Programming tools and IDEs

• First C program

1 Basic computations                                  

• Basic input, output, and variables

• Basic data types

• Arithmetic operators

• Assignment operator

• Literals in C

2 Basic logic                                         

• Relational and logical operators

• The if statement

• The switch statement

• The while statement

• The for statement

• Pseudocode and block diagram

3 Modularity                                         

• Function

• Function prototype

• Scope of variables

• Storage class

• Recursion

4 Pointers                                          

• Addresses

• Pointers

• Macros

• Data casting

• scanf, getchar

• printf

5 Arrays                                             

• Arrays

• Arrays and pointers

• Arrays as function arguments

• Linear search

• Bubble sort

• Basic of algorithm complexity

• Merge sort

6 Strings                                            

• Strings

• Standard string-handling functions

• Multidimensional arrays

• Array of pointers

7 Files                                            

• Files

• fopen and fclose

• fprintf and fscanf

• Record and field

• Managing parallel arrays

8 User-defined datatypes                         

• Enum

• Union

• Struct

• Single linked-list data structure