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Struggling with the concept of pointers? This advanced course can help you master this powerful part of the C programming language.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Conquer your pointer fears
- Compiling the code
- Understanding pointers
- Exploring pointer tools
- Using pointers as function arguments
- Working with function pointers
- Challenge: Obtain an address
- Solution: Obtain an address
- Comparing arrays and pointers
- Allocating storage
- Exploring allocation functions
- Accessing the buffer
- Working with pointers in structures
- Creating structure pointers
- Saving pointers and buffers
- Challenge: Saving and reading a record
- Solution: Saving and reading a record
- Understanding a linked list
- Implementing a linked list
- Removing structures
- Adding structures
- Creating a double-linked list
- Saving a linked list
- Challenge: Manage a linked list
- Solution: Manage a linked list
- Understanding pointers to pointers
- Sending a pointer to a function
- Sorting pointers
- Managing memory
- Creating pointers to functions
- Challenge: Manipulate a pointer array
- Solution: Manipulate a pointer array
Taught by
Dan Gookin
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