[ { "text": "[MUSIC PLAYING]", "start": 0.0, "duration": 0.0 }, { "text": ">> DAVID J. MALAN: All right, this is CS50.", "start": 13.95, "duration": 2.29 }, { "text": "And this is week one.", "start": 16.24, "duration": 1.77 }, { "text": "So recall that last time in week zero,\nwe focused on computational thinking.", "start": 18.01, "duration": 4.04 }, { "text": "And we transitioned from that to\nScratch, a graphical programming", "start": 22.05, "duration": 3.39 }, { "text": "language from our friends\nat MIT's Media Lab.", "start": 25.44, "duration": 1.92 }, { "text": ">> And with Scratch, did we explore\nideas like functions, and conditions,", "start": 27.36, "duration": 4.37 }, { "text": "and loops, and variables, and even\nevents, and threads, and more.", "start": 31.73, "duration": 3.48 }, { "text": "And today, we're going to\ncontinue using those ideas,", "start": 35.21, "duration": 2.67 }, { "text": "and really taking them for\ngranted, but translate them", "start": 37.88, "duration": 2.75 }, { "text": "to another language known as C. Now,\nC is a more traditional language.", "start": 40.63, "duration": 3.59 }, { "text": "It's a lower level\nlanguage, if you will.", "start": 44.22, "duration": 1.8 }, { "text": ">> It's purely textual.", "start": 46.02, "duration": 1.28 }, { "text": "And so at first glance, it's\nall going to look rather cryptic", "start": 47.3, "duration": 2.61 }, { "text": "if you've never programmed before.", "start": 49.91, "duration": 1.52 }, { "text": "We're going to have\nsemi-colons, and parentheses,", "start": 51.43, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": "and curly braces, and more.", "start": 53.53, "duration": 1.62 }, { "text": "But realize that even\nthough the syntax is", "start": 55.15, "duration": 2.09 }, { "text": "about to look a little unfamiliar\nto most of you, see past that.", "start": 57.24, "duration": 3.36 }, { "text": "And try to see the ideas\nthat are, indeed, familiar,", "start": 60.6, "duration": 2.62 }, { "text": "because here in week one what\nwe'll begin to do is to compare,", "start": 63.22, "duration": 3.53 }, { "text": "initially, Scratch versus C.", "start": 66.75, "duration": 2.23 }, { "text": ">> So, for instance, recall that when we\nimplemented the first of our programs", "start": 68.98, "duration": 3.37 }, { "text": "last time, we had a block that looked\na little something like this-- when", "start": 72.35, "duration": 3.87 }, { "text": "green flag clicked, and then we had\none or more puzzle pieces below it,", "start": 76.22, "duration": 3.77 }, { "text": "in this case, say, hello world.", "start": 79.99, "duration": 2.16 }, { "text": "So, indeed, in Scratch,\nwhen I click that green flag", "start": 82.15, "duration": 2.72 }, { "text": "to run my program, so\nto speak, these are", "start": 84.87, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "the blocks that get executed, or run.", "start": 87.39, "duration": 2.13 }, { "text": "And, specifically, Scratch\nsaid, hello, world.", "start": 89.52, "duration": 2.71 }, { "text": ">> Now, I could have specified\ndifferent words here.", "start": 92.23, "duration": 3.147 }, { "text": "But we'll see that, indeed, many\nof these blocks-- and indeed,", "start": 95.377, "duration": 2.583 }, { "text": "in C many functions-- can be\nparametrized or customized", "start": 97.96, "duration": 3.92 }, { "text": "to do different things.", "start": 101.88, "duration": 1.27 }, { "text": "In fact, in C if we\nwant to convert, now,", "start": 103.15, "duration": 2.37 }, { "text": "this Scratch program\nto this other language,", "start": 105.52, "duration": 2.047 }, { "text": "we're going to write a\nlittle something like this.", "start": 107.567, "duration": 2.083 }, { "text": ">> Granted, there is some unfamiliar\nsyntax there most likely, int,", "start": 109.65, "duration": 2.89 }, { "text": "and parentheses, and void.", "start": 112.54, "duration": 1.84 }, { "text": "But printf-- even though you would\nthink it would just be print.", "start": 114.38, "duration": 3.36 }, { "text": "But print means print\nformatted, as we'll soon see.", "start": 117.74, "duration": 2.38 }, { "text": "This literally will print\nto the screen whatever", "start": 120.12, "duration": 2.02 }, { "text": "is inside of those parentheses, which\nof course in this case is, hello world.", "start": 122.14, "duration": 3.85 }, { "text": ">> But you'll notice some other\nsyntax, some double quotes,", "start": 125.99, "duration": 3.3 }, { "text": "that the parentheses at the end,\nthe semi-colon and the like.", "start": 129.29, "duration": 2.6 }, { "text": "So there's a bit of overhead,\nso to speak, both cognitively", "start": 131.89, "duration": 3.137 }, { "text": "and syntactically, that we're going\nto have to remember before long.", "start": 135.027, "duration": 2.833 }, { "text": "But realize that with practice,\nthis will start to jump out at you.", "start": 137.86, "duration": 2.86 }, { "text": ">> In fact, let's focus on that one\nfunction specifically-- in this case,", "start": 140.72, "duration": 4.2 }, { "text": "say hello world.", "start": 144.92, "duration": 1.37 }, { "text": "So say is the function.", "start": 146.29, "duration": 1.27 }, { "text": "Hello world is its parameter,\nor argument, its customisation.", "start": 147.56, "duration": 3.76 }, { "text": ">> And the equivalence in C is just\ngoing to be this one line here,", "start": 151.32, "duration": 3.0 }, { "text": "where printf is equivalent to, say,\nthe double quoted string, hello", "start": 154.32, "duration": 4.39 }, { "text": "world is equivalent, of course,\nto what's in the white box there.", "start": 158.71, "duration": 2.76 }, { "text": "And the backslash n, though a little\nstrange and absent from Scratch,", "start": 161.47, "duration": 4.21 }, { "text": "simply is going to have the effect we'll\nsee in a computer, like my Mac or a PC,", "start": 165.68, "duration": 3.7 }, { "text": "of just moving the\ncursor to the next line.", "start": 169.38, "duration": 2.28 }, { "text": "It's like hitting\nEnter on your keyboard.", "start": 171.66, "duration": 2.31 }, { "text": ">> So we'll see that again before long.", "start": 173.97, "duration": 1.61 }, { "text": "But first, let's take a look at this\nother example in the case of loops.", "start": 175.58, "duration": 3.06 }, { "text": "We had this forever loop last time,\nwhich was a series of puzzle pieces", "start": 178.64, "duration": 4.19 }, { "text": "that did something literally\nforever-- in this case,", "start": 182.83, "duration": 2.66 }, { "text": "say, hello world, hello world,\nhello world, hello world.", "start": 185.49, "duration": 2.87 }, { "text": "So it's an infinite loop by design.", "start": 188.36, "duration": 1.99 }, { "text": ">> In C, if we want to implement this\nsame idea, we might simply do this.", "start": 190.35, "duration": 4.23 }, { "text": "While true, printf hello world-- now\nwhile, just semantically, kind of", "start": 194.58, "duration": 4.99 }, { "text": "conjures up the idea of doing\nsomething again, and again, and again,", "start": 199.57, "duration": 3.52 }, { "text": "and for how long?", "start": 203.09, "duration": 0.89 }, { "text": "Well, true-- recall that\ntrue is just on or one.", "start": 203.98, "duration": 4.01 }, { "text": ">> And true is, of course, always true.", "start": 207.99, "duration": 2.67 }, { "text": "So it's kind of a meaningless\nstatement just to say true.", "start": 210.66, "duration": 2.4 }, { "text": "But indeed, this is deliberate,\nbecause if true is just always true,", "start": 213.06, "duration": 3.83 }, { "text": "than while true just implies,\nif a little indirectly,", "start": 216.89, "duration": 3.96 }, { "text": "that the following lines of code\nin between those curly braces", "start": 220.85, "duration": 3.22 }, { "text": "should just execute again, and again,\nand again, and never actually stop.", "start": 224.07, "duration": 4.25 }, { "text": ">> But if you do want your\nloop to stop, as we", "start": 228.32, "duration": 1.91 }, { "text": "did last time with something like\nthis, repeat the following 50 times,", "start": 230.23, "duration": 4.27 }, { "text": "in C we can do the same with what's\ncalled a for loop-- the keyword", "start": 234.5, "duration": 3.2 }, { "text": "not being while, but for.", "start": 237.7, "duration": 1.63 }, { "text": "And then we have some new syntax here,\nwith int i equals 0, i less than 50,", "start": 239.33, "duration": 3.96 }, { "text": "i++.", "start": 243.29, "duration": 0.59 }, { "text": "And we'll come back to that.", "start": 243.88, "duration": 1.55 }, { "text": "But this is simply how we would\ntranslate the set of Scratch blocks", "start": 245.43, "duration": 4.23 }, { "text": "to a set of C lines of code.", "start": 249.66, "duration": 3.419 }, { "text": ">> Meanwhile, consider variables.", "start": 253.079, "duration": 1.371 }, { "text": "And, in fact, we just\nsaw one a moment ago.", "start": 254.45, "duration": 2.09 }, { "text": "And in the case of Scratch, if we\nwanted to declare a variable called i", "start": 256.54, "duration": 4.68 }, { "text": "for i being integer, just a number,\nand we want to set it to some value,", "start": 261.22, "duration": 3.37 }, { "text": "we would use this orange\nblock here-- set i to 0.", "start": 264.59, "duration": 3.82 }, { "text": ">> And we'll see today and\nbeyond, just like last week,", "start": 268.41, "duration": 2.39 }, { "text": "programmers do almost always\nstart counting from zero, really", "start": 270.8, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": "by convention.", "start": 273.85, "duration": 1.1 }, { "text": "But also because recall from\nour discussion of binary,", "start": 274.95, "duration": 2.3 }, { "text": "the smallest number you can\nrepresent with any number of bits", "start": 277.25, "duration": 2.74 }, { "text": "is just going to be 0 itself.", "start": 279.99, "duration": 1.65 }, { "text": "And so we'll generally start\ninitializing even our variables to 0.", "start": 281.64, "duration": 3.55 }, { "text": ">> And in C to do the same,\nwe're going to say int", "start": 285.19, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "for integer, i just by convention.", "start": 287.71, "duration": 2.4 }, { "text": "I could have called this variable\nanything I want, just like in Scratch.", "start": 290.11, "duration": 3.28 }, { "text": "And then equals 0 just assigns\nthe value 0 from the right", "start": 293.39, "duration": 4.38 }, { "text": "and puts it into the variable, or the\nstorage container there, on the left.", "start": 297.77, "duration": 3.549 }, { "text": "And the semi-colon as we'll see-- and\nwe've seen a few of these already--", "start": 301.319, "duration": 3.041 }, { "text": "just means end of thought.", "start": 304.36, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": "Proceed to do something else\non the lines that follow.", "start": 306.53, "duration": 2.9 }, { "text": ">> Now, what about Boolean expressions?", "start": 309.43, "duration": 1.9 }, { "text": "Recall that in Scratch,\nthese were expressions", "start": 311.33, "duration": 2.99 }, { "text": "that are either true\nor false-- questions,", "start": 314.32, "duration": 2.42 }, { "text": "really, that are either true or false.", "start": 316.74, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": "So in the case of Scratch, we might\nask a simple question like this,", "start": 318.91, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": "is i less than 50?", "start": 321.96, "duration": 2.626 }, { "text": "So i, again, is an integer.", "start": 324.586, "duration": 1.124 }, { "text": "Maybe we're using it\nin a Scratch program", "start": 325.71, "duration": 1.5 }, { "text": "to keep track of a score\nor something like that.", "start": 327.21, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": "So this syntax here in Scratch\njust means, is i less than 50?", "start": 329.31, "duration": 4.5 }, { "text": "Well, thankfully, something is\nsimple in C. And to translate,", "start": 333.81, "duration": 3.52 }, { "text": "this we would simply say i less\nthan 50, using the familiar key", "start": 337.33, "duration": 4.45 }, { "text": "on your keyboard.", "start": 341.78, "duration": 1.07 }, { "text": ">> Meanwhile, if you wanted to\nsay something more general,", "start": 342.85, "duration": 2.291 }, { "text": "like, well, is x less than y where each\nof x and y are themselves variables?", "start": 345.141, "duration": 4.749 }, { "text": "We can do the same thing\nin C, so long as we've", "start": 349.89, "duration": 2.39 }, { "text": "created these variables already.", "start": 352.28, "duration": 1.662 }, { "text": "And we'll see how to\ndo that before long.", "start": 353.942, "duration": 1.708 }, { "text": "We would simply say x less than y.", "start": 355.65, "duration": 2.94 }, { "text": ">> So you're starting to\nsee some similarities.", "start": 358.59, "duration": 1.94 }, { "text": "And those folks who made\nScratch were certainly", "start": 360.53, "duration": 2.96 }, { "text": "inspired by some of these basic ideas.", "start": 363.49, "duration": 1.76 }, { "text": "And you'll see this kind of\nsyntax in many languages--", "start": 365.25, "duration": 5.1 }, { "text": "not just Scratch, not\njust C, but Python,", "start": 370.35, "duration": 1.81 }, { "text": "and JavaScript, and\nother languages still.", "start": 372.16, "duration": 2.63 }, { "text": ">> Let's consider another construct\nfrom C, the notion of a condition,", "start": 374.79, "duration": 3.48 }, { "text": "doing something conditionally.", "start": 378.27, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": "If something is true, do this.", "start": 380.37, "duration": 2.35 }, { "text": "If something else is true, do that.", "start": 382.72, "duration": 1.737 }, { "text": "It's sort of the programming\nequivalent of a fork in the road.", "start": 384.457, "duration": 2.583 }, { "text": "Maybe it's a two-way fork,\na three-way fork, or more.", "start": 387.04, "duration": 2.69 }, { "text": "And in Scratch, we might have\nseen something like this.", "start": 389.73, "duration": 3.07 }, { "text": ">> So this one's a big one.", "start": 392.8, "duration": 1.21 }, { "text": "But consider the relative\nsimplicity of the logic.", "start": 394.01, "duration": 2.74 }, { "text": "If x is less than y, then say x is less\nthan y, else if x is greater than y,", "start": 396.75, "duration": 7.26 }, { "text": "then say x is greater than y.", "start": 404.01, "duration": 2.22 }, { "text": "And then, logically, if\nyou think back to Scratch", "start": 406.23, "duration": 2.07 }, { "text": "or just your own human intuition,\nwell, if x is not greater than y, and x", "start": 408.3, "duration": 4.31 }, { "text": "is not less than y, then of course\nx is going to be equal to y.", "start": 412.61, "duration": 4.39 }, { "text": "So in this case, by nesting\nthose Scratch blocks,", "start": 417.0, "duration": 2.69 }, { "text": "can we achieve a three\nway fork in the road?", "start": 419.69, "duration": 2.89 }, { "text": ">> Meanwhile, if we want to\ndo that in C, it arguably", "start": 422.58, "duration": 2.4 }, { "text": "looks a little simpler-- at least\nonce you get familiar with the syntax.", "start": 424.98, "duration": 3.44 }, { "text": "If x is less than y,\nprintf x is less than y.", "start": 428.42, "duration": 3.63 }, { "text": "Else if x is greater than y,\nprintf x is greater than y.", "start": 432.05, "duration": 4.09 }, { "text": "Else printf x is equal to y-- and,\nagain, with those backslash ends just", "start": 436.14, "duration": 5.07 }, { "text": "for those new lines so that if you\nactually ran this kind of program", "start": 441.21, "duration": 2.95 }, { "text": "it would just move\nyour cursor ultimately", "start": 444.16, "duration": 1.78 }, { "text": "to the next line of the screen.", "start": 445.94, "duration": 2.16 }, { "text": ">> Now, meanwhile Scratch had other\nmore sophisticated features, only", "start": 448.1, "duration": 3.17 }, { "text": "some of which we're going to\ninitially move over to the world of C.", "start": 451.27, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": "And one of them was\ncalled a list in Scratch.", "start": 454.32, "duration": 2.69 }, { "text": "And this was a special\ntype of variable that", "start": 457.01, "duration": 2.09 }, { "text": "allowed you to store multiple things\nin it back, to back, to back, to back.", "start": 459.1, "duration": 3.74 }, { "text": ">> In C, it doesn't have\nlists, per se, but something", "start": 462.84, "duration": 2.7 }, { "text": "that are more generally\ncalled arrays, although we'll", "start": 465.54, "duration": 2.55 }, { "text": "come back later this semester\nto looking at something", "start": 468.09, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": "called a list, or really a linked list.", "start": 470.59, "duration": 2.19 }, { "text": "But for now, the closest\nequivalent in C for us", "start": 472.78, "duration": 2.73 }, { "text": "is going to be something\ncalled an array.", "start": 475.51, "duration": 1.835 }, { "text": "And an array is simply a\nspecial type of variable", "start": 477.345, "duration": 2.395 }, { "text": "that allows you to store data\nback, to back, to back, to back.", "start": 479.74, "duration": 3.42 }, { "text": ">> And, indeed, in Scratch,\nif we wanted to access", "start": 483.16, "duration": 2.68 }, { "text": "the first element of an array or\na list-- and I'm going to call it,", "start": 485.84, "duration": 3.19 }, { "text": "by convention, argv, argument\nvector, but more on that before long.", "start": 489.03, "duration": 4.57 }, { "text": "If I want to get at the first element\nof argv, in the world of Scratch", "start": 493.6, "duration": 3.49 }, { "text": "you actually do typically\nstart counting from 1.", "start": 497.09, "duration": 3.84 }, { "text": ">> And so I might get item 1 of argv.", "start": 500.93, "duration": 1.92 }, { "text": "That's just how MIT implemented\nthe notion of lists.", "start": 502.85, "duration": 3.46 }, { "text": "But in C, I'm going to\nmore simply just say, argv,", "start": 506.31, "duration": 3.55 }, { "text": "which again is the name of my\nlist-- or to be clear, an array.", "start": 509.86, "duration": 2.898 }, { "text": "And if I want the first\nelements, I'm going", "start": 512.758, "duration": 1.791 }, { "text": "to use square brackets, which you\nmight not often used under a keyboard.", "start": 514.549, "duration": 3.341 }, { "text": ">> But 0 just means, get me the first.", "start": 517.89, "duration": 2.26 }, { "text": "So on occasion and as\ntime passes, we're going", "start": 520.15, "duration": 2.01 }, { "text": "to start to see these dichotomies\nbetween Scratch and C,", "start": 522.16, "duration": 2.41 }, { "text": "whereby Scratch uses one.", "start": 524.57, "duration": 1.5 }, { "text": "We in C use 0 here.", "start": 526.07, "duration": 1.6 }, { "text": "But you'll quickly see\nonce you understand", "start": 527.67, "duration": 1.75 }, { "text": "the foundations of each language, that\nthese things start to get all the more", "start": 529.42, "duration": 3.5 }, { "text": "familiar through practice and practice.", "start": 532.92, "duration": 3.94 }, { "text": ">> So let's actually look now at a program.", "start": 536.86, "duration": 2.84 }, { "text": "Here shall be the first of our C\nsource code for complete programs.", "start": 539.7, "duration": 4.331 }, { "text": "And the program we're going\nto offer for consideration", "start": 544.031, "duration": 2.249 }, { "text": "is the one that's equivalent\nto that earlier Scratch piece.", "start": 546.28, "duration": 3.06 }, { "text": ">> So in here, we have what's\narguably the simplest C program", "start": 549.34, "duration": 3.87 }, { "text": "you can write that\nactually does something.", "start": 553.21, "duration": 2.2 }, { "text": "Now, we'll look past,\nfor now, has include,", "start": 555.41, "duration": 2.84 }, { "text": "standard io.h, and these angle\nbrackets, and int, and void,", "start": 558.25, "duration": 2.94 }, { "text": "and the curly braces, and the like.", "start": 561.19, "duration": 1.65 }, { "text": ">> And let's just focus on\nwhat, at least intuitively,", "start": 562.84, "duration": 2.55 }, { "text": "might jump out at you already.", "start": 565.39, "duration": 1.47 }, { "text": "In fact, main, I don't\nnecessarily know what this is,", "start": 566.86, "duration": 3.44 }, { "text": "but much like Scratch had that when\ngreen flag clicked puzzle piece,", "start": 570.3, "duration": 4.28 }, { "text": "so does C as a programming language\nhave a main piece of code that", "start": 574.58, "duration": 4.49 }, { "text": "gets executed by default. And, indeed,\nit's literally going to be called main.", "start": 579.07, "duration": 4.31 }, { "text": ">> So main is a function.", "start": 583.38, "duration": 1.34 }, { "text": "And it's a special function that exists\nin C that when you run a program,", "start": 584.72, "duration": 4.0 }, { "text": "it is main that gets run by\ndefault. In the world of Scratch,", "start": 588.72, "duration": 4.0 }, { "text": "it was usually when green flag\nclicked that got run by default.", "start": 592.72, "duration": 4.25 }, { "text": ">> Meanwhile, we've seen this before,\nprintf or print formatted, that's", "start": 596.97, "duration": 4.16 }, { "text": "going to be a function that comes with\nC, along with a whole bunch of others,", "start": 601.13, "duration": 4.49 }, { "text": "that will from time and time\nagain, in order to do exactly", "start": 605.62, "duration": 4.52 }, { "text": "as its name suggests, print something.", "start": 610.14, "duration": 2.31 }, { "text": "What do we want to print?", "start": 612.45, "duration": 1.05 }, { "text": "Well, we'll see that\nby enclosing characters", "start": 613.5, "duration": 2.27 }, { "text": "like these-- hello world,\nbackslash n in double quotes,", "start": 615.77, "duration": 2.91 }, { "text": "we can tell printf exactly\nwhat to print on the screen.", "start": 618.68, "duration": 4.36 }, { "text": ">> But in order to do\nthat, we unfortunately", "start": 623.04, "duration": 3.39 }, { "text": "need to take something that is\nalready cryptic to us humans,", "start": 626.43, "duration": 3.58 }, { "text": "but at least it's somewhat readable--\nsharp include, standard io.h, int,", "start": 630.01, "duration": 4.5 }, { "text": "main, void, printf, all of the magical\nincantations we just saw on the screen.", "start": 634.51, "duration": 4.83 }, { "text": "But we actually have to\ngo more arcane still.", "start": 639.34, "duration": 3.13 }, { "text": "We first need to translate the code\nthat we write into machine code.", "start": 642.47, "duration": 4.67 }, { "text": "And recall from last week that machines,\nat least the ones we know here,", "start": 647.14, "duration": 4.23 }, { "text": "at the end of the day only\nunderstand zeros and ones.", "start": 651.37, "duration": 3.08 }, { "text": ">> And my God, if we had to write these\nzeros and ones to actually program,", "start": 654.45, "duration": 3.65 }, { "text": "it would very, very quickly\ntake the fun out of anything.", "start": 658.1, "duration": 3.16 }, { "text": "But it turns out, per last week,\nthat these patterns of zeros and ones", "start": 661.26, "duration": 3.89 }, { "text": "just have special meaning.", "start": 665.15, "duration": 1.25 }, { "text": "In certain contexts,\nthey might mean numbers.", "start": 666.4, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": ">> In some contexts, they might mean\nletters, or colors, or any number", "start": 668.5, "duration": 3.34 }, { "text": "of other abstractions there upon.", "start": 671.84, "duration": 2.87 }, { "text": "But just as your computer has\na CPU, Central Processing Unit,", "start": 674.71, "duration": 3.74 }, { "text": "or the brains inside of your computer.", "start": 678.45, "duration": 1.94 }, { "text": "It's usually Intel\ninside, because that's", "start": 680.39, "duration": 1.85 }, { "text": "one of the biggest companies\nthat makes CPUs for computers.", "start": 682.24, "duration": 2.66 }, { "text": ">> Well, Intel CPUs and others\nsimply have decided in advance", "start": 684.9, "duration": 4.01 }, { "text": "that certain patterns of zeros and\nones shall mean specific things.", "start": 688.91, "duration": 5.06 }, { "text": "Certain patterns of zeros and ones\nwill mean, print this to the screen,", "start": 693.97, "duration": 3.07 }, { "text": "or add these two numbers, or\nsubtract these two numbers,", "start": 697.04, "duration": 2.67 }, { "text": "or move this piece of data from\nmy computer's memory over here,", "start": 699.71, "duration": 3.6 }, { "text": "or any number of other very low level,\nbut ultimately useful, operations.", "start": 703.31, "duration": 4.56 }, { "text": "But, thankfully, we humans are not going\nto need to know this level of detail.", "start": 707.87, "duration": 5.152 }, { "text": "Indeed, just like last time, where we\nabstracted again, and again, and again,", "start": 713.022, "duration": 3.208 }, { "text": "building from very low level\nprimitives like zeros and ones", "start": 716.23, "duration": 2.7 }, { "text": "to higher level concepts\nlike numbers, and letters,", "start": 718.93, "duration": 2.23 }, { "text": "and colors, and more,\nso can we as programmers", "start": 721.16, "duration": 3.17 }, { "text": "stand on the shoulders of\nothers who have come before us", "start": 724.33, "duration": 2.75 }, { "text": "and use software that other\npeople have written before us--", "start": 727.08, "duration": 4.18 }, { "text": "namely programs called compilers.", "start": 731.26, "duration": 3.08 }, { "text": ">> C is a language that\nis usually compiled,", "start": 734.34, "duration": 3.43 }, { "text": "which means converted from\nsource code to machine code.", "start": 737.77, "duration": 4.36 }, { "text": "In particular, what this means\nis that if you've got your source", "start": 742.13, "duration": 3.1 }, { "text": "code that you yourself write, as we soon\nwill in just a moment on the screen,", "start": 745.23, "duration": 4.3 }, { "text": "and you want to convert it\nultimately to machine code--", "start": 749.53, "duration": 3.61 }, { "text": "those zeros and ones that\nonly your Mac or your PC", "start": 753.14, "duration": 3.96 }, { "text": "understands-- you've got a first\nfeed that source code in as", "start": 757.1, "duration": 4.13 }, { "text": "input to a special\nprogram called a compiler,", "start": 761.23, "duration": 5.11 }, { "text": "the output of which we\nshall see is machine code.", "start": 766.34, "duration": 2.634 }, { "text": "And, indeed, last time we