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Coronado Enterprises C TUTOR June 30, 1986
READ.ME File
Getting Started with the C tutorial
The first thing you should do is to backup the distribution
diskettes and store the distribution diskettes away in a safe
place. Use only the copy for all operations.
Getting started with the TEXT diskette
Before you can begin study of C, you must print out a copy of
the tutorial text. The file named PRINTEXT.BAT is designed
to help you to do this. Simply type the name PRINTEXT at the
DOS prompt and all of the tutorial text will be printed for you.
When the system displays "Name of list device [PRN]:", hit the
return key to accept the default. This batch file uses the DOS
command PRINT.COM to actually do the printing and it has an upper
limit of 10 files that can be queued up at once. There is there-
a pause after each group of print requests to allow the queue to
empty out, after which you must hit any key to allow printing to
continue. If you key these commands in manually, you can print
in the background, and be using your computer to do something else
(provided of that the something else doesn't require the printer).
Getting started with the SOURCE diskette
If you desire, a printout of all of the C files can be made using
the PRINTALL.BAT file included. Simply type PRINTALL at the
command prompt with the printer on and lots of paper in place.
It will print about 150 pages including this file and some other
definition files. You may want to edit a copy of the PRINTALL.BAT
file to only print part of the files initially, and print the
remainder as you come to them in the lessons.
PRINTALL.BAT uses the file LIST.EXE to actually do the printing.
This is a program written in C, and included in your tutorial as
an example program in chapter 14, and compiled for you to use in
this step. Since printers are not standard there is a chance
that LIST.EXE will not work on your printer. If it doesn't, use
the file named LIST.COM from the other disk. LIST.COM was written
to do the same job, but it was written in Pascal and compiled with
Turbo Pascal. Since it uses a different compiler, it may work
correctly on your printer. After you gain experience, you can
debug LIST.C and LISTF.C and compile them for use with
your particular printer. If neither works, use whatever method you
can to print out the files, if you desire to. It is not really
necessary to print out the C example files, but sometimes a
hardcopy is a real conveinience.
Questionnaire on the C Tutorial
What other languages have you programmed in ?
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What other languages would you like to learn ?
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Did you complete the C tutorial?_____________________________
Did you find it helpful?_____________________________________
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What features would you like to see added ?
_____________________________________________________________
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Did you find anything missing?_______________________________
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At this time, Coronado Enterprises has completed tutorials on
on Pascal and C. Modula-2 is well along the way and should be
finished around September of 1986. Other languages are being
considered but we need your thoughts as to what languages should
be covered tutorial next. Please write and let us know your needs.
_______ Enclosed is $10.00 to help cover the cost and time of
writing the tutorial which I found useful.
Please send me a current list of tutorials.
_______ Enclosed is nothing, I do not wish to pay anything, but I
would like a current list of tutorials. I have enclosed a
stamped self addressed envelope.
Name ___________________________________________
Street ___________________________________________
City ___________________________________________
State, Zip _______________________________________
Mail to; Coronado Enterprises
12501 Coronado Ave NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87122
Program name: C Tutor
Author name: Coronado Enterprises
Address: 12501 Coronado Ave. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87122
Telephone Number: None
Suggested Donation: $10.00
Program Description:
C Tutor is a comprehensive course for the C programming
language. Since C is a very transportable language, the
description here is applicable to most compilers with some
slight differences. This course is recommended for the
experienced programmer who knows about computer programming
concepts and has used some other high level language. This is a
two disk product. The first diskette contains the tutorial text
and it is recommended that it be printed by use of an included
batch file. The second diskette contains the C source code for
each of the examples included throughout the tutorial. These
examples are meant to be studied and then compiled and run by the
student. The examples are short and focus in on the topic of
discussion. A description of the various compilers and their
differences is included in a text file named COMPILER.DOC to aid
you in geeting the source files to compile.
All of the points of the C language, including proper structured
programming techniques, are covered at the elementary to the more
sophisticated levels in easy to read well wriiten text.
The authors appear to be highly in both the use of the programming
language and the art of instructional design.
Required, of course, is a complete IBM hardware setup, including
at least one disk drive, and some version of a C compiler.
Also available, in similar format, is a tutorial on PASCAL.
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Disk No 577 C TUTOR (disk 1 of 2) v1 DS
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This is the first disk of the C Tutor system.
This is a comprehensive introductory tutorial to programming
in the C language. This disk contains the textual tutorial
material in a series of .TXT files.
------------ C Tutor
READ ME Short program description and printing
instructions
PRINTEXT BAT Batch file to print all .TXT files
TABCONT TXT Tutorial table of contents
INTRO TXT Tutorial introduction
CHAP1 TXT Tutorial chapter 1
CHAP2 TXT " " 2
CHAP3 TXT " " 3
CHAP4 TXT " " 4
CHAP5 TXT " " 5
CHAP6 TXT " " 6
CHAP7 TXT " " 7
CHAP8 TXT " " 8
CHAP9 TXT " " 9
CHAP10 TXT " " 10
CHAP11 TXT " " 11
CHAP12 TXT " " 12
CHAP13 TXT " " 13
CHAP14 TXT " " 14
LIST COM Program to print files
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Disk No 578 C TUTOR (Disk 2 of 2) v1
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This is the second disk of the C Tutor system. It contains the
example C programs as discussed in the Text portion of the
tutorial.
----------- C Tutor
READ ME Short text file to describe program and
printing process
COMPILER DOC Discussion of various compilers
PRINTALL BAT Batch file to print out all source C files
??????? C 76 Source code files for miscellaneous
applications
TEST BAT
LIST EXE program to list source files
STRUCT DEF Data file structure definition
VC EXE Executable calculator file
VC DOC Short documentation about the Calculator
program
HELP Calculations text file
AMORT Calculations text file
PAYMENT Calculations text file
TEST Calcualtions text file
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