Engineering 1020

Introduction to Programming

Peter Kingpeter.king@mun.ca

www.engr.mun.ca/~peter

Winter 2010

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Lectures Peter King (me) IIC-2001 Mon, Wed and Fri, 1100-1150

Labs M Raju Hossain Sect 1 Tuesday, 900-1050 Sect 2 Tuesday, 1100-1250 Sect 3 Thursday, 900-1050 EN-3029-3000

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Help Centre Wed 1400-1630 EN-3076

Office Hours Thursdays 1100-1200

Or by appointment Location TBD

Course Website www.engr.mun.ca/~peter/1020

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Text C++ Without Fear, Brian Overland, Prentice-Hall,

ISBN 0-321-24695-0.

Notes Online notes created by MPBL

Interactive online, as well as printable versions Notes WILL change over the course

Supplemented with lecture notes Will be made available on course website

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Lab Assignments Availible online 1 pre-assignment 8 weekly assignments Due 0859 on Following Monday

Evaluation Assignments (best 7) 12% Midterm 30% Final 58%

You must pass the final or pass the final and midterm combined. Otherwise, assignments will not be counted and your mark will be the

combination of the midterm and final in the above proportions. The Bottom Line: You must pass the exams to pass the course.

ENGI 1020: Outline Dates

Midterm Feb 17 Final TBD Winter Break Feb 22 to Feb 25 Labs

Assignment 0 Jan 18 Assignment 1 Jan 25 Assignment 2 Feb 1 Assignment 3 Feb 8 Assignment 4 Feb 15 Assignment 5 Mar 1 Assignment 6 Mar 8 Assignment 7 Mar 15 Assignment 8 Mar 22

ENGI 1020: Introduction

Why? All engineers today will use computers in some way Engineers are responsible for the output produced by

the programs they use Can't blame the machine

It's likely that you will have to write some programs some time

Believe it or not Programming skills come up in other courses

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Why? Being able to program is a valuable job skill Programming skills from this course can be applied to

other areas Problem solving System approach

Fundamental ideas underpin our digital world Your world is filled with computers and software

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The Computer * input devices output devices Memory devices

volatile memory (RAM) which loses data when the power is off

non-volatile memory (disks of various kinds) which hold data when power is off.

The CPU (Central Processing Unit) The Data Bus

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Terms Read Write Data

Computers process in sequence Instructions and data are read from memory Data is processed by CPU Results are written back to memory

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Programs are sets of instructions used to accomplish some task Calculating interest Flying airplanes Streaming videos

Programs are stored in memory just like data They are fetched and executed by the CPU

Or CPUs, but we won't worry about that for now

ENGI 1020: Next Time ...

Complexity Structure Organization How Engineers and computers solve problems