ANSI C Programming Training: Data Representation

Course Status:	Released
Course Language:	English
Course Duration:	4 Hours
Deployment Options:	Online, Interactive CDs, Network, Downloads, Intranet
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Audience

Programmers and software developers

Prerequisites

Awareness of programming concepts; experience of using a third-generation, high-level language such as Pascal, PL/1, BASIC, or FORTRAN

Course Aim

To familiarize the student with how ANSI C programs use memory to store data; to assist the student in writing portable C programs

Learning Objectives

Describe and use simple and aggregate ANSI C datatypes. Write ANSI C programs that are not limited by system-specific data representation. Explain the use of character, string, and enumeration constants

Topics Covered

Declarations and definitions - Variable declaration and definition - Datatypes and external variables - Data storage - Data qualifiers Variable initialization - Rules for using identifiers - Defining and initializing - Qualifiers and initialization - Hands-on: Initializing variables Constants - Introducing constants - Character and string constants - Special constants and enumerators