ECE 175

Introduction to computer systems

• Engineering problems as computational problems
• Overview of computer systems
• Software design

Introduction to C

• Code build process (editing, compiling, linking, executing)
• Elements of a C program, preprocessor directives, statements and expressions, functions, coding formatting style
• Simple data types, constants and variables, conversion between different data types, binary arithmetic representations
• The IDE environment

Program flow control

• Conditions, relational operators, logical operators, precedence rules, selection structures
• Repetition and loop statements, while statements, for statements, increment and decrement operators, loop termination, nested loops, do-while statements
• Debugging

Modular programming

• User functions, library functions, function declaration and definition, function calls, pass by value, scope rules, programs with multiple functions
• Pointers and addresses, pass by reference, pointer arithmetic
• File input/output

Simple data structures

• Arrays, declaration and initialization, multidimensional arrays, searching and sorting arrays, pointers and arrays
• String arrays, string library functions, substrings, concatenation, strings vs. characters
• Engineering applications, matrix algebra, numerical integration and differentiation, quadratic equations
• Recursion
• Structures, structures and functions, arrays of structures, dynamic data structures