Course Details

The comprehensive training programs is designed to develop students' self-efficacy and building confidence in advance learning process. The course contents are:

• An Introduction to C
• Intensive overview of essential C concepts and idioms
• Data types, data structures, pointers and arrays
• Using pointers to search collections of data
• Arrays and buffers
• Circular buffers
• Polygonal buffers
• I/O vectors
• Linked Lists in depth
• Singly linked and doubly linked lists
• Using lists to implements FIFO queues and LIFO queues (stacks)
• Using lists of linked lists Using linked list nodes containing void * pointers to implement heterogeneous collections of data
• Using linked lists to implement resizeable arrays
• Binary trees, their uses and their relations
• Basic binary trees
• Self-balancing binary trees (AVL, Red-Black, Splay)
• Heaps and their uses
• Huffman encoding
• Priority queues
• Error detection
• CRC checksums (16 bit and 32 bit)
• Implementing simple memory management schemes
• Implementing simple flash memory file systems
• State Machines and Statecharts
• Event driven programming
• Basic FSMs
• Pattern matching
• Parsing
• State driven hardware and communication protocols
• Implementing FSMs using switch statements
• Implementing FSMs using a table driven approach
• Limitations of FSMs
• Extended FSMs and hierarchical FSMs
• Extending FSMs by adding variables and conditional transitions
• Nesting state machines (push down automata)
• Statecharts
• Hierachical FSMs and extended FSMs (simple statecharts)
• Orthogonal statecharts and concurrency
• Active objects - linking multi-tasking, message passing and event driven programming
• Basic operating systems and multi-tasking concepts
• Task structures
• Task life cycle
• Task management
• Task data structures
• Task queues
• Message queues
• Semaphores (counting, binary, mutex)
• Monitors
• Pipes
• Memory management services
• Signals
• Timers Device drivers
• Standard Inter-Process Communication Idioms
• Producer - Consumer
• Monitors
• Readers and Writers
• Workcrew