Institut Mines-Télécom
C Programming with Linux Specialization
Institut Mines-Télécom

C Programming with Linux Specialization

Gain skills in computer engineering - C and Linux. Become a skilled C programmer and start a career in computer engineering.

Rémi SHARROCK
Petra Bonfert-Taylor

Instructors: Rémi SHARROCK

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.6

(358 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

2 months to complete
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Develop and debug code in the C programming language

  • Discover the foundations of computer programming and Linux, the command line, manage processes, files and memory, compile C code with Linux

  • Interpret, analyze, and implement important computer algorithms

  • Observe, manipulate, and optimize computer memory using pointers in the C programming language

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Specialization - 7 course series

What you'll learn

  • Define, distinguish and give examples of hardware/software, computer programs/algorithms

  • Explain the concept of a variable and declare, initialize and modify variables of data types int, double and char

  • Create and comment simple C-programs that may print text, special characters and variables to the screen with controlled formatting

  • Create simple C-programs that utilize for-loops to repeat blocks of instructions

Skills you'll gain

C (Programming Language), Computer Programming, Debugging, Human Computer Interaction, Embedded Software, Software Documentation, Programming Principles, Engineering Calculations, and Development Environment

What you'll learn

  • Use logical conditions to control the flow of a program via branch statements (if-else), repetition (for/while loop) and nesting of these structures

  • Create and modify arrays to store integer and floating point numbers and explain how arrays are organized in memory

  • Create null-terminated arrays of characters to store and modify strings (of characters)

  • Sort and search arrays of numbers and characters using bubble sort, selection sort, linear search and bisection

Skills you'll gain

C (Programming Language), Data Structures, Computer Programming, Program Development, Algorithms, Computer Engineering, Programming Principles, System Programming, Debugging, Embedded Systems, and Development Environment

What you'll learn

  • Break acomplex programming task into a number of functions to which you pass arguments

  • Recall how computer memory is organized to store variables and arrays

  • Find the address of a variable

  • Perform simple pointer arithmetic

Skills you'll gain

C (Programming Language), Computer Architecture, Computer Programming, Program Development, Debugging, Embedded Software, Linux, and Data Structures

What you'll learn

  • Visualize the concept of a pointer and use it to pass variables to functions by reference in order to modify them via the function

  • Apply pointer arithmetic in order to address elements of both one-dimensional and multi-dimensional arrays

  • Use arrays of strings to store lists of strings in one array variable

  • Control memory usage by dynamically allocating and freeing memory at runtime

Skills you'll gain

C (Programming Language), Linux, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Computer Engineering, System Programming, Embedded Software, Computer Science, Embedded Systems, Data Structures, Operating Systems, and Computer Programming

What you'll learn

  • Define new data types (structures) to store multiple data items in one variable and create, initialize and modify variables of these new types

  • Find and explain the memory usage of a structure and use pointers to structures

  • Create linked lists of structures with dynamic memory allocation at runtime

  • Sort or search lined lists of structures

Skills you'll gain

Data Structures, C (Programming Language), Algorithms, Computer Programming Tools, Computer Programming, Embedded Systems, Linux, Development Environment, Debugging, and Software Development Tools

What you'll learn

  • Use basic commands to control the Linux Operating System

  • Navigate and manipulate the Linux Filesystem using the command line interface

  • Manage the memory and processes running on Linux.

  • Compile and execute a C program in Linux

Skills you'll gain

Command-Line Interface, Linux Commands, Linux, Unix, C (Programming Language), File Systems, Open Source Technology, Linux Servers, Computer Engineering, Embedded Systems, Computer Programming, and Operating Systems

What you'll learn

  • Use external libraries

  • Build an application from multiple source files

  • Automate the building process using makefiles

  • Pass and use arguments to the main function. Read from and write to files in C

Skills you'll gain

C (Programming Language), Build Tools, File Management, Software Installation, Command-Line Interface, Embedded Software, Program Development, Image Analysis, Embedded Systems, Operating Systems, Debugging, Computer Programming, and Linux

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Instructors

Rémi SHARROCK
Institut Mines-Télécom
7 Courses28,266 learners
Petra Bonfert-Taylor
Dartmouth College
7 Courses28,266 learners

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