talked\nabout, really, at the end of the day,", "start": 768.974, "duration": 2.916 }, { "text": "problem solving.", "start": 771.89, "duration": 0.72 }, { "text": "You've got inputs.", "start": 772.61, "duration": 0.75 }, { "text": "And you've got outputs.", "start": 773.36, "duration": 0.958 }, { "text": "And you've got some kind\nof algorithm in the middle.", "start": 774.318, "duration": 2.242 }, { "text": ">> Algorithms can surely be\nimplemented in software,", "start": 776.56, "duration": 3.27 }, { "text": "as we saw with pseudocode last week\nand as we'll see with actual code", "start": 779.83, "duration": 3.07 }, { "text": "this week.", "start": 782.9, "duration": 0.59 }, { "text": "And so a compiler really just\nhas a set of algorithms inside", "start": 783.49, "duration": 2.94 }, { "text": "of it that know how to\nconvert the special keywords,", "start": 786.43, "duration": 3.63 }, { "text": "like main, and printf,\nand others that we just", "start": 790.06, "duration": 2.12 }, { "text": "saw into the patterns of zeros and\nones that Intel inside and other CPUs", "start": 792.18, "duration": 5.44 }, { "text": "actually understands.", "start": 797.62, "duration": 2.4 }, { "text": "So how do we do this?", "start": 800.02, "duration": 2.44 }, { "text": "Where do we get a compiler?", "start": 802.46, "duration": 2.01 }, { "text": ">> Most of us here have a Mac or a PC.", "start": 804.47, "duration": 1.93 }, { "text": "And you're running Mac OS, or\nWindows, or Linux, or Solaris,", "start": 806.4, "duration": 2.752 }, { "text": "or any number of other\noperating systems.", "start": 809.152, "duration": 1.708 }, { "text": "And, indeed, we could\ngo out onto the web", "start": 810.86, "duration": 1.708 }, { "text": "and download a compiler\nfor your Mac or your PC", "start": 812.568, "duration": 3.142 }, { "text": "for your particular operating system.", "start": 815.71, "duration": 1.65 }, { "text": "But we would all be on\ndifferent pages, so to speak.", "start": 817.36, "duration": 2.257 }, { "text": "We'd have slightly\ndifferent configurations.", "start": 819.617, "duration": 1.833 }, { "text": "And things wouldn't work all the same.", "start": 821.45, "duration": 1.76 }, { "text": "And, indeed, these days\nmany of us don't use", "start": 823.21, "duration": 2.07 }, { "text": "software that runs only on our laptops.", "start": 825.28, "duration": 2.236 }, { "text": "Instead, we use something\nlike a browser that", "start": 827.516, "duration": 1.874 }, { "text": "allows us to access web-based\napplications in the cloud.", "start": 829.39, "duration": 3.54 }, { "text": "And later this semester,\nwe will do exactly that.", "start": 832.93, "duration": 2.7 }, { "text": "We will write applications or\nsoftware using code-- not C,", "start": 835.63, "duration": 4.03 }, { "text": "but other languages like Python and\nJavaScript-- that run in the cloud.", "start": 839.66, "duration": 3.2 }, { "text": ">> And to do that, we ourselves\nduring the semester", "start": 842.86, "duration": 3.0 }, { "text": "will actually use a cloud-based\nenvironment known as CS50 IDE.", "start": 845.86, "duration": 6.03 }, { "text": "This is a web-based programming\nenvironment, or integrated development", "start": 851.89, "duration": 4.14 }, { "text": "environment, IDe, that's built atop some\nopen source software called Cloud 9.", "start": 856.03, "duration": 4.58 }, { "text": "And we've made some pedagogical\nsimplifications to it", "start": 860.61, "duration": 2.356 }, { "text": "so as to hide certain features in\nthe first weeks that we don't need,", "start": 862.966, "duration": 2.874 }, { "text": "after which you can\nreveal them and do most", "start": 865.84, "duration": 1.93 }, { "text": "anything you want with the environment.", "start": 867.77, "duration": 1.63 }, { "text": ">> And it allows us, too, to\npre-install certain software.", "start": 869.4, "duration": 3.07 }, { "text": "Things like a so-called CS50\nlibrary, which we'll soon see", "start": 872.47, "duration": 2.86 }, { "text": "provides us in C with some\nadditional functionality.", "start": 875.33, "duration": 3.88 }, { "text": "So if you go to, ultimately, CS50.io,\nyou'll be prompted to log in,", "start": 879.21, "duration": 5.182 }, { "text": "and once you do and create\nan account for free,", "start": 884.392, "duration": 1.958 }, { "text": "you will be able to access an\nenvironment that looks quite like this.", "start": 886.35, "duration": 5.8 }, { "text": ">> Now, this is in the default mode.", "start": 892.15, "duration": 1.61 }, { "text": "Everything is nice and\nbright on the screen.", "start": 893.76, "duration": 1.89 }, { "text": "Many of us have a habit of\nworking on CS50 piece that's", "start": 895.65, "duration": 2.291 }, { "text": "quite late into the night.", "start": 897.941, "duration": 1.209 }, { "text": "And so some of you might prefer to\nturn it into night mode, so to speak.", "start": 899.15, "duration": 3.25 }, { "text": ">> But, ultimately, what you're\ngoing to see within CS50 IDE", "start": 902.4, "duration": 3.15 }, { "text": "is three distinct areas--\nan area on the left where", "start": 905.55, "duration": 2.79 }, { "text": "your files are going to be in the\ncloud, an area on the top right", "start": 908.34, "duration": 4.264 }, { "text": "where your code is going to be editable.", "start": 912.604, "duration": 1.666 }, { "text": "You'll be able to open\nindividual tabs for any program", "start": 914.27, "duration": 2.38 }, { "text": "that you write this semester inside\nof that top right hand corner.", "start": 916.65, "duration": 3.02 }, { "text": "And then most arcanely,\nand yet powerfully,", "start": 919.67, "duration": 3.4 }, { "text": "is going to be this thing at the\nbottom known as a terminal window.", "start": 923.07, "duration": 3.54 }, { "text": ">> This is an old school\nCommand Line Interface,", "start": 926.61, "duration": 2.84 }, { "text": "or CLI, that allows\nyou to execute commands", "start": 929.45, "duration": 2.79 }, { "text": "on the computer-- in this case,\nthe computer in the cloud--", "start": 932.24, "duration": 3.02 }, { "text": "to do things like compile your code\nfrom source code to machine code,", "start": 935.26, "duration": 3.83 }, { "text": "to run your programs, or to start your\nweb server, or to access your database,", "start": 939.09, "duration": 4.51 }, { "text": "and any number of other techniques\nthat we'll start to use before long.", "start": 943.6, "duration": 3.854 }, { "text": "But to get there, we're\ngoing to actually have", "start": 947.454, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "to go online and start playing.", "start": 949.37, "duration": 1.87 }, { "text": "And to do that, let's first\nstart tinkering with main,", "start": 951.24, "duration": 3.159 }, { "text": "and write the main part of a program.", "start": 954.399, "duration": 1.541 }, { "text": "And let's use that function\nprintf, which we used earlier,", "start": 955.94, "duration": 3.23 }, { "text": "simply to say something.", "start": 959.17, "duration": 1.88 }, { "text": ">> So here I am already inside of CS50 IDE.", "start": 961.05, "duration": 3.86 }, { "text": "I've logged in advance.", "start": 964.91, "duration": 1.02 }, { "text": "And I full screened the window.", "start": 965.93, "duration": 1.43 }, { "text": "And so, ultimately, you\ntoo in coming problems", "start": 967.36, "duration": 2.31 }, { "text": "will follow similar steps that\nwill provide online documentation.", "start": 969.67, "duration": 3.29 }, { "text": "So you don't need to worry about\nabsorbing every little technical step", "start": 972.96, "duration": 3.4 }, { "text": "that I do here today.", "start": 976.36, "duration": 1.37 }, { "text": ">> But you'll get a screen like this.", "start": 977.73, "duration": 1.492 }, { "text": "I happen to be in night mode.", "start": 979.222, "duration": 1.208 }, { "text": "And you can brighten everything\nup by disabling night mode.", "start": 980.43, "duration": 2.514 }, { "text": "And at the end of the\nday, you're going to see", "start": 982.944, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "these three main areas-- the file\nbrowser at left, the code tabs up top,", "start": 984.86, "duration": 5.23 }, { "text": "and the terminal window at the bottom.", "start": 990.09, "duration": 2.34 }, { "text": ">> Let me go ahead and\nwrite my first program.", "start": 992.43, "duration": 2.46 }, { "text": "I'm going to preemptively go to File,\nSave, and save my file as hello.c.", "start": 994.89, "duration": 7.41 }, { "text": "Indeed, by convention, any program we\nwrite that's written in the C language", "start": 1002.3, "duration": 4.55 }, { "text": "should be named something\ndot c, by convention.", "start": 1006.85, "duration": 2.889 }, { "text": "So I'm going to name it hello.c, because\nI just want to say hello to the world.", "start": 1009.739, "duration": 3.291 }, { "text": "Now I'm going to zoom\nout and click Save.", "start": 1013.03, "duration": 1.79 }, { "text": "And all I have here now is a tab\nin which I can start writing code.", "start": 1014.82, "duration": 3.36 }, { "text": ">> This is not going to compile.", "start": 1018.18, "duration": 1.31 }, { "text": "This means nothing.", "start": 1019.49, "duration": 0.81 }, { "text": "And so even if I converted\nthis to zeros and ones,", "start": 1020.3, "duration": 2.45 }, { "text": "the CPU is going to have no\nidea what's going around.", "start": 1022.75, "duration": 2.64 }, { "text": "But if I write lines that do match\nup with C's conventions-- C being,", "start": 1025.39, "duration": 8.78 }, { "text": "again, this language-- with syntax like\nthis, printf hello world-- and I've", "start": 1034.17, "duration": 5.98 }, { "text": "gotten comfortable with\ndoing this over time.", "start": 1040.15, "duration": 2.06 }, { "text": "So I don't think I made\nany typographical errors.", "start": 1042.21, "duration": 2.3 }, { "text": ">> But, invariably, the very first\ntime you do this, you will.", "start": 1044.51, "duration": 3.4 }, { "text": "And what I am about to do might very\nwell not work for you the first time.", "start": 1047.91, "duration": 3.18 }, { "text": "And that's perfectly OK,\nbecause right now you", "start": 1051.09, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "might just see a whole lot of newness,\nbut over time once you get familiar", "start": 1053.61, "duration": 4.052 }, { "text": "with this environment, and\nthis language, and others,", "start": 1057.662, "duration": 2.208 }, { "text": "you'll start to see things that\nare either correct or incorrect.", "start": 1059.87, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": ">> And this is what the\nteaching fellows and course", "start": 1062.37, "duration": 1.999 }, { "text": "assistants get so good at over time, is\nspotting mistakes or bugs in your code.", "start": 1064.369, "duration": 4.411 }, { "text": "But I claim that there\nare no bugs in this code.", "start": 1068.78, "duration": 3.33 }, { "text": "So I now want to run this program.", "start": 1072.11, "duration": 1.88 }, { "text": ">> Now on my own Mac or PC, I'm in\nthe habit of double clicking icons", "start": 1073.99, "duration": 3.45 }, { "text": "when I want to run some program.", "start": 1077.44, "duration": 1.91 }, { "text": "But that's not the model here.", "start": 1079.35, "duration": 1.73 }, { "text": "In this environment, which is CS50 IDE.", "start": 1081.08, "duration": 3.49 }, { "text": "We are using an operating\nsystem called Linux.", "start": 1084.57, "duration": 2.622 }, { "text": "Linux is reminiscent of another\noperating system, generally known", "start": 1087.192, "duration": 2.708 }, { "text": "as Unix.", "start": 1089.9, "duration": 0.95 }, { "text": "And Linux is particularly known for\nhaving a Command Line Environment, CLI.", "start": 1090.85, "duration": 5.49 }, { "text": "Now, we're using a specific\nflavor of Linux called Ubuntu.", "start": 1096.34, "duration": 3.73 }, { "text": "And Ubuntu is simply a\ncertain version of Linux.", "start": 1100.07, "duration": 2.7 }, { "text": ">> But these Linux's these days do actually\ncome with graphical user interfaces.", "start": 1102.77, "duration": 5.13 }, { "text": "And the one we happen to\nbe using here is web-based.", "start": 1107.9, "duration": 2.46 }, { "text": "So this might look even a\nlittle different from something", "start": 1110.36, "duration": 2.375 }, { "text": "you yourself might have\nseen or run in the past.", "start": 1112.735, "duration": 2.575 }, { "text": ">> So I'm going to go ahead\nnow and do the following.", "start": 1115.31, "duration": 2.6 }, { "text": "I've saved this file as hello.c.", "start": 1117.91, "duration": 3.04 }, { "text": "I'm going to go ahead and\ntype clanghello.c So Clang", "start": 1120.95, "duration": 6.4 }, { "text": "for the C language is a compiler.", "start": 1127.35, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": "It's pre-installed in CS50 IDE.", "start": 1129.85, "duration": 2.102 }, { "text": "And you can absolutely download and\ninstall this on your own Mac or PC.", "start": 1131.952, "duration": 2.958 }, { "text": ">> But, again, you wouldn't have all of\nthe pre-configuration done for you.", "start": 1134.91, "duration": 3.0 }, { "text": "So for now, I'm just\ngoing to run clanghello.c.", "start": 1137.91, "duration": 3.03 }, { "text": "And now notice this syntax\nhere will eventually", "start": 1140.94, "duration": 2.3 }, { "text": "realize just means that I'm in a\nfolder or directory called Workspace.", "start": 1143.24, "duration": 3.69 }, { "text": "This dollar sign is just convention\nfor meaning, type your commands here.", "start": 1146.93, "duration": 4.1 }, { "text": ">> It's what's called a prompt, just\nby convention is dollar sign.", "start": 1151.03, "duration": 3.53 }, { "text": "And if I go ahead now and click\nEnter, nothing seems to have happened.", "start": 1154.56, "duration": 4.57 }, { "text": "But that's actually a good thing.", "start": 1159.13, "duration": 1.8 }, { "text": "The less that happens on\nyour screen, the more likely", "start": 1160.93, "duration": 2.72 }, { "text": "your code is to be correct,\nat least syntactically.", "start": 1163.65, "duration": 3.06 }, { "text": ">> So if I want to run this\nprogram, what do I do?", "start": 1166.71, "duration": 2.41 }, { "text": "Well, it turns out that the\ndefault name by convention", "start": 1169.12, "duration": 4.65 }, { "text": "for programs when you don't specify a\nname for your program is just a.out.", "start": 1173.77, "duration": 5.084 }, { "text": "And this syntax too, you'll\nget familiar with before long.", "start": 1178.854, "duration": 2.416 }, { "text": ">> Dot slash just means, hey, CS50\nIDE, run a program called a.out", "start": 1181.27, "duration": 6.23 }, { "text": "that's inside my current directory.", "start": 1187.5, "duration": 1.9 }, { "text": "That dot means the current directory.", "start": 1189.4, "duration": 2.12 }, { "text": "And we'll see what other such sequences\nof characters means before long.", "start": 1191.52, "duration": 3.52 }, { "text": ">> So here we go, Enter, hello world.", "start": 1195.04, "duration": 3.39 }, { "text": "And you'll notice, that what happened?", "start": 1198.43, "duration": 1.65 }, { "text": "Not only did it print hello world.", "start": 1200.08, "duration": 1.5 }, { "text": "It also moved the\ncursor to the next line.", "start": 1201.58, "duration": 4.41 }, { "text": ">> And why was that?", "start": 1205.99, "duration": 1.17 }, { "text": "What was the code that we wrote before\nthat ensured that the cursor would", "start": 1207.16, "duration": 5.24 }, { "text": "go on the next line?", "start": 1212.4, "duration": 2.482 }, { "text": "Funny thing about a\ncomputer is it's only going", "start": 1214.882, "duration": 1.958 }, { "text": "to do literally what you tell it to do.", "start": 1216.84, "duration": 1.73 }, { "text": ">> So if you tell it to printf hello,\ncomma, space, world, close quote,", "start": 1218.57, "duration": 7.48 }, { "text": "it's literally only going\nto print those characters.", "start": 1226.05, "duration": 3.04 }, { "text": "But I had this special character\nat the end, recall, backslash n.", "start": 1229.09, "duration": 2.89 }, { "text": "And that's what ensured\nthat the character went", "start": 1231.98, "duration": 2.25 }, { "text": "to the next line of the screen.", "start": 1234.23, "duration": 2.34 }, { "text": ">> In fact, let me go and do this.", "start": 1236.57, "duration": 1.527 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and delete this.", "start": 1238.097, "duration": 1.333 }, { "text": "Now, notice that the\ntop of my screen there's", "start": 1239.43, "duration": 1.75 }, { "text": "a little red light in\nthe tab indicating,", "start": 1241.18, "duration": 1.71 }, { "text": "hey, you've not saved your file.", "start": 1242.89, "duration": 2.157 }, { "text": "So I'm going to go ahead with control\nS or command S, save the file.", "start": 1245.047, "duration": 2.833 }, { "text": "Now it goes-- went for a moment-- green.", "start": 1247.88, "duration": 3.25 }, { "text": "And now it's back to\njust being a close icon.", "start": 1251.13, "duration": 2.63 }, { "text": ">> If I now run clanghello.c again,\nEnter, dot slash, a.out, Enter,", "start": 1253.76, "duration": 8.1 }, { "text": "you'll see that it still worked.", "start": 1261.86, "duration": 2.25 }, { "text": "But it's arguably a little buggy.", "start": 1264.11, "duration": 1.91 }, { "text": "Right now, my prompt-- workspace,\nand then that dollar sign,", "start": 1266.02, "duration": 2.694 }, { "text": "and then my actual prompt--\nis all on the same line.", "start": 1268.714, "duration": 2.166 }, { "text": "So this certainly an aesthetic bug,\neven if it's not really a logical bug.", "start": 1270.88, "duration": 3.66 }, { "text": ">> So I'm going to undo what I just did.", "start": 1274.54, "duration": 1.71 }, { "text": "I'm going to rerun a.out.", "start": 1276.25, "duration": 2.31 }, { "text": "Notice I've added the\nnewline character back.", "start": 1278.56, "duration": 4.15 }, { "text": "I've saved the file.", "start": 1282.71, "duration": 1.57 }, { "text": ">> So I'm going to rerun a.out, and--\ndammit, a bug, a bug meaning mistake.", "start": 1284.28, "duration": 7.35 }, { "text": "So the bug is that even though\nI added the backslash n there,", "start": 1291.63, "duration": 3.39 }, { "text": "re-saved, re-ran the program,\nthe behavior was the same.", "start": 1295.02, "duration": 6.16 }, { "text": "Why would that be?", "start": 1301.18, "duration": 1.46 }, { "text": ">> I'm missing a step, right?", "start": 1302.64, "duration": 1.27 }, { "text": "That key step earlier was that you have\nto-- when you change your source code,", "start": 1303.91, "duration": 3.71 }, { "text": "it turns out also run\nit through the compiler", "start": 1307.62, "duration": 1.99 }, { "text": "again so you get new machine code.", "start": 1309.61, "duration": 1.492 }, { "text": "And the machine code,\nthe zeros and ones,", "start": 1311.102, "duration": 1.708 }, { "text": "are going to be almost identical, but\nnot perfectly so, because we need,", "start": 1312.81, "duration": 3.45 }, { "text": "of course, that new line.", "start": 1316.26, "duration": 1.25 }, { "text": ">> So to fix this, I'm going to need\nto rerun clanghello.c, enter, dot", "start": 1317.51, "duration": 5.13 }, { "text": "slash, a.out.", "start": 1322.64, "duration": 1.16 }, { "text": "And now, hello world is back\nto where I expect it to be.", "start": 1323.8, "duration": 4.602 }, { "text": "So this is all fine and good.", "start": 1328.402, "duration": 1.208 }, { "text": "But a.out is a pretty stupid name for a\nprogram, even though it happens to be,", "start": 1329.61, "duration": 3.54 }, { "text": "for historical reasons, the\ndefault-- meaning assembly outputs.", "start": 1333.15, "duration": 3.38 }, { "text": ">> But let me go ahead here\nand do this differently.", "start": 1336.53, "duration": 4.25 }, { "text": "I want my hello world program\nto actually be called hello.", "start": 1340.78, "duration": 3.98 }, { "text": "So if it were an icon on my\ndesktop, it wouldn't be a.out.", "start": 1344.76, "duration": 3.56 }, { "text": "It would be called hello.", "start": 1348.32, "duration": 1.41 }, { "text": ">> So to do this, it turns out\nthat Clang, like many programs,", "start": 1349.73, "duration": 3.93 }, { "text": "supports command line arguments,\nor flags, or switches,", "start": 1353.66, "duration": 4.32 }, { "text": "which simply influence its behavior.", "start": 1357.98, "duration": 1.62 }, { "text": "Specifically, Clang supports a dash o\nflag, which then takes a second word.", "start": 1359.6, "duration": 5.56 }, { "text": "In this case, I'll arbitrarily,\nbut reasonably, call it hello.", "start": 1365.16, "duration": 3.03 }, { "text": "But I could call it anything\nI want, except a.out, which", "start": 1368.19, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "would be rather besides the point.", "start": 1370.71, "duration": 1.68 }, { "text": ">> And then just specify the name\nof the file I do want to compile.", "start": 1372.39, "duration": 3.25 }, { "text": "So now even though at the beginning\nof the command I still have Clang,", "start": 1375.64, "duration": 3.55 }, { "text": "at the end of the command\nI still have the filename,", "start": 1379.19, "duration": 2.22 }, { "text": "I now have these command line\narguments, these flags that are saying,", "start": 1381.41, "duration": 4.11 }, { "text": "oh, by the way, output-o, a file\ncalled hello, not the default a.out.", "start": 1385.52, "duration": 5.66 }, { "text": ">> So if I hit Enter now, nothing\nseems to have happened.", "start": 1391.18, "duration": 2.63 }, { "text": "And, yet, now I can do dot slash hello.", "start": 1393.81, "duration": 4.09 }, { "text": "So it's the same program.", "start": 1397.9, "duration": 1.189 }, { "text": "The zeros and ones are\nidentical at the end of the day.", "start": 1399.089, "duration": 2.291 }, { "text": ">> But they're in two\ndifferent files-- a.out,", "start": 1401.38, "duration": 2.83 }, { "text": "which is the first version\nand just foolishly named,", "start": 1404.21, "duration": 2.28 }, { "text": "and now hello, which is a much\nmore compelling name for a program.", "start": 1406.49, "duration": 3.76 }, { "text": "But, honestly, I am never\ngoing to remember this again,", "start": 1410.25, "duration": 2.945 }, { "text": "and again, and again.", "start": 1413.195, "duration": 0.875 }, { "text": "And, actually, as we write\nmore complicated programs,", "start": 1414.07, "duration": 2.341 }, { "text": "the commands you're\ngoing to have to write", "start": 1416.411, "duration": 1.749 }, { "text": "are going to get even\nmore complicated still.", "start": 1418.16, "duration": 2.76 }, { "text": ">> And so not to worry.", "start": 1420.92, "duration": 1.02 }, { "text": "It turns out that humans before\nus have realized they too", "start": 1421.94, "duration": 4.28 }, { "text": "had this exact same problem.", "start": 1426.22, "duration": 1.31 }, { "text": "They too did not enjoy having to\ntype fairly long, arcane commands,", "start": 1427.53, "duration": 3.37 }, { "text": "let alone remember them.", "start": 1430.9, "duration": 1.3 }, { "text": "And so humans before us have made\nother programs that make it easier", "start": 1432.2, "duration": 3.87 }, { "text": "to compile your software.", "start": 1436.07, "duration": 1.6 }, { "text": ">> And, indeed, one such\nprogram is called Make.", "start": 1437.67, "duration": 3.939 }, { "text": "So I'm going to go ahead and do this.", "start": 1441.609, "duration": 1.541 }, { "text": "I'm going to undo everything I\njust did in the following way.", "start": 1443.15, "duration": 2.541 }, { "text": "Let me type LS.", "start": 1445.691, "duration": 1.999 }, { "text": "And you'll notice three things--\na.out, and a star, hello", "start": 1447.69, "duration": 3.29 }, { "text": "and a star, and hello.c.", "start": 1450.98, "duration": 1.83 }, { "text": "Hopefully, this should\nbe a little intuitive,", "start": 1452.81, "duration": 1.92 }, { "text": "insofar as earlier there was\nnothing in this workspace.", "start": 1454.73, "duration": 3.49 }, { "text": "There was nothing that I had\ncreated until we started class.", "start": 1458.22, "duration": 3.02 }, { "text": ">> And I created hello.c.", "start": 1461.24, "duration": 1.6 }, { "text": "I then compiled it, and called it a.out.", "start": 1462.84, "duration": 1.704 }, { "text": "And then I compiled it again slightly\ndifferently and called it hello.", "start": 1464.544, "duration": 2.916 }, { "text": "So I have three files in this directory,\nin this folder called Workspace.", "start": 1467.46, "duration": 5.37 }, { "text": "Now, I can see that as well\nif I zoom out actually.", "start": 1472.83, "duration": 2.175 }, { "text": ">> If I zoom out here and\nlook at that top right hand", "start": 1475.005, "duration": 2.525 }, { "text": "corner, as promised the left\nhand side of your screen", "start": 1477.53, "duration": 2.41 }, { "text": "is always going to show you\nwhat's in your account, what's", "start": 1479.94, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": "inside of CS50 IDE.", "start": 1482.99, "duration": 1.8 }, { "text": "And there is three files there.", "start": 1484.79, "duration": 1.89 }, { "text": ">> So I want to get rid of a.out and hello.", "start": 1486.68, "duration": 2.39 }, { "text": "And as you might\nimagine intuitively, you", "start": 1489.07, "duration": 2.205 }, { "text": "could sort of control click\nor right click on this.", "start": 1491.275, "duration": 2.125 }, { "text": "And this little menu pops up.", "start": 1493.4, "duration": 1.19 }, { "text": "You can download the file, run\nit, preview it, refresh, rename,", "start": 1494.59, "duration": 2.58 }, { "text": "or what not.", "start": 1497.17, "duration": 0.53 }, { "text": ">> And I could just delete,\nand it would go away.", "start": 1497.7, "duration": 2.56 }, { "text": "But let's do things with a command\nline for now, so as to get comfortable", "start": 1500.26, "duration": 5.0 }, { "text": "with this, and do the following.", "start": 1505.26, "duration": 1.75 }, { "text": "I'm going to go ahead and remove\na.out by typing literally rma.out.", "start": 1507.01, "duration": 5.335 }, { "text": "It turns out, the command for\nremoving or deleting something,", "start": 1512.345, "duration": 2.545 }, { "text": "is not remove or delete.", "start": 1514.89, "duration": 1.39 }, { "text": ">> It's more succinctly RM, just to save\nyou some keystrokes, and hit Enter.", "start": 1516.28, "duration": 