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- 08/29: Welcome to ENEE 140!
- Welcome to ENEE 140. In this class, we will use an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for programming in C. I recommend you to install CLion on your laptops. You are encouraged to bring your laptops to the lectures and to try the programming techniques demonstrated in class.
RSS 2.0 feedIntroduction to Programming Concepts for Engineers
Overview
ENEE 140 provides an introduction to computer programming. The course focuses on leaning important programming principles, and the C programming language is used to illustrate these principles. Topics include an introduction to the programming workflow (coding, compiling, debugging, testing), data types and type conversions, arithmetic operations, control flow, functions, variable scope, vector data types (arrays and strings), input/output.
The learning outcomes of ENEE 140 include:
- Learning how to read C code
- Learning how to use the debugger to understand how programs behave
- Learning top-down problem solving and how to break down the functionality of a program into smaller modules, implemented as C functions
- Understanding the difference between ints and floats, and the result of type conversions
- Learning how to avoid reading/writing beyond array and string bounds (including when using C library functions)
- Understanding loop invariants and exit conditions, and how to implement them with various kinds of loops in C
The material will be taught through lectures, reading assignments, weekly homeworks and 3 multi-week projects. ENEE 140 is a hands-on course, where students learn by writing many computer programs outside the classroom.