State of the course end of Oct 16th class

We have covered the material bellow in the class to date, the section of the book is noted in bold

• History of C
• basic unix commands
• 1.1editing and basic layout of a c program, compiling
• 2.3Comments
• 1.2intro to printf
• 6.14int argc, char *argv[]
• 1.3intro to declairing variables
• 1.4, 2.6, 2.13intro to the pre-processor and constants
• 1.5formating output and intro to scanf
• 1.6, 4.16Flow control, if else, while, switch for was not disscused
• 1.7intro to functions, arguments and returns
• 1.8-1.10skipped, will pickup latter
• 2.1programs are made of bits
• 2.2BNF, not as shown in book will not be on any tests for this class
• 2.4Key words, noted that [goto, const, extern, register, volatile] would not be covered in course
• 2.5, 2.3rules for naming identifiers (aka things that we name,) bnf from 2.3 discussed
• 2.7skipped
• 2.8-2.11operators on variables (ie how to say int i = 2+2)
• 2.12skipped
• 3.1types and size of basic data types,
• 3.2a char is an int and what that allows
• 3.3, 3.4the int type
• 3.5floating point data types (float, double, long double)
• 3.6sizeof() discussed, we will return to size of later
• 3.7getchar(). putchar() skipped
• 3.11casting, the good, the bad, and the bizzar
• 3.7, 3.12Skipped
• Disscussion of stdin and getchar()
• 4.1false == 0
• 4.1- 4.4 Truth tables and logical operators <, >, <=, >=, ==, !=, !, &&, ||
• 4.5short circut with && and || also effects of ()
• 4.7revisit if and if else and if if else etc.
• 4.8while loop and do while disscussed
• 4.9-4.11for loop including use of comma in for statments and varations
• 4.14skipped
• 4.15break continue and spaggeti code
• 4.16switch disscussed
• 4.17skipped
• 5.1how to declair a function
• 5.2what does return do
• 5.3, 5.5prototypes
• 5.5skipped
• 5.7Call by Value
• 5.10scope rules (block v. fuction v. program)
• 5.11-5.13skipped
• 5.14recursion
• not in bookdisscussion of calling stack and lots of recursion
• 5.15a program in parts with #include #define #ifndef #endif
• 6.1 single demension arrays
• 6.2What is a pointer and how to declair
• 6.3Call by reference swap function
• 6.4Array is a special pointer
• 6.5getting space with malloc and calloc also memory leaks
• 6.6arrays passed into functions more call by referenc
• 6.10Strings character arrays ending with '\0'
• 6.11usefull things in string.h and stdlib.h also strtok()
• 6.12-6.13multi dim arrarys and arrays of pointers/jagged arrays
• 6.14args to main covered previously
• 6.16functions as arguments
• end of stuff for midt-term
• 7.5Enum (7.6) as an example
• 9.1What is a structure
• 9.2Getting at the member variables
• 9.xPointers to structures, . v. -> etc.
• 9.4typedef and creating your own types
• 9.7unions briefly mentioned
• 11.1-11.3printf() is fprintf(stdout,) and same for scanf and fscanf (reading and writting files)
• 11.4open to read or write read or write and close
• 11.9Permissions
• 11.xfile pointers, graceful failure
• 10.1stucts that have pointers to things of same type
• 10.2Linked lists
• 10.3-4Should be understandable but not specificaly covred
• 10.5-6Stacks push, pop init LIFO
• 10.7Ques FIFO enque deque
• 10.8Binary Trees (light)
• 10.9Not done
• 11.17Makefiles
• 12.1-2fork and execi (light)

Edward W Sihler (esihler@cs.uiowa.edu)

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