C: an introduction

Topics covered

• C History
• Writing a small C progam, understand the development cycle
• Preprocessor
• Assignments, Keywords, Identifiers, Variabled
• Operators
• Control  flow
• Functions
• Arrays and structures
• Pointers
• Working with files and standard I/O

Small examples and hands-on will be used to experiment with the different topics.

Target audience

This course is intended for students and researchers in need of knowing the basics of the C programming language.

Previous knowledge

Familiarity and previous experience with any high level programming language will be very helpful, as well as a basic knowledge of Linux.