1. EECE.2160 ECE Application Programming
Instructors:
Dr. Michael Geiger & Dr. Lin Li
Spring 2019
Lecture 1:
Course overview
Program basics

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Lecture outline
Announcements/notes
Chapter 1 exercises due Monday, 1/28
Program 1 due Wednesday, 1/30
10 points: register for access to the course textbook
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
Introduction to C programming
Basic C program
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Course instructors
Dr. Lin Li (Section 201)
Office: 402 Ball Hall (desk #17)
Office hours: MW 9:30-11 AM
Dr. Michael Geiger (Section 202)
Phone: (x43618 on campus)
Office: 301A Ball Hall
Office hours: MWF 1-1:50 PM, TTh by appointment
Additional instructional support
Tutoring through CLASS center
Grader TBD
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Course materials
Required Textbook: Programming in C with zyLabs, EECE.2160, Spring 2019
Electronic textbook + IDE for writing programs
10% of grade assigned to exercises from text
To access text:
Sign in or create learn.zybooks.com
Enter zyBook code: UMLEECE2160GeigerSpring2019
Subscribe ($77 this term; lasts until 5/25/19)
Textbook registration requires you to supply
student.uml.edu address
Section in which you are enrolled
May want to use other IDE (Visual Studio, xCode)
Directions on use to be posted to web
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5. Additional course materials
Course websites:
Will contain lecture slides, handouts, assignments
Discussion group through Blackboard
Do not post code to the discussion group
All course announcements will be posted on Blackboard as well
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Grading and exam dates
Grading breakdown
Programming assignments: 50%
No programs will be dropped
Textbook activities: 10%
Participation activities: 5%
Challenge activities: 5%
Lowest of first 2 exams: 10%
Highest of first 2 exams: 15%
Exam 3: 15%
Exam dates
Exam 1: Friday, February 22 in class
Exam 2: Monday, April 1 in class
Exam 3: Date/time TBD (during finals; common exam)
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Academic honesty
All assignments are to be done individually
Don’t share code with one another
Don’t write programs together
Any copied solutions, whether from another student or an outside source, are subject to penalty
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Textbook activities
Activities associated with each lecture
Must be completed within 3 days of lecture
Activities completed >3 days after lecture: 0 credit
No extensions given for these activities
Two activity types
Participation activity: may retry until correct
Challenge activity: problems may change if incorrect certain number of times
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9. Programming assignments
Will submit all code through textbook IDE
Brief “submission” to Blackboard for style grading
Penalty after due date: -(2n-1) points per day
i.e., -1 after 1 day, -2 after 2 days, -4 after 3 days …
Grading generally split as follows:
60%: Code compiles & generates correct output
Output correctness auto-graded within textbook IDE
40%: Programming style
Instructor/grader will examine code and grade accordingly
May resubmit each program once for regrade
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Course “rules”
A couple of unofficial rules:
Please address your instructor appropriately
For example, “Dr. Li” or “Professor Geiger”
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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Course questions
General notes/questions about the course:
How many of you have prior programming experience?
If so, hopefully you become a better programmer
If not, don’t worry—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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12. 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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Our first C program
#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello World!\n"); return 0; }
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Our first C program
# indicates pre-processor directive
include is the directive
stdio.h is the name of the file to "insert" into our program. The <> means it is part of the C development system
#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello World!\n"); return 0; }
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Our first C program
main is the name of the primary (or main) procedure. All ANSI C programs must have a main routine named main
The () indicates that main is the name of a procedure. All procedure references must be followed with ()
#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello World!\n"); return 0; }
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Our first C program
{ } enclose a "block". A block is zero or more C statements. Note that code inside a block is typically indented for readability—knowing what code is inside the current block is quite useful.
#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello World!\n"); return 0; }
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Our first C program
printf() is a "built-in" function (which is actually defined in stdio.h).
"Hello World!" is the string to print. More formally, this is called the control string or control specifier.
#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello World!\n"); return 0; }
Every statement must end with a ";". Preprocessing directives do not end with a ";" (but must end with a return).
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Our first C program
The \n is an escape character used by the printf function; inserting this character in the control string causes a “newline” to be printed—it’s as if you hit the “Enter” key
#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello World!\n"); return 0; }
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Our first C program
The int tells the compiler our main() program will return an integer to the operating system; the return tells what integer value to return. This keyword could be void, indicating that the program returns nothing to the OS.
#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello World!\n"); return 0; }
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Final notes
Next time:
Continue basic C program structure
IDE demonstrations
zyBooks IDE
Visual Studio
Reminders:
Chapter 1 exercises due Monday, 1/28
Program 1 due Wednesday, 1/30
10 points: register for access to the course textbook
10 points: introduce yourself to your instructor
30 points: complete simple C program
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