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This is one of a collection of workbooks developed for A Level and Undergraduate students needing to gain and consolidate knowledge relevant to a practical computing project. They have grown out of tutoring and teaching neuro diverse students who have been drawn to C and C++, as well as undergraduate and graduate students who have run into difficulties with programming more advanced applications in these languages. It can also be used by professional developers.
C is mainly used in embedded systems found in applications such as implementation of small sensor and controller based systems, Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications, networked devices such as those found in IoT (Internet of Things) devices and also in the implementation of low level Linux and Windows applications, to name but a few. C is also used in the implementation of Linux Kernel Loadable Modules and device drivers and in low level Microsoft Windows applications.
Before starting to write code to run on target systems it is a good idea to master C programming building console based applications that to gain a good understanding of the C language itself, and, also to gain practice with topics such as arrays, function pointers, data structures, pointers and function pointers and the C Standard Library. Having mastered these skills the path is clear for moving on to more advanced topics such as data structures and algorithms, statemachines, working with operating system APIs, such as the Posix API in the case of Linux, and building embedded systems applications, both bare metal and those using an RTOS such as FreeRTOS or Zephyr.
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