USJR, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING

CEBU CITY, PHILIPPINES

INTRODUCTION TO C PROGRAMMING

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WHY?
LEARN PROGRAMMING

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WHY should you learn How to Program?

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 source: via twitter @HiddenFigures
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 COMPUTING ORIGINS
Charles Herman Hollerith: Alan Turing:
invented the 1st Konrad Zeus, Grace Hopper,
Babbage: Alan Turing
Electro- programmable found a bug on
Blaise Pascal Father of machine that is
Mechanical machine using the Mark 1
invented the 1st Computer. capable of
Invented the computer. He Boolean logic. machine and
Mechanical computing Inventor of
Calculator steam-engine founded a company anything. coined the term
power calculator now called IBM. Modern ‘debugging’
(Universal) Computer
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1642 1937 -
3000 BC
1800s 1890 1936 1937 1942

Abacus:
Ancient
use for 1st Generation
computing
Computers: Use
wikipedia.org wikipedia.org of Vacuum
www.computerhistory.org nationalgeographic
Tubes. 1st Digital
Computers
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 A14 : 11.8 billion

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PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
The rise of high C++
level language. Python Modern programming
These means that Java languages which uses
programs are C#
programming
Computers only ASSEMBLY written in the architectures to do
language of
OBJECT-
understand/read complex programming,
binary
LANGUAGE humans. (Use of ORIENTED
GUI
numbers(0s,1s) English Language)

Assembler, the It’s a high-level

MACHINE use of operands, PROCEDURAL programming MODELLING
LANGUAGE arithmetic LANGUAGE language that
integrates the
FORTRAN (IBM) use of objects in
COBOL the program
C
BASIC

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LEARNING HOW TO PROGRAM
➢Enables YOU to THINK
➢Build your own software application for your business
➢Develops your Analytical, Critical, and Logical Thinking
➢Enables you to solve real world problems
➢Empowers your creativity
➢Digital Technology is ruling the world.

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“
Everybody should learn
to program a computer,
because it teaches you
how to think
”
-Steve Jobs

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“ I choose a lazy person
to do a hard job
because lazy person
will find a way to do an
easy way to do it.
_Bill Gates

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Source: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 7-biggest-trends-for-engineering-in-the-2020s

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THE C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
is a high-level language and procedural programming that allows us to write
programs that are independent of the type of computer. The high-level languages
are named as high-level because they are close to human languages and can be
understood easily, however it requires attention to the logic of the problem. The
language needs a compiler to translate a high-level language into a low-level
language. C language is structured programming that specifies a series of well-
structured procedures and steps to compose a program.

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IDE (Integrated Development Environment)
An integrated development environment is a software application that
provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software
development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source code editor,
build automation tools and a debugger.
Examples of IDE
◦ Visual Studio
◦ DevC – used in this course
◦ Visual Code
◦ Notepad++
◦ etc.

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DEV-C++ Build Automation Tools

Code Editor

Debugger/Messages

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C PROGRAMMING STRUCTURE
Predefined/Header Files/Libraries

Main Function

Comments
C programming Syntax/C Codes

Exit/Pause code for a program

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 Terms to Remember !
C Standard library functions or simply C Library functions are inbuilt functions
PRE-DEFINED LIBRARIES
in C programming
source: programiz.com

A comment starts with a slash asterisk /* and ends with a asterisk slash */ and can be anywhere in
COMMENTS your program or // . Comments will help you and others understand the flow of your written
code.

SYNTAX is the set of rules governing writing of software in the C language. It is designed to allow for programs
that are extremely terse, have a close relationship with the resulting object code, and yet provide
relatively high-level data abstraction. source: wikipedia.org

COMPILE AND RUN when you compile your program, it will look for the main function, and it will translate to a
machine language. You need to have a C compiler that is provided by the IDE. Running
your program means it execute what should it do based on your written program

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 DEMO
Installing IDE

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