This course is part of the Coding for Everyone: C and C++ Specialization

Ira Pohl

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Coding for Everyone: C and C++ SpecializationUniversity of California, Santa Cruz

About this Course

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This course is for everyone. In the new world we live in, coding is a universally valuable skill, whether you're a scientist, artist, or a humanist. Algorithms are everywhere, and we all have to understand how they work. The C language is particularly well suited as an introduction to coding: It's a tried-and-true language, and it allows you to understand computing processes at a deep level. 
No prior knowledge of coding is needed for this course. We'll start at the beginning.
The time estimated time commitment for this course is five hours a week for five weeks.

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Ira Pohl

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Course 1 of 4 in the

Coding for Everyone: C and C++ Specialization

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Beginner Level

Approx. 15 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Chinese (Simplified), Italian, Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, Turkish, English, Spanish

Offered by

University of California, Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz is an outstanding public research university with a deep commitment to undergraduate education. It’s a place that connects people and programs in unexpected ways while providing unparalleled opportunities for students to learn through hands-on experience.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Introduction

An overview of the course, a history of the C language, and a first set of programming activities.

3 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 68 min)

9 videos

Overview4m

History of C2m

Compiling, debugging, and running a program, part 18m

Compiling, debugging, and running a program part 2 (File included ➕)12m

First Program7m

Example - Circle code7m

Example - Marathon8m

Simple input/output - fahrenheit6m

Simple input/output - miles9m

Week

Week 2

4 hours to complete

Lexical Elements and Data Types

Lexical elements and data types, programming activities of increasing sophistication, and an optional discussion of more advanced issues.

4 hours to complete

12 videos (Total 102 min)

12 videos

Character sets and tokens6m

Comments4m

Keywords8m

Identifiers11m

Operators8m

Expressions and precedence (File included ➕)7m

Expression and evaluation9m

Declarations6m

Fundamental types and sizeof9m

The char type (File included ➕)8m

The int type10m

The integer and floating point types (Files included ➕)10m

2 practice exercises

int quiz

Expressions quiz

Week

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Flow of Control and Simple Functions

Flow of control and simple functions, even more sophisticated programming activities, and an optional discussion of more advanced issues.

3 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 62 min)

10 videos

Logical operators, expressions, and short-circuit evaluation6m

The conditional statement if and if-else7m

The iterative statement while6m

while-cnt-char-explained6m

while-code - example5m

The for statement and its while analog8m

for statement code example6m

oddball operators-conditional and comma7m

ternary-operator code example3m

Break and continue and switch (File included ➕)4m

4 practice exercises

Logic operators quiz

While loop questions

Switch questions

Cond-comma-ops quiz

Week

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Advanced Functions, Recursion, Arrays, and Pointers

A continuation of functions, recursion, arrays, and pointers.

1 hour to complete

11 videos (Total 66 min)

11 videos

Function definition6m

Function code example4m

Return statement4m

Function prototype4m

Function Prototype - code example5m

Function variables—with call-by-value explained7m

Function definitions and scope rules5m

Storage class code example7m

Simple recursion5m

Recursion- factorial code6m

Recursion Fibonacci code (File included ➕)9m

About the Coding for Everyone: C and C++ Specialization

This Specialization is intended for all programming enthusiasts, as well as beginners, computer and other scientists, and artificial intelligence enthusiasts seeking to develop their programming skills in the foundational languages of C and C++. Through the four courses — two in C, and two in C++ — you will cover the basics of programming in C and move on to the more advanced C++ semantics and syntax, which will prepare you to apply these skills to a number of higher-level problems using AI algorithms and Monte Carlo evaluation in complex games.

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