1. EECE.2160 ECE Application Programming
Instructor:
Dr. Michael Geiger
Summer 2018
Lecture 1:
Course overview
Basic C program structure
Data in C: data types, constants, and variables

2. ECE Application Programming: Lecture 1
Lecture outline
Announcements/notes
Program 1 due Thursday, 5/24
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
Introduction to C programming
Program development cycle
Basic program structure
Data in C
Data types, constants, and variables
zyDE demo
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3. Course meeting times, instructor info
Lectures: MWTh 8-10:20, Ball 323
Instructor: Dr. Michael Geiger
Phone: (x43618 on campus)
Office: 301A Ball Hall
Office hours: MWTh 10:30-11:30
Also available by appointment
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4. ECE Application Programming: Lecture 1
Course materials
Required Textbook: Programming in C with zyLabs, EECE.2160, Summer 2018
Electronic textbook I’m using for first time
Free (this term only) for students
10% of grade assigned to exercises from text
To access text:
Sign in or create learn.zybooks.com
Enter zyBook code: UMLEECE2160GeigerSummer2018
Subscribe (free this term; lasts until 7/15/18)
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5. 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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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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8. Programming assignments
Will submit all code through textbook IDE
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
PLEASE NOTE: With new grading system, I reserve right to modify grading guidelines on assignment-by-assignment basis
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9. 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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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: Monday, June 4 in class
Exam 2: Monday, June 18 in class
Exam 3: Monday, July 2 in class
May consider alternate scheduling—stay tuned
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11. 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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12. 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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14. 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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16. 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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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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24. Variations #1 of first program
#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello"); printf("there"); printf("World!"); return 0; }
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25. Variations #2 of first program
#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello\n"); printf("there\n"); printf("World!\n"); return 0; }
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26. Variations #3 of first program
#include <stdio.h> int main() { printf("Hello\nthere\nWorld!\n"); return 0; }
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27. Variations #4 of first program
#include <stdio.h> int main(){printf ("Hello\nthere\nWorld!\n");return 0;}
Note while this is syntactically correct, it leaves much to be desired in terms of readability.
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Code readability
Readability wouldn’t matter if:
Entire code project written by one person
All code was in same file
Same person is the only one to use the code
Code was used only for a short period of time
More typically:
Projects are split—multiple programmers and files
Code usually reused
Multiple users
Used/adapted (hopefully) over long period of time
You may reuse code ... but forget what you originally wrote!
Bottom line: code needs to be readable
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Comments
C allows you to add comments to your code
Single line comments: start with //
Multi-line comments: start with /*
end with */
Typical uses
Multi-line comment at start of program with
Author’s name (& other info if appropriate)
Date started/modified
File name
Description of overall file functionality
For individual code sections
Single/multi-line comment for major section of code performing single function
Single line comment for single line of code if that line alone is important
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Comment example
/* ECE Application Programming Instructor: M. Geiger 7/11/2019 hello.c: Intro program to demonstrate basic C program structure and output */ #include <stdio.h> // Main program: prints basic string and exits int main() { printf("Hello World!\n"); // Comment return 0; }
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Representing data in C
Two major questions (for now)
What kind of data are we trying to represent?
Data types
Can the program change the data?
Constants vs. variables
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32. Four Types of Basic Data
Integer int
Floating point (single precision) float
Double Precision double
Character char
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33. ECE Application Programming: Lecture 1
Integer Constants
Any positive or negative number without a decimal point (or other illegal symbol).
