CS156: Intro to C, Part I

• Syllabus
• Registration
• Practice makes perfect
• Standard C
• c11 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
• What is a program?

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

• Homework must compile!
• Discuss HW0

• Variables and Expressions
• Input/Output
• Expressions & printf
• man 3 printf

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

• Thursday is the last drop day

• Control Structures
• Control Structures are a lot like decision flow charts.
• float vs double

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

• HW0 due Friday noon, late Wednesday noon
• Discuss HW1

• Enter Matters

• HW1 due Tuesday noon; late Wednesday noon

• Incrementing
• Loops

• Loops
• while loop
• for loop
• Loops Practice Problems
• FoxTrot

• Review HW1
• Quiz #1

• ~cs156/bin/grade
• Office Hours or Tutors
• Variable Scope
• Functions
• Recursion

• Overview
• Function Intro
• Functions
• Good Functions
• Func
• Self-check quiz
• Functions Practice Problems
• Self-Quiz

• Discuss HW2

• Arguments by Reference
• How to Program

C Reference Card

• HW2 due Tuesday noon; late Wednesday noon

• Arrays

• Constants
• Arrays
• Arrays
• Declaration
• Initialization
• More Arrays
• Examples
• Practice Problems:
• Arrays
• More arrays
• Self-Quiz

• Wednesday is the last withdraw day
• Review HW2
• Quiz #2

• Finish arrays
• Arrays and sizeof

• Practice Problems:
• Strings (answers)

• Discuss HW3

• Strings
• More Strings

• Intro 2 3
• Intro
• Strings
• Strings
• Strings and fgets
• Practice Problems:
• File I/O (answers)

• HW3 Due Tuesday noon; late Wednesday noon

• Finish Strings

• Review HW3
• Quiz #3

• File I/O

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

• Discuss HW4

• Program Development using Morse Code:
• Requirements
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

HW4 due Tuesday noon; late Wednesday noon

• Review for exam
• Course evaluation

• Review HW4

• Final Exam
• Photo ID required
• Dark pencil or ink

• Final Exam