4.98 }, { "text": "Now we're going to be somewhat\ncryptically remove regular file a.out.", "start": 1521.26, "duration": 3.447 }, { "text": "I don't really know what an\nirregular file would be yet.", "start": 1524.707, "duration": 2.333 }, { "text": "But I do want to remove it.", "start": 1527.04, "duration": 1.62 }, { "text": ">> So I'm going to type y for yes.", "start": 1528.66, "duration": 1.49 }, { "text": "Or I could type it out, and hit Enter.", "start": 1530.15, "duration": 1.79 }, { "text": "And, again, nothing seems to happen.", "start": 1531.94, "duration": 1.5 }, { "text": "But that is, generally, a good thing.", "start": 1533.44, "duration": 2.4 }, { "text": ">> If I type LS this time,\nwhat should I see?", "start": 1535.84, "duration": 4.65 }, { "text": "Hopefully, just hello and hello.c.", "start": 1540.49, "duration": 4.44 }, { "text": "Now, as an aside, you'll\nnotice this star, asterisk,", "start": 1544.93, "duration": 2.356 }, { "text": "that's at the end of my programs.", "start": 1547.286, "duration": 1.374 }, { "text": "And they're also showing up in green.", "start": 1548.66, "duration": 1.541 }, { "text": "That is just CS50 IDE's way\nof cluing you into the fact", "start": 1550.201, "duration": 3.769 }, { "text": "that that's not source code.", "start": 1553.97, "duration": 1.31 }, { "text": "That's an executable, a runnable\nprogram that you can actually run", "start": 1555.28, "duration": 3.6 }, { "text": "by doing dot slash, and then it's name.", "start": 1558.88, "duration": 2.14 }, { "text": ">> Now, let me go ahead and remove\nthis, rm hello, Enter, remove regular", "start": 1561.02, "duration": 4.84 }, { "text": "file hello, yes.", "start": 1565.86, "duration": 2.15 }, { "text": "And now if I type LS,\nwe're back to hello.c.", "start": 1568.01, "duration": 3.17 }, { "text": "Try not to delete your\nactual source code.", "start": 1571.18, "duration": 2.737 }, { "text": "Even though there are features\nbuilt into CS50 IDE where", "start": 1573.917, "duration": 2.333 }, { "text": "you can go through your revision history\nand rewind in time if you accidentally", "start": 1576.25, "duration": 3.62 }, { "text": "delete something, do be mindful\nas per these prompts yes or no,", "start": 1579.87, "duration": 3.79 }, { "text": "of what you actually want to do.", "start": 1583.66, "duration": 1.721 }, { "text": "And if I go up to the top\nleft hand corner here,", "start": 1585.381, "duration": 1.999 }, { "text": "all that remains is hello.c.", "start": 1587.38, "duration": 3.316 }, { "text": "So there's bunches of\nother commands that you", "start": 1590.696, "duration": 1.874 }, { "text": "can execute in the world of Linux,\none of which is, again, Make.", "start": 1592.57, "duration": 4.98 }, { "text": "And we're going to Make\nmy program now as follows.", "start": 1597.55, "duration": 2.63 }, { "text": ">> Instead of doing clang,\ninstead of doing clang-o,", "start": 1600.18, "duration": 3.09 }, { "text": "I'm going to simply\nliterally type, make hello.", "start": 1603.27, "duration": 2.59 }, { "text": "And now notice, I am\nnot typing make hello.c.", "start": 1605.86, "duration": 3.77 }, { "text": "I am typing make hello.", "start": 1609.63, "duration": 1.28 }, { "text": ">> And this program Make that\ncomes with CS50 IDE, and more", "start": 1610.91, "duration": 3.93 }, { "text": "generally with Linux,\nis a program that's", "start": 1614.84, "duration": 2.25 }, { "text": "going to make a program called Hello.", "start": 1617.09, "duration": 2.03 }, { "text": "And it's going to assume, by convention,\nthat if this program can be made,", "start": 1619.12, "duration": 4.56 }, { "text": "it's going to be made from a source\ncode file ending in dot c, hello.c.", "start": 1623.68, "duration": 5.35 }, { "text": ">> So if I hit Enter now, notice that\nthe command that gets executed", "start": 1629.03, "duration": 3.18 }, { "text": "is actually even longer\nbefore than before.", "start": 1632.21, "duration": 2.13 }, { "text": "And that's because we've\npreconfigured CS50 IDE to have", "start": 1634.34, "duration": 2.33 }, { "text": "some additional features built in that\nwe don't need just yet, but soon will.", "start": 1636.67, "duration": 3.208 }, { "text": "But the key thing to realize\nis now I have a Hello program.", "start": 1639.878, "duration": 3.592 }, { "text": ">> If I type LS again, I\nhave a hello program.", "start": 1643.47, "duration": 3.61 }, { "text": "And I can run it with\ndot slash a.out, no,", "start": 1647.08, "duration": 4.99 }, { "text": "because the whole point of this\nexercise was dot slash hello.", "start": 1652.07, "duration": 3.52 }, { "text": "And now I have my hello world program.", "start": 1655.59, "duration": 2.499 }, { "text": "So moving forward,\nwe're almost always just", "start": 1658.089, "duration": 1.791 }, { "text": "going to compile our programs\nusing the command Make.", "start": 1659.88, "duration": 2.208 }, { "text": "And then we're going to run them by\ndot slash, and the program's name.", "start": 1662.088, "duration": 3.212 }, { "text": "But realize what Make is doing for\nyou, is it is itself not a compiler.", "start": 1665.3, "duration": 4.31 }, { "text": "It's just a convenience program\nthat knows how to trigger a compiler", "start": 1669.61, "duration": 3.7 }, { "text": "to run so that you yourself can use it.", "start": 1673.31, "duration": 3.16 }, { "text": ">> What other commands exist in\nLinux, and in turn the CS50 IDE?", "start": 1676.47, "duration": 3.75 }, { "text": "We'll soon see that there's a\nCD command, Change Directory.", "start": 1680.22, "duration": 2.887 }, { "text": "This allows you within\nyour command line interface", "start": 1683.107, "duration": 2.083 }, { "text": "to move forward, and back,\nand open up different folders", "start": 1685.19, "duration": 2.42 }, { "text": "without using your mouse.", "start": 1687.61, "duration": 1.25 }, { "text": ">> LS we saw, which stands for list\nthe files in the current directory.", "start": 1688.86, "duration": 3.61 }, { "text": "Make Dir, you can\nprobably start to infer", "start": 1692.47, "duration": 2.18 }, { "text": "what these mean now-- make directory,\nif you want to create a folder.", "start": 1694.65, "duration": 3.5 }, { "text": "RM for remove, RM Dir for\nremove directory-- and these,", "start": 1698.15, "duration": 3.12 }, { "text": "again, are the command line\nequivalents of what you", "start": 1701.27, "duration": 2.89 }, { "text": "could do in CS50 IDE with your mouse.", "start": 1704.16, "duration": 2.785 }, { "text": "But you'll soon find\nthat sometimes it's just", "start": 1706.945, "duration": 1.875 }, { "text": "a lot faster to do\nthings with a keyboard,", "start": 1708.82, "duration": 1.79 }, { "text": "and ultimately a lot more powerful.", "start": 1710.61, "duration": 3.08 }, { "text": ">> But it's hard to argue that\nanything we've been doing so far", "start": 1713.69, "duration": 2.75 }, { "text": "is all that powerful, when all\nwe've been saying is, hello world.", "start": 1716.44, "duration": 3.55 }, { "text": "And, in fact, I hardcoded the\nwords hello world into my program.", "start": 1719.99, "duration": 3.75 }, { "text": "There is no dynamism yet.", "start": 1723.74, "duration": 1.79 }, { "text": "Scratch was an order of magnitude\nmore interesting last week.", "start": 1725.53, "duration": 3.79 }, { "text": ">> And so let's get there.", "start": 1729.32, "duration": 1.9 }, { "text": "Let's take a step toward that by\nway of some of these functions.", "start": 1731.22, "duration": 4.09 }, { "text": "So not only does C come with printf,\nand bunches of other functions", "start": 1735.31, "duration": 4.16 }, { "text": "some of which we'll see\nover time, it doesn't", "start": 1739.47, "duration": 2.38 }, { "text": "make it all that easy right out\nof the gate in getting user input.", "start": 1741.85, "duration": 3.91 }, { "text": ">> In fact, one of the weaknesses\nof languages like C,", "start": 1745.76, "duration": 2.38 }, { "text": "and even Java and yet\nothers, is that it doesn't", "start": 1748.14, "duration": 2.0 }, { "text": "make it easy to just get things like\nintegers from users, or strings, words,", "start": 1750.14, "duration": 5.72 }, { "text": "and phrases, let alone things like\nfloating point values, or real numbers", "start": 1755.86, "duration": 4.11 }, { "text": "with decimal points, and really\nlong numbers, as we'll soon see.", "start": 1759.97, "duration": 3.27 }, { "text": "So this list of functions here, these\nare like other Scratch puzzle pieces", "start": 1763.24, "duration": 3.76 }, { "text": "that we have pre-installed in CS50\nIDE that we'll use for a few weeks", "start": 1767.0, "duration": 4.09 }, { "text": "as training wheels of sorts, and\neventually take them off, and look", "start": 1771.09, "duration": 2.92 }, { "text": "underneath the hood, perhaps, at\nhow these things are implemented.", "start": 1774.01, "duration": 3.2 }, { "text": ">> But to do this, let's\nactually write a program.", "start": 1777.21, "duration": 3.25 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead now.", "start": 1780.46, "duration": 1.31 }, { "text": "And I'm going to create a new\nfile by clicking this little plus,", "start": 1781.77, "duration": 2.98 }, { "text": "and clicking New File.", "start": 1784.75, "duration": 1.22 }, { "text": ">> I'm going to save this next\none as, let's say, string.c,", "start": 1785.97, "duration": 3.28 }, { "text": "because I want to play with strings.", "start": 1789.25, "duration": 1.5 }, { "text": "And string in C is just\na sequence of characters.", "start": 1790.75, "duration": 3.24 }, { "text": "So now let's go ahead\nand do the following.", "start": 1793.99, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": ">> Include standard IO.h-- and\nit turns out standard IO,", "start": 1796.09, "duration": 5.114 }, { "text": "IO just means input and output.", "start": 1801.204, "duration": 2.156 }, { "text": "So it turns out that\nthis line here is what", "start": 1803.36, "duration": 2.56 }, { "text": "is the neighboring us to use printf.", "start": 1805.92, "duration": 2.22 }, { "text": "Printf, of course, produces output.", "start": 1808.14, "duration": 2.27 }, { "text": "So in order to use printf, it turns\nout you have to have this line of code", "start": 1810.41, "duration": 4.59 }, { "text": "at the top of your file.", "start": 1815.0, "duration": 1.04 }, { "text": ">> And we'll come back to what\nthat really means before long.", "start": 1816.04, "duration": 2.416 }, { "text": "It turns out that in\nany C program I write,", "start": 1818.456, "duration": 1.944 }, { "text": "I've got to start it with\ncode that looks like this.", "start": 1820.4, "duration": 3.24 }, { "text": "And you'll notice CS50 IDE, and\nother integrated development", "start": 1823.64, "duration": 3.22 }, { "text": "environments like it,\nare going to try as best", "start": 1826.86, "duration": 3.19 }, { "text": "they can to finish your thought.", "start": 1830.05, "duration": 1.73 }, { "text": "In fact, a moment ago if I undo\nwhat I just did, I hit Enter.", "start": 1831.78, "duration": 4.15 }, { "text": ">> I then hit open curly\nbrace, hit Enter again.", "start": 1835.93, "duration": 3.23 }, { "text": "And it finished my thought.", "start": 1839.16, "duration": 1.27 }, { "text": "It gave me a new line, indented no less\nfor nice stylistic reasons we'll see.", "start": 1840.43, "duration": 4.71 }, { "text": "And then it automatically gave me\nthat curly brace to finish my thought.", "start": 1845.14, "duration": 3.419 }, { "text": "Now, it doesn't always\nguess what you want to do.", "start": 1848.559, "duration": 2.041 }, { "text": "But in large part, it does\nsave you some keystrokes.", "start": 1850.6, "duration": 3.02 }, { "text": "So a moment ago, we ran this program--\nhello, world, and then compiled it,", "start": 1853.62, "duration": 5.94 }, { "text": "and then ran it.", "start": 1859.56, "duration": 0.9 }, { "text": "But there's no dynamism here.", "start": 1860.46, "duration": 1.407 }, { "text": "What if we wanted to\ndo something different?", "start": 1861.867, "duration": 1.833 }, { "text": "Well, what if I wanted to actually\nget a string from the user?", "start": 1863.7, "duration": 3.93 }, { "text": "I'm going to use a puzzle piece\ncalled exactly that-- get string.", "start": 1867.63, "duration": 3.62 }, { "text": ">> Turns out in C that when you don't want\nto provide input to a puzzle piece,", "start": 1871.25, "duration": 4.61 }, { "text": "or more properly to a function, you\nliterally just do open parenthesis,", "start": 1875.86, "duration": 3.5 }, { "text": "close parenthesis.", "start": 1879.36, "duration": 1.07 }, { "text": "So it's as though there's\nno white box to type into.", "start": 1880.43, "duration": 5.11 }, { "text": "The say block before\nhad a little white box.", "start": 1885.54, "duration": 2.18 }, { "text": "We don't have that white box now.", "start": 1887.72, "duration": 1.94 }, { "text": ">> But when I call get string, I\nwant to put the result somewhere.", "start": 1889.66, "duration": 3.65 }, { "text": "So a very common paradigm in C is to\ncall a function, like get string here,", "start": 1893.31, "duration": 4.37 }, { "text": "and then store its return value.", "start": 1897.68, "duration": 3.39 }, { "text": "It's the result of its\neffort in something.", "start": 1901.07, "duration": 3.38 }, { "text": ">> And what is the\nconstruct in programming,", "start": 1904.45, "duration": 3.18 }, { "text": "whether in Scratch or now C, that we\ncan use to actually store something?", "start": 1907.63, "duration": 5.82 }, { "text": "Called it a variable, right?", "start": 1913.45, "duration": 2.54 }, { "text": "And in Scratch, we don't really\ncare what was going in variables.", "start": 1915.99, "duration": 4.33 }, { "text": ">> But in this case, we actually do.", "start": 1920.32, "duration": 1.85 }, { "text": "I'm going to say string.", "start": 1922.17, "duration": 1.549 }, { "text": "And then I could call\nthis anything I want.", "start": 1923.719, "duration": 1.791 }, { "text": "I'm going to call it\nname, gets get string.", "start": 1925.51, "duration": 2.83 }, { "text": ">> And now even if you're\na little new to this,", "start": 1928.34, "duration": 1.91 }, { "text": "notice that I'm lacking some detail.", "start": 1930.25, "duration": 1.734 }, { "text": "I'm forgetting a semi-colon.", "start": 1931.984, "duration": 1.166 }, { "text": "I need to finish this thought.", "start": 1933.15, "duration": 1.25 }, { "text": "So I'm going to move my cursor,\nand hit semi-colon there.", "start": 1934.4, "duration": 3.08 }, { "text": "And what have I just done?", "start": 1937.48, "duration": 1.65 }, { "text": "In this line of code,\nnumber 5 at the moment,", "start": 1939.13, "duration": 2.31 }, { "text": "I'm calling get string with no inputs.", "start": 1941.44, "duration": 2.359 }, { "text": "So there's no little white\nbox like the Save block has.", "start": 1943.799, "duration": 2.291 }, { "text": ">> I'm just saying, hey,\ncomputer, get me a string.", "start": 1946.09, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": "The equal sign is not really\nan equal sign, per se.", "start": 1948.59, "duration": 2.8 }, { "text": "It's the assignment\noperator, which means,", "start": 1951.39, "duration": 2.4 }, { "text": "hey, computer, move the value\nfrom the right over to the left.", "start": 1953.79, "duration": 4.07 }, { "text": "And in the left, I have the following.", "start": 1957.86, "duration": 2.62 }, { "text": ">> Hey, computer, give me a string--\na sequence of characters.", "start": 1960.48, "duration": 3.1 }, { "text": "And call that string Name.", "start": 1963.58, "duration": 2.057 }, { "text": "And I don't even have to call it Name.", "start": 1965.637, "duration": 1.583 }, { "text": ">> I could call it, conventionally,\nsomething like S,", "start": 1967.22, "duration": 2.75 }, { "text": "much like we used i to\ncall the variable i.", "start": 1969.97, "duration": 2.93 }, { "text": "But now I need to do something with it.", "start": 1972.9, "duration": 1.929 }, { "text": "It would be pretty stupid to\ntry compiling this code, running", "start": 1974.829, "duration": 2.541 }, { "text": "this program, even though\nI'm getting a string,", "start": 1977.37, "duration": 2.04 }, { "text": "because it's still just\ngoing to say hello world.", "start": 1979.41, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": ">> But what if I do want to change this.", "start": 1981.58, "duration": 4.56 }, { "text": "Why don't I do this?", "start": 1986.14, "duration": 1.8 }, { "text": "Percent s, comma s.", "start": 1987.94, "duration": 3.692 }, { "text": "And this is a little cryptic still.", "start": 1991.632, "duration": 1.458 }, { "text": ">> So let me make my variables more clear.", "start": 1993.09, "duration": 2.47 }, { "text": "Let me name this variable Name.", "start": 1995.56, "duration": 1.95 }, { "text": "And let's see if we can't tease\napart what's happening here.", "start": 1997.51, "duration": 2.72 }, { "text": ">> So on line five, I'm getting a string.", "start": 2000.23, "duration": 2.54 }, { "text": "And I'm storing that string,\nwhatever the user has typed in", "start": 2002.77, "duration": 2.85 }, { "text": "at his or her keyboard,\nin a variable called Name.", "start": 2005.62, "duration": 2.81 }, { "text": "And it turns out that\nprintf doesn't just", "start": 2008.43, "duration": 2.16 }, { "text": "take one argument in double\nquotes, one input in double quotes.", "start": 2010.59, "duration": 3.63 }, { "text": ">> It can take two, or three, or more, such\nthat the second, or third, or fourth,", "start": 2014.22, "duration": 4.88 }, { "text": "are all the names of variables,\nor specifically values,", "start": 2019.1, "duration": 3.22 }, { "text": "that you want to plug into,\ndynamically, that string in quotes.", "start": 2022.32, "duration": 6.29 }, { "text": "In other words, what\nwould be wrong with this?", "start": 2028.61, "duration": 3.5 }, { "text": "If I just said hello name, backslash\nn, saved my file, compiled my code,", "start": 2032.11, "duration": 5.81 }, { "text": "and ran this, what would happen?", "start": 2037.92, "duration": 3.74 }, { "text": ">> It's just going to say, hello\nname, literally N-A-M-E,", "start": 2041.66, "duration": 3.479 }, { "text": "which is kind of stupid because\nit's no different from world.", "start": 2045.139, "duration": 2.761 }, { "text": "So anything in quotes is\nwhat literally gets printed.", "start": 2047.9, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": "So if I want to have\na placeholder there,", "start": 2050.4, "duration": 2.12 }, { "text": "I actually need to use\nsome special syntax.", "start": 2052.52, "duration": 1.902 }, { "text": "And it turns out if you read the\ndocumentation for the printf function,", "start": 2054.422, "duration": 2.958 }, { "text": "it will tell you that\nif you use percent s,", "start": 2057.38, "duration": 3.94 }, { "text": "you can substitute a value as follows.", "start": 2061.32, "duration": 2.6 }, { "text": ">> After a comma after that\ndouble quote, you simply", "start": 2063.92, "duration": 3.27 }, { "text": "write the name of the\nvariable that you want", "start": 2067.19, "duration": 1.989 }, { "text": "to plug in into that format\ncode, or format specifier,", "start": 2069.179, "duration": 4.611 }, { "text": "percent s for strings.", "start": 2073.79, "duration": 1.679 }, { "text": "And now if I've saved my file,\nI go back down to my terminal.", "start": 2075.469, "duration": 3.721 }, { "text": "And I type Make String,\nbecause, again, the name of this", "start": 2079.19, "duration": 3.68 }, { "text": "file that I chose before is string.c.", "start": 2082.87, "duration": 2.64 }, { "text": ">> So I'm going to say Make String, enter.", "start": 2085.51, "duration": 3.0 }, { "text": "Oh my goodness, look at all of\nthe mistakes we've made already.", "start": 2088.51, "duration": 3.04 }, { "text": "And this is-- what, this is really\nlike a six, seven line program?", "start": 2091.55, "duration": 3.99 }, { "text": "So this is where it can very\nquickly get overwhelming.", "start": 2095.54, "duration": 2.25 }, { "text": ">> This terminal window has\nnow just regurgitated", "start": 2097.79, "duration": 3.1 }, { "text": "a huge number of error messages.", "start": 2100.89, "duration": 2.34 }, { "text": "Surely, I don't have more error\nmessages than I have lines of code.", "start": 2103.23, "duration": 4.33 }, { "text": "So what is going on?", "start": 2107.56, "duration": 1.12 }, { "text": ">> Well, the best strategy\nto do anytime you", "start": 2108.68, "duration": 2.24 }, { "text": "do encounter an overwhelming\nlist of errors like that,", "start": 2110.92, "duration": 2.79 }, { "text": "is scroll back, look for the command\nyou just ran, which in my case", "start": 2113.71, "duration": 2.98 }, { "text": "is make string.", "start": 2116.69, "duration": 1.33 }, { "text": "Look at what make did, and that's that\nlong Clang command, no big deal there.", "start": 2118.02, "duration": 3.61 }, { "text": ">> But the red is bad.", "start": 2121.63, "duration": 1.32 }, { "text": "Green is trying to be\ngentle and helpful.", "start": 2122.95, "duration": 1.8 }, { "text": "But it's still bad, in this case.", "start": 2124.75, "duration": 1.39 }, { "text": "But where is it bad?", "start": 2126.14, "duration": 1.37 }, { "text": ">> String.c, line five, character five.", "start": 2127.51, "duration": 3.94 }, { "text": "So this is just common convention.", "start": 2131.45, "duration": 1.48 }, { "text": "Something colon something means\nline number and character number.", "start": 2132.93, "duration": 3.13 }, { "text": "Error, use of undeclared\nidentifier string.", "start": 2136.06, "duration": 5.02 }, { "text": "Did you mean standard in?", "start": 2141.08, "duration": 1.82 }, { "text": ">> So, unfortunately, Clang\nis trying to be helpful.", "start": 2142.9, "duration": 2.63 }, { "text": "But it's wrong, in this case.", "start": 2145.53, "duration": 1.32 }, { "text": "No, Clang, I did not mean standard IO.", "start": 2146.85, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": "I meant that on line one, yes.", "start": 2149.35, "duration": 1.72 }, { "text": ">> But line five is this one here.", "start": 2151.07, "duration": 2.35 }, { "text": "And Clang does not\nunderstand S-T-R-I-N-G.", "start": 2153.42, "duration": 3.62 }, { "text": "It's an undeclared identifier, a\nword it just has never seen before.", "start": 2157.04, "duration": 4.45 }, { "text": "And that's because C, the language\nwe're writing code in right now,", "start": 2161.49, "duration": 4.24 }, { "text": "does not have variables called strings.", "start": 2165.73, "duration": 2.34 }, { "text": ">> It doesn't, by default, support\nsomething called a string.", "start": 2168.07, "duration": 3.31 }, { "text": "That's a CS50 piece of\njargon, but very conventional.", "start": 2171.38, "duration": 5.37 }, { "text": "But I can fix this as follows.", "start": 2176.75, "duration": 1.85 }, { "text": ">> If I add one line of code\nto the top of this program,", "start": 2178.6, "duration": 3.49 }, { "text": "include CS50.h, which is another file\nsomewhere inside of CS50 IDE, somewhere", "start": 2182.09, "duration": 5.8 }, { "text": "on the hard drive, so to speak,\nof the Ubuntu operating system", "start": 2187.89, "duration": 2.93 }, { "text": "that I'm running, that\nis the file that's", "start": 2190.82, "duration": 2.77 }, { "text": "going to teach the operating\nsystem what a string is, just", "start": 2193.59, "duration": 5.15 }, { "text": "like standard io.h is the file\nin the operating system that's", "start": 2198.74, "duration": 3.19 }, { "text": "going to teach it what printf is.", "start": 2201.93, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": ">> Indeed, we would have gotten\na very similar message", "start": 2204.43, "duration": 2.38 }, { "text": "if IO had admitted standard\nIO.h and tried to use printf.", "start": 2206.81, "duration": 3.79 }, { "text": "So I'm going to go ahead and just\ntake Control L to clear my screen.", "start": 2210.6, "duration": 3.032 }, { "text": "Or you can type clear and it will\njust clear the terminal window.", "start": 2213.632, "duration": 2.708 }, { "text": "But you can still scroll back in time.", "start": 2216.34, "duration": 1.68 }, { "text": ">> And I'm going to rerun Make String.", "start": 2218.02, "duration": 3.08 }, { "text": "Cross my fingers this time, Enter.", "start": 2221.1, "duration": 2.56 }, { "text": "Oh my God, it worked.", "start": 2223.66, "duration": 1.72 }, { "text": "it shows me a long cryptic command\nthat is what Make generated via Clang,", "start": 2225.38, "duration": 3.9 }, { "text": "but no error messages.", "start": 2229.28, "duration": 1.18 }, { "text": "So realize, even though\nyou might get completely", "start": 2230.46, "duration": 2.0 }, { "text": "overwhelmed with the\nnumber of error messages,", "start": 2232.46, "duration": 2.02 }, { "text": "it just might be this annoying cascading\neffect, where Clang doesn't understand", "start": 2234.48, "duration": 3.06 }, { "text": "one thing, which means it then\ndoesn't understand the next word,", "start": 2237.54, "duration": 2.08 }, { "text": "or the next line.", "start": 2239.62, "duration": 0.94 }, { "text": "And so it just chokes on your code.", "start": 2240.56, "duration": 2.29 }, { "text": "But the fix might be simple.", "start": 2242.85, "duration": 1.59 }, { "text": "And so always focus on the\nvery first line of output.", "start": 2244.44, "duration": 3.382 }, { "text": "And if you don't\nunderstand it, just look", "start": 2247.822, "duration": 1.708 }, { "text": "for keywords that might be\nclues, and the line number,", "start": 2249.53, "duration": 2.95 }, { "text": "and the character, where\nthat mistake might be.", "start": 2252.48, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": ">> Now let me go ahead and type\ndot slash, string, enter.", "start": 2254.65, "duration": 5.678 }, { "text": "Hm, it's not saying hello anything.", "start": 2260.328, "duration": 4.012 }, { "text": "Why?", "start": 2264.34, "duration": 1.87 }, { "text": "Well, recall, where is it running?", "start": 2266.21, "duration": 1.96 }, { "text": ">> It's probably stuck at the moment\nin a loop, if you will, on line six,", "start": 2268.17, "duration": 5.56 }, { "text": "because Get String by design,\nwritten by CS50 staff,", "start": 2273.73, "duration": 3.22 }, { "text": "is literally meant to just sit\nthere waiting, and waiting,", "start": 2276.95, "duration": 3.4 }, { "text": "and waiting for a