September 5

• Administration, marking scheme, don't plagiarize.
• Why ``Algorithms and Data Structures'' is not equivalent to ``The C course.''
• Where C fits between micros and cosmos.
• Begin Crash course in C, Part I, pages 1-4 (see also ``Data Structures and Program Design in C,'' Kruse, Tondo, and Leung, 629-631).
• A ``Hello world'' program with a comment, an #include directive, and a main function.
• Declarations associate a variable name with a piece of memory.
• Declarations have types, can't mix declarations and executable statements.
• Some types differ by precision. How precise? See <limits.h>
• You may assign values to and evaluate stored values in a variable. the = sign means assignment not equality.
• Assignments return values. You can increment variables a few ways. Prefix and postfix increments might be subtle.
• Formatted printf allows you to send interesting text to standard out.