C Tutorial I

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C Tutorial (I)

• Kernighan Ritchie,
• Chapter 1,
• Sections 1.1-1.5

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Section 1.1

• To create programs, use the text editor
  subEthaEdit, which should be available in the
  Applications folder of your classroom machine.If
  this application does not already appear in your
  Dock, it is suggested that you insert it (just
  drag the application to the Dock).
• To compile your code, use cc just as shown by the
  authors.
• Create and run the venerable Hello World example.
  (If youve ever wondered where every programming
  book in the world got the Hello Word example
  from, look no further!)

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Sect 1.2

• Create, compile and run the temperature converter
  examples.
• Be sure you understand the concepts
• Variable type
• Assignment statement
• How arithmetic results vary depending on variable
  type
• How loops work
• printf
• Its role as a standard library function
• How formatting strings work
• Special (escaped) characters

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Sect. 1.3

• Understand the additional details about the for
  statement highlighted in the example.

Sect. 1.4

• Understand how to define and use symbolic
  constants.

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Section 1.5.1

• Understand the concept of character stream.
• Compile and test the file-copying example.
  Understand how getchar() and putchar() are used.
• Understand how EOF works.
• Learn how file redirection is implemented in UNIX
  (gt,lt), and to use this to accomplish file copying
  with the sample code in 1.5.1 (this will be
  discussed in class).