Professional C Programming LiveLessons, (Video Training) Part I: Writing Robust, Secure, Reliable Code

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15 Hours of Video Instruction

Professional C Programming LiveLessons, Part I: Writing Robust, Secure, and Reliable Code provides an in depth explanation of how to use common C language features to produce robust, secure, and reliable code.

Author, instructor and programmer, Robert C. Seacord created this video for developers who have previous experience in C language programming. In six lessons, Professional C Programming, Part I shows developers how to perform common C language programming tasks correctly while avoiding programming errors that are not always detected or reported by the compiler.

Robert C. Seacord leads the Secure Coding Initiative at CERT, located in Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in Pittsburgh, PA. Seacord is an adjunct professor in both the School of Computer Science and the Information Networking Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.   He is also the author of The CERT C Secure Coding Standard and Secure Coding in C and C++ as well as other books on computer security, legacy system modernization, and component-based software engineering.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Lesson 1:  Integer Types
   Learning objectives 

   Introduction to integer types
   Unsigned integers  
   Signed integers 
   Character types 
   size_t, ptrdiff_t, intmax_t and uintmax_t 
   Summary

Lesson 2: Integer Conversions
   Learning objectives 

   Conversion rank, promotions, and the usual arithmetic conversions
   Conversions to unsigned types
   Conversions to signed types
   Summary

Lesson 3: Integer Operations
   Learning objectives

   Assignment 
   Addition and subtraction 
   Multiplication and upcasting 
   Division/remainder 
   Shifting 
   Summary

Lesson 4: Characters, Arrays, and Strings 
   Learning objectives 

   Sizing arrays 
   String literals and their use as array initializers 
   Character types and what they are used for
   Summary

Lesson 5: String Handling
   Learning objectives  

   Caller allocates, caller frees
   Bounds-checking interfaces
   Callee allocates, caller frees (POSIX)
   Summary

Lesson 6: Optimization 
   Learning objectives

   Undefined behaviors and the “as if” rule
   Constant folding
   Algebraic simplification and pointer arithmetic
   Hoisting of loop-invariant computations
   Dead-code removal
   Aliasing 

   Summary

Summary

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