About Course

This course is for first-year students who have never written a line of code. Pieter van der Merwe walks you through the basics of C step by step, from your first program to variables, functions and simple input. Each lesson has short examples you can run on your own laptop. You can study on your phone or computer, at your own pace, and ask questions on the Studiepoort portal when you get stuck.

What Will You Learn?

  • Practise your new skills with short exercises and worked examples
  • Plan your work and keep it organised using simple checklists
  • Get friendly and fast support from your tutor on the course forum
  • Downloadable notes, files and worksheets for every task

Course Content

Getting Ready
A short summary to prepare you for the lessons in this topic. Read it first so you know what to expect, then work through each lesson in order and finish the quiz.

  • Welcome to the course
    02:53
  • Programming C in Code::Blocks
    04:33
  • C programming Project
    02:44
  • Importing Projects Into Code::Blocks
    04:05
  • Knowing about functions in C
    19:12
  • Quiz -Portfolio Site Basics

C programming basics

Basic Concepts

Variables and Data Types

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