Lecture 6: October 7, 2019

Reading: C text, §3.3, 4.6
Due: Homework #1, due October 9, 2019

1. Greetings and felicitations!
   1. Homework problem 4: there are two files in /home/bishop/hw1-programs that may help:
      1. vis-testfile contains several non-printing characters
      2. vis-output contains the output of vis when given the file as input
   2. Go through why UNIX and C were developed, and where Linux came from
   3. Go through why we are learning C and Linux
2. How to write a program
   1. Program: calculator that does +, −, *, /, %
   2. Take it to design — then modularize
3. Functions in C
   1. Parameters: pass (or call) by value
   2. Arguments: instantiations of parameters matched in order
   3. Return values
   4. Scope: local variables
   5. Show the program stack and how it relates to functions
4. Then translate to C

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ECS 36A, Programming and Problem Solving Version of October 12, 2019 at 10:42AM

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