C Programming: Exploring Advanced Concepts and Practical Applications

Course details

Are you ready to embark on the next phase of your journey with C? Join instructor Dan Gookin in this hands-on course as he demonstrates advanced-level skills and their practical applications with insightful comments and quick tips along the way. Find out what it takes to master your craft and become an expert C programmer, exploring a wide range of topics including basic I/O from the perspective of device IDs, outputting Unicode and wide-character text, multitasking and multithreading programming, linked lists, enumerated constants, data type qualifiers, the errno variable, buffered output, forking, pipes, and more.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Beyond C
02 - Configuration and setup

1. Standard I O

03 - Understanding file numbers and descriptors
04 - Using the standard error device
05 - Buffered and unbuffered output
06 - Flushing the buffer
07 - Opening the terminal
08 - Challenge - Outputting a byte count

2. The Environment and the Locale

09 - Reading the environment
10 - Adding an environment variable
11 - Setting the locale
12 - Outputting a monetary format
13 - Challenge - Pretending you're elsewhere

3. Unicode and Wide Text

14 - Understanding Unicode and wide characters
15 - Outputting wide characters
16 - Reading wide character input
17 - Challenge - Creating fancy text output

4. Processes, Pipes, Forks, and Threads

18 - Knowing the process ID
19 - Creating a fork
20 - Working with pipes
21 - Running threads
22 - Communicating between threads
23 - Challenge - Doing multiple things at once

5. Linked Lists

24 - Understanding linked lists
25 - Building a linked list foundation
26 - Adding and listing nodes
27 - Saving a linked list
28 - Loading a linked list
29 - Removing a node
30 - Challenge - Editing a node

6. Odds and Ends

31 - Creating enumerated constants
32 - Exploring data type qualifiers
33 - Outputting accurate error messages
34 - Making a temporary file
35 - Modifying how a program quits
36 - Reviewing useful constants
37 - Challenge - Write an informative program

Conclusion

38 - Next steps