C-and-C++/C2/First-C-Program/English-timed
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Time | Narration |
00:01 | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on First C program. |
00:05 | In this tutorial, we will learn |
00:08 | How to write a simple C program |
00:11 | How to compile it |
00:13 | How to execute it |
00:14 | We will also explain some common errors and their solutions. |
00:18 | To record this tutorial, I am using |
00:21 | Ubuntu operating system version 11.10 and gcc Compiler version 4.6.1 on Ubuntu |
00:31 | To practice this tutorial, |
00:33 | You should be familiar with Ubuntu Operating System and an Editor |
00:38 | Some editors are vim and gedit |
00:42 | I will use gedit in this tutorial |
00:45 | For relevant tutorials please visit our website which is as shown |
00:51 | Let me tell you how to write a C program through an example |
00:55 | Open the terminal window by pressing Ctrl, Alt and T keys simultaneously on your keyboard. |
01:07 | Now let's open the text editor. So, at the prompt, type |
01:12 | “gedit” space “talk” dot “c” space “&” sign. |
01:20 | We use ampersand (&) to free up the prompt |
01:24 | Please note that all the C files will have extension dot “c” |
01:30 | Now Press Enter |
01:32 | the text editor has opened |
01:36 | Let us start to write a program |
01:39 | Type double slash “//” space |
01:42 | “My first C program”. |
01:48 | Here, double slash is used to comment the line |
01:52 | Comments are used to understand the flow of program |
01:56 | It is useful for documentation |
01:58 | It gives us information about the program |
02:01 | The double slash is called as single line comment. |
02:07 | Now press Enter |
02:09 | Type hash “#include” space opening bracket , closing bracket |
02:17 | It is always a good practice to complete the brackets first, and then start writing inside it |
02:24 | Now Inside the bracket, type“stdio” “(dot).” “h” |
02:30 | stdio.h is a header file |
02:33 | A program must contain this header file when it uses standard input/output functions |
02:41 | Now press Enter. |
02:43 | type “int” space “main” opening bracket,
closing bracket . |
02:50 | ' main is a special function |
02:52 | It denotes that the execution of the program begins from this line |
02:58 | The opening bracket and closing bracket is called as parenthesis. |
03:04 | Parenthesis followed by main is to tell the user that main is a function |
03:11 | Here the int main function takes no arguments |
03:15 | It returns a value of type integer. |
03:18 | We will learn about data types in another tutorial. |
03:23 | Now Let us switch to the slides to know more about main function. Let us go to the next slide. |
03:29 | Every programshould have one main function |
03:33 | There should NOT be more than one main function |
03:36 | Otherwise the compiler cannot locate the beginning of the program |
03:41 | The empty pair of parentheses indicates that main has no arguments |
03:46 | The concept of arguments will be discussed in detail in the upcoming tutorials. |
03:52 | Now let us come back to our program. |
03:55 | Press Enter. |
03:58 | Type opening curly bracket “{” |
04:00 | The opening curly bracket marks the beginning of the function main. |
04:04 | Then Type closing curly bracket “}” |
04:08 | The closing curly bracket indicates the end of the function main. |
04:13 | Now Inside the bracket press Enter twice, |
04:16 | move the cursor one line up |
04:20 | Indentation makes the code easier to read |
04:23 | It also helps to locate errors faster |
04:25 | So let us give three space here |
04:29 | And Type “printf” opening bracket closing bracket “()” |
04:34 | printf is a standard C function to print the output on the terminal |
04:39 | Here inside the brackets, within the double quotes, |
04:43 | Anything within the double quotes in the printf statement will be printed on the terminal. |
04:50 | Type“Talk To a Teacher backslash n” |
04:59 | Backslash n “\n” signifies newline |
05:03 | As a result, after execution of the printf function, the cursor moves to the new line |
05:10 | Every C statement must end with a semicolon “;” |
05:15 | Hence, type it at the end of this line. |
05:19 | Semicolon acts as a statement terminator. |
05:24 | Now press Enter give three space here |
05:27 | And type “return” space “0” and a semicolon |
05:34 | This statement returns the integer zero |
05:38 | An integer has to be returned for this function because the function type is int |
05:45 | The return statement marks the end of executable statements |
