UFCETS-20-1
Programming in C
Quick Jump: Worksheets , Lectures , C Reference
, Self-Tests
, Assignments, Books,
Downloads
As the course progresses you'll find various useful material here.
If you have any issues with this material please let me know.
The environment is 2N24 should be fine, any problems please let
someone know!
Most of the notes on this site are in Adobe PDF format.
All Notes are only accessible on the UWE campus
Where are we?
Coming up to the first assignment.
If you want to review your progress try the interactive
tests from the Brian Brown
course.
Worksheets
Week one:
Click here!
Week two:
Worksheet 1 Starting with Linux (pdf)
Nigel's Command Line basics
Worksheet 2 Hello World
(pdf)
Emacs
reference card
Emacs crib sheet
Nigel's Emacs hints
Week three: Worksheet
3 GVD The Gnu Visual Debugger (pdf)
Worksheet 4 Random number
problems (pdf)
Worksheet 5 Introduction to
Digital IO (pdf) (MARCO VERSION) (NEW)
Marco
The hardware we are using to connect to the rack this year is an
Amplicon PCI230.
The documentation for the board is here.
We are using the comedi library to interface with this board.
Online documentation can be found here. You
should also have a copy on your lab machine.
Optional Extra Worksheets & Tutorials.
Nigel Gunton's
Setting
up
RCS (Revision Control). (pdf)
The Linux Journal has
a
good
article
on
LC-lint (now
known as splint)
Remember there's already a make tutorial here.
Lecture Notes
Assignments
The 2011/2012 first
assignment
(OLD) The second
assignment (MARCO) for 2010
Reference Material
Make Reference Material
A
tutorial on using make
C Reference Material
Local resources (only available at UWE)
An article outlining common
C errors
A
good tutorial on pointers is available here. Pointers are an
area of C that confuses most people at some time. Also
available is a description of the standard
ANSI C libraries . (Both of these are from the BURKS
CD).
If you are starting to think about your programming style,
excellent! Here is a C
programming style guide (pdf) . This is for interest. Whilst
you may find it useful, you are not expected to read it.
A text file tutorial
on C
For those interested in advanced algorithms, "
Numerical Recipes in C ", is available as pdf's
A local copy of
An Introduction to C
Programming, v2.7 © Copyright Brian Brown, 1984-2001. All
rights reserved.
Remote resources (available outside UWE)
A local list of C resources & tutorials on
the Internet (duplicating http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/c-www.html
)
How stuff works - C
Programming
Steve Holmes @
University of Strathclyde's C Programming online course
A Unix heavy
course from Steve Marshall
1001
Tutorials list of C Tutorials
Rob
Miles
@
Hull
-
Introduction to C
Books
The Library is often a
good place to look for books :) Otherwise, Blackwells should have
copies of recommended texts.
The links from this page point to amazon UK.
Brian "Beej" Hall's book on C is FREE! (A4 Double Sided PDF)
You do NOT need to buy books to support this module (CSI). If
you want to, Rob's recommended text:
Tony
Royce, "C Programming", Macmillan, 1996
would be a good buy, but (if you are CSI) you should
already have bought that!
Royce is strongly recommended. You WILL need a C
text . If you prefer a different book, that's fine - just
ensure it is not too MS-Windows orientated.
Other useful C Books.
Kernighan
B.W.,
&
Ritchie.
D,
"The C Programming language" , 2nd edition,
Prentice Hall, 1988
Sedgewick,
R, "Algorithms in C", 2nd editon, Addison Wesley
2001.
Downloads
A tar ball of the debugger we use, GVD. To
install tar zxvf <filename>, cd into the directory and run
./doinstall as root.
Ian Johnson
October 2012