Legal values:
Illegal values: 2,523 (comma) 6.5 (decimal point) $59 (dollar sign) 5. (decimal point)
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34. Range of Integers (Machine Dependent)
unsigned signed
char 0   +127
(8 bits)
short int 0   short
(16 bits)
int 0 to  long long int
(32 bits)
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35. float/double Constants
Any signed or unsigned number with a decimal point
Legal values:
Legal (exponential notation): 1.624e e e23 1.0e e e e e+7
Illegal:
$ , E5
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36. float/double Constants
Range of float (32 bits) ± E – 38 ± E + 38
Range of double (64 bits) ± E – 308 ± E + 308
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Character Constants
Stored in ASCII or UNICODE
Signified by single quotes (’ ’)
Valid character constants ’A’ ’B’ ’d’ ’z’ ’1’ ’2’ ’!’ ’+’ ’>’ ’?’ ’ ’ ’#’
Invalid character constants ’GEIGER’ ’\’ ’CR’ ’LF’ ’’’ ’’’’ ’”’ ”Q”
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38. Character Escape Sequences
Meaning
’\b’
Backspace
’\’’
Single quote
’\n’
Newline
’\”’
Double quote
’\t’
Tab
’\nnn’
Char with octal value nnn
’\\’
Backslash
’\xnn’
Char with hex value nn
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Variables
All variables have four characteristics:
A type
An address (in memory)
A value
A name
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Variables - name
must start with a-z, A-Z ( _ allowed, but not recommended)
other characters may be a-z, A-Z, 0-9, _
upper case/lower case are not equal (i.e. ECE, ece, Ece, EcE, eCe would be five different variables)
max length system dependent (usually at least 32)
By convention
Start with lowercase letter
Descriptive names improve code readability
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41. Variables - legal names
grossPay
carpet_Price
cArPeT_price
a_very_long_variable_name i
______strange___one_____
_ (not recommended)
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42. Variables - legal names (but not recommended)
l (that's lower case L)
O (that's capital O)
l1 (that's lower case L, and digit one)
O0Oll11 (oh,zero,oh,el,el,one,one)
_var (many system variables begin w/ _ )
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43. ECE Application Programming: Lecture 1
Variables - declaring
var name
memory loc
main() { float hours, payrate; float grosspay; int j;
hours ?
4278
payrate ?
427C
4280
grosspay ? j ?
4284
All variable declarations should be grouped together at the start of the function
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Variables - assigning
varname = expression;
Declared variable
single variable on left side of =
expression
any legal expression
Expression can be constant, variable, function call, arithmetic operation, etc.
Variable type (int, float, etc) and expression result type should match
If not, funny things can happen ...
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45. ECE Application Programming: Lecture 1
Variables (cont.)
var name
memory loc
main() { float hours, payrate; float grosspay; int j;
hours = 40.0;
hours
40.0
4278
payrate ?
427C
4280
grosspay ? j ?
4284
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Variables (cont.)
var name
memory loc
main() { float hours, payrate; float grosspay; int j;
hours = 40.0;
payrate = 20.00;
hours
40.0
4278
payrate
20.0
427C
4280
grosspay ? j ?
4284
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Variables (cont.)
var name
memory loc
main() { float hours, payrate; float grosspay; int j;
hours = 40.0;
payrate = 20.00;
grosspay = hours * payrate;
hours
40.0
4278
payrate
20.0
427C
4280
grosspay
800.00 j ?
4284
note: referencing a variable only "reads" it (non-destructive). Assigning to a variable overwrites whatever was there (destructive).
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Variables (cont.)
var name
memory loc
main() { float hours, payrate; float grosspay; int j;
hours = 40.0;
payrate = 20.00;
grosspay = hours * payrate;
j = 5;
hours
40.0
4278
payrate
20.0
427C
4280
grosspay
800.00 j 5
4284
note: referencing a variable only "reads" it (non-destructive). Assigning to a variable overwrites whatever was there (destructive).
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49. ECE 160 - Introduction to Computer Engineering I
02/09/2005
Variables (cont.)
var name
memory loc
main() { float hours, payrate; float grosspay; int j;
hours = 40.0;
payrate = 20.00;
grosspay = hours * payrate
j = 5;
j = j + 1;
hours
40.0
4278
payrate
20.0
427C
4280
grosspay
800.00 j
5 6
4284
note: referencing a variable only "reads" it (non-destructive). Assigning to a variable overwrites whatever was there (destructive).
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(c) 2005, P. H. Viall

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Example: Variables
What values do w, x, y, and z have at the end of this program?
int main() {
int w = 5;
float x;
double y;
char z = ‘a’;
x = 8.579;
y = -0.2;
w = x;
y = y + 3;
z = w – 5;
return 0; }
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51. ECE Application Programming: Lecture 1
Example solution
int main() {
int w = 5;
float x;
double y;
char z = ‘a’;
x = 8.579;
y = -0.2;
w = x;
y = y + 3;
z = w – 5;
return 0; }
w = 5
z = ‘a’ (ASCII value 97)
x = 8.579
y = -0.2
w = 8 (value is truncated)
y = (-0.2) + 3 = 2.8
z = 8 – 5 = 3
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52. ECE Application Programming: Lecture 1
Final notes
Next time:
Operators
Output with printf()
Input with scanf()
Reminders:
Sign up for the course discussion group on Piazza!
Program 1 due Thursday, 5/24
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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