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C

BEYOND

THE PROGRAM

INTRODUCTION TO

C

PROGRAMMING

MY

EVER PROGRAM

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MAT-ISH CODES

MACHINE

WHAT

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MACHINE 3

IF-CEPTION

MACHINE PROBLEM

35 38

IF?

PROBLEM

27 30

FIRST

PROBLEM

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4

42 44 47

KISS:

KEEP

SHORT

IT

AND

SIMPLE

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MACHINE PROBLEM

5

LIGHTS

ON

LIGHTS

OFF

OR

MACHINE PROBLEM

HULA

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HOOPS

MACHINE PROBLEM

7

LOOP-CEPTION

MACHINE PROBLEM

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8

FUN-CTIONS

54 57 69 72

MACHINE PROBLEM

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ARRAY COUP

OH

MACHINE PROBLEM

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RATING: 9

HABITS

CLOSING REMARKS

CONTRIBUTORS

C

BEYOND THE

PROGRAM

MY LEARNING JOURNEY:

HOW IS IT LIKE LEARNING C PROGRAMMING?

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SEEING FURTHER THE CREATION OF EVERY PROGRAM IN THIS MAGAZINE, I SHARED MY EXPERIENCES, ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, AND REFLECTIONS ABOUT MY LEARNING JOURNEY IN C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE. YOU ARE GOING TO SEE BEYOND EVERY PROGRAMS THAT I MADE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SEMESTER.

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WEEk 3

Introduction to to to

C C PROGRAMMING PROGRAMMING On our first day of class, we started off by the introduction

of

C

programming.

We

studied

the

fundamental structures, syntax, and functions of basic

codes

that

are

very

crucial

in

our

next

programs. Mr. Andaya, our professor in our subject Fundamentals of Computing 1, tackled about the various backlash

escape (\)

sequences

and

usually

which

followed

start by

a

with single

character or sometimes even more. Each escape sequence denotes their own representation and meaning. machine program

Our

professor

problem that

will

sequences that we

and

he

then asked

gave us

to

the

first

make

a

#include display the different escape main() { learned. printf("\n\tGoodbye World"); getch(); }

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r s i f tm BY FAITH MARIE

oblem pr

i h n c e a

TOXIC THOUGHTS

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\n\t MY FIRST EVER

Program

"THE FIRST TIME YOU DO A THING IS ALWAYS EXCITING."

-AGATHA CHRISTIE

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As

I

mentioned,

program

that

our

will

first

show

task

the

was

lyrics

to

of

create

our

a

favorite

song on the output which will display the different escape

sequences.

The

first

Machine

Problem

is

very special for me because this is the first ever program that I made in C Programming Language and it became even more remarkable since I got to feature the lyrics of one of my favorite songs which is entitled "Toxic Thoughts" by Faith Marie. A bit of anecdote: during high school, I only had studied the basics of web development. I did not really study any programming language so this was really my first time creating a program. I felt the excitement and urge of

urge of pouring my best effort into this

activity ever since Mr. Andaya gave this task to us. I gave

my

best

to

think

of

different

designs

and

layout that I could use. In this activity, the escape sequences that I often used was the "\n" and "\t". I definitely however,

enjoy it

was

our a

bit

First

Machine

tiring.

I

had

Problem;

to

think

of

combinations of colors that will match to the mood of the lyrics and I also had to listen to the song over and

over

synchronized

again

so

with

the

the song,

display but

the

would good

be thing

about it was that, it was my favorite song being

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listened numerous times so it became less tedious to do the task.

OUTPUT OF

Machine Problem 1

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MATH–ISH CODES WEEK 4

THE BUILDING BLOCKS KEYBOARD INPUT, VARIABLE, DATA TYPES, AND ARITHMETIC OPERATORS

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In this week's lesson, Mr. Andaya tackled about keyboard input, variable, data types, and arithmetic operators.

fn

ca

understand and remember. In keyboard input, there is a function that reads formatted input and that is called scanf(). Variable is an identifier that is used to hold and alter the value held within them. During program execution, the variables can change. It

Most of these things are being associated with mathematics stuff that we have learned before, making this programming lesson easy to

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depends on the programmer on how he/she will manipulate those variables, and that's where the significance of data types and arithmetic operators will come in. The classification of data is represented by data types. It can be integer, long integer, float, double, or character. On the other hand, arithmetic operators are nothing new to me because I've been using them since I was in elementary. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are the four operations that I am sure we are all familiar with.

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2nd Machine Problem We are asked to make a conversion calculator that will convert units in mass, length, or volume. We had to choose two metric systems and choose units from them. Lastly, we were asked to interchange the values of the converted units of the two chosen metric systems. To be frank, the 2nd Machine Problem was the easiest for me.

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It did not even take me much time compared to the first Machine Problem. I enjoyed doing this and I thought I would get another perfect score which would follow the first one, but it wasn’t the case. In my surprise, this was where I got the lowest grade so far. It is for the reason that I did not clearly understand what Mr. Andaya said about the interchanging of values. I wasn't yet aware that I should make another variable in order for the previous one to be stored in it. I thought I was just going to literally interchange the preexisting variables. Indeed, mistakes are really

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opportunities to learn. Hence, I learned my lessons that I should clarify things first before applying them in my programs.

Output of the Machine Problem

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HERE IS ANOTHER EPISODE OF

WEEK 5:

IF STATEMENTS IF-ELSE IF-IF IF-ELSE-IF

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If statement was our lesson for 5th week. The if statement is used in conjunction with a condition and it is also in charge of changing the flow of execution of a program. Before executing any statement within the body of if, the condition is evaluated first if it is true or false. Single instruction or block of code is usually surrounded by curly braces. In my preference, I usually use curly braces especially when the instructions are long because I could better understand the groupings of codes that way. Other than if statements, our professor also discussed about the conditional operators, and those are