Advanced C Programming: Optimize Performance and Efficiency

Course details

Once you've mastered the basics of programming in C, you can concentrate on writing more efficient, more functional code. In this course, Dan Gookin offers some tips to help you extend your C programming skills. Learn how to read and write main function arguments, build more useful variables, and work with arrays and structures. Plus, get tips on generating pointers, and take the practice challenges to test your learning along the way.

Learning objectives
Using assignment operators
Working with arguments in the main function
Setting up global variables
Using static variables
Sorting an array
Building an array of structures
Working with the ampersand (&) and asterisk (*) pointer operators

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Go beyond the basics of C programming
02 - What you should know
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Programming - Weird-Symbol Roundup

04 - Assignment operators
05 - Challenge - Use an assignment operator
06 - Solution - Use an assignment operator
07 - Understand the ternary operator
08 - Challenge - A ternary-operator decision
09 - Solution - A ternary-operator decision

2. Main Function Arguments

10 - Work with arguments in the main() function
11 - Challenge - Reading command-line arguments
12 - Solution - Reading the command line

3. Beyond Basic Variables

13 - Set up an external variable
14 - Typecast variables
15 - Challenge - Specifying a cast
16 - Solution - Specifying a cast
17 - Take advantage of static variables
18 - Challenge - Setting up a static variable
19 - Solution - Setting up a static variable

4. Arrays and Structures

20 - Sort an array
21 - Challenge - Sort a string
22 - Solution - Sort a string
23 - Work with arrays and functions
24 - Challenge - An array-modification function
25 - Solution - An array-modification function
26 - Send a structure to a function
27 - Challenge - Create a structure function
28 - Solution - Create a structure function
29 - Build an array of structures
30 - Challenge - Sort an array of structures
31 - Solution - Sort an array of structures

5. Pointer Tips

32 - When to use the ampersand operator
33 - How to bind the asterisk operator
34 - Challenge - Incrementing a pointer
35 - Solution - Incrementing a pointer
36 - Understanding arrays and pointers
37 - Challenge - Displaying an array
38 - Solution - Displaying an array
39 - Obeying the order of precedence

Conclusion

40 - Next steps

Advanced C Programming: Optimize Performance and Efficiency

Authors

Dan Gookin