C Programming Part 1: Intro

Topics

• Introduction to C

Class Slides

• Slides

Resources

• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming/Intro_exercise
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming/Preliminaries
• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming/Structure_and_style

Study Questions

• What are preprocessor directives?
• What does the #include preprocessor directive do?
• When you use #include <stdio.h>, what do the angled brackets indicate?
• What function is the starting point for all C programs?
• What is the “console”?

• What is the name of the default executable file produced when you compile using gcc. How do you change the name?

• What is a code block?
• How are statements ended?
• What is scope? What is global scope? What is local scope?
• When inside a new scope, can you declare a variable of the same name as a parent scope?
• Can you have executable code outside of a function?

• What is the “C Standard Library”?

• What are the two kinds of comments in C?