CS 9C, "C for Programmers"

    1 unit, self-paced, P/NP;
    offered fall and spring semesters.
    Restrictions on enrollment: CS 9C should be counted as a
    "computer science service course", with restrictions on credit
    toward graduation as specified in the rules for such courses.

ABBREVIATED COURSE TITLE

    C FOR PROGRAMMERS

INSTRUCTOR IN CHARGE

    M. Clancy, Senior Lecturer

CATALOG DESCRIPTION

    Self-paced course in the C programming language for students
    who already know how to program.  Computation, input and output,
    flow of control, functions, arrays and pointers, linked structures,
    use of dynamic storage, and implementation of abstract data types.

PREREQUISITE

    Programming experience with pointers (or addresses in assembly
    language) and linked data structures equivalent to that gained
    in CS 9B, CS 61A, or Eng 77N.

EXPANDED DESCRIPTION

    This course is organized similarly to other courses in the CS 9 series.
    Course activities include quizzes that test language details and
    programming assignments that provide practice with the languages
    and associated programming techniques.

    Topic coverage is roughly as follows.
	Segment 1:  computation, input/output, functions and procedures,
	    flow of control.
	Segment 2:  arrays, pointers, structures, and files
	Segment 3:  linked structures; implementation of abstract
	    data types; use of the "malloc" and "free" functions

    Students should have experience using addresses in assembly
    language or pointers in a high-level language, since use of pointers
    is a major part of programming in C.

TEXTBOOKS

    *Beginning with C*, by Ron House (PWS Publishing, 1994)

    *The C Programming Language* (second edition), Kernighan and Ritchie,
    Prentice-Hall, 1988.