Fetching data with sqlite - c

Question

I have been trying to use the SQLite tutorial here to learn how to use SQLite in C. I was having trouble figuring out exactly how to use it, as it only mentions the sqlite3_exec, which seems incredibly un-intuitive to use for basic querying (it uses a callback for everything). Then I came across this answer, https://stackoverflow.com/a/31168999/11954200, which addresses this same issue and suggests using the various four sqlite statements that are essentially merged into the sqlite3_exec shorthand form. Here is my understanding so far:
// Query to get the rows
// Part1 -- Prepare the query: cursor.execute()
// http://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/prepare.html
sqlite3_stmt *stmt; // this is the prepared statement that the sqlite3_prepare writes to
rc = sqlite3_prepare(db, "SELECT * FROM mytable LIMIT 20", -1, &stmt, NULL);
if (rc != SQLITE_OK) {
printf("error: %s", sqlite3_errmsg(db));
return 0;
}
// Part2 -- equivalent of cursor.fetchone()
// http://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/step.html
int rownum=1;
while ((rc = sqlite3_step(stmt)) == SQLITE_ROW) {
// Part3 -- reference the values from the row
// http://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/column_blob.html
int id = sqlite3_column_int(stmt, 0);
const unsigned char * date = sqlite3_column_text(stmt, 1);
printf("Row: %d | ID: %d | Date: %s\n", rownum, id, date);
rownum++;
}
// Part4 -- equivalent of cursor.close()
// http://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/finalize.html
sqlite3_finalize(stmt);
In other words, in higher language parlance:
sqlite3_prepare(...) works like cursor.execute(...)
sqlite3_step(...) works like cursor.fetchone(...)
sqlite3_finalize(...) works like cursor.close(...);
Is this an accurate assessment of how these statements work in sqlite? Would the sqlite3_exec ever be used when fetching results?