Effective C/C++ programming

This page covers basic and advanced topics on C/C++ programming.

I. C programming
1. Types, operators and expressions
Exercises

Strings in C
Naming convention in C


2. Control flow
Exercises

3. Functions and program structure
Exercises

Preprocessor and Macro

4. Pointers and arrays
Exercises

Function pointer and callback

5. Structures
Exercises

Data structrure alignment
Hash tables

6. Input and output
Exercises

7. The UNIX system interface


8. Standard library
- Input and output <stdio.h>
- Chracter class <ctype.h>
- String functions <string.h>
- Mathematical functions <math.h>
- Utility functions <stdlib.h>
- Diagnostics <assert.h>
- Variable argument list <stdarg.h>
- Non-local jumps <setjmp.h>
- Signals <signal.h>
- Date and time <time.h>
- Limits <limits.h>

II. C++ programming

OOP principles
Program to interfaces not implementation

Design patterns
Simple factory pattern, factory method and abstract factory


III. Advanced topics
Create shared library, static library
Makefile
Debug and log
Valgrind, garbage collection.
Debug and log system

Utilities
Vim
Sed and Awk
Git