Course Overview

Introduction

Some C Basics

An Approach to Program Design

Step 1 - Undertand the problem

Step 2 - Do a hand example

Step 3 - Write the algorithm

Step 4 - Translate to C

Step 5 - Test the program

Program Output

Manual Program Trace

Precedence and Associativity of Operators

Debug Lines

The cast Operator

Program Input

Errors in C Programs

Defining Functions

Repeating Computations

Looping Construct

Counting loop

Special Data Value

End of File

I/O Redirection

Test Condition - if statements

C Preprocessor

Macros - #define

Header files - #include

Conditional compilation - #ifdef

Separate Compilation

Summary

A Top Down Example

Character Data

A Large Project

Numeric Processing

Some Style Points

Pointers

Arrays

Strings

2 Dimensional Arrays

The Standard C Library