C Style Guide

C programs you write for COMP2303/7306 should follow the following style guide:

• COMP2303 C Programming Style Guide v1.4 ( 25kB)

Whilst many different styles are possible, this minimal style guide has been chosen so that you get used to writing code to a style guide (many companies have one, many style guides are a lot more prescriptive than this); and so that tutors can more easily read and mark your code for assignments.

Useful Links

• The Stanford CS Education Library contains useful educational material on C and other languages. Including...
  • Local copy of Pointer Fun with Binky (14MB AVI). (This is document 104 in the Stanford CS Education Library - please see cslibrary.stanford.edu for this video, its associated documents, and other free educational materials.)
• Code Modularity and the C Programming Language (Monash University)

C Tutorials

• Introduction to C Programming by Rob Miles (94 pages, 371kB PDF) 
• These tutorials are taken from CSSE1000 and modified to suit a UNIX environment:
  • C Tutorial One - Introduction
  • C Tutorial Two - If Statements, Loops and Expressions
  • C Tutorial Three - Functions, Arrays & Strings
  • C Tutorial Four - Preprocessor
  • C Tutorial Five - Structures and Pointers
  • C Tutorial Six - Other Features of C
  • Answers to the exercises in these tutorials are available. You are encouraged to attempt the exercises before you look at the answers.

Debugging

A separate page of debugging resources is available.

Reference material

• Textbook by Harbison and Steele
• Textbook by Kernighan and Ritchie
• Online C reference manual (by Martin Leslie)