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This document provides an overview and resources for an introductory lecture on computers and programming in the C language. The lecture will cover introductions to computers and their components, programming and the C language, and will demonstrate a simple "Hello World" program. Additional resources are provided on the history of computers, computer architecture, and analyzing the "Hello World" C program.

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Programming

This document provides an overview and resources for an introductory lecture on computers and programming in the C language. The lecture will cover introductions to computers and their components, programming and the C language, and will demonstrate a simple "Hello World" program. Additional resources are provided on the history of computers, computer architecture, and analyzing the "Hello World" C program.

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About the lecture

The goal of this module is to introduce computers and programming.


You will learn to write a simple Hello World program in the C
programming language.
The lecture contains the following topics:

Introduction to computers

Model for a computing machine: Processor and Memory;


Program and Data; Blocks of a computer
CPU, Assembly language, High level languages
Programs and programming; C programming language
Hello World Program

See also
History of Computers:
The following site describes the evolution of computers in more detail
- http://www.cs.kent.edu/~rothstei/10051/History.htm
See the major landmarks in the development of computers, from the
first computers in 1939 to the birth on the World Wide Web,
seehttp://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/
Googles data centers are described in more detail
here: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-googledata-center/all/
Architecture of computers:
In order to get started in programming, you do not need to know a lot
about the design and structure of computers. However, there is a lot
to explore in that area.

Here is a course (containing 34 1.5 hour lectures!) from Carnegie


Mellon University - http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=BJ87rZCGWU0&list=PL5PHm2jkkXmidJOd59REog9jDnPDTG6IJ
and here is another one from Princeton University
https://www.coursera.org/course/comparch
Even more information can be found in John L. Hennessy and David
Patterson (2011). Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
(Fifth Edition ed.). Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-12-383872-8.
First C program:
Here is a detailed analysis of the various elements of the Hello,
World program -- http://www.codingunit.com/c-tutorial-first-c-programhello-world
There are many excellent C programming books available. The
oldest and most widely used book is Kernighan and Ritchie - The C
Programming Language
---http://books.google.com/books/about/The_C_Programming_Langu
age.html?id=161QAAAAMAAJ, but any other book will work well.

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