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Learning Outcomes:

• use storage classes such as automatic, register, static, and extern, employ correct pass-by-value and pass-by-reference semantics, and use user-defined types such as structs, unions, and enums
• use fclose and fopen to work with file handlers, read and write text files and binary files, and perform file seek operations
• declare and initialize variables, use arithmetic and logical operators, and identify use cases for pre-increment and post-increment operators
• create arrays and access and update array elements, accept input from the user using scanf, getc, gets and fgets, and display output using printf, fprintf, puts and putchar
• implement while loops, for loops, do-while loops, break, and continue, avoid infinite loops, and outline why the use of goto is not recommended
• use the referencing and dereferencing operators in C and test for and use NULL values
• leverage the equivalence between pointers and arrays, apply pointer arithmetic, and return pointers from functions correctly
• allocate memory correctly using malloc, calloc and realloc, free memory correctly, use pointers to structs, and avoid problems related to dangling pointers and memory leaks
• work with C strings using character arrays, library functions, and header files, perform type conversions, and use command line arguments in C programs
• use basic C syntax and compile and run C programs on both Windows and Unix-based platforms
• work with control structures to change the flow of execution of a C program, use if and else conditions, and employ the ternary operator in assignments and expressions
• invoke functions, apply implicit and explicit function declarations, and leverage both library functions and user-defined functions
• create macros with preprocessor directives, control conditional compilation, and use pragmas to alter compiler settings

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