Dartmouth College
C Programming: Advanced Data Types - 5
Dartmouth College

C Programming: Advanced Data Types - 5

This course is part of C Programming with Linux Specialization

Taught in English

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Rémi SHARROCK
Petra Bonfert-Taylor

Instructors: Rémi SHARROCK

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7 hours (approximately)
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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

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Course

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals

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There are 5 modules in this course

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4 videos10 readings1 quiz1 app item3 discussion prompts

By the end of Week 1, you will be able to create, initialize, and modify variable of new data type structures, as well as understand how much memory is used for these variables. You will also learn to define, initialize, and modify arrays of structures and then pass these structures to functions by value.

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1 quiz4 app items

By the end of Week 2, you will be able to create/dereference pointers to structures, pass structures to functions (where they can be modified), and dynamically allocate memory to store a variable of data type structure. You will also be able to explain the difference between the direct and the indirect member selection operators.

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1 quiz3 app items

By the end of Week 3,you will be able to create and initialize a linked list of structures, as well as perform basic operations on them: swapping elements, sorting through by alphabet or numerically, and searching through a linked list for a particular member.

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1 quiz7 app items

What's included

1 video2 readings

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4.5 (10 ratings)
Rémi SHARROCK
Institut Mines-Télécom
7 Courses19,704 learners
Petra Bonfert-Taylor
Dartmouth College
7 Courses19,704 learners

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