• Syllabus
• CPL (pre-1963)
• BCPL (1966)
• B (1969)
• C (1972)
• Java totally rulez—why learn an old language?
• Standard C—says who?
  -or-
  “It works on my computer!”

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• Intro
• Programming Model
• Programming Elements
• First Program
• Compiling
• Lesson 1
• Self-check quiz

HW0: Make sure that you still have a CS Dept. login.

Practice Problems

// Halley’s Comment

• More Introduction
• man 3 printf
• Variables, Statements and More
• Arithmetic
• Input & Output
• Buffering

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• Data types
• Declaration of Vars
• Variable names
• Math
• Assignment Operators
• Input/Output

Practice Problems

If it weren’t for C, we’d all be programming in BASI, OBOL, and Pasal.

• Discuss HW1
• Homework must compile!
• Bases, numbers, problems in C
• Control Structures: if, switch

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• Expressions
• If statements
• Boolean Expressions in if
• More if statements
• Self-check quiz
• Switch Only bottom part of page

Practice Problems

There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.

• Finish if, else, and switch

HW1 due tomorrow

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.

• Review HW1
• Review Q1
• Loops

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• Loops
• while loop
• for loop

Loops Practice Problems
Quiz #1

FoxTrot

• Discuss HW2
• Finish Loops
• Start functions

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• Overview
• Function Intro
• Functions
• Good Functions
• Func
• Self-check quiz

Functions Practice Problems
Self-Quiz

C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
-Dennis Ritchie

• Finish Functions

C Reference Card

HW2 due tomorrow

A programmer tells a colleague his wife just had a baby.
“Is it a boy or a girl?”
“Yes.”

• Review HW2
• Review Q2
• Recursive Functions
• How to program
• Arrays

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• Constants
• Arrays
• Arrays
• Declaration
• Initialization
• More Arrays
• Examples

Practice Problems: Arrays More arrays Self-Quiz
Quiz #2

• Discuss HW3
• Finish arrays
• Don’t use sizeof on an array parameter.

Should array indices start at 0 or 1?
My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.

• Strings

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• Intro 2 3
• Intro
• Strings
• Strings
• Strings and fgets

HW3 due tomorrow

Practice Problems: Strings (answers)

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949

• Review HW3
• Review Q3
• Finish Strings
• File I/O

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• Intro
• Overview
• Files
• 1 2 3 4
• Opening
• Streams
• Closing
• Example
• Self-Quiz

Practice Problems: File I/O (answers)
Quiz #3

These two strings walk into a bar and sit down.
The bartender says, “So what’ll it be?”
''The first string says, “I think I’ll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67hw%^U r89nvy~~owmc63^Dz x.xvcu”
“Please excuse my friend,” the second string says, “He isn’t null-terminated.”''

• Discuss HW4
• More file I/O

If the odds are a billion-to-one against something happening, it’ll happen several times per second, on today’s computers.
-Bret McKee

• i=--i; and a=b++ * b++;
• Program Development using Morse Code:
  • Requirements
  • 1 2 3 4 5

HW4 due tomorrow

No, syntax isn’t a tax on booze and cigarettes.

• Review HW4
• Review Q4
• Review for exam
• Course evaluation

Quiz #4

• Final Exam
  Questions will come from (or be based on) the quizzes, the practice problems, and your homework.

Final Exam