A project for CSCS1320S14 by Alana Whittier during the Spring 2014 Semester.

This project was begun in lab on January 23, 2014. It took about 10 minutes to complete although I presume it would have taken significantly less time if I were more experienced with Unix/Linux Terminal, as well as C programming language.

The purpose of this project was to familiarize us with both the C programming language as well as the Unix/Linux environment. To become comfortable with finding the working directory, listing the source directory, saving script within the current directory, and compiling the script with GCC, are the primary reasons this project was assigned.

In order to successfully accomplish/perform this project, the listed resources/experiences need to be consulted/achieved:

• Matthew Haas (lab instruction)
• Shawn Meas (lab assistant)

I fully disclose that I did not consult any other documentation to complete this particular project. I relied on my notes and some help from Shawn.

“Hello World!” is a simple program used in a variety of program languages to serve as an introduction and first program to help familiarize the new user with various aspects of the program, such as syntax, libraries, functions, etc. In this course, C programming, this basic program is also used to call the standard input/output header file, define the main function, and print a string of character text with the compiler, assuming correct Syntax is used.

Give a general overview of your anticipated implementation of the project. Address any areas where you are making upfront assumptions or curtailing potential detail. State the focus you will be taking in implementation.

State and justify the attributes you'd like to receive upon successful approval and completion of this project.

• attribute1: why you feel your pursuit of this project will gain you this attribute
• attribute2: why you feel your pursuit of this project will gain you this attribute
• etc…

The actual steps taken to accomplish the project. Include images, code snippets, command-line excerpts; whatever is useful for intuitively communicating important information for accomplishing the project.

Upon completion of the project, if there is an applicable collection of created code, place a copy of your finished code within <code> </code> blocks here.

/*
 * hello.c - A sample "Hello, World!" program
 * 
 * written by NAME for COURSE on DATE
 *
 * compile with:
 *   gcc -o hello hello.c
 *
 * execute with:
 *   ./hello
 */
 
#include <stdio.h>
 
int main()
{
    printf("Hello, World!\n");    // Output message to STDOUT
    return(0);
}

Again, if there is associated code with the project, and you haven't already indicated how to run it, provide a sample run of your code:

lab46:~/src/cprog$ ./hello
Hello, World!
lab46:~/src/cprog$ 

Comments/thoughts generated through performing the project, observations made, analysis rendered, conclusions wrought. What did you learn from doing this project?

In performing this project, the following resources were referenced:

• URL1
• URL2
• URL3 (provides useful information on topic)
• URL4

Generally, state where you got informative and useful information to help you accomplish this project when you originally worked on it (from Google, other wiki documents on the Lab46 wiki, etc.)