string.", "start": 2280.35, "duration": 1.5 }, { "text": "All we mean by string is human input.", "start": 2281.85, "duration": 1.942 }, { "text": "So you know what?", "start": 2283.792, "duration": 0.708 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead.", "start": 2284.5, "duration": 0.666 }, { "text": "And just on a whim, let me\ntype my name, David, enter.", "start": 2285.166, "duration": 3.538 }, { "text": "Now I have a more dynamic program.", "start": 2288.704, "duration": 1.416 }, { "text": "It said, hello David.", "start": 2290.12, "duration": 1.12 }, { "text": ">> If I go ahead and run this again,\nlet me try say Zamila name, enter.", "start": 2291.24, "duration": 5.04 }, { "text": "And now we have a dynamic program.", "start": 2296.28, "duration": 1.66 }, { "text": "I haven't hard coded world.", "start": 2297.94, "duration": 1.44 }, { "text": "I haven't hard coded\nname, or David, or Zamila.", "start": 2299.38, "duration": 2.38 }, { "text": ">> Now it's much more like the programs\nwe know, where if it take input,", "start": 2301.76, "duration": 3.59 }, { "text": "it produces slightly different output.", "start": 2305.35, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "Now, this is not the best\nuser experience, or UX.", "start": 2307.87, "duration": 3.15 }, { "text": "I run the program.", "start": 2311.02, "duration": 1.98 }, { "text": ">> I don't know what I'm supposed\nto do, unless I actually look at", "start": 2313.0, "duration": 2.83 }, { "text": "or remember the source code.", "start": 2315.83, "duration": 1.46 }, { "text": "So let's make the user\nexperience a little better", "start": 2317.29, "duration": 2.35 }, { "text": "with the simplest of things.", "start": 2319.64, "duration": 1.6 }, { "text": "Let me go back into this\nprogram, and simply say printf.", "start": 2321.24, "duration": 3.542 }, { "text": ">> And let me go ahead and say name, colon,\nand a space, and then a semi-colon.", "start": 2324.782, "duration": 4.088 }, { "text": "And just for kicks, no backlash n.", "start": 2328.87, "duration": 2.3 }, { "text": "And that's deliberate,\nbecause I don't want", "start": 2331.17, "duration": 1.81 }, { "text": "the prompt to move to the next line.", "start": 2332.98, "duration": 1.61 }, { "text": ">> I want to, instead, do this, make string\nto recompile my code into new machine", "start": 2334.59, "duration": 4.21 }, { "text": "code dot slash string.", "start": 2338.8, "duration": 2.18 }, { "text": "Ah, this is much prettier.", "start": 2340.98, "duration": 1.48 }, { "text": "Now I actually know what the computer\nwants me to do, give it a name.", "start": 2342.46, "duration": 3.32 }, { "text": ">> So I'm going to go ahead and type\nin Rob, enter, and hello, Rob.", "start": 2345.78, "duration": 4.24 }, { "text": "So, realize, this is still, at the end\nof the day, only a nine line program.", "start": 2350.02, "duration": 3.62 }, { "text": "But we've taken these baby steps.", "start": 2353.64, "duration": 1.45 }, { "text": ">> We wrote one line with which we\nwere familiar, printf, hello world.", "start": 2355.09, "duration": 3.29 }, { "text": "Then we undid a little bit of that.", "start": 2358.38, "duration": 1.6 }, { "text": "And we actually used get string.", "start": 2359.98, "duration": 1.58 }, { "text": "And we tossed that value in a variable.", "start": 2361.56, "duration": 1.802 }, { "text": "And then we went ahead and improved\nit further with a third line.", "start": 2363.362, "duration": 2.708 }, { "text": "And this iterative process of\nwriting software is truly key.", "start": 2366.07, "duration": 3.15 }, { "text": "In CS50, and in life in general,\nyou should generally not sit down,", "start": 2369.22, "duration": 4.2 }, { "text": "have a program in mind, and try writing\nthe whole damn thing all at once.", "start": 2373.42, "duration": 3.38 }, { "text": ">> It will, inevitably, result in way\nmore errors than we ourselves saw here.", "start": 2376.8, "duration": 4.01 }, { "text": "Even I, to this day, constantly\nmake other stupid mistakes,", "start": 2380.81, "duration": 3.26 }, { "text": "are actually harder mistakes\nthat are harder to figure out.", "start": 2384.07, "duration": 3.41 }, { "text": "But you will make more mistakes the more\nlines of code you write all at once.", "start": 2387.48, "duration": 4.615 }, { "text": "And so this practice of,\nwrite a little bit of code", "start": 2392.095, "duration": 2.125 }, { "text": "that you're comfortable with, compile\nit, run it, test it more generally,", "start": 2394.22, "duration": 3.71 }, { "text": "then move on-- so just like we kept\nlayering and layering last week,", "start": 2397.93, "duration": 3.44 }, { "text": "building from something very\nsimple to something more complex,", "start": 2401.37, "duration": 2.82 }, { "text": "do the same here.", "start": 2404.19, "duration": 1.01 }, { "text": "Don't sit down, and try to\nwrite an entire problem.", "start": 2405.2, "duration": 3.3 }, { "text": "Actually take these baby steps.", "start": 2408.5, "duration": 2.28 }, { "text": ">> Now, strings aren't all\nthat useful unto themselves.", "start": 2410.78, "duration": 4.32 }, { "text": "We'd actually, ideally, like to\nhave something else in our toolkit.", "start": 2415.1, "duration": 3.11 }, { "text": "So let's actually do exactly that.", "start": 2418.21, "duration": 2.78 }, { "text": ">> Let me go ahead now and whip up\na slightly different program.", "start": 2420.99, "duration": 3.91 }, { "text": "And we'll call this int.c, for integer.", "start": 2424.9, "duration": 3.42 }, { "text": "I'm going to, similarly,\ninclude CS550.h.", "start": 2428.32, "duration": 2.55 }, { "text": "I'm going to include standard IO.", "start": 2430.87, "duration": 2.19 }, { "text": "And that's going to be pretty common\nin these first few days of the class.", "start": 2433.06, "duration": 3.57 }, { "text": ">> And I'm going to ready\nmyself with a main function.", "start": 2436.63, "duration": 2.42 }, { "text": "And now instead of getting a string,\nlet's go ahead and get an int.", "start": 2439.05, "duration": 4.32 }, { "text": "Let's call it i, and call it get\nint, close parens, semi-colon.", "start": 2443.37, "duration": 5.915 }, { "text": "And now let's do\nsomething with it, printf.", "start": 2449.285, "duration": 2.125 }, { "text": ">> Let's say something like\nhello, backslash n, comma i.", "start": 2451.41, "duration": 4.78 }, { "text": "So I'm pretty much mimicking\nwhat I did just a moment ago.", "start": 2456.19, "duration": 3.82 }, { "text": "I have a placeholder here.", "start": 2460.01, "duration": 1.65 }, { "text": "I have comma i here, because I want\nto plug i into that placeholder.", "start": 2461.66, "duration": 3.49 }, { "text": ">> So let's go ahead and try\ncompiling this program.", "start": 2465.15, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": "The file is called int.c.", "start": 2467.25, "duration": 2.81 }, { "text": "So I'm going to say, make int, enter.", "start": 2470.06, "duration": 2.86 }, { "text": "Oh my God, but no big deal, right?", "start": 2472.92, "duration": 3.5 }, { "text": "There's a mistake.", "start": 2476.42, "duration": 0.81 }, { "text": ">> There's a syntactic mistake\nhere such that the program can't", "start": 2477.23, "duration": 2.58 }, { "text": "be compiled inside int.c, line\nseven, character 27, error format", "start": 2479.81, "duration": 5.65 }, { "text": "specifies type char\nstar, whatever that is.", "start": 2485.46, "duration": 2.94 }, { "text": "But the argument type is int.", "start": 2488.4, "duration": 1.62 }, { "text": ">> So here, too, we're not going to--\neven though today is a lot of material,", "start": 2490.02, "duration": 3.09 }, { "text": "we're going to overwhelm you with\nabsolutely every feature of C,", "start": 2493.11, "duration": 2.6 }, { "text": "and programming more generally,\nin just these first few weeks.", "start": 2495.71, "duration": 2.36 }, { "text": "So there's often going to be jargon\nwith which you're not familiar.", "start": 2498.07, "duration": 2.33 }, { "text": "And, in fact, char star is something\nwe're going to come back to", "start": 2500.4, "duration": 2.95 }, { "text": "in a week or two's time.", "start": 2503.35, "duration": 1.48 }, { "text": ">> But for now, let's see if we can\nparse words that are familiar.", "start": 2504.83, "duration": 2.7 }, { "text": "Formats-- so we heard format\nspecifier, format code before.", "start": 2507.53, "duration": 3.22 }, { "text": "That's familiar.", "start": 2510.75, "duration": 1.09 }, { "text": "Type-- but the argument has type int.", "start": 2511.84, "duration": 2.0 }, { "text": "Wait a minute, i is an int.", "start": 2513.84, "duration": 2.14 }, { "text": ">> Maybe percent s actually\nhas some defined meaning.", "start": 2515.98, "duration": 3.25 }, { "text": "And, indeed, it does.", "start": 2519.23, "duration": 1.0 }, { "text": "An integer, if you want\nprintf to substitute it,", "start": 2520.23, "duration": 2.871 }, { "text": "you actually have to use a\ndifferent format specifier.", "start": 2523.101, "duration": 2.249 }, { "text": "And you wouldn't know this\nunless someone told you,", "start": 2525.35, "duration": 1.54 }, { "text": "or you had done it before.", "start": 2526.89, "duration": 1.083 }, { "text": "But percent i is what\ncan be commonly used", "start": 2527.973, "duration": 2.517 }, { "text": "in printf for plugging in an integer.", "start": 2530.49, "duration": 1.75 }, { "text": "You can also use percent\nd for a decimal integer.", "start": 2532.24, "duration": 2.68 }, { "text": "But i is nice and simple here.", "start": 2534.92, "duration": 1.57 }, { "text": "So we'll go with that.", "start": 2536.49, "duration": 1.1 }, { "text": ">> Now let me go ahead and\nrerun make int, Enter.", "start": 2537.59, "duration": 3.57 }, { "text": "That's good, no errors.", "start": 2541.16, "duration": 2.168 }, { "text": "Dot slash int-- OK, bad user experience,\nbecause I haven't told myself", "start": 2543.328, "duration": 3.932 }, { "text": "what to do.", "start": 2547.26, "duration": 0.5 }, { "text": "But that's fine.", "start": 2547.76, "duration": 0.666 }, { "text": "I'm catching on quickly.", "start": 2548.426, "duration": 1.054 }, { "text": ">> And now let me go ahead and\ntype in David, OK, Zamila, Rob.", "start": 2549.48, "duration": 6.78 }, { "text": "OK, so this is a good thing.", "start": 2556.26, "duration": 1.56 }, { "text": "This time, I'm using a function,\na puzzle piece, called get int.", "start": 2557.82, "duration": 3.89 }, { "text": "And it turns out-- and we'll\nsee this later in the term--", "start": 2561.71, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "the CS50 staff has implemented\nget string in such a way", "start": 2564.23, "duration": 3.5 }, { "text": "that it will only physically\nget a string for you.", "start": 2567.73, "duration": 2.62 }, { "text": ">> It has implemented get int in\nsuch a way that it will only", "start": 2570.35, "duration": 3.99 }, { "text": "get an integer for you.", "start": 2574.34, "duration": 1.25 }, { "text": "And if you, the human,\ndon't cooperate, it's", "start": 2575.59, "duration": 2.24 }, { "text": "literally just going to\nsay retry, retry, retry,", "start": 2577.83, "duration": 2.76 }, { "text": "literally sitting there looping, until\nyou oblige with some magical number,", "start": 2580.59, "duration": 4.61 }, { "text": "like 50, and hello 50.", "start": 2585.2, "duration": 2.47 }, { "text": ">> Or if we run this again\nand type in 42, hello 42.", "start": 2587.67, "duration": 3.77 }, { "text": "And so the get int function\ninside of that puzzle piece", "start": 2591.44, "duration": 4.31 }, { "text": "is enough logic, enough thought,\nto figure out, what is a word?", "start": 2595.75, "duration": 3.3 }, { "text": "And what is a number?", "start": 2599.05, "duration": 1.28 }, { "text": "Only accepting, ultimately, numbers.", "start": 2600.33, "duration": 2.835 }, { "text": ">> So it turns out that this\nisn't all that expressive.", "start": 2605.69, "duration": 4.54 }, { "text": "so far.", "start": 2610.23, "duration": 0.68 }, { "text": "So, yay, last time we\nwent pretty quickly", "start": 2610.91, "duration": 2.78 }, { "text": "into implementing games, and animation,\nand artistic works in Scratch.", "start": 2613.69, "duration": 4.63 }, { "text": "And here, we are being content\nwith hello world, and hello 50.", "start": 2618.32, "duration": 3.94 }, { "text": ">> It's not all that inspiring.", "start": 2622.26, "duration": 1.436 }, { "text": "And, indeed, these first few\nexamples will take some time", "start": 2623.696, "duration": 2.374 }, { "text": "to ramp up in excitement.", "start": 2626.07, "duration": 1.44 }, { "text": "But we have so much more\ncontrol now, in fact.", "start": 2627.51, "duration": 2.344 }, { "text": "And we're going to very\nquickly start layering", "start": 2629.854, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "on top of these basic primitives.", "start": 2631.77, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": ">> But first, let's understand\nwhat the limitations are.", "start": 2633.87, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": "In fact, one of the things\nScratch doesn't easily", "start": 2636.37, "duration": 2.25 }, { "text": "let us do is really look\nunderneath the hood,", "start": 2638.62, "duration": 2.37 }, { "text": "and understand what a\ncomputer is, what it can do,", "start": 2640.99, "duration": 2.75 }, { "text": "and what its limitations are.", "start": 2643.74, "duration": 1.51 }, { "text": "And, indeed, that lack of\nunderstanding, potentially, long-term", "start": 2645.25, "duration": 3.33 }, { "text": "can lead to our own mistakes-- writing\nbugs, writing insecure software that", "start": 2648.58, "duration": 3.94 }, { "text": "gets hacked in some way.", "start": 2652.52, "duration": 1.36 }, { "text": ">> So let's take some steps toward\nunderstanding this a little better by", "start": 2653.88, "duration": 3.25 }, { "text": "way of, say, the following example.", "start": 2657.13, "duration": 2.58 }, { "text": "I'm going to go ahead and implement\nreal quick a program called Adder.", "start": 2659.71, "duration": 3.84 }, { "text": "Like, let's add some numbers together.", "start": 2663.55, "duration": 1.584 }, { "text": "And I'm going to code some corners\nhere, and just copy and paste", "start": 2665.134, "duration": 2.666 }, { "text": "where I was before, just\nso we can get going sooner.", "start": 2667.8, "duration": 2.47 }, { "text": "So now I've got the basic beginnings\nof a program called Adder.", "start": 2670.27, "duration": 2.82 }, { "text": ">> And let's go ahead and do this.", "start": 2673.09, "duration": 1.58 }, { "text": "I'm going to go ahead and\nsay, intx gets get int.", "start": 2674.67, "duration": 4.01 }, { "text": "And you know what?", "start": 2678.68, "duration": 0.75 }, { "text": "Let's make a better user experience.", "start": 2679.43, "duration": 1.56 }, { "text": ">> So let's just say x is, and effectively\nprompt the user to give us x.", "start": 2680.99, "duration": 4.75 }, { "text": "And then let me go ahead and say, printf\nhow about y is, this time expecting", "start": 2685.74, "duration": 4.86 }, { "text": "two values from the user.", "start": 2690.6, "duration": 2.54 }, { "text": "And then let's just go ahead and\nsay, printf, the sum of x and y is.", "start": 2693.14, "duration": 6.619 }, { "text": "And now I don't want to do percent s.", "start": 2699.759, "duration": 1.541 }, { "text": "I want to do percent i, backslash\nn, and then plug in sum value.", "start": 2701.3, "duration": 7.78 }, { "text": ">> So how can I go about doing this?", "start": 2709.08, "duration": 1.54 }, { "text": "You know what?", "start": 2710.62, "duration": 0.65 }, { "text": "I know how to use variables.", "start": 2711.27, "duration": 1.57 }, { "text": "Let me just declare a new one, int z.", "start": 2712.84, "duration": 2.3 }, { "text": ">> And I'm going to take a guess here.", "start": 2715.14, "duration": 1.63 }, { "text": "If there are equal signs in this\nlanguage, maybe I can just do x plus y,", "start": 2716.77, "duration": 4.7 }, { "text": "so long as I end my\nthought with a semi-colon?", "start": 2721.47, "duration": 2.19 }, { "text": "Now I can go back down here, plug in z,\nfinish this thought with a semi-colon.", "start": 2723.66, "duration": 4.51 }, { "text": "And let's see now, if these\nsequences of lines-- x is get int.", "start": 2728.17, "duration": 4.99 }, { "text": "Y is get int.", "start": 2733.16, "duration": 1.61 }, { "text": ">> Add x and y, store the value in z--\nso, again, remember the equal sign", "start": 2734.77, "duration": 3.21 }, { "text": "is not equal.", "start": 2737.98, "duration": 0.58 }, { "text": "It's assignment from right to left.", "start": 2738.56, "duration": 2.54 }, { "text": "And let's print out that the sum\nof x and y is not literally z,", "start": 2741.1, "duration": 4.08 }, { "text": "but what's inside of z.", "start": 2745.18, "duration": 1.65 }, { "text": "So let's make Adder --\nnice, no mistakes this time.", "start": 2746.83, "duration": 3.26 }, { "text": "Dot slash Adder, enter,\nx is going to be 1.", "start": 2750.09, "duration": 2.94 }, { "text": ">> Y is going to be 2.", "start": 2753.03, "duration": 2.35 }, { "text": "And the sum of x and y is 3.", "start": 2755.38, "duration": 3.584 }, { "text": "So that's all fine and good.", "start": 2758.964, "duration": 1.166 }, { "text": ">> So you would imagine that math\nshould work in a program like this.", "start": 2760.13, "duration": 3.13 }, { "text": "But you know what?", "start": 2763.26, "duration": 0.78 }, { "text": "Is this variable, line\n12, even necessary?", "start": 2764.04, "duration": 2.864 }, { "text": "You don't need to get in the habit\nof just storing things in variables", "start": 2766.904, "duration": 2.916 }, { "text": "just because you can.", "start": 2769.82, "duration": 1.16 }, { "text": "And, in fact, it's generally\nconsidered bad design", "start": 2770.98, "duration": 2.57 }, { "text": "if you are creating a variable, called\nz in this case, storing something in it,", "start": 2773.55, "duration": 4.55 }, { "text": "and then immediately\nusing it, but never again.", "start": 2778.1, "duration": 3.29 }, { "text": "Why give something a name\nlike z if you're literally", "start": 2781.39, "duration": 3.31 }, { "text": "going to use that\nthing only once, and so", "start": 2784.7, "duration": 2.07 }, { "text": "proximal to where you created\nit in the first place,", "start": 2786.77, "duration": 2.61 }, { "text": "so close in terms of lines of code?", "start": 2789.38, "duration": 1.672 }, { "text": "So you know what?", "start": 2791.052, "duration": 0.708 }, { "text": "It turns out that C is pretty flexible.", "start": 2791.76, "duration": 2.72 }, { "text": "If I actually want to\nplug-in values here,", "start": 2794.48, "duration": 2.106 }, { "text": "I don't need to declare a new variable.", "start": 2796.586, "duration": 1.624 }, { "text": "I could just plug-in x plus\ny, because C understands", "start": 2798.21, "duration": 3.47 }, { "text": "arithmetic, and mathematical operators.", "start": 2801.68, "duration": 1.71 }, { "text": ">> So I can simply say, do this math,\nx plus y, whatever those values are,", "start": 2803.39, "duration": 3.75 }, { "text": "plug the resulting\ninteger into that string.", "start": 2807.14, "duration": 3.64 }, { "text": "So this might be, though\nonly one line shorter,", "start": 2810.78, "duration": 2.95 }, { "text": "a better design, a better program,\nbecause there's less code, therefore", "start": 2813.73, "duration": 4.75 }, { "text": "less for me to understand.", "start": 2818.48, "duration": 1.441 }, { "text": "And it's also just cleaner,\ninsofar as we're not", "start": 2819.921, "duration": 1.999 }, { "text": "introducing new words,\nnew symbols, like z,", "start": 2821.92, "duration": 2.7 }, { "text": "even though they don't really\nserve much of a purpose.", "start": 2824.62, "duration": 2.89 }, { "text": ">> Unfortunately, math isn't\nall that reliable sometimes.", "start": 2827.51, "duration": 5.38 }, { "text": "Let's go ahead and do this.", "start": 2832.89, "duration": 2.38 }, { "text": "I'm going to go ahead\nnow and do the following.", "start": 2835.27, "duration": 2.93 }, { "text": ">> Let's do printf, percent i, plus percent\ni, shall be percent i, backslash n.", "start": 2838.2, "duration": 9.45 }, { "text": "And I'm going to do this-- xyx plus y.", "start": 2847.65, "duration": 4.59 }, { "text": "So I'm just going to rewrite\nthis slightly differently here.", "start": 2852.24, "duration": 2.581 }, { "text": "Let me just do a quick sanity check.", "start": 2854.821, "duration": 1.499 }, { "text": "Again, let's not get ahead of ourselves.", "start": 2856.32, "duration": 1.666 }, { "text": "Make adder, dot slash adder.", "start": 2857.986, "duration": 3.434 }, { "text": "x is 1, y is 2, 1 plus 2 is 3.", "start": 2861.42, "duration": 3.53 }, { "text": "So that's good.", "start": 2864.95, "duration": 0.92 }, { "text": "But let's complicate this now\na bit, and create a new file.", "start": 2865.87, "duration": 3.19 }, { "text": ">> I'm going to call this one,\nsay, ints, plural for integers.", "start": 2869.06, "duration": 4.29 }, { "text": "Let me start where I was a moment ago.", "start": 2873.35, "duration": 2.63 }, { "text": "But now let's do a few other lines.", "start": 2875.98, "duration": 1.79 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and do the following,\nprintf, percent i, minus percent i,", "start": 2877.77, "duration": 5.66 }, { "text": "is percent i, comma x, comma yx minus y.", "start": 2883.43, "duration": 5.529 }, { "text": "So I'm doing slightly\ndifferent math there.", "start": 2888.959, "duration": 1.791 }, { "text": "Let's do another one.", "start": 2890.75, "duration": 0.874 }, { "text": "So percent i times percent\ni is percent i, backslash n.", "start": 2891.624, "duration": 4.986 }, { "text": "Let's plug-in x, and y, and x times y.", "start": 2896.61, "duration": 4.82 }, { "text": "We'll use the asterisk on\nyour computer for times.", "start": 2901.43, "duration": 3.1 }, { "text": ">> You don't use x. x is\na variable name here.", "start": 2904.53, "duration": 1.86 }, { "text": "You use the star for multiplication.", "start": 2906.39, "duration": 1.88 }, { "text": "Let's do one more.", "start": 2908.27, "duration": 0.75 }, { "text": "Printf percent I, divided\nby percent i, is percent i,", "start": 2909.02, "duration": 5.56 }, { "text": "backslash n. xy divided by y--\nso you use the forward slash in C", "start": 2914.58, "duration": 5.88 }, { "text": "to do division.", "start": 2920.46, "duration": 1.042 }, { "text": "And let's do one other.", "start": 2921.502, "duration": 0.958 }, { "text": "Remainder of percent i, divided\nby percent i, is percent i.", "start": 2927.92, "duration": 7.32 }, { "text": "xy-- and now remainder\nis what's left over.", "start": 2935.24, "duration": 4.31 }, { "text": "When you try dividing a\ndenominator into a numerator,", "start": 2939.55, "duration": 3.43 }, { "text": "how much is left over that\nyou couldn't divide out?", "start": 2942.98, "duration": 2.59 }, { "text": ">> So there isn't really,\nnecessarily, a symbol", "start": 2945.57, "duration": 2.34 }, { "text": "we've used in grade school for this.", "start": 2947.91, "duration": 1.56 }, { "text": "But there in C. You can\nsay x modulo y, where", "start": 2949.47, "duration": 4.36 }, { "text": "this percent sign in this context--\nconfusingly when you're inside", "start": 2953.83, "duration": 4.17 }, { "text": "of the double quotes,\ninside of printf, percent", "start": 2958.0, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": "is used as the format specifier.", "start": 2960.17, "duration": 1.66 }, { "text": ">> When you use percent outside of\nthat in a mathematical expression,", "start": 2961.83, "duration": 3.59 }, { "text": "it's the modulo operator for modular\narithmetic-- for our purposes", "start": 2965.42, "duration": 4.49 }, { "text": "here, just means, what is the\nremainder of x divided by y?", "start": 2969.91, "duration": 3.74 }, { "text": "So x divided by y is x slash y.", "start": 2973.65, "duration": 2.48 }, { "text": "What's the remainder of x divided by y?", "start": 2976.13, "duration": 2.09 }, { "text": "It's x mod y, as a programmer would say.", "start": 2978.22, "duration": 3.56 }, { "text": ">> So if I made no mistakes here, let me\ngo ahead and make ints, plural, nice,", "start": 2981.78, "duration": 6.52 }, { "text": "and dot slash ints.", "start": 2988.3, "duration": 1.71 }, { "text": "And let's go ahead and\ndo, let's say, 1, 10.", "start": 2990.01, "duration": 5.26 }, { "text": "All right, 1 plus 10 is 11, check.", "start": 2995.27, "duration": 3.12 }, { "text": "1 minus 10 is negative 9, check.", "start": 2998.39, "duration": 2.85 }, { "text": ">> 1 times 10 is 10, check.", "start": 3001.24, "duration": 2.18 }, { "text": "1 divided by 10 is--\nOK, we'll skip that one.", "start": 3003.42, "duration": 3.67 }, { "text": "Remainder of 1 divided by 10 is 1.", "start": 3007.09, "duration": 2.39 }, { "text": "That's correct.", "start": 3009.48, "duration": 1.2 }, { "text": "But there's a bug in here.", "start": 3010.68, "duration": 1.95 }, { "text": ">> So the one I put my\nhand over, not correct.", "start": 3012.63, "duration": 2.76 }, { "text": "I mean, it's close to 0.", "start": 3015.39, "duration": 1.28 }, { "text": "1 divided by 10, you know, if we're\ncutting some corners, sure, it's zero.", "start": 3016.67, "duration": 4.0 }, { "text": "But it should really be 1/10,\n0.1, or 0.10, 0.1000, or so forth.", "start": 3020.67, "duration": 7.38 }, { "text": ">> It should not really be zero.", "start": 3028.05, "duration": 2.55 }, { "text": "Well, it turns out that the computer is\ndoing literally what we told it to do.", "start": 3030.6, "duration": 5.39 }, { "text": "We are doing math like x divided by y.", "start": 3035.99, "duration": 3.47 }, { "text": "And both x and y, per the lines\nof code earlier, are integers.", "start": 3039.46, "duration": 5.22 }, { "text": ">> Moreover, on line 15, we are\ntelling printf, hey, printf plug-in", "start": 3044.68, "duration": 5.76 }, { "text": "an integer, plug-in an integer,\nplug-in an integer-- specifically", "start": 3050.44, "duration": 3.79 }, { "text": "x, and then y, and then x\ndivided by y. x and y are ints.", "start": 3054.23, "duration": 3.35 }, { "text": "We're good there.", "start": 3057.58, "duration": 1.48 }, { "text": ">> But what is x divided by x?", "start": 3059.06, "duration": 2.19 }, { "text": "x divided by y should be,\nmathematically, 1/10, or 