Building on the course Programming Fundamentals, this course will teach you how to write code by first planning what your program should do—an important approach for novice and professional programmers. You will learn how to compile and run your program, and then how to test and debug it. This course builds on the Seven Steps you have already learned and provides a framework for systematically testing for problems and fixing them, so you can find and fix problems efficiently.
This course is part of the Introductory C Programming Specialization
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- C Programming
- Compiler
- Debugging
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Writing Code
Compiling and Running
Testing and debugging
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TOP REVIEWS FROM WRITING, RUNNING, AND FIXING CODE IN C
Black box testing is very useful skill.
I would never use gdb if these guys did not make me. I'm happy they did! :)
I learned a lot especially the tools required to write and debug the code. It was quite challenging to complete this course as compared to previous course in C.
A really awesome course. Puts forth the basic concepts clearly so that anybody can understand. This course has inspired me to learn and improve my C programming skills.
Great introduction into learning how to develop algorithms, translating them into code (compiling them), testing that code, and debugging that code.
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