CS208 Introduction to Computer Systems
Friday, 31 March 2023

+ Try this
- 0x1BE = 0b...?
- 0b110101001010011 = 0x...?
- 0b110101001010011 = 0...?
- 0x1BE = ? (base ten)
- 47 = 0x...?

+ Announcements
- CS course staff for 2023-2024 -- please apply!
    https://forms.gle/cNbmrbZkHbXeUe5c9
  Talk to Eric Alexander or Mike Tie for more info

- We need an audience for Monday's job candidate

    Anderson 329
    Monday, April 3
    3:10-3:55

It will be CS 111 topics. Recruit friends in 111 and 201!

+ Questions
- ??
- the print_grid you had vs. the print_grid you needed
    (an argument for carefully studying code before adapting it)
  [didn't talk about this today]

+ Today
- Pointers, Makefile
- Monday:
    - Debugging with VS Code (lab)
    - Characters (data representation lab, part 1)
- Wednesday: Integers (data representation lab, part 2)

+ make and Makefiles
- Build systems (gradle, maven, ant, groovy,..., gmake, cmake,...)
- Structure of a Makefile

+ Pointers in C
- What are they?
- Declaration
- Initialization
- Dereferencing (both reading & writing)
- *, &
- Do the readings! Watch the ridiculous video!

+ The queues assignment
- READ IT THIS WEEKEND
- Try running the tests on the provided queue.c/queue.h

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+ The queues assignment
- This course & the textbook's authors
- Guidance for the assignment
    - Start with stubs
    - Using the makefile to test your code
    - Iterative development
    - Why this assignment in particular?
- make and Makefile