Outline for April 16 and 18, 2024

Reading: zyBooks text §5.12, 6.5–6.10
Due: Homework #1, due April 18, 2024

1. Pointers and Arrays
   1. Arrays as pointers
   2. How indexing works
   3. Arrays as function parameters
   4. Multi-dimentional arrays

2. More on arrays
   1. Initializations
   2. Contrast with pointer initialization

3. C arrays and strings
   1. String representation: array of chars terminated by NUL (ASCII ‘\0’)
   2. gets(buf), fgets(buf, size, fp) [bad.c, good.c]
   3. Array of strings (pointers to characters)

4. Example: ptrstew.c

5. C arrays and strings
   1. Strings as arguments to functions [strcpy.c]
   2. Various idioms

6. C characters
   1. Types of characters; include file ctype.h [chartype.c, dasc.c]
   2. Characters as integers and vice versa [caesar-enc.c, caesar-dec.c]

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ECS 36A, Programming & Problem Solving Version of April 18, 2024 at 9:27PM

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