C.7 C1: Introduction to C

This lecture gives an introduction and an overview of the basics of C.

Motivate why we need a more high-level language (Chapter 4 intro).
Introduce syntactical and static properties (translation units, functions, declarations, identifiers, keywords, statements, expressions) by means of the factorial example (Section 4.1).
Discuss dynamics (function calls, statements, loops) also on that example.
Deepen that understanding by walking through an execution trace (Section 4.2).
Discuss concept of an imperative variable (in contrast to functional / mathematical variables) (Section 4.3). Stress that containers have an identity (address), an extent, and a life time.
Give an overview over the C memory model (Section 4.4).
Translation units, different C files compiled separately, demystify ugly header files and include mechanism. main function and program arguments (Section 4.5).