Welcome to CS-1104,
Program Development Methodology

CS-1104/
├── exam
│   ├── bin
│   ├── practice
│   └── .cpp ...
├── experimental
│   └── / ...
├── README.md
└── submitted    
    └── / ...

In this repository, you will find:

• programs, assignments, and powerpoints (submitted)
• exploratory code I wrote in my spare time (experimental) and
• select exam programs.

In this course, I was introduced to several basic concepts in computer science such as

• data structures and algorithms,
• memory addresses and pointers, and
• imperative (C-style) programming constructs
  by building basic CLI programs in C++.

Requirements

• You should have git installed (in order to clone the repository).

Usage

• First, clone the repository to your local machine:

    $ git clone https://github.com/DreamLineLove/CS-1104.git

• Navigate to the folder:

    $ cd CS-1104

• Navigate to the directory of the source file and then run it. For example:

    $ cd CS-1104/experimental/insertion_deletion/
    $ ./v1_insertion_deletion

• If new changes were added after having already cloned, use $ git pull to fetch them.

Notes

• I was introduced the concept of accessing memory addresses using pointers.
  • I was shocked to learn that looping over an array is literally manipulating units of data stored in a contiguous block of memory.
• I implemented search algorithms like linear search and binary search.
• I also implemented a few sorting algorithms like bubble sort and selection sort.
• I handled C-style strings (arrays of characters that are null-terminated).
  • In addition, I learned some library functions from the <cstring> header such as strcpy(), strcmp(), strcat(), and strlen(), which I found to be very convenient when handling C-style strings.
• By learning C-style strings, I got a basic sense of how a string might actually look like in a computer's memory.
• I also learned about and interacted with standard-in and -out by using standard library functions.
  • In addition, I was introduced to streams and "buffered" streams.
  • I was also introduced to a (seemingly) myriad of functions that handle std-in and -out.
• Of course, I went over references, pointers, pointer dereferencing, and basic pointer arithmetic.
• Throughout the course, I came across a whole lot of functions from the standard library, including those from the <cmath> header.