Kursöversikt

Welcome to C Programming I!

In HT2020 the course FYD400 – C Programmering I, will be held as a remote course, due to the Covid-19 pandemic . This means that all lectures and all practical exercises will be held remotely, using the Zoom video-conferencing system, as well as the Canvas teaching platform.

Lectures:

All lectures will be held on Zoom. You will receive a link/password to the lectures via an announcement on the Canvas page of the course before each lecture. I will post the first link on this Welcome page, prior to the first lecture. You are welcome to switch on your cameras, but there is no requirement to do so for the lectures.

Questions or comments during the lectures are welcome, either via microphone or via chat. Microphones should be muted, if not in use to avoid feedback. All lectures will be held as live events and it is presently not planned to record the lectures. All lecture slides will be posted on Canvas after each lecture. Given that the number of lectures is limited and the fact that programming is best learned by doing, the heart of this course are the practical exercises, as discussed below. The first lecture is on Thursday, September 3, 2020 at 18:00. Each lecture lasts 2 x 45 minutes, with a 15 minute break in between.

Practical exercises:

Obtaining experience in C programming is the key part of this course. In order to do that, you will solve problems from the course compendium, which contains a selection of problems. In order to pass this course, you need to solve and present at least one problem per sub-chapter and have at least 30 points. More details are given in the compendium and will be discussed in the first lecture. The compendium will be posted after the course has started.

All practical exercises will also be held on Zoom but also use the Canvas chat function. Here no Zoom link will be distributed, but students should log onto the course Canvas page and go to the chat to join the practical exercises. The Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) used in the course is LabWindows CVI, which is a part of the Labview software of National Instruments. Students, which are accepted for the course can download this software from the Student Portal. Other IDEs or compilers are allowed, but for some of the problems this might cause significant problems! During the exercises, students can either present their solved tasks by demonstrating its functionality and explain the source code or they can ask the teachers for help. In both cases, students need to access to a microphone and a camera in order to talk to the teachers. The programs are demonstrated by sharing the screen, which is possible on Zoom. Teachers need to see with whom they are talking, when a solved problem is presented. Help/presentation is done on Zoom, while students and teachers will communicate otherwise via the Canvas chat.

All exercises are live events. They always start at 18:00 and finish at 22:00. It is not possible to present solved problems outside of the exercise hours. Solved and presented problems are due by the end of the last exercise, which is for this course October 29, 2020.

About the course:

This course does not assume any prior knowledge on how computer work or on programming and aims at teaching you the basics of programming in the language C. The C programming language is one of the most widely used programming languages, especially, when it comes to programming close to the requirements of specific hardware, which is the topic of a follow-up course, namely C Programmering II (FYD410). C is also a very good language to know before learning more about object-oriented programming languages such as C++, C# or JAVA.

The course consists of a set of lectures that provide basic knowledge on C programming as well as practical exercises, which are the central part of the course. Here you create program computer programs using C with increasing level of difficulty. Solved problems need to be demonstrated to the course advisors during the practical sessions. Here you should not only have a working computer program but you also need to be able to explain you program.

All material needed of the course, such as the course compendium, the lecture slides, and additional material can be found in the "Files" tab on the left-hand side.

I am looking forward to see you on September 3!

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Time: Sep 3, 2020 06:00 PM Stockholm

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With best regards,

Andreas Heinz

(Course instructor)