We provide online course about modern C. C as a language has evolved a lot since it was first standardized in 1989, aka C89/C90/ANSI C. Among other things, C99 introduced better support for scientific computing, C11 introduced a new memory model and support for concurrency.
Content:
The current version C17. Not only has the C language itself evolved, the way we use C has changed as well, often influenced by other languages and by modern ideas in software engineering.
In this 2-day course you will learn more about:
• Variable-length arrays
• Alignment specifications
• Test-driven development techniques
• Advanced and correct pointer arithmetic
• Type-generic expressions
• Static asserts
• Tools for better dignostic messages
• Better support for scientific computing
• The new memory model and support for multi-threading
• Undefined vs unspecified behavior
• Inline functions
• Compund literals and designated initializers
• Variadic macros and advanced preprocessing techniques
• Type-generic math functions
• Anonymous structures and unions
• Writing solid code in C
• Flexible array members
Speaker: Jon Jagger
I'm head of software at Merkely. I specialise in practice, process, test driven development, and complex-adaptive systems-thinking. I'm 35 years old (hex) and I've loved software since I was 10 (decimal). I'm married to the beautiful Natalie, and proud father of Ellie, Penny and Patrick. I built https://cyber-dojo.org to promote deliberate practice for software developers. I was a self-employed consultant for 20 years.
I worked with Accenture, Aviva, Cisco, Ericsson, Friends Provident, HP, Microsoft, Opera, Ordnance Survey, RBS, Reuters, Renault F1, Schlumberger, Tandberg and many many more. I'm the co-author (with Olve Maudal) of the Deep C/C++ slide deck (over 1.000.000 views). I'm the ex ECMA Task Group 2 C# convenor. I've had some C# books published. I'm the ex ACCU conference chairman. I love coarse fishing and salmon fishing. I live in Somerset, England.
Audience:
Experienced programmers
Prerequisites:
• This is an advanced 2 day course for experienced programmers, taught by a world-class expert. You either have a strong background in a few other programming languages, and/or you know old-school C well but would like to get up to speed with a modern approach.
Computer setup:
This course will refer to the latest C standard ISO/IEC 9899:2018 (aka C17). Most exercises will be done in an online editor, so you just need to bring a laptop with a modern browser.