Lecture 3: Variables, Values, and Types

Activity: Programming Activity

We just saw a program to calculate a Celsius temperature given a Fahrenheit temperature. Your friend from England tells you that it is 30 degrees Celsius in her hometown today. Your friend tells you the temperature on a weekly basis, so you want to write a C program to do the conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit. Before writing the code, remember the important parts of the programming process: Problem Description, The Algorithm, Writing the Code, and Testing the Code. Fill in the pieces below.

Problem Description: Define precisely what your program calculates, the input, and the output.

The Algorithm: This stage of the process requires you to think about how you'll solve the problem above (independent of a programming language). Recall that we used the following formula to calculate Celsius (C) from Fahrenheit (F): C = (5/9) (F - 32)

The Program: Write the program in C. We have provided the template for the program.

#include <stdio.h>

/* Comments:

*/
int main(void){

/* terminate the program */
return 0;
}