Lecture 2

Readings (Do Before Class)

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• The Development of the C Language
• Stanford's Essential C

Slides (Look at During Class)

• Slides

In-Class Activity or Lab (Toward the end of Lecture)

• (Non-lab day) In-Class Activity link
• (lab day) Do a 'git pull'

Code

Listing	File	Notes
1	basics1.c	printf example
2	basics2.c	Scoping rules
3	basics3.c	Add function
4	basics4.c	if-statements and loops
5	basics5.c	Data sizes
6	basics6.c	Address operator
7	indirection.c	Showing pointers to pointers

Additional Resources

Please look over these curated links.

• The C Programming Language Book
• 3 hour Lynda tutorial (I believe students may free access at Northeastern through this link)
• For this class you should be comfortable working in the terminal. I recommend a text editor like VIM.
  • Getting started with Vim
  • PacVim
  • Interactive git tutorial (recommended resource)
  • Guided tour of Emacs
  • Github basics
  • Visualizing Git (for fun and learning)
    • List of available commands to try
  • Github videos (Get Up and Running Series)

Acknowledgements

Thank you to my colleagues Professors Mike Shah, Laney Strange and Nate Derbinski for their assistance, templates and the code I used to create this page.