I still found the course difficult even though I had plenty of time to spend on it. Like many courses, there is a significant time commitment. Overall, I think this is definitely a programming course worth taking. I would recommend this course to someone currently studying computer science at college or perhaps a recent graduate who wishes to learn C programming. I am a UCSC graduate but have been away from school for 30 years. The lectures themselves are clear and informative. The professor has written a book with Al Kelley, _A Book on C_, that is helpful for the course. There are also no assessments or practice exercises in the fourth week, so it's hard to gauge how you are doing.ĭespite the difficulty of the subject manner, I really enjoyed the course. Looking over the remaining material, I decided I would not be able to complete the rest of the course in the allotted time. Like other programming courses I have taken, the learning curve for this one gets steep at the halfway point in the course. I have, however, decided to withdraw from the course. I have completed four other beginning Python programming courses on Coursera. I successfully completed the first three weeks of this course. But, do not market your course as one that is beginner friendly when it isn't! Yes, I lack the basic facility of coding, that is obvious. I don't understand what is going on, and I do not understand why I need to get another tutorial to explain. Once you understand a little of it, you can get a tutorial that explains in detail the editing commands you need. Netter is a critical tool for almost anything on a computer. Again, in this class, I'm not going to go through all of the VI commands or Notepad commands, you're just going to have to get comfortable with using an editor. So I'll just read that file in and these are all VI commands. So basically and frequently the cases, I'm going to want to modify a pre-existing file. Now, it's going to look very much like add2.c. Play video starting at 2 minutes 44 seconds and follow transcript2:44 So this command means create a file called add3.c. Now, if I want to develop a program, let's say I want to change the input to floats program to an input three floats. I do that and I'm done, 4.3 and 6.8 is 11.1. Play video starting at 1 minute 58 seconds and follow transcript1:58 So in order to execute them, all I have to do is say add2.exe, it says input two floats. So all of that are what I previously compiled as N2 and executable and I can of course execute them.
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So we see there's an a.out file, there's something called add2.exe and then there are these.C files which are source files which are code and there we can see something like miles.exe, circle.exe, add2.exe.
So I can use Unix commands, the Unix command LS shows me the files in that directory. So let's look at that directory, the way we can see that directory again where in terminal, for a Mackintosh terminal window, which is basically running Unix.
So here's where I develop some of the code that was being used in Week 1 of this class. My prompt for my computer is Iras-Air: and the local directory that I'm running in is called CPrograms/W1. Play video starting at 19 seconds and follow transcript0:19 Imagine my unpleasant surprise when 15 minutes or so in, I get this in my lesson: That being said, I was excited when this course info mentioned, and I quote, "No prior knowledge of coding is needed for this course. I would like to stress that I do not have any prior knowledge in coding. I wouldn't recommend this course to anybody (either beginner or intermediate), better just spend a week reading "The C Programming Language" by Dennis Richie. The least i would expect from a course, is for the slides to be informative, neat and well written, rather than a bunch of hand written programs put into a screen. I doubt anyone can really decipher the programs he is showing. His hand writting is really messy, resembling that of a doctor. He has hand written slides, which shows a C program. Finally, the slides and presentations are one of the worst i came across into a lecture. His tone and flow of speaking is really poor for a lecture (I had to make the video at x1.5 rate and it was feeling that he was speaking normally at that rate. Some explanations he gives are really cryptic ("Passing the address of an int &int" without giving any explanation on what this really means. His explanations are most of the time confusing and do not really add any useful information.
The lecturer just goes through some slides and just explains what happens in every line of a program, without giving any context to the actual C programming language. It is a very pour course, as it is very confusing what level the student should be. I stopped this course at Week 1, as I found various reasons to do so.
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