0.1,", "start": 3061.25, "duration": 5.54 }, { "text": "which is a real number, a real number\nhaving, potentially, a decimal point.", "start": 3066.79, "duration": 4.81 }, { "text": "It's not an integer.", "start": 3071.6, "duration": 1.63 }, { "text": ">> But what is the closest\ninteger to 1/10, or 0.1?", "start": 3073.23, "duration": 5.06 }, { "text": "Yeah, it kind of is zero.", "start": 3078.29, "duration": 2.824 }, { "text": "0.1 is like this much.", "start": 3081.114, "duration": 0.916 }, { "text": "And 1 is this much.", "start": 3082.03, "duration": 0.86 }, { "text": "So 1/10 is closer to\n0 than it is to one.", "start": 3082.89, "duration": 2.98 }, { "text": ">> And so what C is doing for us--\nkind of because we told it to--", "start": 3085.87, "duration": 4.93 }, { "text": "is truncating that integer.", "start": 3090.8, "duration": 1.8 }, { "text": "It's taking the value, which again is\nsupposed to be something like 0.1000,", "start": 3092.6, "duration": 7.94 }, { "text": "0 and so forth.", "start": 3100.54, "duration": 1.26 }, { "text": "And it's truncating everything\nafter the decimal point", "start": 3101.8, "duration": 3.52 }, { "text": "so that all of this\nstuff, because it doesn't", "start": 3105.32, "duration": 2.19 }, { "text": "fit in the notion of an integer, which\nis just a number like negative 1, 0, 1,", "start": 3107.51, "duration": 4.4 }, { "text": "up and down, it throws away everything\nafter the decimal point because you", "start": 3111.91, "duration": 3.92 }, { "text": "can't fit a decimal point\nin an integer by definition.", "start": 3115.83, "duration": 3.19 }, { "text": ">> So the answer here is zero.", "start": 3119.02, "duration": 2.27 }, { "text": "So how do we fix this?", "start": 3121.29, "duration": 1.31 }, { "text": "We need another solution all together.", "start": 3122.6, "duration": 1.8 }, { "text": "And we can do this, as follows.", "start": 3124.4, "duration": 2.48 }, { "text": ">> Let me go ahead and create a new\nfile, this one called floats.c.", "start": 3126.88, "duration": 5.94 }, { "text": "And save it here in the\nsame directory, float.c.", "start": 3132.82, "duration": 3.68 }, { "text": "And let me go ahead and copy\nsome of that code from earlier.", "start": 3139.36, "duration": 3.9 }, { "text": ">> But instead of getting\nan int, let's do this.", "start": 3143.26, "duration": 4.43 }, { "text": "Give me a floating point value\ncalled x. where a floating point", "start": 3147.69, "duration": 3.347 }, { "text": "value is just literally\nsomething with a floating point.", "start": 3151.037, "duration": 2.333 }, { "text": "It can move to the left, to the right.", "start": 3153.37, "duration": 1.04 }, { "text": "It's a real number.", "start": 3154.41, "duration": 1.12 }, { "text": ">> And let me call not\nget int, but get float,", "start": 3155.53, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "which also was among the menu\nof options in the C250 library.", "start": 3158.05, "duration": 3.37 }, { "text": "Let's change y to a float.", "start": 3161.42, "duration": 1.8 }, { "text": "So this becomes get float.", "start": 3163.22, "duration": 1.78 }, { "text": ">> And now, we don't want to plug in ints.", "start": 3165.0, "duration": 2.62 }, { "text": "It turns out we have to use percent\nf for float, percent f for float,", "start": 3167.62, "duration": 5.51 }, { "text": "and now save it.", "start": 3173.13, "duration": 1.43 }, { "text": "And now, fingers crossed, make\nfloats, nice, dot slash floats.", "start": 3174.56, "duration": 6.66 }, { "text": "x is going to be one 1. y\nIs going to be 10 again.", "start": 3181.22, "duration": 3.06 }, { "text": ">> And, nice, OK my addition is correct.", "start": 3184.28, "duration": 3.96 }, { "text": "I was hoping for more,\nbut I forgot to write it.", "start": 3188.24, "duration": 2.0 }, { "text": "So let's go and fix this logical error.", "start": 3190.24, "duration": 3.01 }, { "text": ">> Let's go ahead and grab the following.", "start": 3193.25, "duration": 3.03 }, { "text": "We'll just do a little copy and paste.", "start": 3196.28, "duration": 1.8 }, { "text": "And I'm going to say minus.", "start": 3198.08, "duration": 2.0 }, { "text": ">> And I'm going to say times.", "start": 3200.08, "duration": 1.81 }, { "text": "And I'm going to say divided.", "start": 3201.89, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": "And I'm not going to do modulo,\nwhich is not as germane here,", "start": 3204.06, "duration": 4.18 }, { "text": "divided by f, and times plus--\nOK, let's do this again.", "start": 3208.24, "duration": 5.45 }, { "text": ">> Make floats, dot slash floats,\nand 1, 10, and-- nice, no, OK.", "start": 3213.69, "duration": 10.52 }, { "text": "So I'm an idiot.", "start": 3224.21, "duration": 1.04 }, { "text": "So this is very common\nin computer science", "start": 3225.25, "duration": 1.75 }, { "text": "to make stupid mistakes like this.", "start": 3227.0, "duration": 2.78 }, { "text": ">> For pedagogical purposes,\nwhat I really wanted to do", "start": 3229.78, "duration": 3.32 }, { "text": "was change the science here\nto plus, to minus, to times,", "start": 3233.1, "duration": 4.31 }, { "text": "and to divide, as you hopefully\nnoticed during this exercise.", "start": 3237.41, "duration": 3.73 }, { "text": "So now let's re-compile this\nprogram, do dot slash floats.", "start": 3241.14, "duration": 3.56 }, { "text": ">> And for the third time, let's\nsee if it meets my expectations.", "start": 3244.7, "duration": 3.25 }, { "text": "1, 10, enter, yes, OK, 1.000,\ndivided by 10.000, is 0.100000.", "start": 3247.95, "duration": 13.53 }, { "text": "And it turns out we can control how many\nnumbers are after those decimal points.", "start": 3261.48, "duration": 3.472 }, { "text": "We actually will.", "start": 3264.952, "duration": 0.708 }, { "text": "We'll come back to that.", "start": 3265.66, "duration": 1.13 }, { "text": ">> But now, in fact, the math is correct.", "start": 3266.79, "duration": 1.65 }, { "text": "So, again, what's the takeaway here?", "start": 3268.44, "duration": 1.65 }, { "text": "It turns out that in C, there are\nnot only just strings-- and, in fact,", "start": 3270.09, "duration": 2.96 }, { "text": "there aren't really, because we\nadd those with the CS50 library.", "start": 3273.05, "duration": 3.07 }, { "text": "But there aren't just ints.", "start": 3276.12, "duration": 1.59 }, { "text": ">> There are also floats.", "start": 3277.71, "duration": 1.28 }, { "text": "And it turns out a bunch of other data\ntypes too, that we'll use before long.", "start": 3278.99, "duration": 3.82 }, { "text": "Turns out if you want a single\ncharacter, not a string of characters,", "start": 3282.81, "duration": 3.46 }, { "text": "you can use just a char.", "start": 3286.27, "duration": 1.34 }, { "text": ">> Turns out that if you want a bool,\na Boolean value, true or false only,", "start": 3287.61, "duration": 4.74 }, { "text": "thanks to the CS50 library, we've\nadded to C the bool data type as well.", "start": 3292.35, "duration": 4.49 }, { "text": "But it's also present in\nmany other languages as well.", "start": 3296.84, "duration": 2.34 }, { "text": "And it turns out that sometimes you\nneed bigger numbers then come by default", "start": 3299.18, "duration": 4.95 }, { "text": "with ints and floats.", "start": 3304.13, "duration": 1.08 }, { "text": ">> And, in fact, a double is a number\nthat uses not 32 bits, but 64 bits.", "start": 3305.21, "duration": 5.38 }, { "text": "And a long long is a number that\nuses not 32, bits but 64 bits,", "start": 3310.59, "duration": 4.4 }, { "text": "respectively, for floating point\nvalues and integers, respectively.", "start": 3314.99, "duration": 4.2 }, { "text": "So let's actually now\nsee this in action.", "start": 3319.19, "duration": 3.59 }, { "text": ">> I'm going to go ahead here\nand whip up one other program.", "start": 3322.78, "duration": 3.37 }, { "text": "Here, I'm going to go ahead\nand do include CS50.h.", "start": 3326.15, "duration": 5.87 }, { "text": "And let me go, include standard IO.h.", "start": 3332.02, "duration": 2.89 }, { "text": ">> And you'll notice something\nfunky is happening here.", "start": 3334.91, "duration": 2.41 }, { "text": "It's not color coding things in\nthe same way as it did before.", "start": 3337.32, "duration": 3.272 }, { "text": "And it turns out, that's because I\nhaven't given the thing a file name.", "start": 3340.592, "duration": 2.958 }, { "text": ">> I'm going to call this one\nsizeof.c, and hit Save.", "start": 3343.55, "duration": 3.72 }, { "text": "And notice what happens to my very\nwhite code against that black backdrop.", "start": 3347.27, "duration": 3.769 }, { "text": "Now, at least there's\nsome purple in there.", "start": 3351.039, "duration": 1.791 }, { "text": "And it is syntax highlighted.", "start": 3352.83, "duration": 1.66 }, { "text": ">> That's because, quite simply, I've\ntold the IDE what type of file", "start": 3354.49, "duration": 3.21 }, { "text": "it is by giving it a name, and\nspecifically a file extension.", "start": 3357.7, "duration": 3.36 }, { "text": "Now, let's go ahead and do this.", "start": 3361.06, "duration": 2.56 }, { "text": "I'm going to go ahead and very\nsimply print out the following-- bool", "start": 3363.62, "duration": 5.29 }, { "text": "is percent LU.", "start": 3368.91, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": ">> We'll come back to\nthat in just a moment.", "start": 3371.08, "duration": 1.87 }, { "text": "And then I'm going to\nprint size of bool.", "start": 3372.95, "duration": 2.89 }, { "text": "And now, just to save\nmyself some time, I'm", "start": 3375.84, "duration": 2.33 }, { "text": "going to do a whole\nbunch of these at once.", "start": 3378.17, "duration": 2.11 }, { "text": "And, specifically, I'm going to\nchange this to a char and char.", "start": 3380.28, "duration": 4.34 }, { "text": "This one, I'm going to change\nto a double and a double.", "start": 3384.62, "duration": 3.14 }, { "text": ">> This one, I'm going to change\nto a float and a float.", "start": 3387.76, "duration": 3.68 }, { "text": "This one, I'm going to\nchange to an int and an int.", "start": 3391.44, "duration": 4.23 }, { "text": "And this one, I'm going\nto change to a long long.", "start": 3395.67, "duration": 2.99 }, { "text": "And it's still taking\na long time, long long.", "start": 3398.66, "duration": 2.18 }, { "text": ">> And then, lastly, I gave\nmyself one too many, string.", "start": 3400.84, "duration": 3.732 }, { "text": "It turns out that in C, there's\nthe special operator called", "start": 3404.572, "duration": 2.458 }, { "text": "size of that's literally\ngoing to, when run,", "start": 3407.03, "duration": 3.23 }, { "text": "tell us the size of\neach of these variables.", "start": 3410.26, "duration": 1.839 }, { "text": "And this is a way, now,\nwe can connect back", "start": 3412.099, "duration": 1.791 }, { "text": "to last week's discussion\nof data and representation.", "start": 3413.89, "duration": 3.25 }, { "text": ">> Let me go ahead and compile\nsize of dot slash size of.", "start": 3417.14, "duration": 3.19 }, { "text": "And let's see.", "start": 3420.33, "duration": 0.88 }, { "text": "It turns out that in C,\nspecifically on CS50 IDE,", "start": 3421.21, "duration": 4.0 }, { "text": "specifically on the\noperating system Ubuntu,", "start": 3425.21, "duration": 2.96 }, { "text": "which is a 64-bit operating\nsystem in this case,", "start": 3428.17, "duration": 2.93 }, { "text": "a bool is going to\nuse one byte of space.", "start": 3431.1, "duration": 3.089 }, { "text": "That's how size is measured,\nnot in bits, but in bytes.", "start": 3434.189, "duration": 2.291 }, { "text": "And recall that one byte is eight bits.", "start": 3436.48, "duration": 2.21 }, { "text": "So a bool, even though you\ntechnically only need a 0 or 1,", "start": 3438.69, "duration": 3.34 }, { "text": "it's a little wasteful\nhow we've implemented it.", "start": 3442.03, "duration": 2.062 }, { "text": "It's actually going to use a whole\nbyte-- so all zeros, are maybe", "start": 3444.092, "duration": 2.708 }, { "text": "all ones, or something like that,\nor just one 1 among eight bits.", "start": 3446.8, "duration": 4.25 }, { "text": ">> A char, meanwhile, used for a character\nlike an Ascii character per last week,", "start": 3451.05, "duration": 3.912 }, { "text": "is going to be one character.", "start": 3454.962, "duration": 1.208 }, { "text": "And that synchs up with our notion of\nit being no more than 256 bits-- rather,", "start": 3456.17, "duration": 6.17 }, { "text": "synchs up with it being no\nlonger than 8 bits, which", "start": 3462.34, "duration": 3.02 }, { "text": "gives us as many as 256 values.", "start": 3465.36, "duration": 2.09 }, { "text": "A double is going to\nbe 8 bytes or 64 bits.", "start": 3467.45, "duration": 2.23 }, { "text": ">> A float is 4.", "start": 3469.68, "duration": 0.83 }, { "text": "An int is 4.", "start": 3470.51, "duration": 1.18 }, { "text": "A long, long is 8.", "start": 3471.69, "duration": 1.29 }, { "text": "And a string is 8.", "start": 3472.98, "duration": 1.736 }, { "text": "But don't worry about that.", "start": 3474.716, "duration": 1.124 }, { "text": "We're going to peel back that layer.", "start": 3475.84, "duration": 1.5 }, { "text": "It turns out, strings can\nbe longer than 8 bytes.", "start": 3477.34, "duration": 2.6 }, { "text": ">> And, indeed, we've written\nstrings already, hello world,", "start": 3479.94, "duration": 2.37 }, { "text": "longer than 8 bytes.", "start": 3482.31, "duration": 1.39 }, { "text": "But we'll come back to\nthat in just a moment.", "start": 3483.7, "duration": 2.57 }, { "text": "But the take away here is the following.", "start": 3486.27, "duration": 3.42 }, { "text": ">> Any computer only has a finite\namount of memory and space.", "start": 3489.69, "duration": 5.63 }, { "text": "You can only store so many\nfiles on your Mac or PC.", "start": 3495.32, "duration": 2.54 }, { "text": "You can only store so many programs in\nRAM running at once, necessarily, even", "start": 3497.86, "duration": 5.17 }, { "text": "with virtual memory, because\nyou have a finite amount of RAM.", "start": 3503.03, "duration": 3.33 }, { "text": ">> And just to picture-- if\nyou've never opened up a laptop", "start": 3506.36, "duration": 2.63 }, { "text": "or ordered extra memory\nfor a computer, you", "start": 3508.99, "duration": 2.31 }, { "text": "might not know that\ninside of your computer", "start": 3511.3, "duration": 2.37 }, { "text": "is something that looks\na little like this.", "start": 3513.67, "duration": 2.92 }, { "text": "So this is just a common company named\nCrucial that makes RAM for computers.", "start": 3516.59, "duration": 3.95 }, { "text": "And RAM is where programs\nlive while they're running.", "start": 3520.54, "duration": 3.08 }, { "text": ">> So on every Mac or PC, when you double\nclick a program, and it opens up,", "start": 3523.62, "duration": 3.01 }, { "text": "and it opens some Word document\nor something like that,", "start": 3526.63, "duration": 2.291 }, { "text": "it stores it temporarily in\nRAM, because RAM is faster", "start": 3528.921, "duration": 2.843 }, { "text": "than your hard disk, or\nyour solid state disk.", "start": 3531.764, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "So it's just where programs go\nto live when they're running,", "start": 3533.68, "duration": 2.92 }, { "text": "or when files are being used.", "start": 3536.6, "duration": 1.46 }, { "text": ">> So you have things that look\nlike this inside of your laptop,", "start": 3538.06, "duration": 2.83 }, { "text": "or slightly bigger things\ninside of your desktop.", "start": 3540.89, "duration": 2.43 }, { "text": "But the key is you only have a\nfinite number of these things.", "start": 3543.32, "duration": 4.12 }, { "text": "And there's only a finite amount of\nhardware sitting on this desk right", "start": 3547.44, "duration": 3.79 }, { "text": "here.", "start": 3551.23, "duration": 0.5 }, { "text": ">> So, surely, we can't store\ninfinitely long numbers.", "start": 3551.73, "duration": 4.19 }, { "text": "And, yet, if you think back to\ngrade school, how many digits can", "start": 3555.92, "duration": 3.11 }, { "text": "you have to the right\nof a decimal point?", "start": 3559.03, "duration": 2.37 }, { "text": "For that matter, how many digits can\nyou have to the left of a decimal point?", "start": 3561.4, "duration": 3.28 }, { "text": "Really, infinitely many.", "start": 3564.68, "duration": 1.62 }, { "text": ">> Now, we humans might only\nknow how to pronounce million,", "start": 3566.3, "duration": 4.54 }, { "text": "and billion, trillion, and\nquadrillion, and quintillion.", "start": 3570.84, "duration": 4.15 }, { "text": "And I'm pushing the limits of my\nunderstanding-- or my-- I understand", "start": 3574.99, "duration": 4.38 }, { "text": "numbers, but my\npronunciation of numbers.", "start": 3579.37, "duration": 1.74 }, { "text": "But they can get infinitely large with\ninfinitely many digits to the left", "start": 3581.11, "duration": 3.61 }, { "text": "or to the right of a decimal point.", "start": 3584.72, "duration": 2.33 }, { "text": ">> But computers only have a\nfinite amount of memory,", "start": 3587.05, "duration": 2.99 }, { "text": "a finite number of transistors, a\nfinite number of light bulbs inside.", "start": 3590.04, "duration": 3.47 }, { "text": "So what happens when\nyou run out of space?", "start": 3593.51, "duration": 3.84 }, { "text": "In other words, if you\nthink back to last week", "start": 3597.35, "duration": 2.27 }, { "text": "when we talked about numbers\nthemselves being represented in binary,", "start": 3599.62, "duration": 3.54 }, { "text": "suppose that we've got\nthis 8-bit value here.", "start": 3603.16, "duration": 2.32 }, { "text": ">> And we have seven 1's and one 0.", "start": 3605.48, "duration": 2.81 }, { "text": "And suppose that we want\nto add 1 to this value.", "start": 3608.29, "duration": 2.537 }, { "text": "This is a really big number right now.", "start": 3610.827, "duration": 1.583 }, { "text": ">> This is 254, if I remember\nthe math from last week right.", "start": 3612.41, "duration": 4.2 }, { "text": "But what if I change\nthat rightmost 0 to a 1?", "start": 3616.61, "duration": 2.87 }, { "text": "The whole number, of\ncourse, becomes eight 1's.", "start": 3619.48, "duration": 3.32 }, { "text": "So we're still good.", "start": 3622.8, "duration": 1.25 }, { "text": ">> And that probably represents\n255, though depending on context", "start": 3624.05, "duration": 3.154 }, { "text": "it could actually represent\na negative number.", "start": 3627.204, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "But more on that another time.", "start": 3629.12, "duration": 2.12 }, { "text": "This feels like it's about\nas high as I can count.", "start": 3631.24, "duration": 2.98 }, { "text": ">> Now, it's only 8 bits.", "start": 3634.22, "duration": 1.07 }, { "text": "And my Mac, surely, has way\nmore than 8 bits of memory.", "start": 3635.29, "duration": 2.88 }, { "text": "But it does have finite.", "start": 3638.17, "duration": 1.0 }, { "text": "So the same argument applies, even if we\nhave more of these ones on the screen.", "start": 3639.17, "duration": 4.06 }, { "text": ">> But what happens if you're\nstoring this number, 255,", "start": 3643.23, "duration": 3.79 }, { "text": "and you want to count 1 bit higher?", "start": 3647.02, "duration": 2.27 }, { "text": "You want to go from 255 to 256.", "start": 3649.29, "duration": 2.31 }, { "text": "The problem, of course, is that if you\nstart counting at zero like last week,", "start": 3651.6, "duration": 4.2 }, { "text": "you can't count as high\nas 256, let alone 257,", "start": 3655.8, "duration": 3.87 }, { "text": "let alone 258,m because what\nhappens when you add a 1?", "start": 3659.67, "duration": 2.914 }, { "text": "If you do the old grade school\napproach, you put a 1 here,", "start": 3662.584, "duration": 2.416 }, { "text": "and then 1 plus 1 is 2, but that's\nreally a zero, you carry the 1,", "start": 3665.0, "duration": 3.15 }, { "text": "carry the 1, carry the 1.", "start": 3668.15, "duration": 1.545 }, { "text": "All of these things,\nthese 1's, go to zero.", "start": 3669.695, "duration": 2.925 }, { "text": "And you wind up, yes, as someone\npointed out, a 1 on the left hand side.", "start": 3672.62, "duration": 5.2 }, { "text": "But everything you can\nactually see and fit in memory", "start": 3677.82, "duration": 4.72 }, { "text": "is just eight 0's, which is to say\nat some point if you, a computer,", "start": 3682.54, "duration": 5.42 }, { "text": "tried counting high enough up, you're\ngoing to wrap around, it would seem,", "start": 3687.96, "duration": 4.53 }, { "text": "to zero, or maybe even negative\nnumbers, which are even lower than zero.", "start": 3692.49, "duration": 3.36 }, { "text": ">> And we can kind of see this.", "start": 3695.85, "duration": 1.41 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and write\na real quick program here.", "start": 3697.26, "duration": 2.64 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and write\na program called Overflow.", "start": 3699.9, "duration": 3.79 }, { "text": "Include CS50.h, include\nstandard IO.h-- oh,", "start": 3703.69, "duration": 6.29 }, { "text": "I really missed my syntax highlighting.", "start": 3709.98, "duration": 1.75 }, { "text": "So let's save this as overflow.c.", "start": 3711.73, "duration": 2.71 }, { "text": ">> And now int main void--\nand before long, we'll", "start": 3714.44, "duration": 2.644 }, { "text": "come back to explaining why\nwe keep writing int main void.", "start": 3717.084, "duration": 2.416 }, { "text": "But for now, let's just do\nit, taking it for granted.", "start": 3719.5, "duration": 2.58 }, { "text": "Let's give myself an int,\nand initialize it to 0.", "start": 3722.08, "duration": 4.12 }, { "text": ">> Let's then do for int i get zero--\nactually, let's do an infinite loop", "start": 3726.2, "duration": 5.516 }, { "text": "and see what happens.", "start": 3731.716, "duration": 0.874 }, { "text": "While true, then let's print out n\nis percent i, backslash n, plug-in n.", "start": 3732.59, "duration": 9.85 }, { "text": "But, now, let's do n gets n plus 1.", "start": 3742.44, "duration": 4.76 }, { "text": ">> So in other words, on each\niteration of this infinite loop,", "start": 3747.2, "duration": 2.46 }, { "text": "let's take n's value,\nand add 1 to it, and then", "start": 3749.66, "duration": 2.89 }, { "text": "store the result back in n on the left.", "start": 3752.55, "duration": 1.8 }, { "text": "And, in fact, we've seen syntax\nslightly like this, briefly.", "start": 3754.35, "duration": 2.8 }, { "text": "A cool trick is instead\nof writing all this out,", "start": 3757.15, "duration": 2.58 }, { "text": "you can actually say an n plus equals 1.", "start": 3759.73, "duration": 3.04 }, { "text": ">> Or if you really want to be fancy,\nyou can say n plus plus semi-colon.", "start": 3762.77, "duration": 4.71 }, { "text": "But these latter two are just\nwhat we'd call syntactic sugar", "start": 3767.48, "duration": 2.65 }, { "text": "for the first thing.", "start": 3770.13, "duration": 0.66 }, { "text": ">> The first thing is more explicit,\ntotally fine, totally correct.", "start": 3770.79, "duration": 2.666 }, { "text": "But this is more common, I'll say.", "start": 3773.456, "duration": 2.014 }, { "text": "So we'll do this for just a moment.", "start": 3775.47, "duration": 1.74 }, { "text": ">> Let's now make overflow, which sounds\nrather ominous, dot slash overflow.", "start": 3777.21, "duration": 4.475 }, { "text": "Let's see, n's getting pretty big.", "start": 3784.38, "duration": 5.472 }, { "text": "But let's think, how big can n get?", "start": 3789.852, "duration": 1.458 }, { "text": ">> n is an int.", "start": 3791.31, "duration": 1.56 }, { "text": "We saw a moment ago with the size of\nexample that an int is four bytes.", "start": 3792.87, "duration": 3.53 }, { "text": "We know from last week, four bytes is\n32 bits, because 8 times 4, that's 32.", "start": 3796.4, "duration": 5.67 }, { "text": "That's going to be 4 billion.", "start": 3802.07, "duration": 1.39 }, { "text": ">> And we are up to 800,000.", "start": 3803.46, "duration": 2.342 }, { "text": "This is going to take forever to\ncount as high as I possibly can.", "start": 3805.802, "duration": 2.708 }, { "text": "So I'm going to go ahead,\nas you might before long,", "start": 3808.51, "duration": 2.125 }, { "text": "and hit Control C-- frankly, Control\nC, a lot, where Control C generally", "start": 3810.635, "duration": 4.275 }, { "text": "means cancel.", "start": 3814.91, "duration": 1.124 }, { "text": "Unfortunately, because this\nis running in the cloud,", "start": 3816.034, "duration": 2.166 }, { "text": "sometimes the cloud is\nspitting out so much stuff,", "start": 3818.2, "duration": 2.99 }, { "text": "so much output, it's going to\ntake a little while for my input", "start": 3821.19, "duration": 2.99 }, { "text": "to get to the cloud.", "start": 3824.18, "duration": 1.45 }, { "text": "So even though I hit\nControl C a few seconds ago,", "start": 3825.63, "duration": 3.61 }, { "text": "this is definitely the side\neffect of an infinite loop.", "start": 3829.24, "duration": 3.87 }, { "text": ">> And so in such cases, we're\ngoing to leave that be.", "start": 3833.11, "duration": 2.96 }, { "text": "And we're going to add another\nterminal window over here", "start": 3836.07, "duration": 2.98 }, { "text": "with the plus, which of course doesn't\nlike that, since it's still thinking.", "start": 3839.05, "duration": 4.136 }, { "text": "And let's go ahead and be\na little more reasonable.", "start": 3843.186, "duration": 2.124 }, { "text": ">> I'm going to go ahead and do\nthis only finitely many times.", "start": 3845.31, "duration": 2.458 }, { "text": "Let's use a for loop,\nwhich I alluded to earlier.", "start": 3847.768, "duration": 2.279 }, { "text": "Let's do this.", "start": 3850.047, "duration": 0.583 }, { "text": "Give me another variable int i gets 0.", "start": 3850.63, "duration": 2.8 }, { "text": "i is less than, let's say, 64 i++.", "start": 3853.43, "duration": 4.0 }, { "text": "And now let me go ahead and print\nout n is percent i, comma n.", "start": 3857.43, "duration": 6.58 }, { "text": "And then n-- this is still\ngoing to take forever.", "start": 3864.01, "duration": 3.537 }, { "text": "Let's do this.", "start": 3867.547, "duration": 0.583 }, { "text": ">> n gets n times 2.", "start": 3868.13, "duration": 2.49 }, { "text": "Or we could be fancy\nand do times equals 2.", "start": 