CProgrammingCurriculum: A C repository from CatherinePhung

#Learn To Code C

Goals

Familiarity with Command Line Interface (pwd, cd, ls, mkdir, rmdir, cp, mv, rm)
The compiler setup

Variable Declaration
Data Types
- Exercise: Types of Variables from "Learn C The Hard Way"
- Exercise: Finding the Size of Data Types
Strings in C
- Exercise: Arrays and Strings from "Learn C The Hard Way" (Read the error output from the "break it" section here)
Printing
Conditionals
- Exercise: If, Else-If, Else from "Learn C The Hard Way" (Bonus: This exercise uses command line arguments.)
Loops
- Exercise: Word Counter from "The C Programming Language" (Sections 1.5.1-1.5.2)
Arithmetic Operations from "The C Programming Language" (Sections 2.5-2.6)
- Exercise: More Variables, Some Math from "Learn C The Hard Way"
More Exercises:
- Bonus: Switch Statement from "Learn C The Hard Way"
- Bonus: Arrays of Strings, Looping from "Learn C The Hard Way"
- Bonus: While-Loop And Boolean Expressions from "Learn C The Hard Way"

Syntax Review
Type Conversion from "The C Programming Language" (Section 2.7)
Getting User Input
Exercises:
- Sizes and Arrays from "Learn C The Hard Way"
- Writing and Using Functions from "Learn C The Hard Way"
- Project: Make a Game
- Bonus: Recursion Exercise from "The C Programming Language" (Section 4.10)

Pointers:
- Pointers and Memory: Hands-on example of pointers and memory
- Chapter 5: Pointers and Arrays from "The C Programming Language" (Chapter 5)
- Pointers Dreaded Pointers from "Learn C The Hard Way"
- Pointers to Functions from "Learn C The Hard Way"
- Example: Caesar Cipher using Pointers
- Slides on Pointers and Memory from our lightning talk (Thanks @hazmatzo)
Standard Libraries:
- C Standard libraries from Wikibooks "C Programming"
- Appendix B. Standard Library from "The C Programming Language" (Appendix B.)

Allocating Memory with malloc: summary of sections 5.4, 5.6, 6.5, and 7.8.5 from "The C Programming Language"
Freeing Memory: continued summary of memory management
Reference Documentation for Malloc from Wikibooks "C Programming"
Memory Allocation Intro Slides from U of Washington
C Memory Management Examples from TutorialsPoint
Exercises:
- Reimplementing malloc and free from "The C Programming Language" (Section 5.4)
- Reversing User Input Tutorial Dynamic Array Example/Tutorial from CodeCall Forum

Structs
TypeDef from "The C Programming Language" section 6.7
Unions
Enums
Slides on Data Structures
Bonus Reading:
- More about Structs from "The C Programming Language" sections 6.1-6.2
- More about Unions from "The C Programming Language" section 6.8
Exercises:
- Structs and Pointers To Them from "Learn C The Hard Way"
- Arrays of Structures from "The C Programming Language" section 6.3
Bonus:
- Pirate Treasure Game Tutorial
- Heap and Stack Memory Allocation (uses Structs) from "Learn C The Hard Way"
- A Simple Object System (Uses Enum, Struct) from "Learn C The Hard Way"
- Input, Output, Files (Uses Enum, Struct) from "Learn C The Hard Way"

Binary Numbers:
- Intro to Binary and Hexadecimal Number Systems 🎥 from Khan Academy (for those who are not familiar with binary) or
- Binary Numbers Slides from Boston University CS101
Bitwise Operators:
Bitwise Operators in C from TutorialsPoint
Bitwise Operators Section 2.9 from The C Programming Language
Exercises:
- ✨ Twiddling Bits Challenge Part 1 ✨
Two's Compliment:
Two's Compliment
More Exercises:
- ✨ Twiddling Bits Challenge Part 2 ✨