Course resourcesThis is the home page for CSE 251 Programming in C.. This course is an introduction to the C programming language and programming in the Unix environment.
This 1 hour class will cover the basics of using the C language and its associated tools for general purpose, scientific and engineering applications, including:
As this is only a 1 credit hour course, we will be lecturing at the computer in Room 3353 in the Engineering Building. The time will be spent both doing lecture and doing hands-on programming/lab work.
The course syllabus is available as pdf file.
Course resources| 01-08-13 | 1. Getting Started | Powerpoint |  Step
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| 01-15-13 | 2. Introducing C | Powerpoint |
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Read Chapters 1-5, 7-9 (Pages 5-57, 71-99) | |
| 01-22-13 | 3. Flow Control and Booleans | Powerpoint |
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Read Chapters 10-13 (Pages 103-143) | |
| 01-29-13 | 4. Looping and Repetition | Powerpoint |
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Read Chapters 14-17 (Pages 149-183) | |
| 02-05-13 | 5. no lecture | Step |
Read Chapters 18, 20 (Pages 187-195, 207-216) | ||
| 02-12-13 | 6. Functions | Powerpoint |
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Read Chapters 30-32 (Pages 331-364) | |
| 02-19-13 | 7. Pointers and Reference Parameters | Powerpoint |
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Read Chapters 24-25 (Pages 255-274) | |
| 02-26-13 | 8. Arrays | Powerpoint |
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Read Chapters 21-23 (Pages 221-252) | |
| 03-12-13 | 9. Strings and File I/O | Powerpoint |
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Read Chapters 6, 19, 28, 29 (Pages 59-68, 197-204, 307-327) | |
| 03-19-13 | 10. States and State Machines | Powerpoint |
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| 03-26-13 | 11. Pointers, Arrays, Multidimensional Arrays | Powerpoint |
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| 04-02-13 | 12. Compilation and Makefiles | Powerpoint |
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| 04-09-13 | 13. no lecture, Project 2 Work Day | ||||
| 04-16-13 | 14. struct | Powerpoint |
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Read Chapters 27 (Pages 293-303) | |
| 04-23-13 | 15. Dynamic Memory Allocation | Powerpoint |
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Read Chapters 26 (Pages 277-289) |
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