1. EECE.2160 ECE Application Programming
Instructor:
Dr. Michael Geiger
Fall 2017
Lecture 1:
Course overview

2. ECE Application Programming: Lecture 1
Lecture outline
Announcements/notes
Program 1 due Monday, 9/11
10 points: Dr. Geiger for shared Dropbox folder
Please specify address associated with Dropbox account
You will receive invitation to join shared folder—must accept invitation
10 points: introduce yourself to your instructor
30 points: complete simple C program
Today’s lecture
Course overview
Instructor information
Course materials
Course policies
Resources
Course outline
Introduction to C programming
Program development cycle
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Course meeting times
Lectures:
Section 201: MWF 8-8:50, Ball 326
Section 202: MWF 1-1:50, Ball 314
Section 203: MWF 12-12:50, Ball 314
You are welcome to attend either lecture
Please go to your assigned section for exams
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Course instructors
Dr. Michael Geiger
Phone: (x43618 on campus)
Office: 301A Ball Hall
Office hours: M 9:30-11, W 9:30-11, Th 1:30-3
Student questions are top priority during these hours
Will also be in office MW 11-11:45 & 2-3, F 9:30-11:45
Available by appointment other days/times
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Teaching assistants
Zhendong Wang (
Lin Li (
Office hours TBA—will be based on Doodle poll
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Course materials
Textbook: K.N. King, C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd edition, 2008, W.W. Norton.
ISBN:
Course tools: Need integrated development environment (IDE) that compiles/runs C code
Recommended IDEs (all free; links on web)
Windows: Microsoft Visual Studio Community (MS website)
Mac: Xcode (Mac App Store)
Linux: gcc/gdb (text-based; can run through terminal on Mac as well)
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7. Additional course materials
Course websites:
Will contain lecture slides, handouts, assignments
Discussion group through piazza.com:
Allow common questions to be answered for everyone
Do not post code to the discussion group
All course announcements will be posted here
Will use as class mailing list—please enroll ASAP
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Academic honesty
All assignments are to be done individually unless explicitly specified otherwise by the instructor
Any copied solutions, whether from another student or an outside source, are subject to penalty
You may discuss general topics or help one another with specific errors, but do not share assignment solutions
Must acknowledge assistance from classmate in submission
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9. Programming assignments
Will submit all code via shared Dropbox folder
Will not get confirmation unless you explicitly ask
Must Dr. Geiger if submitting late
Penalty after due date: -(2n-1) points per day
i.e., -1 after 1 day, -2 after 2 days, -4 after 3 days …
Assignments that are 8+ days late receive 0
See grading policies (last three pages of today’s handout) for more details on:
Grading rubric
Common deductions
Regrade policy
Example grading
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10. Programming assignments: regrades
You are allowed one penalty-free resubmission per assignment
Each regrade after the first: 1 day late penalty
Must resubmit by regrade deadline, or late penalties will apply
Late penalty still applies if original submission late
“Original submission”  first file submitted containing significant amount of relevant code
In other words, don’t turn in a virtually empty file just to avoid late penalties—it won’t count
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Course “rules”
A couple of unofficial rules:
Please call me “Dr. Geiger”
“Professor Geiger” is okay (although I’m technically not a professor, I’m a lecturer)
“Michael,” “Mike,” or “Geiger” is not okay
Please don’t talk when I’m talking
Doing so distracts your classmates and me
If you have a question, please raise your hand and ask—I want questions during lecture!
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Grading and exam dates
Grading breakdown
Programming assignments: 60%
Minimum of Exam 1/Exam 2: 10%
Maximum of Exam 1/Exam 2: 15%
Exam 3: 15%
Exam dates
Exam 1: Wednesday, October 4 in class
Exam 2: Wednesday, November 8 in class
Exam 3: TBD (during finals; likely common for both sections)
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13. Tentative course outline
Basic C program structure and development
Working with data: data types, variables, operators, expressions
Basic console input/output
Control flow
Functions: basic modular programming, argument passing
Pointers, arrays, and strings
Creating new data types: structures
Dynamic memory allocation
File & general input/output
Bitwise operators
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14. Programming exercises
Note on course schedule: several days marked as “PE#”
Those classes will contain supervised, in-class programming exercises
We’ll write/complete short programs to illustrate previously covered concepts
If you have a laptop, feel free to bring it
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Course questions
General notes/questions about the course:
How many of you have prior programming experience?
For those that do, can improve programming style, efficiency, potentially learn new items
For those that don’t, course assumes no prior programming experience
Fair warning for all of you: material builds on itself throughout course
Difficulty increases as course goes on
If (when) you get stuck, ask for help!!!
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16. Course questions (continued)
How many of you are taking this course only because it’s required?
Follow-up: how many of you hope you’ll never have to program again once you’re done with the course?
Both computer and electrical engineers commonly program in industry—some examples:
Automation of tasks
Circuit simulation
Test procedures
Programming skills highly sought by employers
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Program development
... which is a good approach for your assignments, too!
Average student’s approach to programming
Read specification (assignment)
... at least some of it, anyway ...
Attempt to write complete program
Find output error and fix related code
Repeat previous step until either
Code completely works ...
... or code is such a mess that problem(s) can’t be fixed
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18. Program development (cont.)
A more structured approach to program development
Read specification
Identify requirements
What results should program produce?
How can I test correctness of those results?
Plan design that implements requirements
Using flowchart, pseudocode, etc.
Plan for tests as well
Translate design into actual code
Test program and fix errors
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Final notes
Next time:
Basic C program structure
Visual Studio demonstration
(Time permitting) Data in C
Data types
Constants
Variables
Reminders:
Sign up for the course discussion group on Piazza!
Program 1 due Monday, 9/11
10 points: Dr. Geiger for shared Dropbox folder
Please specify address associated with Dropbox account
You will receive invitation to join shared folder—must accept invitation
10 points: introduce yourself to your instructor
30 points: complete simple C program
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