2011/12/08: Lecture 28 CMSC 104, Section 4 Richard Chang Semester Summary 2011/12/08: Lecture 28 CMSC 104, Section 4 Richard Chang [Based on dblock spr’06lecture, slightly modified]

What we covered structured programming (if, while, for, ...) overview of C programming language basic coding skills enough exposure to decide if you are “good at” and/or interested in more CS courses

What we didn’t cover some terminology (a.k.a. jargon) e.g., declarations vs definition, lexical scoping, function signature, binary search, side effects, ... stuff that would require more memorization e.g., operator precedence, ... recursion memory allocation multi-dimensional arrays

What we didn’t cover (cont’d) short-circuit evaluation if ( n != 0 && k / n > 5 ) more data types unsigned int, long int, enumeration types, const, bool, struct, type definition type casting x = (double) n ; file input/output fopen, fclose, fprintf, fscanf

Looking ahead object-oriented programming design data structures efficiency concerns domain knowledge

Domain knowledge from www.usabilityfirst.com knowledge about a specific field of interest; knowledge about the content area for which a piece of software is being designed, as opposed to programming knowledge.

Some Areas of CS Computer Graphics Games Databases Computer Networks Algorithms Scientific Computing Parallel Computing Artificial Intelligence Natural Lang. Proc. Computer Security Theory of Computation Architecture Operating Systems ...