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C-Tools Second Lecture: 6th June 2013

d.white@imperial.ac.uk

I have recently given the second lecture of my two first year lectures on C Tools, building a toolbox of useful tools, and the craft skills to use them effectively, in order to make C programming easier. The second lecture covers the following topics: More Advanced Tools: Optimization and Profiling. Generating ADT modules automatically. Reusable ADT modules: hashes, sets, lists, trees etc. Building shortlived tools on the fly. Parser and Lexer Generator tools: yacc and lex.

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Here are the lecture materials (slides and associated examples - of which there are many):

• Here are the full size lecture notes (PDF), ie. with one slide per page. Also available in Postscript for more efficient printing.
• Here are the 4-up lecture notes (PDF), ie. with 4 slides per page. Also available in Postscript for more efficient printing.
• And here's the C Tools tarball, as a gzipped tar file:
  • Download this into your home directory,
  • Then extract the contents via: tar xzf c-tools-lecture2.tgz
  • This creates a directory called c-tools-lecture2
  • Explore the c-tools-lecture2 directory, I suggest you start with the top level README and Makefile.

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d.white@imperial.ac.uk Updated: June 2013

Back to the First C Tools Lecture Page.

Back to my C Tools Lectures Pages.

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