c.course_antirez

In a time dominated by LLMs, take your time to learn the grammar and write a good sonnet :)

This repository collects code and notes from antirez's C programming course.

Useful material

Vim

• VIM Adventures: Learn VIM while playing a game
• vimtutor

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Lessons index

• Lesson 1: Introduction to C Programming and Compiler
• Lesson 2: Introduction to C Programming
• Lesson 3: Variable Scope and Data Types
• Lesson 4: Functions and Data Types
• Lesson 5: Arrays and Strings
• Lesson 6: if, goto, while, recursion
• Lesson 7: while, for and switch
• Lesson 8: Game of Life
• Lesson 9: Pointers
• Lesson 10: Pointer Operations
• Lesson 11: String Manipulation and Pointers Casting
• Lesson 12: Dynamic Memory and Pre-Fixed Length String
• Lesson 13: Memory Management and Pre-Fixed Length String Optimization
• Lesson 14: Structures
• Lesson 15: File I/O and Linked Lists
• Lesson 16: Structures and Reference Counting
• Lesson 17: Structures Layout and Hexdump
• Lesson 18: Type Definitions and File I/O Operations
• Lesson 19: System Calls and Low-Level File Operations
• Lesson 20: I/O Buffering and Memory Mapping
• Lesson 21: Unions and Bitfields
• Lesson 22: Function Pointers and Callback Functions
• Lesson 23: Toy Forth 01
• Lesson 24: Toy Forth 02
• Lesson 25: Toy Forth 03
• Lesson 26: Toy Forth 04
• Lesson 27: Toy Forth 05
• Lesson 28: Variadic Functions
• Lesson 29: Toy Forth 06

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Analytic index

A

• Arrays - Lesson 5, 7
• ASCII values - Lesson 5, 11
• Assembly generation - Lesson 1
• assert - Lesson 26
• atoi() - Lesson 24

B

• Bitfield - Lesson 21
• Blocks - Lesson 6, 7
• Break statements - Lesson 6, 7
• Buffering - Lesson 20

C

• Callback functions - Lesson 22
• Character variables - Lesson 5
• Compilation process - Lesson 1
• Casting - Lesson 10, 11
• Command line arguments - Lesson 15

D

• Data types - Lesson 3, 4
• Define directive - Lesson 8
• Dynamic Memory - Lesson 12

E

• Error handling - Lesson 19
• errno - Lesson 19

F

• fflush() - Lesson 20
• File descriptors - Lesson 19
• File inclusion - Lesson 1
• File I/O operations - Lesson 15, 18, 19, 20
• fopen() fgets() fclose() - Lesson 15
• Format specifiers - Lesson 2, 3, 4, 5
• For loops - Lesson 7
• fread() - Lesson 18
• free() - Lesson 12, 13
• fseek() - Lesson 24
• Functions - Lesson 1, 2, 4, 6, 9
• Function pointers - Lesson 22

G

• Game of life - Lesson 8
• Global variables - Lesson 3
• Goto statements - Lesson 6, 7, 28

H

• Hexdump - Lesson 17

I

• If statements - Lesson 6, 7
• Integer types - Lesson 3, 4

L

• Local variables - Lesson 3, 7
• Loops - Lesson 6, 7

M

• Magic numbers - Lesson 16
• malloc() - Lesson 12
• memcmp() - Lesson 27
• memcpy() memset() - Lesson 17, 24
• Memory mapping - Lesson 20
• mmap - Lesson 20

O

• open() - Lesson 19

P

• Pass-by-value - Lesson 3
• perror() - Lesson 19
• printf() - Lesson 1, 3
• Pointers - Lesson 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
• Prefix length string - Lesson 11

Q

• qsort() - Lesson 22

R

• read() - Lesson 19
• realloc() - Lesson 24
• Recursion - Lesson 6, 25
• Reference Counting - Lesson 16,26

S

• sizeof() - Lesson 4
• sleep() - Lesson 20
• Static variables - Lesson 3
• Strings - Lesson 5, 11
• Structures - Lesson 14, 15, 16
• Structures alignment - Lesson 16
• Switch statements - Lesson 7
• System Calls - Lesson 19

T

• Terminal control - Lesson 4
• Ternary operator - Lesson 17
• tolower() - Lesson 28
• Toy Forth - Lesson 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29
• Type conversion - Lesson 5
• typedef - Lesson 18
• Type promotion - Lesson 3

U

• Unions - Lesson 21, 23
• usleep() - Lesson 20

V

• va_list, va_start(), va_arg(), va_end() - Lesson 28
• Variables - Lesson 1, 2, 3
• Variadic functions - Lesson 28
• vprintf(), vsnprintf() - Lesson 28

W

• While loops - Lesson 5, 6, 7
• write() - Lesson 20