Lecture 3: C basics pt. 2

Today, we continue learning some basic C programming concepts.

Functions

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Optional reading: chapter 3.1-3.5

Key ideas:

• Use functions to organize your program and to reuse code
• Input (one or multiple) and output (only one) of functions

Relational, equality, and logical operators

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Key ideas:

• relational (>, <, >=, <=) and equality operators (==, !=, !)
• logical operators (&&, ||)
• writing conditions in C: to write that x is in the range -9 to 99, we need to say

  x > 10 && x < 100
  

  not -10 < x < 100.

• operator precedence: https://devdocs.io/c/language/operator_precedence

Optional reading: chapter 4.1-4.2

if statements

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Key ideas:

• Single alternative or multiple alternative
• Nested if statements

Optional reading: chapter 4.3

switch statements

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Key ideas:

• Alternative to if statements to select one of many alternatives
• Only works with char and int data types for controlling expression
• Must include break statement for each alternative

Optional reading: chapter 4.8

Lab 1 intro

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