This course is part of the Coding for Everyone: C and C++ Specialization

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Coding for Everyone: C and C++ SpecializationUniversity of California, Santa Cruz

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This course is for everyone. In the new world we live in, coding is a universally valuable skill, whether you're a scientist, artist, or a humanist. Algorithms are everywhere, and we all have to understand how they work. The C language is particularly well suited as an introduction to coding: It's a tried-and-true language, and it allows you to understand computing processes at a deep level. 
No prior knowledge of coding is needed for this course. We'll start at the beginning.
The time estimated time commitment for this course is five hours a week for five weeks.

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Coding for Everyone: C and C++ Specialization

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English

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Introduction

3 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 68 min)

Week

Week 2

4 hours to complete

Lexical Elements and Data Types

4 hours to complete

12 videos (Total 102 min)

Week

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Flow of Control and Simple Functions

3 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 62 min)

10 videos

Logical operators, expressions, and short-circuit evaluation6m

The conditional statement if and if-else7m

The iterative statement while6m

while-cnt-char-explained6m

while-code - example5m

The for statement and its while analog8m

for statement code example6m

oddball operators-conditional and comma7m

ternary-operator code example3m

Break and continue and switch (File included ➕)4m

4 practice exercises

Logic operators quiz

While loop questions

Switch questions

Cond-comma-ops quiz

Week

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Advanced Functions, Recursion, Arrays, and Pointers

1 hour to complete

11 videos (Total 66 min)

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TOP REVIEWS FROM C FOR EVERYONE: PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS

by VDAug 19, 2020

Great course to gain a foundation in C programming! The video lectures, coding examples, and peer reviewing of assignments allows one to learn quick and in real time. Would definitely recommend it.

by RSMay 27, 2020

I have learnt many topics in this course. This course had made me taste the flavour of C language and programming. The lectures which were given by Pohl sir were outstanding.

by MSMar 24, 2022

The course its a great opportunity to start into C programming but I hope the tutorials at week 4, 5 in particular like pointers, arrays being more clearly and competative! beside assignment!

by HGApr 9, 2022

It has a good summary of the essentials topics about C.

It might have helped if the text in the videos would be more interactive. Even so, the professor and his classes were good explained.

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About the Coding for Everyone: C and C++ Specialization

This Specialization is intended for all programming enthusiasts, as well as beginners, computer and other scientists, and artificial intelligence enthusiasts seeking to develop their programming skills in the foundational languages of C and C++. Through the four courses — two in C, and two in C++ — you will cover the basics of programming in C and move on to the more advanced C++ semantics and syntax, which will prepare you to apply these skills to a number of higher-level problems using AI algorithms and Monte Carlo evaluation in complex games.

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