Topics: 

• C language structure, syntax, and types.
• Compiling C programs.
• Similarities and differences between C and Fortran.
• Program structure: implicit programming paradigm, header files, source files.
• Developing simple C programs.
  

Lecture Notes:  C (pdf)  .    Also, see notes on recursion.

Reading Assignment:   Review lecture notes (pdf above) up to File Handling.   Also re-read (from the Course Materials Pack.):

• B.W. Kernighan and R. Pike, 1999: The Practice of Programming.  Addison Wesley.
• Appendix on Collected Rules 
• Chapter 5 - Debugging

Goal of Readings: To learn how to write and run C programs with good programming style, and how to test new programs you wrote.

Homework Assignments:  

• C Lab Section 1 - Assignment .

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