Detailed Course Information

Functions in C

• What are functions?
• The importance of functions
• Functions in C – Fundamental concepts
• Functions prototypes
• Writing the body of the function
• Invoking the function
• Actual and formal parameters
• The program as a whole

• Top down design

• The data type char
• Character input and output

• What are arrays?
• Representation of arrays and the sizeof operator

• Data type:
• Basic data types
• Additional qualifiers
• User defined types – typedef
• Constants, assignments, control statements
• Constants
• Assignment statements
• control statements
• Functions
• Library
• User defined functions
• Execution with stack frames
• Arrays
• The binary search algorithm

• Introduction – The Towers of Hanoi
• The factorial program
• The factorial function
• The all-ones function
• The reverse procedure
• Stack frames