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C Programming Boot Camp

  
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
  printf("hello world\n");
  return 0;
}
 

Fundamentals

  1. Why program in C?
  2. Setting up your computing environment
  3. Basic Types, Operators and Expressions
  4. Control Flow
  5. Functions
  6. Complex Data Types
  7. Memory : Stack vs Heap
  8. Pointers
  9. Strings
  10. Input and Output
  11. Macros & the C Preprocessor
  12. Compiling, linking, Makefile, header files
  13. Debugging
  14. Speeding up your code

Advanced Topics

  1. A brief tour of some other useful C Libraries: { GLib, GSL, BLAS / LAPACK, Apophenia, GNUplot }
  2. Parallel programming in C

Example Code

  • psychometric: estimating psychometric functions in C (aka logistic regression)

Topics Not Covered Here (yet)

  • UNIX tools
  • IDEs (Integrated Development Environments, e.g. Xcode, Eclipse, etc)
  • Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), e.g. C++, Objective-C
  • Graphics (e.g. Gnuplot)
  • Networking
  • Interfacing with Hardware (e.g. data acquisition)
  • Integrating C code with Python and R

Links

These notes

These notes can be viewed (and downloaded) in their entirety from a github repository here: CBootCamp

Ideas?

Do you have ideas about how to improve this? Please get in touch, send me an email at pgribble [at] uwo [dot] ca

Paul Gribble | Summer 2012
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