(1) Compiling a C program

(2) Baking a cake

Instructions for baking a cake

Could a human follow your instructions?

Could a robot do it?

What resources are we concerned with as cooks?














Concerns: 

* level of specificity for audience

Concerns for resources:
What constrains what I can do?

* time

* money 

* knowledge

___________

* equipment

* ingredients






with enough money/time, can buy ingredients,
equipment, a finished cake, pay someone to make
the cake for you.... buy a cake mix...

cake mix is tradeoff of what vs. what?

baking one cake vs. 100 cakes....

tradeoff what vs. what?




relate to computer program:

processor speed...   time 
 
memory...   like space in oven...

output devices.... equipment...
   peripherals

money.....

time ... money... skill 



Recipies

title (specificaton)

ingredient list (resources)

instructions (ordered)

ambiguity (

Algorihthm: 

   ordered list of instructions
   unambiguous
   must make progress and terminate 
      (no infinite loops)

   can be functional without being efficient
     (e.g. moving water with a teaspoon)

Goals of the course:

 learn to design algorithms to solve problems

 implement algorithms in the C programming languge, using "good style" (good style = can be maintained effectively by self and others... good style = good teamwork)

  manage C software development on the Unix operating system

  learn basic computing principles ( hardware / software) --- insight into how things work

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