Week 1 Objectives

KNOW:

• The basic structure of a C program
• How to do input and output in a C program, using scanf and printf
• How the assignment operator ( = ) works, and how assignment affects memory
• The precedence of arithmetic operators in C
• How to compile, link, and execute a C program on a Linux system
• How to formulate Boolean expressions
• When to use the if and if...else selection statements
• The assignment operators for abbreviating assignment expressions
• That cast operators can be used to convert one data type to another
• C's three looping constructs: while, do...while, and for
• The difference between count-controlled loops and sentinel-controlled loops
• How to use the post-increment/post-decrement operators

BE ABLE TO:

• Use scanf and printf to do numeric input and numeric and string output
• Evaluate C arithmetic expressions
• Develop a complete C program and execute it on the Linux platform
• translate an English description into an appropriate C Boolean expression
• write a C program that uses the if or if...else selection structure
• explain how a cast operator affects the value of an expression
• Use any of C's looping constructs to accomplish iteration

Sample Quiz Questions:

1. State the order of evaluation of the operators in the following C statement and show the value of x after the statement is performed:

   x = 2 % 2 + 2 * 2 - 2 / 2;
   

2. Write a syntactically-correct C Boolean expression for the following English expression:

   the value of x is neither 5 nor 12
   

3. Use a for-loop to calculate the sum of all the even numbers between 2 and 100, inclusive (the values 2 and 100 should be included in the sum).