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    C Is for Children: My First Thirty-Two Keywords
    C Is for Children: My First Thirty-Two Keywords
    C Is for Children: My First Thirty-Two Keywords
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    C Is for Children: My First Thirty-Two Keywords

    By D. Michael Parrish

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    Computer programming is a good exercise for the mind, and its an essential skill that can serve anyone well into adulthood. In C Is for Children, author and engineer D. Michael Parrish introduces children to the C programming language.

    Parrish presents lessons that focus on the C keywords. C Is for Children discusses all thirty-two keywords of the C89 standard andprovides over twenty example programs, along with guidewordsand a thorough glossary. Designed for third-, fourth-, and fifth-gradestudents, this textbook is an easy-to-follow, step-by-step learning toolfor kids interested in writing their own programs.

    Praise for C Is for Children

    D. Michael Parrish is the Dr. Seuss of the digital age.

    George Matsoukas, author

    In a world of slavish conformity, this book is a refreshing, innovative, and entertaining contribution to childrens literature.

    Alex Bellas, EdD

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJan 31, 2014
    ISBN9781491713600
    C Is for Children: My First Thirty-Two Keywords
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    D. Michael Parrish

    D. Michael Parrish is a professional engineer. He has published dozens of academic articles and technical reports in the fields of water resources, hydrology, and coastal engineering.

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      C Is for Children - D. Michael Parrish

      Copyright © 2014 D. Michael Parrish

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-1359-4 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-1360-0 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013921272

      iUniverse rev. date:  01/17/2014

      The epigraph is taken from the Holy Bible (Textus Receptus and King James Version).

      Cover art background image copyright Moya Phototography, Inc. Used with permission.

      CONTENTS

      Note To Parents And Guardians

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction

      Part 0: Much Ado About Nothing

      Chapter 0: Nothing

      Chapter 1: Anything, Anywhere, And Nowhere

      Chapter 2: Something

      Chapter 3: Statement

      Chapter 4: Return Of Nothing, Definition Of Nothing

      Part 1: Your First Program

      Chapter 0: The main Idea

      Chapter 1: Comment

      Part 2: The Three R’s

      Chapter 0: Show Me

      Chapter 1: Yes, We Scan

      Part 3: Branching Out

      Chapter 0: 49612.png If You Like To Waltz With Potatoes 49614.png

      Chapter 1: If You’d Rather Not Waltz With Potatoes

      Chapter 2: After while, Crocodile

      Chapter 3: See You Later, Alligator

      Chapter 4: Just in case

      Chapter 5: Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing.

      Chapter 6: for

      Chapter 7 : To Be continue’d

      Part 4: Assorted Objects

      Chapter 0: Halflings

      Chapter 1: To 2¹⁶ . . . And Beyond!

      Chapter 2: Building Structures

      Chapter 3: Return Of The Fry Guy

      Chapter 4: Def Type

      Part 5: Inside, Outside, Upside Down

      Chapter 0: extern (Outside)

      Chapter 1: static Klingons Inside!

      Part 6: Auto Bots, Move Out!

      Part 7: sizeof

      Part 8: Fast, Faster, register

      Part 9: Volatile

      Conclusion

      About The Author

      Appendi: Installing and Using MinGW

      Glossary

      Glossary Of Keywords

      Resources

      References

      LIST OF TABLES

      Table 0: The Integral Types

      LIST OF FIGURES

      Figure 0: Nothing

      Figure 1: Hands Pointin

      Figure 2: What’s in a Name

      Figure 3: The Four Scopes

      LIST OF PROGRAMS

      Diddly Squat

      Hello Nurse

      Scanner

      Small Potatoes

      More Potatoes

      Curly Fries

      Fry Menu

      Case of Fries

      Skip The Fries

      Count

      Chart

      Chart Two

      Halflings

      Pokemon

      Return of the Fry Guy

      Def Pokemon

      Scopes Trial

      Daddies

      Pappas

      Shoot

      Ones

      Supersize Me

      Counter

      for Denwood, Lottie, and Edward

      Εν αρχή ην ο λόγος

      In the beginning was the Word

      NOTE TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS

      I’ve picked up a few programming languages over the years: I use them in my work as an engineer as well as in my play time. Last summer my wife asked me to teach our kids how to program computers. I did not find a children’s book on C, so I thought I would write one and publish it so that you and your children could benefit from the effort I’ve already put in.

      Why should kids learn to program computers? Computer programming is exercise for the mind. Computer programming is a valuable, if not essential skill for many professions. If you live in the United States, it can be more important than fluency in a human language other than English. I have used the French I learned in high school very little, and don’t know Spanish, even though I have lived in Florida and northern Virginia for decades, where Spanish is fairly common. Much of the work I do as an engineer could not be done, or could not be done very quickly, without some programming. Just as with human languages, it is never too early to begin learning computer languages. I began at about age seven, just as Commodore was getting low-cost personal computers into our living rooms.

      I think C is a good first computer language. Many other computer languages are based on C, and many languages not based on C include concepts inherent to C. Also, the C89 standard has only 32 keywords—convenient for a brief introductory text such as the one you are reading now.

      Although this is a book for children (grade 3 or so), I hope that you will assist your child with the new words that are printed in emphasized text, and which are all defined herein. I hope you will also assist your child reader with the exercises by doing some typing and / or copying and pasting from the website, tiny.cc/cisforchildren.

      This book begins introducing C with nothing (almost literally). If your child reads English at about the 3rd grade level, he or she should be able to read this book, and should expect to see about three new words per page. It will help if the child reader has a sense of numbers and an arithmetic ability normally acquired by about grade 3 (e.g., counting rules, addition, subtraction, awareness of negative numbers and fractions). The computer will do the math, but it will help to have an idea of what is going on.

      Neither you nor your child need to know how to type in order to learn C. Hunt-and-peck works just fine. My high-school computer programming teacher did not know how to type—and neither did I at the time—but what I learned in that class earned me college credit through an Advanced Placement Computer Science exam. As a beginning programmer, you do a lot more work with your brain than with your fingers.

      I hope you will have a C compiler installed on your computer so that you can try the example programs along with any of your own. If you are new to C, you might start with gcc or

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