Guia docente 2020_21 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Degree in Telecommunications Technologies Engineering

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
Lecture 1: The algorithm and the programming languages.	1. A computer’s structure and operation 2. How the program gets into the computer 3. C Programming language 4. The process of developing programs 5. Simple Programming Examples 6. Software engineering concepts
Lecture 2: Grammar and basic elements of C language.	1. Basic elements of a C program 2. Identifiers 3. Expressions 4. Declaration and initialization 5. The assignment statement 6. Formatted input/output
Lecture 3: Iteration and selection statements	1. Control statements 2. Decision statements: (a) if statement (b) if-else statement (c) switch statement 3. Iteration statements: (a) do-while statement (b) while statement (c) for statement 4. Statements for altering the control flow: break and continue statements
Lecture 4: Arrays and pointers	1. Data Structures 2. Arrays: (a) One-dimensional arrays (b) Two-dimensional arrays 3. Strings 4. Pointers: (a) Pointer arithmetic (b) Arrays and pointers (c) Pointers to pointers
Lecture 5: Functions	1. Function declaration and definition 2. Functions with no parameters 3. C inter function communication: local, global and static variables 4. Functions with parameters by value 5. Functions with parameters by reference 6. Command line arguments
Lecture 6: Files	1. Introduction: Types of files 2. Text files in C 3. Declaration 4. File opening and closing 5. File management 6. Operations on characters 7. Operations on strings 8. Formatted operations
Lecture 7: Structured type variables	1. Introduction: Structured data types 2. Structures: (a) Declaration (b) Operations (c) Pointers and structures (d) Structures as parameters
Lecture 8: Lists	1. Introduction: the need for dynamic data structures 2. Dynamic data structures 3. Linked lists (a) Types (b) Most common operations