Dartmouth College
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C Programming: Getting Started - 1

Dartmouth College
Institut Mines-Télécom

C Programming: Getting Started - 1

Rémi SHARROCK
Petra Bonfert-Taylor

Instructors: Rémi SHARROCK

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What you'll learn

  • Define, distinguish and give examples of hardware/software, computer programs/algorithms

  • Explain the concept of a variable and declare, initialize and modify variables of data types int, double and char

  • Create and comment simple C-programs that may print text, special characters and variables to the screen with controlled formatting

  • Create simple C-programs that utilize for-loops to repeat blocks of instructions

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