Advanced C Programming: CLP Exam Preparation

Take your C skills to a professional level.

7 daysAdvanced10 modulesCLP: C Certified Professional Programmer

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Overview

About this course

Take your C skills to a professional level. This advanced course covers complex declarations, advanced pointer techniques, the standard library in depth, precise memory management and low-level I/O, together with the portability rules that separate reliable code from code that only seems to work.

You will also build programs that use processes, signals, threads and sockets in a POSIX environment. The final sessions focus on preparation for the professional-level C certification exam, with challenging code-reading practice.

What you'll learn

Apply advanced pointer techniques and complex declarations
Use the C standard library effectively, including variadic functions
Manage memory precisely and diagnose memory faults
Handle low-level file and stream I/O and error reporting
Write portable code that respects undefined and implementation-defined behaviour
Work with processes, signals and threads in a POSIX environment
Write simple networked programs using sockets
Prepare for the professional-level C certification exam

Curriculum

10 modules

Reading complex declarations
typedef and type qualifiers
const, volatile and restrict
Integer promotion and conversion rules

Pointers to functions and callback tables
Multidimensional arrays and pointers
Generic programming with void pointers
Common pointer pitfalls

Variadic functions with stdarg
Sorting and searching with qsort and bsearch
Time and date functions
Character classification and conversion

Memory layout of a running program
Custom allocation strategies
Debugging memory faults
Defensive coding practices

Buffering and stream control
Low-level file descriptors
Error reporting with errno
Working with directories

Undefined and implementation-defined behaviour
Differences between C standards
Writing portable code
Compiler warnings and static checks

Creating processes
Waiting for and communicating with child processes
Handling signals
Pipes

Creating and joining threads
Mutexes and condition variables
Race conditions and deadlocks
Thread-safe design

Sockets fundamentals
Writing a simple TCP client and server
Handling multiple connections
Error handling in network code

Exam format and objectives review
Advanced code-reading practice
Practice questions and review
Exam strategy

Who it's for

Experienced C programmers who want to master advanced and system-level C and prepare for the professional-level C certification exam.

Before you start

Solid C programming experience at associate level
Comfort with pointers, structures and dynamic memory

Certification

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Programming & Web Development

CLP: C Certified Professional Programmer

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Programming & Web Development

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