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Department of Computer Science

The Department of Computer Science is part of the College of Science at Purdue University.

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CS 240: Programming in C

Detailed Syllabus

1. UNIX command environment, the basic C development cycle
2. Data representation issues that are visible to C programmers, data types, sizes, and limits, integer and floating point number representation, constants, variables, and declarations, sizeof, printf and formatted output, type conversion, sign extension
3. Operators -- arithmetic, relational, logical, increment, and decrement, assignment operators and expressions, precedence and associativity bitwise operators, control flow
4. Program structure, functions, prototypes, implicit declarations and implications, null declarations, pass by value scope rules, header files, types of variables, block structure, #include
5. Recursion, macros and C preprocessor
6. Pointers and addresses, dereferencing, pointers vs. arrays, address arithmetic, pointers and function arguments, big vs. small endian integer representation, data alignment
7. Dynamic memory allocation, malloc, free, pointer arrays, pointers to pointers, arrays of pointers, command line arguments, pointers to functions
8. Structures, dot operator, pointers to structures, -> operator, arrays of structures, self-referential structures, filler bytes in structures
9. Unions, typedef, bit-fields
10. Pointer/structure applications -- linked lists, stacks, binary trees, bubble sort
11. UNIX file abstraction, streams and file pointers, standard input and output, formatted output, formatted input, scanf
12. Basic structure of a concurrent client/server program involving fork() and exec()
13. File access, fopen, getc, putc, fclose, fprintf, fscanf, fseek, feof, ferror, EOF, line input and output
14. Low-level I/O, file descriptors, standard descriptors, open, create, read, write, close, fdopen, fileno path names, absolute vs. relative path names, directories, current directories, getcwd, chdir

Prerequisite

• CS 18000 (Problem Solving and Object-Oriented Programming)

College and Departments

• College of Science
• Department of Biological Sciences
• James Tarpo Jr. and Margaret Tarpo Department of Chemistry
• Department of Computer Science
• Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
• Department of Mathematics
• Department of Physics and Astronomy
• Department of Statistics

Purdue University

• 610 Purdue Mall
• West Lafayette, IN 47907

Systemwide Campuses

• Purdue University Indianapolis, 723 W. Michigan St., Indianapolis, IN 46202

Department of Computer Science Contact

• 305 N. University Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907
• Purdue University Indianapolis, 723 W. Michigan St., Indianapolis, IN 46202

Copyright

• Copyright (C) 2025 Purdue University. All Rights Reserved.

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