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TURBO C LANGUAGE COURSE.
Recommended order of study, but omit as appropriate to knowledge,
especially DOS. Use arrow keys or mouse to scroll all text files.
1. First principles (98 lines)
Relation to other languages, structure, etc.
File types (50 lines)
DOS and Turbo C, including library & header.
C language references (40 lines)
Kernighan & Ritchie (C language originators).
Borland*Osborne/McGraw-Hill.
2. DOS operations (322 lines)
Main commands, EDLIN, CONFIG.SYS, ANSI.SYS
3. Integrated Development Environment (233 lines)
File, edit, run, compile, project, options, debug, break/watch.
4. Variable types & declarations in C (142 lines)
Int, float, char and pointers.
5. Input and output (202 lines)
From keyboard & disk to screen, disk & printer.
6. Manipulating data in C - Operators (128 lines)
Assignment, unary, binary, increment, decrement, bitwise,
combined, address, relational, logical and comma operators.
7. Conditional statements (151 lines)
if...else, while loop, for loop, do...while loop, switch, break,
return and continue.
8. Program errors and debugging (112 lines)
Syntax, semantic & logical errors. Tracing.
9. Functions, prototypes, parameters & return values (89 lines)
10. Arrays and pointers (87 lines)
Address-of (&) and indirection (*) operators.
11. Structures & unions (84 lines)
Collection of variables of different types.
12. Dynamic memory allocation using the heap (78 lines)
Static and dynamic variables. The function malloc().
13. Calling child programs from a Turbo C parent program (63 lines)
The functions exec...() spawn...() and system().
14. Graphics (201 lines)
Initialization, drawing and hardcopy.
15. 8086 Registers (141 lines)
General, segment, pointer, index, instruction pointer and
status registers. Inspection using DOS Debug.
16. Memory models (160 lines)
Address calculation; Near, Far and Huge pointers;
17. Low-level programming (158 lines)
Pseudo variables; Inline assembly language; Interrupt functions.