CSE 142 Lecture Notes Winter 2000

On-line versions of the lecture slides (6 per page) are available here, in Adobe Acrobat format.  On the lab machines Acrobat Reader is automatically started up by Netscape when you follow the link.  On other Macs, PCs, and some versions of Unix, Acrobat Reader may be downloaded free directly from Adobe. This web site also includes instructions for setting your web browser to invoke Acrobat Reader automatically.

Lectures Available:

• Overview and welcome
• Variables, values, and types
• Arithmetic expressions
• Display input and output
• Style notes
• Functions I
• Conditionals
• Iteration
• Functions and design
• Pointer parameters
• Arrays I
• Arrays and Pointers: Review and Examples
• Structures
• Arrays of structures
• 2-D arrays
• Strings
• Sorting
• Files and libraries
  • Sample C program that reads a file, prints it out as is, then reads it again and compresses all consecutive white space into a single blank.
• Recursion
  • PC/Windows self-extracting sample MergeSort code .  (Reads the lines of a file as characters, then sorts those lines and prints them to the screen in increasing order..)
  • Otherwise, you can download the individual files:
    • MergeSortDemo.h
    • MergeSort.h
    • Main.c
    • MergeSort.c

Final Exam Topics (Not Yet Available):

A list of topics for the final exam is located here.

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