Week 1 is up.

[Arrvindh Shriraman]

Please reply to this discussion with any specific questions or material you would like to see covered on Sep 11. 

[Tristian Labanowich]

Hi there, I quick overview of the differences between C and c++ would really be appreciated, I'm a transfer student and was never taught C

[KSLARRY]

Hi there, this is the first time I use the VM. I install the VirtualBox already but I dont know how to link to csil. Is there any instruction I can follow and learn?

[Arrvindh Shriraman]

This is really an open-ended question. But I think what you are really asking is "I learnt C++, can i do well in this course".

I would think the answer is yes. Week 1 and Week 2 videos/slides go over the main differences. 

https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ashriram/Courses/CS295/assets/lectures/Part1/L03-Memory-II.pdf (goes over pointers in C. Note that C++ also has them. Not sure if you were taught them). This will be covered on Friday Sep 11. Make sure you watch the other videos in Week 1 before the class.

Week 2 : L3 is all about memory allocation in C. 

https://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ashriram/Courses/CS295/assets/lectures/Part2/Struct_MultiD.pptx (this will be covered on Sep 18).

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WARNING: Async delivered classes assume you have watched the other videos before the Lab and Friday classes.

[Artun]

Hi Arrvindh,

Will you be posting a video on the L03-Memory-II pdf or will it be covered in the live Friday lecture? Week 1 videos only go up to Memory I.

And for this Wednesday's lab, are we expected to watch the Lab 0 & 1 videos, or just Lab 0?

[Carter Kelly]

Hi Arrvindh,

I'm hoping you can make it clear: Are we doing both Lab 0 and Lab 1 this week (Wed, Sept 9) or just Lab 0? And we are expected to watch the Week 1 Lectures before Wed, Sept 9, correct?

Thanks.

On Monday, September 7, 2020 at 2:00:10 AM UTC-7 paet...@gmail.com wrote:

Hello all,

I see on the course website that the virtual machine comes preloaded with the customized compilers and software we need. However, I have Ubuntu installed onto my personal computer so that I don't have to use a slow virtual machine/CSIL. Is there any way we can have access to these customized compilers and list of software needed to install them ourselves onto our Ubuntu machines?

Cheers,

Paeton

[Arrvindh Shriraman]

Yes and Yes.

On Monday, September 7, 2020 at 9:34:13 AM UTC-7, Carter Kelly wrote:

Hi Arrvindh,

I'm hoping you can make it clear: Are we doing both Lab 0 and Lab 1 this week (Wed, Sept 9)

Yes.

 

And we are expected to watch the Week 1 Lectures before Wed, Sept 9, correct?

Yes. 

[Umair Ali Sadaqat]

Hey, there wont be any live lectures, right?

[Arrvindh Shriraman]

Please read the email I sent out and go through the website.

https://www2.cs.sfu.ca/~ashriram/Courses/CS295/#online-delivery-student-plan

[223380...@gmail.com]

after watching the video I have a few questions.

about the word-oriented system 

Is each data store in each word? like if we have a 64-bit system then to store a number like 1, the computer will use all the 8 bytes to store a single 1? 

If so, in programming, what is the point of having something like int,  long or long long in C? 

if not, what is the purpose of having word-oriented memory system?

also what makes a system become 32 or 64 bit?

the other question related to code in video.

in the video, long int *  converted to char* but they are different types.

the purpose of converting to char* is when +1 to the pointer you can move 1 byte down? 

because it is a pointer, the type does not matter?  and event a struct point can convert to int* because the pointer just points to the first byte of data?