Whats more basic than CS50 for "C"?

Question

I am having a VERY difficult time assembling any of these psets past "Hello, world" I under stand pieces but do not understand assembly or structures. example:

do { } while(); I have put in and taken out everything in these curlies and brackets and still have yet to make this work. And the hash tag pyramid I have looked at working code and do not see at all WHY it works. I have watched and re watched lectures and am getting very frustrated because I love the problem solving aspects and code writing. PLEASE HELP!

Answer 1

If you want to supplement CS50 you The New Boston goes through C on a very basic level. He is also good at explaining the basic concepts. A lot of the learning will come from persevering and eventually things will just click into place as you hear different ways people explain the same concepts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NWeucMKrLI&list=PL6gx4Cwl9DGAKIXv8Yr6nhGJ9Vlcjyymq

Here is a simple do while loop. You can paste this code into a file and run it to see what it does.

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <cs50.h>


int main ()
{
    // Initialise int i as 0
    int i = 0;

    // Code between curly braces {} will run at least once before the while() condition is checked.
    do {
        printf("Loop number: %i\n", i);
        // i will increment by 1 for each iteration of the loop (including the first iteration).
        i++;
    }
    // while condition is between parenthesis ()
    // Once i is no longer less than 5 the while condition becomes false and breaks out of the loop.
    while(i < 5);
}

Answer 2

Have you tried watching additional walkthrough videos on YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3Oz3AjCYoQ They explain how to work through the problems in much greater detail.

Answer 3

Since you don't understand the positioning of braces and other stuff, you might be lacking the knowledge of syntax of the language.

Though these syntax of the language do not affect your programming logic cause these syntax varies with the languages you use.

I would suggest you a good book on language you use (C in this case) to better understand the power of the language you are using and their syntax so that you can exploit those power to your advantages in your program.

Suggested book: The c language by Brian kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie

Note: Remeber to learn by doing.