Introduction to computing for first year computer science and engineering students at UNSW.
What the course is about. A simple C program. Experimentation and fiddling. How a computer works (in 10 minutes), transistors, chips, microprocessors.
Our own baby microprocessor, the 4917, and how it works.
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extreme programming, unit tests, test as you go, unit tests in C, one objective at a time, refactoring. asserts.
multi-file programs in C. linking. #include header files prototypes. main. static helper functions. object files .o files
Also: hornblower patriotism / the french
After some announcements we revise using transistors as switches. Then we look at how to program our basic 4 bit microprocessor using 4917 machine code.
At the end we see how we can try out our machine code programs using the 4917 emulator on the web page.
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Indirect addressing. Arrays vs lists. Sample code to set up and manipulate a linked list. Doubly linked lists.
Also: The 3-way shuffle to interchange two things. The Wiggles. Robert Sheckley. Stranger than Fiction.
strings, elements and layout of a c program. using gcc, comments, ints, printf, scanf, main, #include, printing newlines. Discussion of clarity.
also: about transistors, compiling, machine code
Style, clarity, hackers vs elite programmers, simple c programming, side effects, compiler options, segmentation faults. You get an error - what to do? Following the spec.
Integer division and remainder.
Extension lecture introducing do-it-yourself digital design at home using cmos chips and a breadboard.
Extension lectures are for first year computing students at UNSW. The topics covered are non-examinable, students attend only if they are interested. Richard generally raises more questions than he answers.
The challenge: can we write a Sudoku solver in a single lecture?
What is a sudoku puzzle? Estimation revisited. how to solve a problem - difference between the approach of a master and a novice.
What is the most important thing?
Also: How to lie with statistics. hang gliding. easy as falling off a bike. algorithms and data structures.
The Adversary and adversary models of computation: an all powerful force out to get you.
Side Effects: in machine code, in c functions, in general. Returning a value from main.
Also: ASCII, talking in lectures, mars bars and Marco Polo and the emperor of china.
Music: Triohatala by Stimmhorn (not really vikings)
Review and discussion of sudoku code from last lecture. Backtrack vs brute force. Course waffles. Stacks, "the stack" in memory, Buffer overflows.
Also: the course ENGG1000, wiki textbook (idea from hong kong). Predicates, comparing with TRUE. Stack overflow.
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