Get a quick introduction to the vocabulary and basics of programming in C, the language that inspired C++, Objective-C, and many others.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Programming foundations in C
- Understanding the process
- Obtaining a compiler and IDE
- Compiling a sample program
- Reviewing the C language
- Introducing C code
- Sending text to output
- Challenge: Add a puts() statement
- Solution: Add a puts() statement
- Adding comments to the code
- Exploring the printf() function
- Challenge: Add a new line
- Solution: Add a new line
- Working with escape sequences
- Challenge: Use escape sequences
- Solution: Use escape sequences
- Working with values and placeholders
- Introducing variables
- Experimenting with variables
- Using character I/O
- Exploring the scanf() function
- Working with strings
- Understanding arithmetic in C
- Doing math
- Making more calculations
- Challenge: Math quiz
- Solution: Math quiz
- Making a decision with if
- Making multiple decisions
- Challenge: Make a decision
- Solution: Make a decision
- Looping with while
- Repeating chunks of code with for
- Challenge: Output a series of numbers
- Solution: Output a series of numbers
- Nested loops
- Understanding functions
- Adding a function
- Passing values to a function
- Challenge: Evaluate a number
- Solution: Evaluate a number
- Returning a value from a function
- Manipulating single characters
- Using logical operators
- Manipulating strings
- Challenge: Build a string
- Solution: Build a string
- Exploring constant expressions
- Understanding arrays
- Creating multidimensional arrays
- Challenge: Add a dimension to an array
- Solution: Add a dimension to an array
- Understanding structures
- Exploring variables
- Understanding pointers
- Using pointers
- Challenge: Create a char pointer
- Solution: Create a char pointer
- Accessing arrays with pointers
- Creating pointer functions
- Working with pointer arrays
- Allocating memory
- Challenge: Write a Hello program
- Solution: Write a Hello program
- Continue exploring C programming
Taught by
Dan Gookin
