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Introduction to UNIX and C programing

• Introduction to C programing. History, the pre-processor, the compiler, the linker and the loader.
• Tracing tools, debugger, profilers and indexing tools.
• C language structure. The basic syntax. First program using printf (hello world).
• The main function. comments. Reserved keywords.
• The C preprocessor. Including headers. Macros and conditional compilation.
• Macros with variable numbers of arguments.

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Basic C components and types

• Basic language components. C types, sizeof, cast. Assigning a value.
• Pointers and strings. Incomplete types.
• Formatted Input Output. Using printf and scanf to write to the screen and read from keyboard. Escape sequences.
• Arithmetic and logic. Arithmetic, bitwise, logical and Floating point operators.
• Compound assignment operators.

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Flow control

• Selection statements : if/else and switch.
• iteration statements : for, while, do/while
• jump statements : goto, labels, label addressing. Continue and break statements.

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Storage classes

• Storage classes : auto, static, extern, register.
• Storage qualifiers : volatile, const, restrict.
• Pointers et arrays : initialization of pointers and arrays. Multidimensional arrays.

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C functions

• Function declarations. Argument passing. return directive.
• Scope of the variables. Function pointers.
• Declaring function prototypes.
• Advanced C function programing. Inline function tag. Nested functions. Variable number of arguments.

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User defined types

• Structures definition. Initialization of structures.
• Accessing a structure members. Accessing a structure members with a pointer.
• Definition of unions. initialization of unions.
• Accessing a union members. Accessing a union members with a pointer.

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The standard C library

• The strings library functions. Signal, raise, kill are used to send or receive signals.
• C library propose a standard interface for file I/O.
• Buffered file access, formatted and unformatted I/O. Constants and variables.
• Non local goto. Using setjmp and longjmp with signals.
• Handling errors : errno, stderr and perror .
• Security issues. Buffer overflows vulnerabilities. Threading problems and race conditions