Ryerson
University
Department of Computer Science
CPS 125 Digital Computation and Programming
Alex Ferworn's Lecture Notes
- Introduction to Computers, ...welcome to the digital age.
- Introduction to programming in C..The keys to dad's car
- Stuff about Data types and Math. About Casting, About File input and output. About Math library functions
- Making decisions in C...its all about zero. Some examples of if and switch.
- Looping in C...its still all about zero but it happens again and again
- About functions and pointers (call by val and ref): Why be an engineer?: example 1. example 2. Example 3 (the bad one!)
- Simple arrays...like a list of friends who all have the same name. The German Coast Guard as a metaphor for learning C. Answers to midterm WhiteQ1, WhiteQ2, BlueQ1, BlueQ2. An example passing an array pointer to a function.
- Other arrays..strings and multi-dimensional arrays. String sorting example. Multiply two matrices example. A simple 2D array example. Some review.
- Structuring data through Data Structures. Example DMA. Example: Dynamic array of structures or your friends. A simple linked list example.
email:aferworn@scs.ryerson.ca