Assignments

PublishedOct 1, 2026 Updated— DueOct 7, 2026	Assignment 5 — Pointers, and functions that change your variables Four small programs where a function is handed the address of a variable instead of its value — the `swap` from Assignment 3 that could not work, working, and functions that hand back more than one answer.
PublishedSep 17, 2026 Updated— DueSep 23, 2026	Assignment 4 — Arrays, strings, and the end of the array Five small programs about arrays and strings — including one that reads past the end on purpose — and then the useful half of them moved into a three-file program with a `Makefile`.
PublishedSep 10, 2026 Updated— DueSep 16, 2026	Assignment 3 — Functions, and one program in three files Four small functions, each in its own file, then the same three functions moved into one program split across three files — and a `Makefile` that builds it.
PublishedSep 3, 2026 Updated— DueSep 9, 2026	Assignment 2 — Loops, conditionals, and three broken programs Six small programs that drill `if`, `for` and `while` — one of them reading its input with `scanf` — then three broken ones the compiler is perfectly happy with, and your account of why it is happy with them.
PublishedAug 27, 2026 Updated— DueSep 2, 2026	Assignment 1 — The terminal, and your first C program Move around a Linux filesystem and write down what you actually saw, then write, compile and break two small C programs — one that the compiler catches, and one it doesn’t.

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