05:51 | We will learn more about the returned values in another tutorial. |
05:55 | Now click on"Save" button to save the file |
06:00 | It is a good habit to save files frequently |
06:03 | This will protect you from sudden power failures |
06:05 | It will also be useful in case the applications were to crash. |
06:10 | Let us now compile the program, come back to a terminal. |
06:15 | Type “gcc” space “talk.c” space hyphen “-o” space “myoutput” |
06:24 | gcc is the compiler |
06:27 | talk.c is our filename . |
06:30 | -o myoutput says that the executable should go to the file myoutput |
06:37 | Now Press Enter. |
06:39 | We see that the program is compiled |
06:42 | By typing ls space (hypen) -lrt, we can see that myoutput is the last file to be created |
06:54 | To execute the program, type (dot slash)“./myoutput” press Enter. |
07:01 | Here the output is displayed as “Talk To a Teacher”. |
07:06 | As I said before, return is the last statement to be executed |
07:10 | Thus after the return statement nothing will be executed. Let us try it out. |
07:15 | come back to our program. |
07:17 | After the return statement, let us include one more printf statement |
07:22 | give space here type printf opening bracket, closing bracket. |
07:27 | Inside the bracket within the double quotes type Welcome backslash n , at the end type a semicolon. |
07:35 | Now click on save. |
07:37 | Let us compile and execute come back to our terminal. |
07:41 | you can recall the previously entered commands by using up arrowkey. |
07:46 | That is what I did now |
07:51 | We see that the second statements welcome is not executed |
07:58 | Now come back to our program |
08:00 | Let us write the 'Welcome' statement above the return statement |
08:06 | Click on Save. |
08:09 | Let us compile and execute |
08:15 | We see that the second printf statement welcome has also has been executed |
08:23 | Now let us see the common errors which we can come across. Come back to our program.
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08:29 | Suppose here I will the miss the dot in “stdio.h” Click on Save.
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08:36 | Let us compile and execute . |
08:41 | We see that |
08:42 | There is a fatal error at line no.2 in our talk.c file. |
08:48 | The compiler cannot find a header file with the name “stdioh”hence it is giving an error no such file or directory. |
08:59 | And the compilation is terminated. |
09:03 | Let us now fix the error come back to a program.Reinsert the dot “.”click on save
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09:11 | Let us compile and execute. Yes It is working. |
09:19 | I will show you another common error |
09:22 | Let us switch back to the program.
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09:25 | Now, suppose here i will miss the semicolon at the end of the line |
09:31 | Click on Save.Let us compile and execute |
09:41 | We see that there is an error at line no.6 in our talk.c file. That expected semicolon before printf. |
09:51 | Come back to our program. |
09:54 | As i said before semicolon acts as a statement terminator |
09:58 | So it will search for it at the end of the line.5 and at the beginning of the line.6. |
10:06 | This is line 6 |
10:09 | This is the last place where you can put the semicolon |
10:12 | Recall that the compiler also give the error message on line 6. |
10:18 | Let us try what happens if we put the semicolon here. |
10:23 | Click on Save . |
10:26 | Let us Compile and execute. |
10:30 | Yes it is working |
10:32 | Now come back to our program. Let us type the semicolon here at the end of this line.
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10:40 | As it is a conventional practice to type the semicolon at the end of the line. |
10:46 | Now click on Save.
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10:49 | Let us Compile and execute. .Yes it is working.
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10:54 | Now let us go back to our slides. |
10:57 | As an Assignment |
10:59 | Write a program to print "Welcome to the World of C" |
11:02 | See what happens if “\n” is not included in the printf statement. |
11:08 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial |
11:12 | Watch the video available at the link shown below, |
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11:51 | This is Ashwini Patil from IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for watching. |
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