ME 333 Readings, Videos, and Sample Code

Readings, videos, exercises, and sample code for ME 333 Introduction to Mechatronics.

Appendix: A Crash Course in C

Reading: A Crash Course in C

Videos:

1. Writing your first program in C, HelloWorld.c (5:09). Chapter A.1. Exercises: 1.
2. Differences between C and MATLAB (7:30). Chapter A.2. Exercises: 2, 3.
3. Binary and hexadecimal (Base 2 and 16) (4:47). Chapter A.3.1. Exercises: 4, 6.
4. Data types (5:30). Chapter A.3.1. Exercises: 8, 10.
5. Using the data types (3:49). Chapter A.3.1. Exercises: 11.
6. Representations of data types (5:15). Chapter A.3.1. Exercises: 12, 13.
7. Pointer basics (5:54). Chapter A.3.2. Exercises: 14, 15.
8. Sample program: printout.c (5:55). Chapter A.4. Exercises: 16 (not covered in video, reading only) 17, 18.
9. Sample program: datasizes.c (2:57). Chapter A.4. Exercises: 9.
10. Sample program: overflow.c (2:43). Chapter A.4. Exercises: 19.
11. Sample program: typecast.c (5:43). Chapter A.4. Exercises: 20.
12. invest.c, part 1/5: intro to a typical C program (4:18). Chapter A.4. Exercises: 23.
13. invest.c, part 2/5: overview (3:58). Chapter A.4. Exercises: 24, 25.
14. invest.c, part 3/5: sections 1-4: program comments, preprocessor commands, new data type definitions, and global variables (4:48). Chapter A.4. Exercises: 26.
15. invest.c, part 4/5: sections 5-6: helper function prototypes and the main function (4:40). Chapter A.4.
16. invest.c, part 5/5: section 7: helper functions (7:42). Chapter A.4. Exercises: 28-30, 32, 33 (some material covered in reading only).

Sample Code:

• Section A.1: HelloWorld.c
• Section A.4: printout.c, datasizes.c, overflow.c, typecast.c, invest.c
• Section A.4.16: helper.h, helper.c, main.c
• Problems, Section A.5: bubble.c, lights.c, hexdump.c

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