CS 430—Tuesday September 26, 2006 Notes

 

Programming Assignment 2 Questions:

 

When it comes to the format of the array, it is up to your discretion if you want to have 5 rows or 5 columns. As long as it is right, Dr. Adams will be happy.

 

Process of program:

 

 Repeat 65 times

Repeat 5 times

·        Print row

Repeat 5 times

Repeat 13 times

·        Print column

Repeat 13 times

·        Print average

 

Make sure you fill the whole array first before printing the row.

 

Please utilize the Blackboard discussion board for any out  of class questions and information.

 

Zip your source code and your output together (Please use .ZIP not .rar) and put it into the digital drop box on Blackboard. Each of you should name your files should have your name and the number‘2’. Example: Adams2.zip

 

With this assignment it is very clear that you will need multiple subprograms to limit code duplication. The write up only says one subroutine and one function, but DO implement more then one.  Note that this means user defined functions and subroutines.

 

From the Process of the program above there are some problems…

1.     You can’t  just have a loop run 65 times to be able to put all the random values in since it is a multidimensional array. The columns change more rapidly then the rows. Therefore, you need two loops nested to be able to go through the array. (General Programming Skills)

 

ADVICE: Discussion of what to pass into subprogram

     REMEMBER—Fortran passes by reference.

1.     Send the whole array

2.     Send each array element one at a time (WHACKY *DO NOT DO*)

3.     Send a row a time

4.     Send a column at a time

PLEASE DO NUMBER 1 above!! You’ll screw yourself over royally if you do it any other way. By passing it all in it’ll allow you to work with the parts that you desire.

 

   LIST OF A BUILT IN FORTRAN FUNCTIONS (and people who identified them.:

 

1

AVERAGE- Claire **

2

MIN- Ken W. *

3

MAX- Josh *

4

SQRT- Sharon * *

5

SIND – Zac * *

6

SUM – Chip

7

IFIX – Bobby *

8

INT – Matt

9

MOD – Andrew

10

ABS – Aaron

11

LOG – Katie *

12

FLOAT – Kat

13

DOUBLE Frank *

14

EXP- Ken C.  

15

LEN – Brad **

16

TAN – Willis (TAND does the degrees) *

17

DSQRT- Chase * *

 18

FLOOR- Aaron

19

CHAR- Ikjae *

20

COSD – Ryan *

 

MORGAN *

Attaway  *

Jonathan *

 

 

HOMEWORK: Using the first letter of your first name and of your last name,  the first letter of your last name  test two functions corresponding to the numbers of the alphabet. that) that are listed above.  You should test them fully (using various parameter types (i.e. integers and reals) and return values and write up what you find.   Bring code with comments  to class on Thursday.  Note that although there were only 15 or 16 built-in functions in FORTRANIV these should still work with our compiler.

 

Pascal

 

The compiler is compatible with Turbo Pascal which means it has things that standard Pascal didn’t have such as : units and some Compiler Directives.  Don’t use these.

 

 

Expect 5 kinds of Statements in every programming language:

INPUT statement

READ (X); (* is equivalent to saying *) READ (input, X);

READIN(x) (* is equivalent to saying *) READLN (input, X);

READ(file, X) (* means read from the file known as file *)

·        The difference between read and readln is that readln goes to the next line after it executes where as read stops where it is.

·        X is a value of a variable to be read in                  

 

OUTPUT statement

WRITE (X); (* is equivalent to saying *) WRITE (output, X);

WRITELN (X); (* is equivalent to saying *) WRITELN(output, X);

·        Write and writeln can also be used with files.

·        The difference between write and writeln is that writeln moves the print head to the next line after it executes and write stops where it is.

NOTE: You will need to distinguish between the internal and the external file names. The one used in the READ, READLN, WRITE, and WRITELN statements is the internal name not the diskfile name.( Haven’t spoken about how to do it yet)

 

ITERATION statement

FOR loop is a counted loop. It executes a fixed number of times.

     FOR loopControlVariable := intialValue TO endingvalue DO

            BEGIN  Multiplestatements;

        END;

·        Never Put a Semicolon after a DO!!*

 

WHILE loop is executed until a condition is met. It will not be executed at all if the condition is not true on entry to the loop. (Pre-test loop)

WHILE(true) DO                        WHILE(true) DO               

  BEGIN                                         Do this one time;

  END;

 (* the begin end pair of reserved words makes a group of statements equivalent syntactically to a single statement *)

 

REPEAT… UNTIL loop executes until a condition is met. It always executes at least once because it’s a post test loop.

 

ASSIGNMENT statement

:=

 

SELECTION statement

IF

CASE

 

It’s useful to know how to comment in a language.

(*                          *) shows the delimiters for Pascal comments

(                         )

Pascal is NOT case sensitive.

Pascal guarantees that first 8 characters of a variable name are unique if they are different from all other identifiers in the first 8 characters.

     EXAMPLE: Nameandaddress1 & Nameandaddress2

                   Doesn’t mean that they will be different.

Pascal has both reserved words and predefined terms. *You need to know the reserved words* There are about 35 or 36 reserved words originally.

     Input is not a reserved word.

     TO and DO are a reserved words

    

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