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=Rhea Section for ECE 264 Professor Yung-Hsiang Lu, Spring 2012=
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Lecture 3
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Lecture 3 – 1/17/2012
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In class quiz – Know 3 or more classmates, their names, hometown, interests, career goals (submitted at the end of class)
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Reminder
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• Exercise 1 due this coming Friday (January 20th)
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• Write Programs in EE206
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• Check blackboard everyday
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• Submit your signature on the class policy sheet given the first day of class
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• Office Hours:
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o Tuesday and Friday after class in MSEE222, open door policy. You can discuss any topic.
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Today’s Programs
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• Review of simple C programs
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• Programming in Linux
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• Maze files and rules
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• Arc and argv
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• Program to read characters in a file
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• Function calls
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• Practice how to write a program that can find 26 English characters and tell which ones appear the most often (ignore cases)
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• Challenge: Write a program that can generate valid mazes
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In Linux…
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• mkdir → makes a new directory (folder)
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o EX: mkdir ECE264
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• ls → lists the files in the directory
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o EX: ls
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• cd → changes the directory
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o EX: cd Exercises
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• File → determines what type of file you are dealing with
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o EX: file prog1 (returns a ‘.c’ file type)
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• emacs/vi filename.c → creates a file and puts it into a text editor of choice
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NOTE: Make sure never to have space in file name
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• What is used to compile programs?
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o   Linux:         gcc prog1.c -o prog1
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o   Translation: Compiler    Human Readable  Name of Output file  Machine Readable
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o   Linux: ./(no space)ex1 data
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o   Translation: Run Machine Readable and use a text file called data
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Example 1:
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a =1
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b=2
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if(a>b)
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printf(“…”);
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a = 5
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What is the value of ‘a’ here? a = 5.
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• In the statement above, it doesn’t matter what is inside the if statement because ‘a’ is later redefined to be a OUTSIDE the if statement
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• Always remember to use brackets with all logic statements
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• No “end” in C (as in MATLAB if statements)
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Indexing
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• In C, index always begins with 0
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int arr[6];
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for( c = 0; c < 6; c++)
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{
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c will be 0,1,2,3,4,5
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}
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It is wrong to do the following:
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int arr[6];
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for( c = 0; c <= 6; c++)
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c will be 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 ERROR: INDEX OUT OF RANGE
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}
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Inputting a string
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• scanf(“%s”, str);
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• printf(“%s”, str);
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Maze program:
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• Each wall is one layer thick
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• Always one exit, one start
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• Always one solution
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• Pathways are on * in length
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argc and argv
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• Same as for function arguments,
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int add( int a , int b)
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• But instead,
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Int main ( int argc , char *argv[] )
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(# of arguments, array of each argument)
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argv element#
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0            . /     a     r     g   s     \0      (What is stored in row 0)
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1            d             a     t     a   \0                (What is stored in row 1)
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• The first argument is always the name of the command
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• Several spaces count only as 1 space separating the arguments
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