Advance C-programming with Pointers

Course Outline

Basic of pointers (*)

• L-value of variable and R-value of variable

• (&) Address of operator and (*) dereference operator

• Different pointer data types

• Casting of pointer

• Size of pointer variable

• Multiple indirection

Pointer (*) Arithmetic

• Arithmetic Operation with pointers

• Addition of constant with pointer variable

• Increment and decrement operator with pointer variable

• Base address demonstration using casting of pointer

• Difference between two address

• Void pointers

Functions and Pointer (*)

• Local and global variable

• Call by value and Call by reference

• Function returning pointers

  
  

Array and Pointer (*)

• Basic of 1-D array

• Passing 1-D array as parameter

• 1-D Array pointer

• 2-D Array

• 3-D Array

• Passing 2-D array as parameter

• Array of pointers

• Returning array

  
  

String and Pointer (*)

• Introduction to String

• Standard library functions

• Array of strings

Structure and Pointer (*)

• Structure Declaration

• Structure pointer

• Structure Pointer

• Complex structure pointer

• Padding and alignment

  
  

Function Pointer (*)

• Function pointer

• Passing function as argument

• Function returning function pointer

• Increment the function pointer

• Array of function pointer

Dynamic allocation of Memory

• Malloc

• Calloc

• Realloc

• Free

• Dereferencing a NULL pointer

• Memory leak

Data Structure

• Stack

• Queue

• Linked List

• Tree