3870.62, "duration": 3.52 }, { "text": "But let's just say n\nequals itself, times 2.", "start": 3874.14, "duration": 2.98 }, { "text": "In other words, in this\nnew version of the program,", "start": 3877.12, "duration": 2.201 }, { "text": "I don't want to wait forever\nfrom like 800,000 to 4 billion.", "start": 3879.321, "duration": 2.499 }, { "text": "Let's just get this over with.", "start": 3881.82, "duration": 1.25 }, { "text": ">> Let's actually double n each time.", "start": 3883.07, "duration": 1.85 }, { "text": "Which, recall, doubling is the\nopposite of having, of course.", "start": 3884.92, "duration": 2.74 }, { "text": "And whereas last week we have\nsomething again, and again,", "start": 3887.66, "duration": 2.375 }, { "text": "and again, super fast,\ndoubling will surely", "start": 3890.035, "duration": 2.165 }, { "text": "get us from 1 to the biggest possible\nvalue that we can count to with an int.", "start": 3892.2, "duration": 5.88 }, { "text": ">> So let's do exactly this.", "start": 3898.08, "duration": 1.67 }, { "text": "And we'll come back to this before long.", "start": 3899.75, "duration": 1.97 }, { "text": "But this, again, is just like\nthe repeat block in Scratch.", "start": 3901.72, "duration": 2.46 }, { "text": "And you'll use this before long.", "start": 3904.18, "duration": 1.42 }, { "text": ">> This just means count from zero\nup to, but not equal, to 64.", "start": 3905.6, "duration": 4.57 }, { "text": "And on each iteration of this\nloop, just keep incrementing i.", "start": 3910.17, "duration": 4.115 }, { "text": "So i++-- and this general construct\non line 7 is just a super common way", "start": 3914.285, "duration": 4.705 }, { "text": "of repeating some lines of\ncode, some number of times.", "start": 3918.99, "duration": 3.3 }, { "text": "Which lines of code?", "start": 3922.29, "duration": 1.072 }, { "text": "These curly braces, as you\nmay have gleaned from now,", "start": 3923.362, "duration": 2.208 }, { "text": "means, do the following.", "start": 3925.57, "duration": 1.21 }, { "text": ">> It's in like Scratch, when\nit has the yellow blocks", "start": 3926.78, "duration": 2.73 }, { "text": "and other colors that kind of\nembrace or hug other blocks.", "start": 3929.51, "duration": 3.17 }, { "text": "That's what those curly\nbraces are doing here.", "start": 3932.68, "duration": 2.07 }, { "text": "So if I got my syntax right-- you\ncan see the carrot symbol in C means", "start": 3934.75, "duration": 5.45 }, { "text": "that's how many times I was\ntrying to solve this problem.", "start": 3940.2, "duration": 2.506 }, { "text": "So let's get rid of that one\naltogether, and close that window.", "start": 3942.706, "duration": 2.624 }, { "text": "And we'll use the new one.", "start": 3945.33, "duration": 1.19 }, { "text": "Make overflow, dot slash\noverflow, Enter, all right,", "start": 3946.52, "duration": 5.46 }, { "text": "it looks bad at first.", "start": 3951.98, "duration": 1.11 }, { "text": "But let's scroll back in time,\nbecause I did this 64 times.", "start": 3953.09, "duration": 3.11 }, { "text": ">> And notice the first time, n is 1.", "start": 3956.2, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": "Second time, n is 2,\nthen 4, then 8, then 16.", "start": 3958.7, "duration": 4.41 }, { "text": "And it seems that as soon as\nI get to roughly 1 billion,", "start": 3963.11, "duration": 6.34 }, { "text": "if I double it again, that\nshould give me 2 billion.", "start": 3969.45, "duration": 3.35 }, { "text": "But it turns out, it's\nright on the cusp.", "start": 3972.8, "duration": 2.18 }, { "text": ">> And so it actually overflows\nan int from 1 billion", "start": 3974.98, "duration": 3.95 }, { "text": "to roughly negative 2\nbillion, because an integer,", "start": 3978.93, "duration": 4.584 }, { "text": "unlike the numbers we\nwere assuming last week,", "start": 3983.514, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "can be both positive and negative\nin reality and in a computer.", "start": 3985.43, "duration": 2.967 }, { "text": "And so at least one of those\nbits is effectively stolen.", "start": 3988.397, "duration": 2.333 }, { "text": "So we really only have 31 bits,\nor 2 billion possible values.", "start": 3990.73, "duration": 3.46 }, { "text": ">> But for now, the takeaway is quite\nsimply, whatever these numbers are", "start": 3994.19, "duration": 4.03 }, { "text": "and whatever the math is,\nsomething bad happens eventually,", "start": 3998.22, "duration": 4.06 }, { "text": "because eventually you are trying to\npermute the bits one too many times.", "start": 4002.28, "duration": 4.7 }, { "text": "And you effectively go from all\n1's to maybe all 0's, or maybe", "start": 4006.98, "duration": 4.08 }, { "text": "just some other pattern that it\nclearly, depending on context,", "start": 4011.06, "duration": 3.2 }, { "text": "can be interpreted as a negative number.", "start": 4014.26, "duration": 2.082 }, { "text": "And so it would seem the highest I\ncan count in this particular program", "start": 4016.342, "duration": 2.958 }, { "text": "is only roughly 1 billion.", "start": 4019.3, "duration": 1.91 }, { "text": "But there's a partial solution here.", "start": 4021.21, "duration": 1.55 }, { "text": "You know what?", "start": 4022.76, "duration": 0.72 }, { "text": ">> Let me change from an\nint to a long long.", "start": 4023.48, "duration": 4.12 }, { "text": "And let me go ahead here\nand say-- I'm going to have", "start": 4027.6, "duration": 3.033 }, { "text": "to change this to an unsigned long.", "start": 4030.633, "duration": 1.657 }, { "text": "Or, let's see, I never remember myself.", "start": 4032.29, "duration": 4.57 }, { "text": ">> Let's go ahead and make overflow.", "start": 4036.86, "duration": 3.06 }, { "text": "No, that's not it, LLD, thank you.", "start": 4039.92, "duration": 1.94 }, { "text": "So sometimes Clang can be helpful.", "start": 4041.86, "duration": 1.57 }, { "text": "I did not remember what the format\nspecifier was for a long long.", "start": 4043.43, "duration": 4.12 }, { "text": ">> But, indeed, Clang told me.", "start": 4047.55, "duration": 1.4 }, { "text": "Green is some kind of good,\nstill means you made a mistake.", "start": 4048.95, "duration": 2.62 }, { "text": "It's guessing that I meant LLD.", "start": 4051.57, "duration": 1.62 }, { "text": ">> So let me take it's advice, a long\nlong decimal number, save that.", "start": 4053.19, "duration": 5.56 }, { "text": "And let me rerun it, dot\nslash overflow, Enter.", "start": 4058.75, "duration": 4.44 }, { "text": "And now what's cool is this.", "start": 4063.19, "duration": 1.83 }, { "text": ">> If I scroll back in time, we still start\ncounting at the same place-- 1, 2, 4,", "start": 4065.02, "duration": 4.12 }, { "text": "8, 16.", "start": 4069.14, "duration": 1.08 }, { "text": "Notice, we get all the\nway up to 1 billion.", "start": 4070.22, "duration": 4.64 }, { "text": "But then we safely get to 2 billion.", "start": 4074.86, "duration": 2.21 }, { "text": ">> Then we get to 4 billion,\nthen 8 billion, 17 billion.", "start": 4077.07, "duration": 4.23 }, { "text": "And we go higher, and\nhigher, and higher.", "start": 4081.3, "duration": 2.04 }, { "text": "Eventually, this, too, breaks.", "start": 4083.34, "duration": 2.4 }, { "text": ">> Eventually, with a long long,\nwhich is the 64-bit value, not", "start": 4085.74, "duration": 3.61 }, { "text": "a 32-bit value, if you count\ntoo high, you wrap around 0.", "start": 4089.35, "duration": 4.31 }, { "text": "And in this case, we happen to\nend up with a negative number.", "start": 4093.66, "duration": 2.75 }, { "text": ">> So this is a problem.", "start": 4096.41, "duration": 1.14 }, { "text": "And it turns out that this\nproblem is not all that arcane.", "start": 4097.55, "duration": 2.889 }, { "text": "Even though I've deliberately\ninduced it with these mistakes,", "start": 4100.439, "duration": 2.621 }, { "text": "it turns out we see it kind of all\naround us, or at least some of us do.", "start": 4103.06, "duration": 3.089 }, { "text": ">> So in Lego Star Wars, if\nyou've ever played the game,", "start": 4106.149, "duration": 2.79 }, { "text": "it turns out you can go around\nbreaking things up in LEGO world,", "start": 4108.939, "duration": 4.891 }, { "text": "and collecting coins, essentially.", "start": 4113.83, "duration": 2.81 }, { "text": "And if you've ever played\nthis game way too much time,", "start": 4116.64, "duration": 2.56 }, { "text": "as this unnamed individual\nhere did, the total number", "start": 4119.2, "duration": 3.43 }, { "text": "of coins that you can collect\nis, it would seem, 4 billion.", "start": 4122.63, "duration": 4.07 }, { "text": ">> Now, with it's actually rounded.", "start": 4126.7, "duration": 1.54 }, { "text": "So LEGO was trying to\nkeep things user friendly.", "start": 4128.24, "duration": 1.999 }, { "text": "They didn't do it exactly 2 to\nthe 32 power, per last week.", "start": 4130.239, "duration": 3.54 }, { "text": "But 4 billion is a reason.", "start": 4133.779, "duration": 1.531 }, { "text": "It seems, based on this information,\nthat LEGO, and the company that", "start": 4135.31, "duration": 3.669 }, { "text": "made this actual software, decided\nthat the maximum number of coins", "start": 4138.979, "duration": 3.645 }, { "text": "the user can accumulate\nis, indeed, 4 billion,", "start": 4142.624, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "because they chose in their code\nto use not a long long, apparently,", "start": 4144.54, "duration": 7.529 }, { "text": "but just an integer, an unsigned\ninteger, only a positive integer, whose", "start": 4152.069, "duration": 4.071 }, { "text": "max value is roughly that.", "start": 4156.14, "duration": 1.949 }, { "text": "Well, here's another funny one.", "start": 4158.089, "duration": 1.291 }, { "text": "So in the game Civilization, which\nsome of you might be familiar, with", "start": 4159.38, "duration": 4.12 }, { "text": "it turns out that years ago there\nwas a bug in this game whereby", "start": 4163.5, "duration": 3.16 }, { "text": "if you played the role\nof Gandhi in the game,", "start": 4166.66, "duration": 2.09 }, { "text": "instead of him being very pacifist,\ninstead was incredibly, incredibly", "start": 4168.75, "duration": 5.27 }, { "text": "aggressive, in some circumstances.", "start": 4174.02, "duration": 2.379 }, { "text": "In particular, the way that Civilization\nworks is that if you, the player,", "start": 4176.399, "duration": 4.13 }, { "text": "adopt democracy, your\naggressiveness score gets", "start": 4180.529, "duration": 4.151 }, { "text": "decremented by two, so minus\nminus, and then minus minus.", "start": 4184.68, "duration": 3.45 }, { "text": ">> So you subtract 2 from\nyour actual iterating.", "start": 4188.13, "duration": 2.439 }, { "text": "Unfortunately, if your iterating is\ninitially 1, and you subtract 2 from it", "start": 4190.569, "duration": 6.081 }, { "text": "after adopting democracy\nas Gandhi here might", "start": 4196.65, "duration": 2.4 }, { "text": "have done, because he was very passive--\n1 on the scale of aggressiveness.", "start": 4199.05, "duration": 3.15 }, { "text": "But if he adopts democracy, then\nhe goes from 1 to negative 1.", "start": 4202.2, "duration": 2.63 }, { "text": ">> Unfortunately, they were\nusing unsigned numbers,", "start": 4204.83, "duration": 6.64 }, { "text": "which means they treated even negative\nnumbers as though they were positive.", "start": 4211.47, "duration": 3.93 }, { "text": "And it turns out that the\npositive equivalent of negative 1,", "start": 4215.4, "duration": 4.38 }, { "text": "in typical computer programs, is 255.", "start": 4219.78, "duration": 3.7 }, { "text": "So if Gandhi adopts\ndemocracy, and therefore has", "start": 4223.48, "duration": 3.77 }, { "text": "his aggressiveness score decreased,\nit actually rolls around to 255", "start": 4227.25, "duration": 5.22 }, { "text": "and makes him the most\naggressive character in the game.", "start": 4232.47, "duration": 3.0 }, { "text": "So you can Google up on this.", "start": 4235.47, "duration": 1.46 }, { "text": "And it was, indeed, an\naccidental programming bug,", "start": 4236.93, "duration": 2.45 }, { "text": "but that's entered quite\nthe lore ever since.", "start": 4239.38, "duration": 3.63 }, { "text": ">> That's all fun and cute.", "start": 4243.01, "duration": 1.35 }, { "text": "More frightening is when actual\nreal world devices, and not games,", "start": 4244.36, "duration": 3.4 }, { "text": "have these same bugs.", "start": 4247.76, "duration": 1.06 }, { "text": "In fact, just a year ago an article came\nout about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.", "start": 4248.82, "duration": 5.68 }, { "text": ">> And the article at first\nglance reads a little arcane.", "start": 4254.5, "duration": 2.35 }, { "text": "But it said this, a software\nvulnerability in Boeing's", "start": 4256.85, "duration": 4.63 }, { "text": "new 787 Dreamliner jet has\nthe potential to cause pilots", "start": 4261.48, "duration": 3.31 }, { "text": "to lose control of\nthe aircraft, possibly", "start": 4264.79, "duration": 2.43 }, { "text": "in mid-flight, the FAA officials\nwarned airlines recently.", "start": 4267.22, "duration": 4.53 }, { "text": "It was the determination\nthat a model 787", "start": 4271.75, "duration": 2.77 }, { "text": "airplane that has been powered\ncontinuously for 248 days", "start": 4274.52, "duration": 5.25 }, { "text": "can lose all alternating current, AC,\nelectrical power due to the generator", "start": 4279.77, "duration": 5.11 }, { "text": "control units, GCUs, simultaneously\ngoing into fail safe mode.", "start": 4284.88, "duration": 4.012 }, { "text": "It's kind of losing me.", "start": 4288.892, "duration": 0.958 }, { "text": "But the memo stated, OK, now I got that,\nthe condition was caused by a software", "start": 4289.85, "duration": 5.54 }, { "text": "counter internal to\nthe generator control", "start": 4295.39, "duration": 3.2 }, { "text": "units that will overflow after\n248 days of continuous power.", "start": 4298.59, "duration": 6.27 }, { "text": "We are issuing this\nnotice to prevent loss", "start": 4304.86, "duration": 2.21 }, { "text": "of all AC electrical\npower, which could result", "start": 4307.07, "duration": 2.23 }, { "text": "in loss of control of the airplane.", "start": 4309.3, "duration": 1.68 }, { "text": ">> So, literally, there is some integer,\nor some equivalent data type,", "start": 4310.98, "duration": 4.4 }, { "text": "being used in software\nin an actual airplane", "start": 4315.38, "duration": 2.58 }, { "text": "that if you keep your airplane\non long enough, which apparently", "start": 4317.96, "duration": 2.796 }, { "text": "can be the case if you're just running\nthem constantly and never unplugging", "start": 4320.756, "duration": 3.124 }, { "text": "your airplane, it seems, or\nletting its batteries die,", "start": 4323.88, "duration": 2.93 }, { "text": "will eventually count up, and up,\nand up, and up, and up, and up.", "start": 4326.81, "duration": 3.03 }, { "text": ">> And, by nature, a\nfinite amount of memory", "start": 4329.84, "duration": 2.31 }, { "text": "will overflow, rolling back to\nzero or some negative value,", "start": 4332.15, "duration": 3.73 }, { "text": "a side effect of which is the\nfrighteningly real reality", "start": 4335.88, "duration": 4.04 }, { "text": "that the plane might need\nto be rebooted, effectively,", "start": 4339.92, "duration": 4.05 }, { "text": "or might fall, worse, as it flies.", "start": 4343.97, "duration": 3.32 }, { "text": "So these kinds of issues\nare still with us,", "start": 4347.29, "duration": 1.94 }, { "text": "even-- this was a 2015 article,\nall the more frightening", "start": 4349.23, "duration": 3.9 }, { "text": "when you don't necessarily\nunderstand, appreciate, or anticipate", "start": 4353.13, "duration": 2.97 }, { "text": "those kinds of errors.", "start": 4356.1, "duration": 2.54 }, { "text": ">> So it turns out there's one other\nbad thing about data representation.", "start": 4358.64, "duration": 3.39 }, { "text": "It turns out that even floats are\nkind of flawed, because floats, too,", "start": 4362.03, "duration": 5.05 }, { "text": "I proposed are 32 bits, or\nmaybe 64 if you use a double.", "start": 4367.08, "duration": 4.36 }, { "text": "But that's still finite.", "start": 4371.44, "duration": 1.63 }, { "text": ">> And the catch is that if you can\nput an infinite number of numbers", "start": 4373.07, "duration": 4.0 }, { "text": "after the decimal point,\nthere is no way you", "start": 4377.07, "duration": 2.39 }, { "text": "can represent all the possible\nnumbers that we were taught", "start": 4379.46, "duration": 3.23 }, { "text": "in grade school can exist in the world.", "start": 4382.69, "duration": 2.3 }, { "text": "A computer, essentially, has to\nchoose a subset of those numbers", "start": 4384.99, "duration": 3.88 }, { "text": "to represent accurately.", "start": 4388.87, "duration": 1.33 }, { "text": ">> Now, the computer can\nround maybe a little bit,", "start": 4390.2, "duration": 2.25 }, { "text": "and can allow you to roughly store\nany number you might possibly want.", "start": 4392.45, "duration": 5.45 }, { "text": "But just intuitively, if you\nhave a finite number of bits,", "start": 4397.9, "duration": 3.04 }, { "text": "you can only permute them\nin so many finite ways.", "start": 4400.94, "duration": 3.62 }, { "text": "So you can't possibly\nuse a finite number", "start": 4404.56, "duration": 2.01 }, { "text": "of permutation of bits,\npatterns of zeros and ones,", "start": 4406.57, "duration": 3.31 }, { "text": "to represent an infinite\nnumber of numbers,", "start": 4409.88, "duration": 3.06 }, { "text": "which suggests that computers might\nvery well be lying to us sometimes.", "start": 4412.94, "duration": 4.43 }, { "text": ">> In fact, let's do this.", "start": 4417.37, "duration": 1.4 }, { "text": "Let me go back into CS50 IDE.", "start": 4418.77, "duration": 2.469 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and\ncreate a little program", "start": 4421.239, "duration": 1.791 }, { "text": "called Imprecision, to show that\ncomputers are, indeed, imprecise.", "start": 4423.03, "duration": 4.91 }, { "text": ">> And let me go ahead and start with\nsome of that code from before,", "start": 4427.94, "duration": 3.97 }, { "text": "and now just do the following.", "start": 4431.91, "duration": 1.92 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and do printf, percent\nf, backslash n, 1 divided by 10.", "start": 4433.83, "duration": 9.81 }, { "text": "In other words, let's dive in deeper\nto 1/10, like 1 and divided by 10.", "start": 4443.64, "duration": 3.79 }, { "text": "Surely, a computer can represent 1/10.", "start": 4447.43, "duration": 2.33 }, { "text": ">> So let's go ahead and make imprecision.", "start": 4449.76, "duration": 3.86 }, { "text": "Let's see.", "start": 4453.62, "duration": 0.77 }, { "text": "Format specifies type double.", "start": 4454.39, "duration": 1.82 }, { "text": "But the argument has type int.", "start": 4456.21, "duration": 1.95 }, { "text": "What's going on?", "start": 4458.16, "duration": 0.88 }, { "text": ">> Oh, interesting, so it's a\nlesson learned from before.", "start": 4459.04, "duration": 2.93 }, { "text": "I'm saying, hey, computer show\nme a float with percent f.", "start": 4461.97, "duration": 4.08 }, { "text": "But I'm giving it 2 ints.", "start": 4466.05, "duration": 2.15 }, { "text": "So it turns out, I can fix\nthis in a couple of ways.", "start": 4468.2, "duration": 2.92 }, { "text": ">> I could just turn one into 1.0, and\n10 into 10.0, which would, indeed,", "start": 4471.12, "duration": 7.31 }, { "text": "have the effect of converting\nthem into floats-- still hopefully", "start": 4478.43, "duration": 3.96 }, { "text": "the same number.", "start": 4482.39, "duration": 0.79 }, { "text": "Or it turns out there's something\nwe'll see again before long.", "start": 4483.18, "duration": 2.7 }, { "text": "You could cast the numbers.", "start": 4485.88, "duration": 1.29 }, { "text": ">> You can, using this parenthetical\nexpression, you can say,", "start": 4487.17, "duration": 2.71 }, { "text": "hey, computer, take this\n10, which I know is an int.", "start": 4489.88, "duration": 2.68 }, { "text": "But treat it, please,\nas though it's a float.", "start": 4492.56, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": "But this feels unnecessarily complex.", "start": 4494.66, "duration": 2.02 }, { "text": ">> For our purposes today,\nlet's just literally", "start": 4496.68, "duration": 2.36 }, { "text": "make them floating point values\nwith a decimal point, like this.", "start": 4499.04, "duration": 3.66 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and rerun, make\nimprecision, good, dot slash", "start": 4502.7, "duration": 4.36 }, { "text": "imprecision, enter.", "start": 4507.06, "duration": 1.81 }, { "text": "OK, we're looking good.", "start": 4508.87, "duration": 2.12 }, { "text": ">> 1 divided by 10, according to my\nMac here, is, indeed, 0.100000.", "start": 4510.99, "duration": 7.204 }, { "text": "Now, I was taught in grade school there\nshould be an infinite number of 0's.", "start": 4518.194, "duration": 3.166 }, { "text": "So let's at least try\nto see some of those.", "start": 4521.36, "duration": 1.791 }, { "text": "It turns out that printf is a little\nfancier still than we've been using.", "start": 4523.151, "duration": 3.619 }, { "text": "It turns out you don't have to specify\njust percent f, or just percent i.", "start": 4526.77, "duration": 4.12 }, { "text": "You can actually specify\nsome control options here.", "start": 4530.89, "duration": 2.94 }, { "text": ">> Specifically, I'm going\nto say, hey, printf,", "start": 4533.83, "duration": 2.64 }, { "text": "actually show me 10 decimal points.", "start": 4536.47, "duration": 3.19 }, { "text": "So it looks a little weird.", "start": 4539.66, "duration": 1.16 }, { "text": "But you say percent,\ndot, how many numbers", "start": 4540.82, "duration": 2.025 }, { "text": "you want to see after the\ndecimal point, and then f", "start": 4542.845, "duration": 2.125 }, { "text": "for flat, just because that's\nwhat the documentation says.", "start": 4544.97, "duration": 3.37 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and save that.", "start": 4548.34, "duration": 1.74 }, { "text": ">> And notice too, I'm getting\ntired of retyping things.", "start": 4550.08, "duration": 2.38 }, { "text": "So I'm just setting the up and\ndown arrow on my keys here.", "start": 4552.46, "duration": 3.44 }, { "text": "And if I keep hitting up, you\ncan see all of the commands", "start": 4555.9, "duration": 2.81 }, { "text": "that I made, or incorrectly made.", "start": 4558.71, "duration": 2.38 }, { "text": ">> And I'm going to go ahead now and\nnot actually use that, apparently.", "start": 4561.09, "duration": 3.54 }, { "text": "Make imprecision, dot\nslash imprecision-- so", "start": 4564.63, "duration": 6.786 }, { "text": "what I was taught in\ngrade school checks out.", "start": 4571.416, "duration": 1.874 }, { "text": "Even if I print it to 10 decimal\nplaces it, indeed, is 0.10000.", "start": 4573.29, "duration": 5.72 }, { "text": "But you know what?", "start": 4579.01, "duration": 0.83 }, { "text": ">> Let's get a little greedy.", "start": 4579.84, "duration": 1.31 }, { "text": "Let's say, like, show me 55\npoints after the decimal.", "start": 4581.15, "duration": 2.84 }, { "text": "Let's really take this\nprogram out for a spin.", "start": 4583.99, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": "Let me remake it with make\nimprecision, dot slash, imprecision.", "start": 4586.16, "duration": 5.01 }, { "text": ">> And here we go.", "start": 4591.17, "duration": 1.22 }, { "text": "Your childhood was a lie.", "start": 4592.39, "duration": 2.03 }, { "text": "Apparently, 1 divided by 10 is indeed\n0.100000000000000005551115123--", "start": 4594.42, "duration": 13.99 }, { "text": ">> What is going on?", "start": 4608.41, "duration": 1.33 }, { "text": "Well, it turns out, if you kind of\nlook far enough out in the underlying", "start": 4609.74, "duration": 3.62 }, { "text": "representation of this\nnumber, it actually", "start": 4613.36, "duration": 2.59 }, { "text": "is not exactly 1/10, or 0.1 and\nan infinite number of zeros.", "start": 4615.95, "duration": 4.45 }, { "text": "Now, why is that?", "start": 4620.4, "duration": 1.23 }, { "text": ">> Well, even though this is a simple\nnumber to us humans, 1 divided by 10,", "start": 4621.63, "duration": 4.62 }, { "text": "it's still one of infinitely many\nnumbers that we could think up.", "start": 4626.25, "duration": 4.66 }, { "text": "But a computer can only represent\nfinitely many so numbers.", "start": 4630.91, "duration": 3.58 }, { "text": "And so, effectively, what the\ncomputer is showing us is its closest", "start": 4634.49, "duration": 4.22 }, { "text": "approximation to the number\nwe want to believe is 1/10,", "start": 4638.71, "duration": 4.23 }, { "text": "or really 0.10000 ad infinitum.", "start": 4642.94, "duration": 4.82 }, { "text": ">> Rather, though, this is\nas close as it can get.", "start": 4647.76, "duration": 2.665 }, { "text": "And, indeed, if you look\nunderneath the hood,", "start": 4650.425, "duration": 1.875 }, { "text": "as we are here by looking\n55 digits after the decimal,", "start": 4652.3, "duration": 4.75 }, { "text": "we actually see that reality.", "start": 4657.05, "duration": 2.94 }, { "text": "Now as an aside, if you've\never seen the movie--", "start": 4659.99, "duration": 2.62 }, { "text": "most of you probably haven't--\nbut Superman 3 some years ago,", "start": 4662.61, "duration": 3.17 }, { "text": "Richard Pryor essentially leveraged this\nreality in his company to steal a lot", "start": 4665.78, "duration": 3.72 }, { "text": "of fractions and fractions of pennies,\nbecause the company-- as I recall,", "start": 4669.5, "duration": 4.0 }, { "text": "it's been a while-- was essentially\nthrowing away anything that didn't fit", "start": 4673.5, "duration": 3.71 }, { "text": "into the notion of cents.", "start": 4677.21, "duration": 1.58 }, { "text": ">> But if you add up all these\ntiny, tiny, tiny numbers again,", "start": 4678.79, "duration": 2.69 }, { "text": "and again, and again, you can, as in\nhis case, make a good amount of money.", "start": 4681.48, "duration": 3.48 }, { "text": ">> That same idea was ripped off by\na more recent, but still now older", "start": 4684.96, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": "movie, called Office Space,\nwhere the guys in that movie,", "start": 4688.01, "duration": 