CS256 - Fundamentals of Structured Programming

Lessons:

• Lesson 1

  Covers the Unix environment and commands

• Lesson 2

  Covers program structure, basic syntax, and basic data types.

• Lesson 3

  Covers data literals, code comments, variables, assignment, expressions and basic operators, and basic input/output (printf and scanf)

• Quick How-to build and run programs

  Covers make and how to use it to build your assignment programs and then run them.

• Lesson 4

  Covers comparison operations, basic Boolean operators, compound statements, the if, if-else and nested if statements.

• 5th week review

  A quick TL;DR style review of the material covered thus far.

• Lesson 5

  Covers the while and for loops and the control statements: break and continue.

• Lesson 6

  Covers the functions: defining and prototyping, parameters and return values and scope: visibility of functions and variables in functions.

• Lesson 7

  Covers basic arrays and strings.

• Lesson 8

  An introduction to the curses screen drawing library.

• Lesson 9

  Covers alternate characters, character attributes and colors in Curses.

• Lesson 10

  Covers opening and reading from files, using fgetc/getchar and fgets functions.

• Lesson 11

  Covers 2+ dimensional arrays and introduction to pointers.