ANSI C Programming: Expressions

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

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 the syntax rules governing expressions and statements in ANSI C; to enable the student to use expressions and statements correctly

Learning Objectives

Explain the syntax of ANSI C expressions and statements. Use the bitwise operators to write ANSI C programs to do portable bit manipulation operations. Outline the rules of precedence and associativity. Write ANSI C programs without semantic errors caused by badly specified expressions

Topics Covered

Boolean values - General expressions - Hands-on: Writing a continue statement Operators - Assignment operators - Arithmetic and relational operators - Logical operators Bitwise, comma, and conditional operators - Bitwise operators - The comma operator - The conditional operator Precedence and associativity - Precedence and associativity order - Expression evaluation - Expression types