COMPSCI 149s, Fall 2005 149S.2 Problem Solving Seminar (C prgm) W 1:15-2:30 D336 LSRC
	Course Vital Statistics Instructor: Robert Wagner Office: D336 LSRC Email: raw.nospam@cs.duke.edu Office Hours: WF 2-4:25 and by appointment.

Lectures and Assignments

Communications

�. Bulletin Board: http://www.cs.duke.edu/phpBB2

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Resources and Amusements

�. Textbook: The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie

�. Introduction to C Input and Output.htm

�. C Input Output

�. Switch statement, I/O, and Math Functions

�. UNIX Tutorial

�. Debugging with gdb

�. Reference book: C A Reference Manual, Samuel Harbison and Guy Steele, Jr.

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Course Goals

�. Present the C language, emphasizing those aspects which are likely to be valuable in courses like COMPSCI 104 and COMPSCI 110. Topics to include:

1. Compiling and running programs

2. Printing messages with “printf()”

3. Characters, arrays, and strings

4. Memory and pointers

5. Reading data using scanf()

6. Constructing and interpreting C declarations

7. Storage “classes” including use of malloc()

8. The C preprocessor

9. Using GDB intelligently

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