CIS 1101 · Modules 0–9 · Ma’am Mayol’s slides

Read C the way the computer does.

Every C question is a real program, and its answer is whatever that program actually does. After you mark it, step through the run line by line and see where your reading and the computer’s parted ways.

Modules

Follows the slides, in order.

11 modules

M03 topics
Introduction to Programming
What a computer is, low-level and high-level languages, machine and assembly language, what a program is, and the five steps from defining a problem to documenting the program.
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M14 topics
Algorithm: Pseudocode
What makes a procedure an algorithm, pseudocode with and without variables, integer against real division, % and ==, and the three types of statements.
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M23 topics
Algorithm: Flowchart
The symbols and what each is for — terminal, process, input/output, decision, connector — and following a flowchart's decisions and loops.
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M3a3 topics
Introduction to C, Part 1
Where C came from and why it's called a mid-level language, the sections of a C program in order, and the trip from prog.c through the preprocessor, compiler, assembler, linker and loader.
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M3b6 topics
Introduction to C, Part 2
Comments, #include and #define, printf and scanf with their format specifiers and field widths, local, global and static variables, identifiers, data types, and escape sequences.
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M44 topics
Function in C, Part 1
Prototypes, calls and definitions, parameters against arguments, the four function designs, and why a function handed a copy can't change the caller's variable.
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M5a5 topics
Control Structures, Part 1
Follow the branch that actually runs: if, if-else and nested if-else, the ternary operator, switch-case and its breaks, and the jumps — goto, continue, break and return.
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M5b4 topics
Control Structures, Part 2
Trace tables, round by round: for, while and do-while, the do-while that runs once anyway, nested loops that print patterns, and the loops that never stop.
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M73 topics
Pointers in C
& takes an address, * declares a pointer and follows one. Trace what *p = 3 changes, and write functions that fill in their answers through pointers.
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M82 topics
Function in C, Part 2
Why swap(d, e) swaps nothing and swap(&d, &e) does, and — from the exam coverage list — recursion, the base case that stops it, and the runtime error when there isn't one.
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M95 topics
Introduction to Array
Indexes from 0 to size − 1, the zeros a partial initialization leaves, traversing with a loop, arrays passed to functions by reference, and searching, inserting and removing by shifting.
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Extra practice

Not in the slides, but on the way to the lab exams — their string problems, for one, need everything here.

Practice problems

Whole problems in the shape CisCode sets them, worked four ways that come before and around writing the solution yourself. Each builds on the last.

Read C the way the computer does.

Modules

Introduction to Programming

Algorithm: Pseudocode

Algorithm: Flowchart

Introduction to C, Part 1

Introduction to C, Part 2

Function in C, Part 1

Control Structures, Part 1

Control Structures, Part 2

Pointers in C

Function in C, Part 2

Introduction to Array

Extra practice

Operators

Strings

Typecasting

Built-in Libraries

Two-dimensional Arrays

Practice problems

Plan it

Build it

Fill it in

Break it

Reference

C tracer

Syntax sheet