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This is not a first-programming course!

I believe C is not suitable as the subject of a first programming course. Rather, C should be learned after first mastering a high-level, general purpose programming language.

This course is not a first-programming course; you must have some experience programming with another language.

• Time for only an introduction/overview/tutorial --- skate over details. (For a systematic introduction get a book!)
• Holes in coverage.
• Not C++ (or Objective C)!

Aims:

• provide an introduction to the C programming Language for those who already have experience of programming in another procedural language (e.g., FORTRAN, Pascal...):
  • be able to read/write simple C programmes;
  • survey language features;
  • edit/write simple programmes;
  
  
• using C at UMIST;
  
  
• compilation errors and debugging;
  
  
• survey the C "world".
  
  
• offer pointers to more...

Origins

• A Course on C, Colin Charlton, Paul Leng and Janet Little (Dept Computer Science, Uni of Liverpool), McGraw Hill, ISBN 0-07-707433-5.
  
  
• Thanks to Iain Stinson from whom I plagiarised a significant amount of material.