1. EECE.2160 ECE Application Programming
Instructor:
Dr. Michael Geiger
Fall 2018
Lecture 1:
Course overview

2. ECE Application Programming: Lecture 1
Lecture outline
Announcements/notes
Chapter 1 exercises due Monday, 9/10
Program 1 due Wednesday, 9/12
10 points: register for access to the course textbook
10 points: introduce yourself to your instructor
30 points: complete simple C program
No office hours this Thursday
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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3. ECE Application Programming: Lecture 1
Course meeting times
Lectures:
Section 201: MWF 8-8:50, Ball 326
Section 202: MWF 1-1:50, Ball 208
Section 203: MWF 12-12:50, Ball 208
You are welcome to attend any lecture
Please go to your assigned section for exams
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4. ECE Application Programming: Lecture 1
Course instructors
Dr. Michael Geiger
Phone: (x43618 on campus)
Office: 301A Ball Hall
Office hours: M 9-10:30, W 9-10:30, Th 1:30-3
Student questions are top priority during these hours
Available by appointment other days/times
Feel free to stop by office any time
TA: TBD
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5. ECE Application Programming: Lecture 1
Course materials
Required Textbook: Programming in C with zyLabs, EECE.2160, Fall 2018
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: UMLEECE2160GeigerFall2018
Subscribe ($77 this term; lasts until 1/4/19)
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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6. Additional course materials
Course websites:
Will contain lecture slides, handouts, assignments
Discussion group through Blackboard
Allow common questions to be answered for everyone
Do not post code to the discussion group
All course announcements will be posted on Blackboard as well
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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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Textbook activities
Activities associated with each lecture
Must be completed within 3 days of lecture
Activities completed >3 days after lecture: 0 credit
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
May also require brief “submission” to Blackboard
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
Will supply more detailed grading policies before first assignment due
Will have some policy for resubmissions TBD
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Course “rules”
A couple of unofficial rules:
Please call me “Dr. Geiger” or “Professor Geiger”
“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: 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, October 5 in class
Exam 2: Monday, November 5 in class
Exam 3: Monday, December 17, 3-6 PM (room TBD)
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12. 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
File & general input/output
Bitwise operators
Dynamic memory allocation
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13. 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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15. 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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17. 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
IDE demonstration
Reminders:
Chapter 1 exercises due Monday, 9/10
Program 1 due Wednesday, 9/12
10 points: register for access to the course textbook
10 points: introduce yourself to your instructor
30 points: complete simple C program
No office hours this Thursday
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