2.49 }, { "text": "did the same thing, screwed it up\ncompletely, ended up with way too much", "start": 4690.5, "duration": 3.001 }, { "text": "money in their bank account.", "start": 4693.501, "duration": 1.165 }, { "text": "It was all very suspicious.", "start": 4694.666, "duration": 1.134 }, { "text": "But at the end of the day,\nimprecision is all around us.", "start": 4695.8, "duration": 3.49 }, { "text": ">> And that, too, can be\nfrighteningly the case.", "start": 4699.29, "duration": 2.95 }, { "text": "It turns out that Superman 3\nand Office Space aside, there", "start": 4702.24, "duration": 3.35 }, { "text": "can be some very real\nworld ramifications", "start": 4705.59, "duration": 2.87 }, { "text": "of the realities of imprecise\nrepresentation of data", "start": 4708.46, "duration": 3.83 }, { "text": "that even we humans to\nthis day don't necessarily", "start": 4712.29, "duration": 2.48 }, { "text": "understand as well as we should,\nor remember as often as we should.", "start": 4714.77, "duration": 3.46 }, { "text": "And, indeed, the following clip is\nfrom a look at some very real world", "start": 4718.23, "duration": 4.72 }, { "text": "ramifications of what happens if you\ndon't appreciate the imprecision that", "start": 4722.95, "duration": 4.78 }, { "text": "can happen in numbers representation.", "start": 4727.73, "duration": 2.335 }, { "text": ">> [VIDEO PLAYBACK]", "start": 4730.065, "duration": 1.235 }, { "text": ">> -Computers, we've all come to accept\nthe often frustrating problems that", "start": 4731.3, "duration": 4.32 }, { "text": "go with them-- bugs, viruses,\nand software glitches,", "start": 4735.62, "duration": 4.69 }, { "text": "for small prices to pay\nfor the convenience.", "start": 4740.31, "duration": 2.82 }, { "text": "But in high tech and high speed\nmilitary and space program applications,", "start": 4743.13, "duration": 4.67 }, { "text": "the smallest problem can\nbe magnified into disaster.", "start": 4747.8, "duration": 5.0 }, { "text": ">> On June 4th, 1996, scientists prepared\nto launch an unmanned Ariane 5 rocket.", "start": 4752.8, "duration": 6.1 }, { "text": "It was carrying scientific\nsatellites designed", "start": 4758.9, "duration": 2.32 }, { "text": "to establish precisely how the\nearth's magnetic field interacts", "start": 4761.22, "duration": 3.38 }, { "text": "with solar winds.", "start": 4764.6, "duration": 2.81 }, { "text": "The rocket was built for\nthe European Space Agency,", "start": 4767.41, "duration": 3.39 }, { "text": "and lifted off from its facility\non the coast of French Guiana.", "start": 4770.8, "duration": 3.57 }, { "text": ">> -At about 37 seconds into\nthe flight, they first", "start": 4774.37, "duration": 3.17 }, { "text": "noticed something was going wrong.", "start": 4777.54, "duration": 1.73 }, { "text": "The nozzles were swiveling in\na way they really shouldn't.", "start": 4779.27, "duration": 2.98 }, { "text": "Around 40 seconds into the flight,\nclearly, the vehicle was in trouble.", "start": 4782.25, "duration": 4.33 }, { "text": ">> And that's when they made\na decision to destroy it.", "start": 4786.58, "duration": 2.27 }, { "text": "The range safety officer, with\ntremendous guts, pressed the button,", "start": 4788.85, "duration": 3.93 }, { "text": "blew up the rocket, before it could\nbecome a hazard to the public safety.", "start": 4792.78, "duration": 5.37 }, { "text": ">> -This was the maiden\nvoyage of the Ariane 5.", "start": 4798.15, "duration": 2.91 }, { "text": "And its destruction took\nplace because of a flaw", "start": 4801.06, "duration": 2.9 }, { "text": "embedded in the rocket's software.", "start": 4803.96, "duration": 1.862 }, { "text": "-The problem on the Ariane was\nthat there was a number that", "start": 4805.822, "duration": 2.458 }, { "text": "required 64 bits to express.", "start": 4808.28, "duration": 2.32 }, { "text": "And they wanted to convert\nit to a 16-bit number.", "start": 4810.6, "duration": 2.99 }, { "text": "They assumed that the\nnumber was never going", "start": 4813.59, "duration": 2.02 }, { "text": "to be very big, that most of those\ndigits in a 64-bit number were zeroes.", "start": 4815.61, "duration": 5.37 }, { "text": "They were wrong.", "start": 4820.98, "duration": 1.46 }, { "text": ">> -The inability of one\nsoftware program to accept", "start": 4822.44, "duration": 2.62 }, { "text": "the kind of number generated by\nanother was at the root of the failure.", "start": 4825.06, "duration": 4.45 }, { "text": "Software development had become a\nvery costly part of new technology.", "start": 4829.51, "duration": 4.84 }, { "text": "The Ariane rocket have been very\nsuccessful, so much of the software", "start": 4834.35, "duration": 3.79 }, { "text": "created for it was also\nused in the Ariane 5.", "start": 4838.14, "duration": 3.41 }, { "text": ">> -The basic problem was that the Ariane\n5 was faster, accelerated faster.", "start": 4841.55, "duration": 6.39 }, { "text": "And the software hadn't\naccounted for that.", "start": 4847.94, "duration": 3.51 }, { "text": ">> -The destruction of the rocket\nwas a huge financial disaster,", "start": 4851.45, "duration": 3.61 }, { "text": "all due to a minute software error.", "start": 4855.06, "duration": 3.73 }, { "text": "But this wasn't the first\ntime data conversion problems", "start": 4858.79, "duration": 2.42 }, { "text": "had plagued modern rocket technology.", "start": 4861.21, "duration": 3.61 }, { "text": ">> -In 1991, with the start\nof the first Gulf War,", "start": 4864.82, "duration": 3.23 }, { "text": "the Patriot Missile\nexperienced a similar kind", "start": 4868.05, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "of number conversion problem.", "start": 4870.57, "duration": 2.23 }, { "text": "And as a result, 28 people,\n28 American soldiers,", "start": 4872.8, "duration": 3.29 }, { "text": "were killed, and about\n100 others wounded,", "start": 4876.09, "duration": 2.99 }, { "text": "when the Patriot, which was supposed\nto protect against incoming scuds,", "start": 4879.08, "duration": 3.7 }, { "text": "failed to fire a missile.", "start": 4882.78, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": ">> -When Iraq invaded Kuwait, and America\nlaunched Desert Storm in early 1991,", "start": 4885.83, "duration": 5.84 }, { "text": "Patriot Missile batteries were deployed\nto protect Saudi Arabia and Israel", "start": 4891.67, "duration": 4.11 }, { "text": "from Iraqi Scud missile attacks.", "start": 4895.78, "duration": 3.45 }, { "text": "The Patriot is a US medium-range\nsurface to air system, manufactured", "start": 4899.23, "duration": 4.58 }, { "text": "by the Raytheon company.", "start": 4903.81, "duration": 1.96 }, { "text": ">> -The size of the Patriot interceptor\nitself is about roughly 20 feet long.", "start": 4905.77, "duration": 6.57 }, { "text": "And it weighs about 2,000 pounds.", "start": 4912.34, "duration": 2.89 }, { "text": "And it carries a warhead of about,\nI think it's roughly 150 pounds.", "start": 4915.23, "duration": 4.09 }, { "text": "And the warhead itself is\na high explosive, which", "start": 4919.32, "duration": 4.61 }, { "text": "has fragments around it.", "start": 4923.93, "duration": 3.4 }, { "text": "The casing of the warhead is\ndesigned to act like buckshot.", "start": 4927.33, "duration": 4.35 }, { "text": ">> -The missiles are carried\nfour per container,", "start": 4931.68, "duration": 2.43 }, { "text": "and are transported by a semi trailer.", "start": 4934.11, "duration": 3.02 }, { "text": ">> -The Patriot anti-missile system\ngoes back at least 20 years now.", "start": 4937.13, "duration": 7.8 }, { "text": "It was originally designed\nas an air defense missile", "start": 4944.93, "duration": 3.49 }, { "text": "to shoot down enemy airplanes.", "start": 4948.42, "duration": 2.3 }, { "text": "In the first Gulf War,\nwhen that war came along,", "start": 4950.72, "duration": 3.78 }, { "text": "the Army wanted to use it to\nshoot down scuds, not airplanes.", "start": 4954.5, "duration": 5.245 }, { "text": ">> The Iraqi Air Force was\nnot so much of a problem.", "start": 4959.745, "duration": 3.875 }, { "text": "But the Army was worried about scuds.", "start": 4963.62, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": "And so they tried to\nupgrade the Patriot.", "start": 4966.67, "duration": 3.5 }, { "text": ">> -Intercepting an enemy\nmissile traveling at mach 5", "start": 4970.17, "duration": 2.63 }, { "text": "was going to be challenging enough.", "start": 4972.8, "duration": 3.03 }, { "text": "But when the Patriot\nwas rushed into service,", "start": 4975.83, "duration": 2.66 }, { "text": "the Army was not aware of an\nIraqi modification that made", "start": 4978.49, "duration": 4.37 }, { "text": "their scuds nearly impossible to hit.", "start": 4982.86, "duration": 3.07 }, { "text": ">> -What happened is the scuds that\nwere coming in were unstable.", "start": 4985.93, "duration": 4.81 }, { "text": "They were wobbling.", "start": 4990.74, "duration": 0.952 }, { "text": "The reason for this was\nthe Iraqis, in order", "start": 4991.692, "duration": 3.218 }, { "text": "to get 600 kilometers\nout of a 300 kilometer", "start": 4994.91, "duration": 3.37 }, { "text": "range missile, took weight\nout of the front warhead.", "start": 4998.28, "duration": 3.42 }, { "text": "They made the warhead lighter.", "start": 5001.7, "duration": 1.69 }, { "text": ">> So now the Patriot is\ntrying to come at the Scud.", "start": 5003.39, "duration": 3.94 }, { "text": "And most of the time, the\noverwhelming majority of the time,", "start": 5007.33, "duration": 2.9 }, { "text": "it would just fly by the Scud.", "start": 5010.23, "duration": 2.71 }, { "text": "Once the Patriot system operators\nrealized the Patriot missed its target,", "start": 5012.94, "duration": 4.32 }, { "text": "they detonated the Patriot's warhead\nto avoid possible casualties if it", "start": 5017.26, "duration": 4.43 }, { "text": "was allowed to fall to the ground.", "start": 5021.69, "duration": 2.88 }, { "text": ">> -That was what most people saw,\nthose big fireballs in the sky,", "start": 5024.57, "duration": 4.22 }, { "text": "and misunderstood as\nintercepts of Scud warheads.", "start": 5028.79, "duration": 5.76 }, { "text": ">> -Although in the night\nskies, Patriots appeared", "start": 5034.55, "duration": 2.08 }, { "text": "to be successfully\ndestroying Scuds, at Dhahran,", "start": 5036.63, "duration": 3.74 }, { "text": "there could be no mistake\nabout its performance.", "start": 5040.37, "duration": 2.99 }, { "text": "There, the Patriot's radar system\nlost track of an incoming Scud,", "start": 5043.36, "duration": 4.61 }, { "text": "and never launched due\nto a software flaw.", "start": 5047.97, "duration": 2.751 }, { "text": "It was the Israelis who first discovered\nthat the longer the system was on,", "start": 5054.09, "duration": 4.85 }, { "text": "the greater the time discrepancy\nbecame, due to a clock embedded", "start": 5058.94, "duration": 3.75 }, { "text": "in the system's computer.", "start": 5062.69, "duration": 2.12 }, { "text": ">> -About two weeks before\nthe tragedy in Dhahran,", "start": 5064.81, "duration": 3.4 }, { "text": "the Israelis reported to\nthe Defense Department", "start": 5068.21, "duration": 2.56 }, { "text": "that the system was losing time.", "start": 5070.77, "duration": 1.82 }, { "text": "After about eight hours or running,\nthey noticed that the system", "start": 5072.59, "duration": 2.77 }, { "text": "was becoming noticeably less accurate.", "start": 5075.36, "duration": 2.36 }, { "text": "The Defense Department responded by\ntelling all of the Patriot batteries", "start": 5077.72, "duration": 4.18 }, { "text": "to not leave the systems\non for a long time.", "start": 5081.9, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": "They never said what a long time was--\neight hours, 10 hours, 1,000 hours.", "start": 5084.95, "duration": 4.21 }, { "text": "Nobody knew.", "start": 5089.16, "duration": 2.2 }, { "text": ">> -The Patriot battery\nstationed at the barracks", "start": 5091.36, "duration": 2.02 }, { "text": "at Dhahran and its flawed internal\nclock had been on over 100 hours", "start": 5093.38, "duration": 4.97 }, { "text": "on the night of February 25th.", "start": 5098.35, "duration": 3.32 }, { "text": ">> -It tracked time to an accuracy\nof about a tenth of a second.", "start": 5101.67, "duration": 4.247 }, { "text": "Now, a tenth of a second\nis an interesting number,", "start": 5105.917, "duration": 2.083 }, { "text": "because it can't be expressed\nin binary exactly, which", "start": 5108.0, "duration": 3.92 }, { "text": "means it can't be expressed exactly\nin any modern digital computer.", "start": 5111.92, "duration": 4.9 }, { "text": "It's hard to believe.", "start": 5116.82, "duration": 1.72 }, { "text": ">> But use this as an example.", "start": 5118.54, "duration": 2.67 }, { "text": "Let's take the number one third.", "start": 5121.21, "duration": 2.33 }, { "text": "One third cannot be\nexpressed in decimal exactly.", "start": 5123.54, "duration": 3.81 }, { "text": "One third is 0.333\ngoing on for infinity.", "start": 5127.35, "duration": 4.73 }, { "text": ">> There is no way to do that with\nabsolute accuracy in decimal.", "start": 5132.08, "duration": 4.4 }, { "text": "That's exactly the kind of problem\nthat happened in the Patriot.", "start": 5136.48, "duration": 3.08 }, { "text": "The longer the system ran, the\nworse the time error became.", "start": 5139.56, "duration": 4.54 }, { "text": ">> -After 100 hours of operation, the\nerror in time was only about one third", "start": 5144.1, "duration": 4.79 }, { "text": "of a second.", "start": 5148.89, "duration": 1.71 }, { "text": "But in terms of targeting a\nmissile traveling at mach 5,", "start": 5150.6, "duration": 3.61 }, { "text": "it resulted in a tracking\nerror of over 600 meters.", "start": 5154.21, "duration": 4.5 }, { "text": "It would be a fatal error\nfor the soldiers on what", "start": 5158.71, "duration": 3.41 }, { "text": "happened is a Scud launch was\ndetected by early Warning satellites", "start": 5162.12, "duration": 6.82 }, { "text": "and they knew that the Scud was\ncoming in their general direction.", "start": 5168.94, "duration": 3.92 }, { "text": "They didn't know where it was coming.", "start": 5172.86, "duration": 2.46 }, { "text": ">> -It was now up to the radar\ncomponent of the Patriot system", "start": 5175.32, "duration": 2.93 }, { "text": "defending Dhahran to locate and keep\ntrack of the incoming enemy missile.", "start": 5178.25, "duration": 4.94 }, { "text": ">> -The radar was very smart.", "start": 5183.19, "duration": 1.419 }, { "text": "It would actually track\nthe position of the Scud,", "start": 5184.609, "duration": 2.041 }, { "text": "and then predict where it probably\nwould be the next time the radar sent", "start": 5186.65, "duration": 3.7 }, { "text": "a pulse out.", "start": 5190.35, "duration": 1.07 }, { "text": "That was called a range gate.", "start": 5191.42, "duration": 1.69 }, { "text": ">> -Then, once the Patriot\ndecides enough time has", "start": 5193.11, "duration": 4.55 }, { "text": "passed to go back and check the next\nlocation for this detected object,", "start": 5197.66, "duration": 4.79 }, { "text": "it goes back.", "start": 5202.45, "duration": 1.15 }, { "text": "So when it went back to the wrong\nplace, it then sees no object.", "start": 5203.6, "duration": 5.05 }, { "text": "And it decides that there was no\nobject, it was a false detection,", "start": 5208.65, "duration": 3.51 }, { "text": "and drops the track.", "start": 5212.16, "duration": 1.77 }, { "text": ">> -The incoming Scud disappeared\nfrom the radar screen.", "start": 5213.93, "duration": 3.1 }, { "text": "And seconds later, it\nslammed into the barracks.", "start": 5217.03, "duration": 3.23 }, { "text": "The Scud killed 28, and was the last\none fired during the first Gulf War.", "start": 5220.26, "duration": 5.89 }, { "text": ">> Tragically, the updated software\narrived at Dhahran the following day.", "start": 5226.15, "duration": 5.81 }, { "text": "The software flaw had\nbeen fixed, closing", "start": 5231.96, "duration": 2.97 }, { "text": "one chapter in the troubled\nhistory of the Patriot missile.", "start": 5234.93, "duration": 4.876 }, { "text": ">> [VIDEO PLAYBACK]", "start": 5239.806, "duration": 0.923 }, { "text": "DAVID J. MALAN: So this is all to\nsay that these issues of overflow", "start": 5240.729, "duration": 2.791 }, { "text": "and imprecision are all too real.", "start": 5243.52, "duration": 2.34 }, { "text": "So how did we get here?", "start": 5245.86, "duration": 1.06 }, { "text": "We began with just talking about printf.", "start": 5246.92, "duration": 1.975 }, { "text": "Again, this function that\nprints something to the screen,", "start": 5248.895, "duration": 2.375 }, { "text": "and we introduced thereafter\na few other functions", "start": 5251.27, "duration": 2.18 }, { "text": "from the so-called CS50's library.", "start": 5253.45, "duration": 1.495 }, { "text": "And we'll continue to\nsee these in due time.", "start": 5254.945, "duration": 1.965 }, { "text": "And we, particularly, used get string,\nand get int, and now also get float,", "start": 5256.91, "duration": 3.85 }, { "text": "and yet others still will we encounter\nand use ourselves before long.", "start": 5260.76, "duration": 3.65 }, { "text": ">> But on occasion, have\nwe already seen a need", "start": 5264.41, "duration": 2.81 }, { "text": "to store what those functions hand back?", "start": 5267.22, "duration": 3.3 }, { "text": "They hand us back a string,\nor an int, or a float.", "start": 5270.52, "duration": 2.4 }, { "text": "And sometimes we need to put that\nstring, or int, or float, somewhere.", "start": 5272.92, "duration": 3.15 }, { "text": ">> And to store those things, recall just\nlike in Scratch, we have variables.", "start": 5276.07, "duration": 4.03 }, { "text": "But unlike in Scratch,\nin C we have actual types", "start": 5280.1, "duration": 3.16 }, { "text": "of variables-- data\ntypes, more generally--", "start": 5283.26, "duration": 2.27 }, { "text": "among them, a string, an int, a\nfloat, and these others still.", "start": 5285.53, "duration": 3.11 }, { "text": ">> And so when we declare variables in C,\nwe'll have to declare our data types.", "start": 5288.64, "duration": 3.681 }, { "text": "This is not something we'll\nhave to do later in the semester", "start": 5292.321, "duration": 2.499 }, { "text": "as we transition to other languages.", "start": 5294.82, "duration": 1.99 }, { "text": "But for now, we do need\nto a priori in advance,", "start": 5296.81, "duration": 2.8 }, { "text": "explain to the computer what type\nof variable we want it to give us.", "start": 5299.61, "duration": 4.76 }, { "text": ">> Now, meanwhile, to print\nthose kinds of data types,", "start": 5304.37, "duration": 2.92 }, { "text": "we have to tell printf what to expect.", "start": 5307.29, "duration": 2.28 }, { "text": "And we saw percent s for strings,\nand percent i for integers,", "start": 5309.57, "duration": 2.88 }, { "text": "and a few others already.", "start": 5312.45, "duration": 1.34 }, { "text": "And those are simply requirements\nfor the visual presentation", "start": 5313.79, "duration": 3.447 }, { "text": "of that information.", "start": 5317.237, "duration": 0.833 }, { "text": ">> And each of these can actually be\nparametrized or tweaked in some way,", "start": 5318.07, "duration": 4.01 }, { "text": "if you want to further control\nthe type of output that you get.", "start": 5322.08, "duration": 3.29 }, { "text": "And, in fact, it turns out that not only\nis there backslash n for a new line.", "start": 5325.37, "duration": 4.234 }, { "text": "There's something else called backslash\nr for a carriage return, which", "start": 5329.604, "duration": 2.916 }, { "text": "is more akin to an\nold school typewriter,", "start": 5332.52, "duration": 1.84 }, { "text": "and also Windows used for many years.", "start": 5334.36, "duration": 3.33 }, { "text": ">> There's backslash t for tabs.", "start": 5337.69, "duration": 2.0 }, { "text": "Turns out, that if you want to\ndouble quote inside of a string,", "start": 5339.69, "duration": 3.48 }, { "text": "recall that we've used\ndouble quote double", "start": 5343.17, "duration": 1.83 }, { "text": "quote on the left and the right\nends of our strings thus far.", "start": 5345.0, "duration": 2.9 }, { "text": "That would seem to confuse things.", "start": 5347.9, "duration": 1.52 }, { "text": ">> If you want to put a double quote in\nthe middle of a string-- and, indeed,", "start": 5349.42, "duration": 3.083 }, { "text": "it is confusing to see.", "start": 5352.503, "duration": 1.167 }, { "text": "And so you have to escape, so to\nspeak, a double quote with something", "start": 5353.67, "duration": 3.45 }, { "text": "like, literally, backslash double quote.", "start": 5357.12, "duration": 1.74 }, { "text": "And there's a few other still.", "start": 5358.86, "duration": 1.37 }, { "text": "And we'll see more of those\nin actual use before long.", "start": 5360.23, "duration": 4.31 }, { "text": ">> So let's now transition from\ndata, and representation,", "start": 5364.54, "duration": 3.39 }, { "text": "and arithmetic operators, all\nof which gave us some building", "start": 5367.93, "duration": 2.89 }, { "text": "blocks with which to play.", "start": 5370.82, "duration": 1.25 }, { "text": "But now let's actually give\nus the rest of the vocabulary", "start": 5372.07, "duration": 2.411 }, { "text": "that we already had\nlast week with Scratch", "start": 5374.481, "duration": 1.749 }, { "text": "by taking a look at some other\nconstructs in C-- not all of them.", "start": 5376.23, "duration": 3.12 }, { "text": "But the ideas we're\nabout to see really just", "start": 5379.35, "duration": 2.33 }, { "text": "to emphasize the translation from\none language, Scratch, to another, C.", "start": 5381.68, "duration": 3.93 }, { "text": ">> And over time, we'll pick up\nmore tools for our toolkit,", "start": 5385.61, "duration": 2.86 }, { "text": "so to speak, syntactically.", "start": 5388.47, "duration": 1.35 }, { "text": "And, indeed, you'll see that the ideas\nare now rather familiar from last week.", "start": 5389.82, "duration": 4.37 }, { "text": "So let's do this.", "start": 5394.19, "duration": 1.01 }, { "text": ">> Let's go ahead and whip up a program\nthat actually uses some expressions,", "start": 5395.2, "duration": 3.67 }, { "text": "a Boolean expression.", "start": 5398.87, "duration": 1.85 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead here\nand create a new file.", "start": 5400.72, "duration": 2.09 }, { "text": "I'll call this condition.c.", "start": 5402.81, "duration": 3.28 }, { "text": ">> Let me go ahead and\ninclude the CS50 library.", "start": 5406.09, "duration": 3.26 }, { "text": "And let me go ahead and include\nstandard IO.h for our functions,", "start": 5409.35, "duration": 3.29 }, { "text": "and printf, and more respectively.", "start": 5412.64, "duration": 2.05 }, { "text": "Let me give myself that boilerplate of\nint main void, whose explanation we'll", "start": 5414.69, "duration": 4.21 }, { "text": "come back to in the future.", "start": 5418.9, "duration": 1.46 }, { "text": ">> Now let me go ahead and give\nmyself an int via get int.", "start": 5420.36, "duration": 3.46 }, { "text": "Then let me go ahead and do this.", "start": 5423.82, "duration": 2.15 }, { "text": "I want to say if i is less-- let's\ndistinguish between positive, negative,", "start": 5425.97, "duration": 4.18 }, { "text": "or zero values.", "start": 5430.15, "duration": 1.11 }, { "text": ">> So if i is less than zero, let me\njust have this program simply say,", "start": 5431.26, "duration": 5.37 }, { "text": "negative, backslash n, else\nif i is greater than zero.", "start": 5436.63, "duration": 5.74 }, { "text": "Now I'm, of course, going to say\nprintf positive, backslash n.", "start": 5442.37, "duration": 4.66 }, { "text": "And then else if-- I could do this.", "start": 5447.03, "duration": 3.66 }, { "text": ">> I could do if i equals 0.", "start": 5450.69, "duration": 2.72 }, { "text": "But I'd be making at\nleast one mistake already.", "start": 5453.41, "duration": 2.43 }, { "text": "Recall that the equal sign is\nnot equal, as we humans know it.", "start": 5455.84, "duration": 3.64 }, { "text": ">> But it's the assignment operator.", "start": 5459.48, "duration": 1.53 }, { "text": "And we don't want to take 0 on the\nright and put it in i on the left.", "start": 5461.01, "duration": 4.63 }, { "text": "So to avoid this confusion, or\nperhaps misuse of the equals sign,", "start": 5465.64, "duration": 6.17 }, { "text": "humans decided some years ago\nthat in many programming languages", "start": 5471.81, "duration": 2.93 }, { "text": "when you want to check for equality\nbetween the left and the right,", "start": 5474.74, "duration": 3.26 }, { "text": "you actually use equals equals.", "start": 5478.0, "duration": 1.635 }, { "text": "So you hit the equals sign twice.", "start": 5479.635, "duration": 1.375 }, { "text": "When you want to assign from right\nto left, you use a single equal sign.", "start": 5481.01, "duration": 4.59 }, { "text": "So we could do this-- else\nif i equals equals zero.", "start": 5485.6, "duration": 3.76 }, { "text": ">> I could then go and\nopen my curly braces,", "start": 5489.36, "duration": 2.35 }, { "text": "and say, printf 0, backslash n, done.", "start": 5491.71, "duration": 4.377 }, { "text": "But remember how these\nforks in the road can work.", "start": 5496.087, "duration": 2.083 }, { "text": "And, really, just think about the logic.", "start": 5498.17, "duration": 1.666 }, { "text": "i is a number.", "start": 5499.836, "duration": 1.674 }, { "text": "It's an integer, specifically.", "start": 5501.51, "duration": 1.81 }, { "text": "And that means it's going to be less\nthan 0, or greater than 0, or 0.", "start": 5503.32, "duration": 5.28 }, { "text": "So there is kind of this\nimplied default case.", "start": 5508.6, "duration": 3.0 }, { "text": ">> And so we could, just like\nScratch, dispense with the else if,", "start": 5511.6, "duration": 3.32 }, { "text": "and just say else.", "start": 5514.92, "duration": 0.827 }, { "text": "Logically, if you the\nprogrammer know there's only", "start": 5515.747, "duration": 2.083 }, { "text": "three buckets into which a\nscenario can fall-- the first,", "start": 5517.83, "duration": 3.805 }, { "text": "the second, or the third\nin this case-- don't", "start": 5521.635, "duration": 1.875 }, { "text": "bother adding the additional precision\nand the additional logic there.", "start": 