Introduction to ANSI C and C++ Programming for Nonprogrammers

This course is the first of a two-part course sequence which teaches people with little or no programming experience how to program using the ANSI C and C++ languages in a non-object-oriented manner. Experienced programmers should consider "Introduction to ANSI C and C++ for Non-C Programmmers.

The course offers extensive laboratory experience. Solutions are provided for laboratory exercises. 60% lecture and 40% laboratory exercises.

Prerequisites

• General familiarity with your operating system environment
• Ability to create and edit text files

Course Objectives

• Write clear, elementary ANSI C and C++ programs
• Understand algorithmic thinking and apply it to programming
• Understand problem-solving techniques
• Read, write, and debug substantial ANSI C and C++ programs
• Write programs using structured programming techniques
• Program ANSI C and C++ input and output using the stdio and iostream libraries
• including simple formatting capabilities
• Code with ANSI C and C++ arithmetic, increment, decrement, assignment, relational, equality, and logical operators
• Code ANSI C and C++ control structures (if, if/else, switch, while, do/while, for) and use built-in data types
• Use standard library functions
• Write user-defined function definitions
• Understand and manipulate single-subscripted arrays
• Pass single-subscripted arrays to functions
• Process single-subscripted character arrays as strings
• Use the const qualifier to create constant data