Jan 26
Start with C :
- discuss homework
- gcc_notes ; look at (say) hello_world.c intermediate files
- discuss C coding ; examples in code .
Then onto chapter 1 in the text :
- overview & background : questions ?
And see how far we get into chapter 2 :
- hex & bytes
- C data types & sizes
- 32bit vs 64bit computing
- pointers
- little vs big endian
- their show_bytes code (see c data
- strings in C
- boolean algebra : logical vs bit operations
- two's complement ; signed vs unsigned storage
Discuss practice problems 2.25, 2.26, pg 83
and following : C bugs & security issues.
practice problem 157 ... mystery numbers
... see how far we get this. Some sort of chapter 2 homework
will be due next Tuesday.
