1. 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]

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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

6. 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.

7. 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
...