5523.51, "duration": 3.59 }, { "text": "Just go ahead with the\ndefault case here of else.", "start": 5527.1, "duration": 2.59 }, { "text": ">> Now, let's go ahead\nafter saving this, make", "start": 5529.69, "duration": 2.26 }, { "text": "conditions dot slash conditions--\nnot a great user interface,", "start": 5531.95, "duration": 3.81 }, { "text": "because I'm not prompting the\nuser, as I mentioned earlier.", "start": 5535.76, "duration": 3.154 }, { "text": "But that's fine.", "start": 5538.914, "duration": 0.666 }, { "text": "We'll keep it simple.", "start": 5539.58, "duration": 0.874 }, { "text": "Let's try the number 42.", "start": 5540.454, "duration": 1.436 }, { "text": "And that's positive.", "start": 5541.89, "duration": 1.35 }, { "text": "Let's try the number\nnegative 42, negative.", "start": 5543.24, "duration": 2.88 }, { "text": ">> Let's try the value 0.", "start": 5546.12, "duration": 2.124 }, { "text": "And, indeed, it works.", "start": 5548.244, "duration": 0.916 }, { "text": "Now, you'll see with problems before\nlong, testing things three times,", "start": 5549.16, "duration": 4.74 }, { "text": "probably not sufficient.", "start": 5553.9, "duration": 1.08 }, { "text": "You probably want to test some\nbigger numbers, some smaller", "start": 5554.98, "duration": 2.458 }, { "text": "numbers, some corner cases, as\nwe'll come to describe them.", "start": 5557.438, "duration": 3.082 }, { "text": ">> But for now, this is a\npretty simple program.", "start": 5560.52, "duration": 1.98 }, { "text": "And I'm pretty sure, logically,\nthat it falls into three cases.", "start": 5562.5, "duration": 2.66 }, { "text": "And, indeed, even though we just\nfocused on the potential downsides", "start": 5565.16, "duration": 4.2 }, { "text": "of imprecision and overflow, in\nreality where many of CS50's problems,", "start": 5569.36, "duration": 4.12 }, { "text": "we are not going to worry\nabout, all the time,", "start": 5573.48, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "those issues of overflow and\nimprecision, because, in fact, in C,", "start": 5576.0, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": "it's actually not all that\neasy to avoid those things.", "start": 5579.05, "duration": 2.839 }, { "text": "If you want to count up\nbigger, and bigger, and bigger,", "start": 5581.889, "duration": 2.291 }, { "text": "it turns out there are techniques you\ncan use, often involving things called", "start": 5584.18, "duration": 3.33 }, { "text": "libraries, collections of code, that\nother people wrote that you can use,", "start": 5587.51, "duration": 3.73 }, { "text": "and other languages like\nJava and others, actually", "start": 5591.24, "duration": 2.67 }, { "text": "make it a lot easier\nto count even higher.", "start": 5593.91, "duration": 1.89 }, { "text": "So it really is some of these dangers\na function of the language you use.", "start": 5595.8, "duration": 4.01 }, { "text": "And in the coming weeks, we'll\nsee how dangerous C really", "start": 5599.81, "duration": 2.9 }, { "text": "can be if you don't use it properly.", "start": 5602.71, "duration": 2.24 }, { "text": "But from there, and with\nPython, and JavaScript, will", "start": 5604.95, "duration": 2.66 }, { "text": "we layer on some additional protections,\nand run fewer of those risks.", "start": 5607.61, "duration": 5.01 }, { "text": ">> So let's make a little more\ninteresting logic in our program.", "start": 5612.62, "duration": 3.2 }, { "text": "So let me go ahead and create\na program called Logical", "start": 5615.82, "duration": 3.29 }, { "text": "just so I can play with some\nactual logic, logical.c.", "start": 5619.11, "duration": 4.694 }, { "text": "I'll just copy and paste some\ncode from earlier so I get back", "start": 5623.804, "duration": 3.066 }, { "text": "to this nice starting point.", "start": 5626.87, "duration": 3.08 }, { "text": ">> Let me this time do char C. I'm\ngoing to give it a name of C", "start": 5629.95, "duration": 4.03 }, { "text": "just because it's conventional,\nget a character from the user.", "start": 5633.98, "duration": 4.53 }, { "text": "And let's pretend like\nI'm implementing part", "start": 5638.51, "duration": 2.22 }, { "text": "of that Rm program, the remove\nprogram before that prompted the user", "start": 5640.73, "duration": 3.4 }, { "text": "to remove a file.", "start": 5644.13, "duration": 1.27 }, { "text": "How could we do this?", "start": 5645.4, "duration": 1.35 }, { "text": ">> I want to say, if C equals\nequals, quote unquote,", "start": 5646.75, "duration": 4.34 }, { "text": "y, then I'm going to assume\nthat the user has chosen yes.", "start": 5651.09, "duration": 5.214 }, { "text": "I'm just going to print yes.", "start": 5656.304, "duration": 1.166 }, { "text": "If it were actually writing\nthe removal program,", "start": 5657.47, "duration": 1.97 }, { "text": "we could remove the file\nwith more lines of code.", "start": 5659.44, "duration": 1.98 }, { "text": "But we'll keep it simple.", "start": 5661.42, "duration": 1.041 }, { "text": ">> Else if c equals equals n--\nand now here, I'm going to say,", "start": 5665.95, "duration": 5.3 }, { "text": "the user must have meant no.", "start": 5671.25, "duration": 1.73 }, { "text": "And then else, you know what?", "start": 5672.98, "duration": 1.38 }, { "text": "I don't know what else\nthe user is going to type.", "start": 5674.36, "duration": 1.84 }, { "text": "So I'm just going to say that\nthat is an error, whatever", "start": 5676.2, "duration": 2.333 }, { "text": "he or she actually typed.", "start": 5678.533, "duration": 1.537 }, { "text": ">> So what's going on here?", "start": 5680.07, "duration": 1.11 }, { "text": "There is a fundamental difference\nversus what I've done in the past.", "start": 5681.18, "duration": 3.35 }, { "text": "Double quotes, double quotes, double\nquotes, and, yet, single quotes,", "start": 5684.53, "duration": 4.77 }, { "text": "single quotes.", "start": 5689.3, "duration": 0.87 }, { "text": "It turns out in C, that when\nyou want to write a string,", "start": 5690.17, "duration": 2.69 }, { "text": "you do use double quotes, just as we've\nbeen using all this time with printf.", "start": 5692.86, "duration": 3.82 }, { "text": ">> But if you want to deal with just a\nsingle character, a so-called char,", "start": 5696.68, "duration": 5.35 }, { "text": "then you actually use single quotes.", "start": 5702.03, "duration": 1.75 }, { "text": "Those of you who've programmed\nbefore, you might not have", "start": 5703.78, "duration": 1.67 }, { "text": "had to worry about this\ndistinction in certain languages.", "start": 5705.45, "duration": 2.4 }, { "text": "In C, it does matter.", "start": 5707.85, "duration": 1.6 }, { "text": "And so when I get a char and I want\nto compare that char using equals", "start": 5709.45, "duration": 3.11 }, { "text": "equals to some letter like y or n, I do,\nindeed, need to have the single quotes.", "start": 5712.56, "duration": 5.79 }, { "text": ">> Now, let's go ahead and do this.", "start": 5718.35, "duration": 1.42 }, { "text": "Let's go ahead and do make\nlogical dot slash logical.", "start": 5719.77, "duration": 6.41 }, { "text": "And now I'm being prompted.", "start": 5726.18, "duration": 1.125 }, { "text": "So, presumably, a better user experience\nwould actually tell me what to do here.", "start": 5727.305, "duration": 3.333 }, { "text": "But I'm going to just blindly\nsay y for yes, OK, nice.", "start": 5730.638, "duration": 2.392 }, { "text": ">> Let's run it again, n for no, nice.", "start": 5733.03, "duration": 2.75 }, { "text": "Suppose like certain people I know,\nmy caps lock key is on all too often.", "start": 5735.78, "duration": 3.83 }, { "text": "So I do capital Y, enter, error.", "start": 5739.61, "duration": 4.13 }, { "text": "OK, it's not exactly what I'm expecting.", "start": 5743.74, "duration": 2.39 }, { "text": "Indeed, the computer\nis doing literally what", "start": 5746.13, "duration": 2.04 }, { "text": "I told it to do-- check for\nlowercase y and lowercase n.", "start": 5748.17, "duration": 3.624 }, { "text": "This doesn't feel like good\nuser experience, though.", "start": 5751.794, "duration": 2.166 }, { "text": "Let me ask for and accept\neither lower case or upper case.", "start": 5753.96, "duration": 5.05 }, { "text": "So it turns out, you might want\nto say something like in Scratch,", "start": 5759.01, "duration": 3.08 }, { "text": "like literally or C equals\nequals capital single quoted y.", "start": 5762.09, "duration": 6.06 }, { "text": "Turns out, C does not have\nthis literal keyword or.", "start": 5768.15, "duration": 3.25 }, { "text": ">> But it does have two vertical bars.", "start": 5771.4, "duration": 1.48 }, { "text": "You have to hold Shift usually,\nif you're using a US keyboard,", "start": 5772.88, "duration": 2.583 }, { "text": "and hit the vertical bar\nkey above your return key.", "start": 5775.463, "duration": 3.447 }, { "text": "But this vertical bar\nvertical bar means or.", "start": 5778.91, "duration": 3.5 }, { "text": ">> If, by contrast, we wanted\nto say and, like in Scratch,", "start": 5782.41, "duration": 3.81 }, { "text": "we could do ampersand ampersand.", "start": 5786.22, "duration": 1.96 }, { "text": "That makes no logical sense here,\nbecause a human could not possibly", "start": 5788.18, "duration": 3.15 }, { "text": "have typed both y and lowercase y\nand capital Y as the same character.", "start": 5791.33, "duration": 5.78 }, { "text": "So or is what we intend here.", "start": 5797.11, "duration": 2.36 }, { "text": ">> So if I do this in both places, or c\nequals equals capital N, now rerun,", "start": 5799.47, "duration": 6.81 }, { "text": "make logical, rerun logical.", "start": 5806.28, "duration": 3.11 }, { "text": "Now, I can type y.", "start": 5809.39, "duration": 1.81 }, { "text": "And I can do it again with\ncapital Y, or capital N.", "start": 5811.2, "duration": 2.72 }, { "text": "And I could add in additional\ncombinations still.", "start": 5813.92, "duration": 2.71 }, { "text": ">> So this is a logical\nprogram insofar as now", "start": 5816.63, "duration": 2.18 }, { "text": "I'm checking logically for\nthis value or this value.", "start": 5818.81, "duration": 3.13 }, { "text": "And I don't have to, necessarily,\ncome up with two more ifs or else ifs.", "start": 5821.94, "duration": 4.48 }, { "text": "I can actually combine some of the\nrelated logic together in this way.", "start": 5826.42, "duration": 3.54 }, { "text": "So this would be better\ndesigned than simply", "start": 5829.96, "duration": 1.99 }, { "text": "saying, if C equals lower case y,\nprint yes, else if c equals capital Y,", "start": 5831.95, "duration": 5.54 }, { "text": "print yes, else if c equals\nlower-- in other words,", "start": 5837.49, "duration": 2.584 }, { "text": "you don't have to have\nmore and more branches.", "start": 5840.074, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "You can combine some of the equivalent\nbranches logically, as in this way.", "start": 5841.99, "duration": 6.85 }, { "text": ">> So let's take a look at just one\nfinal ingredient, one final construct,", "start": 5848.84, "duration": 5.31 }, { "text": "that C allows.", "start": 5854.15, "duration": 0.697 }, { "text": "And we'll come back in the\nfuture to others still.", "start": 5854.847, "duration": 2.083 }, { "text": "And then we'll conclude by looking\nat not the correctness of code--", "start": 5856.93, "duration": 4.47 }, { "text": "getting code to work-- but the design\nof code, and plant those seeds early on.", "start": 5861.4, "duration": 4.67 }, { "text": ">> So let me go ahead and\nopen up a new file here.", "start": 5866.07, "duration": 5.267 }, { "text": "You know what?", "start": 5871.337, "duration": 0.583 }, { "text": "I'm going to re-implement\nthat same program,", "start": 5871.92, "duration": 2.53 }, { "text": "but using a different construct.", "start": 5874.45, "duration": 1.49 }, { "text": ">> So let me quickly give myself\naccess to include CS50.h", "start": 5875.94, "duration": 4.17 }, { "text": "for the CS50 library,\nstandard Io.h for printf.", "start": 5880.11, "duration": 4.04 }, { "text": "Give me my int main void.", "start": 5884.15, "duration": 2.36 }, { "text": "And then over here, let\nme go ahead and do this.", "start": 5886.51, "duration": 2.8 }, { "text": ">> Char c gets get char, just like before.", "start": 5889.31, "duration": 2.7 }, { "text": "And I'm going to use a new construct\nnow-- switch, on what character?", "start": 5892.01, "duration": 4.76 }, { "text": "So switch is kind of like\nswitching a train tracks.", "start": 5896.77, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": "Or, really, it is kind of\nan if else, if else if,", "start": 5899.82, "duration": 2.25 }, { "text": "but written somewhat differently.", "start": 5902.07, "duration": 1.91 }, { "text": ">> A switch looks like this.", "start": 5903.98, "duration": 1.51 }, { "text": "You have switch, and then what\ncharacter or number you want to look at,", "start": 5905.49, "duration": 3.57 }, { "text": "then some curly braces like in\nScratch, just say do this stuff.", "start": 5909.06, "duration": 2.94 }, { "text": "And then you have different cases.", "start": 5912.0, "duration": 1.48 }, { "text": ">> You don't use if and else.", "start": 5913.48, "duration": 1.35 }, { "text": "You literally use the word case.", "start": 5914.83, "duration": 2.22 }, { "text": "And you would say something like this.", "start": 5917.05, "duration": 1.74 }, { "text": ">> So in the case of a lowercase y,\nor in the case of a capital Y,", "start": 5918.79, "duration": 5.03 }, { "text": "go ahead and print out yes.", "start": 5923.82, "duration": 3.53 }, { "text": "And then break out of the switch.", "start": 5927.35, "duration": 1.67 }, { "text": "That's it.", "start": 5929.02, "duration": 0.56 }, { "text": "We're done.", "start": 5929.58, "duration": 1.3 }, { "text": ">> Else if, so to speak,\nlower case n, or capital N,", "start": 5930.88, "duration": 6.39 }, { "text": "then go ahead and print\nout no, and then break.", "start": 5937.27, "duration": 5.29 }, { "text": "Else-- and this kind of is the\ndefault case indeed-- printf error--", "start": 5942.56, "duration": 5.462 }, { "text": "and just for good measure, though\nlogically this break is not necessary", "start": 5948.022, "duration": 2.958 }, { "text": "because we're at the end\nof the switch anyway,", "start": 5950.98, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "I'm now breaking out of the switch.", "start": 5952.896, "duration": 1.624 }, { "text": "So this looks a little different.", "start": 5954.52, "duration": 1.76 }, { "text": ">> But, logically, it's\nactually equivalent.", "start": 5956.28, "duration": 1.992 }, { "text": "And why would you use\none over the other?", "start": 5958.272, "duration": 1.708 }, { "text": "Sometimes, just personal preference,\nsometimes the aesthetics,", "start": 5959.98, "duration": 3.24 }, { "text": "if I glance at this\nnow, there's something", "start": 5963.22, "duration": 2.2 }, { "text": "to be said for the\nreadability of this code.", "start": 5965.42, "duration": 2.09 }, { "text": "I mean, never mind the fact that this\ncode is new to many of us in the room.", "start": 5967.51, "duration": 3.18 }, { "text": ">> But it just kind of is pretty.", "start": 5970.69, "duration": 2.825 }, { "text": "You see lowercase y, capital Y,\nlower case n, capital N default,", "start": 5973.515, "duration": 4.245 }, { "text": "it just kind of jumps\nout at you in a way", "start": 5977.76, "duration": 2.39 }, { "text": "that, arguably, maybe\nthe previous example", "start": 5980.15, "duration": 2.05 }, { "text": "with the ifs, and the vertical bars,\nand the else ifs, might not have.", "start": 5982.2, "duration": 3.58 }, { "text": "So this is really a matter of personal\nchoice, really, or readability,", "start": 5985.78, "duration": 5.82 }, { "text": "of the code.", "start": 5991.6, "duration": 0.76 }, { "text": ">> But in terms of functionality, let me\ngo ahead and make a switch, dot slash", "start": 5992.36, "duration": 5.87 }, { "text": "switch, and now type in lowercase y,\ncapital Y, lowercase n, capital N,", "start": 5998.23, "duration": 7.6 }, { "text": "David, retry because that's\nnot a single character.", "start": 6005.83, "duration": 3.42 }, { "text": "Let's do x, error, as expected.", "start": 6009.25, "duration": 2.8 }, { "text": "And, logically-- and this is something\nI would encourage in general-- even", "start": 6012.05, "duration": 3.59 }, { "text": "though we're only scratching the\nsurface of some of these features.", "start": 6015.64, "duration": 2.15 }, { "text": ">> And it might not be obvious when you\nyourself sit down at the keyboard,", "start": 6017.79, "duration": 2.77 }, { "text": "how does this work?", "start": 6020.56, "duration": 0.81 }, { "text": "What would this do?", "start": 6021.37, "duration": 0.87 }, { "text": "The beautiful thing about having\na laptop, or desktop, or access", "start": 6022.24, "duration": 3.39 }, { "text": "to a computer with a compiler,\nand with a code editor like this,", "start": 6025.63, "duration": 3.66 }, { "text": "is you can almost always answer these\nquestions for yourself just by trying.", "start": 6029.29, "duration": 3.7 }, { "text": ">> For instance, if the rhetorical\nquestion at hand were,", "start": 6032.99, "duration": 3.58 }, { "text": "what happens if you forget\nyour break statements?", "start": 6036.57, "duration": 2.97 }, { "text": "Which is actually a\nvery common thing to do,", "start": 6039.54, "duration": 1.86 }, { "text": "because it doesn't look\nlike you really need them.", "start": 6041.4, "duration": 2.14 }, { "text": "They don't really complete your\nthought like a parenthesis or a curly", "start": 6043.54, "duration": 3.25 }, { "text": "brace does.", "start": 6046.79, "duration": 0.924 }, { "text": "Let's go ahead and\nrecompile the code and see.", "start": 6047.714, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "So make switch, dot slash switch.", "start": 6049.63, "duration": 4.06 }, { "text": "Let's type in lower case\ny, the top case, Enter.", "start": 6053.69, "duration": 2.745 }, { "text": "So I typed y.", "start": 6059.39, "duration": 1.31 }, { "text": ">> The program said yes, no, error,\nas though it was changing its mind.", "start": 6060.7, "duration": 3.72 }, { "text": "But it kind of was, because what happens\nwith a switch is the first case that", "start": 6064.42, "duration": 4.86 }, { "text": "match essentially means, hey computer,\nexecute all of the code beneath it.", "start": 6069.28, "duration": 4.619 }, { "text": "And if you don't say break, or\ndon't say break, or don't say break,", "start": 6073.899, "duration": 2.791 }, { "text": "the computer is going to blow\nthrough all of those lines", "start": 6076.69, "duration": 2.85 }, { "text": "and execute all of them until\nit gets to that curly brace.", "start": 6079.54, "duration": 3.239 }, { "text": "So the brakes are, indeed, necessary.", "start": 6082.779, "duration": 1.541 }, { "text": "But a takeaway here is, when\nin doubt, try something.", "start": 6084.32, "duration": 2.8 }, { "text": "Maybe save your code first,\nor save it in an extra file", "start": 6087.12, "duration": 2.39 }, { "text": "if you're really worried about\nmessing up and having to recover", "start": 6089.51, "duration": 3.42 }, { "text": "the work that you know is working.", "start": 6092.93, "duration": 1.5 }, { "text": ">> But try things.", "start": 6094.43, "duration": 0.98 }, { "text": "And don't be as afraid, perhaps,\nof what the computer might do,", "start": 6095.41, "duration": 2.664 }, { "text": "or that you might break something.", "start": 6098.074, "duration": 1.416 }, { "text": "You can always revert back\nto some earlier version.", "start": 6099.49, "duration": 3.3 }, { "text": ">> So let's end by looking\nat the design of code.", "start": 6102.79, "duration": 2.85 }, { "text": "We have this ability now to write\nconditions, and write loops,", "start": 6105.64, "duration": 3.38 }, { "text": "and variables, and call functions.", "start": 6109.02, "duration": 1.83 }, { "text": "So, frankly, we're kind of back at\nwhere we were a week ago with Scratch,", "start": 6110.85, "duration": 3.74 }, { "text": "albeit with a less compelling textual\nenvironment than Scratch allows.", "start": 6114.59, "duration": 5.53 }, { "text": ">> But notice how quickly we've acquired\nthat vocabulary, even if it's", "start": 6120.12, "duration": 3.87 }, { "text": "going to take a little while to sink in,\nso that we can now use this vocabulary", "start": 6123.99, "duration": 3.58 }, { "text": "to write more interesting programs.", "start": 6127.57, "duration": 2.75 }, { "text": "And let's take a baby step\ntoward that, as follows.", "start": 6130.32, "duration": 2.62 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and\ncreate a new file here.", "start": 6132.94, "duration": 1.95 }, { "text": ">> I'm going to call this\nprototype.c, and introduce", "start": 6134.89, "duration": 2.86 }, { "text": "for the first time, the ability\nto make your own functions.", "start": 6137.75, "duration": 3.204 }, { "text": "Some of you might have\ndone this with Scratch,", "start": 6140.954, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "whereby you can create your\nown custom blocks in Scratch,", "start": 6142.87, "duration": 2.56 }, { "text": "and then drag them into place\nwherever you'd like in C.", "start": 6145.43, "duration": 2.462 }, { "text": "And in most programming\nlanguages, you can do exactly", "start": 6147.892, "duration": 2.208 }, { "text": "that-- make your own functions,\nif they don't already exist.", "start": 6150.1, "duration": 3.48 }, { "text": ">> So, for instance, let me go ahead\nand include CS50.h, and include", "start": 6153.58, "duration": 5.08 }, { "text": "standard IO.h, int main void.", "start": 6158.66, "duration": 4.45 }, { "text": "And now we have a\nplaceholder ready to go.", "start": 6163.11, "duration": 2.91 }, { "text": "I keep printing things\nlike people's names today.", "start": 6166.02, "duration": 2.53 }, { "text": "And that feels like--\nwouldn't be nice if there", "start": 6168.55, "duration": 3.36 }, { "text": "were a function called print name?", "start": 6171.91, "duration": 2.026 }, { "text": "I don't have to use printf.", "start": 6173.936, "duration": 1.124 }, { "text": "I don't have to remember\nall the format codes.", "start": 6175.06, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "Why don't I, or why\ndidn't someone before me,", "start": 6176.976, "duration": 3.074 }, { "text": "create a function called print\nname, that given some name,", "start": 6180.05, "duration": 2.93 }, { "text": "simply prints it out?", "start": 6182.98, "duration": 1.0 }, { "text": ">> In other words, if I say, hey,\ncomputer, give me a string", "start": 6183.98, "duration": 4.72 }, { "text": "by asking the user for such,\nvia CS50's get string function.", "start": 6188.7, "duration": 3.17 }, { "text": "Hey, computer, put that string in\nthe variable in the left hand side,", "start": 6191.87, "duration": 3.22 }, { "text": "and call it s.", "start": 6195.09, "duration": 1.06 }, { "text": "And then, hey computer, go ahead\nand print that person's name, done.", "start": 6196.15, "duration": 6.0 }, { "text": ">> Now, it would be nice, because\nthis program, aptly named,", "start": 6202.15, "duration": 4.09 }, { "text": "tells me what it's supposed to do\nby way of those function's names.", "start": 6206.24, "duration": 2.93 }, { "text": "Let me go and make prototype, Enter.", "start": 6209.17, "duration": 3.76 }, { "text": "And, unfortunately,\nthis isn't going to fly.", "start": 6212.93, "duration": 2.0 }, { "text": ">> Prototype.c, line 7, character\n5, error, implicit declaration", "start": 6214.93, "duration": 4.5 }, { "text": "of function print name\nis invalid in C99, C99", "start": 6219.43, "duration": 3.53 }, { "text": "meaning a version of C\nthat came out in 1999.", "start": 6222.96, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": "That's all.", "start": 6225.13, "duration": 0.6 }, { "text": ">> So I don't know what\nall of this means yet.", "start": 6225.73, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": "But I do recognize error in red.", "start": 6228.78, "duration": 2.03 }, { "text": "That's pretty obvious.", "start": 6230.81, "duration": 0.96 }, { "text": ">> And it seems that with\nthe green character here,", "start": 6231.77, "duration": 1.999 }, { "text": "the issue is with print name, open\nparen s, close paren, semi-colon.", "start": 6233.769, "duration": 3.751 }, { "text": "But implicit declaration of\nfunction we did see briefly earlier.", "start": 6237.52, "duration": 4.28 }, { "text": "This means, simply, that Clang\ndoes not know what I mean.", "start": 6241.8, "duration": 3.08 }, { "text": ">> I've used a vocabulary word that it's\nnever seen or been taught before.", "start": 6244.88, "duration": 4.12 }, { "text": "And so I need to teach it\nwhat this function means.", "start": 6249.0, "duration": 2.95 }, { "text": "So I'm going to go ahead and do that.", "start": 6251.95, "duration": 1.64 }, { "text": ">> I'm going to go ahead and implement\nmy own function called Print Name.", "start": 6253.59, "duration": 4.38 }, { "text": "And I'm going to say, as follows, that\nit does this, printf, hello, percent", "start": 6257.97, "duration": 6.75 }, { "text": "s, backslash n, name, semi-colon.", "start": 6264.72, "duration": 3.04 }, { "text": "So what did I just do?", "start": 6267.76, "duration": 1.49 }, { "text": ">> So it turns out, to\nimplement your own function,", "start": 6269.25, "duration": 2.075 }, { "text": "we kind of borrow some of\nthe same structure as main", "start": 6271.325, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "that we've just been\ntaken for granted, and I", "start": 6273.845, "duration": 1.875 }, { "text": "know just copying and\npasting pretty much what", "start": 6275.72, "duration": 2.01 }, { "text": "I've been writing in the past.", "start": 6277.73, "duration": 1.44 }, { "text": "But notice the pattern here.", "start": 6279.17, "duration": 1.4 }, { "text": "Int, Main, Void, we'll tease apart\nbefore long what that actually means.", "start": 6280.57, "duration": 3.18 }, { "text": ">> But for today, just\nnotice the parallelism.", "start": 6283.75, "duration": 2.41 }, { "text": "Void, print name,\nstring name, so there's", "start": 6286.16, "duration": 2.05 }, { "text": "a purple keyword, which\nwe're going to start", "start": 6288.21, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": "calling a return type, the name of\nthe function, and then the input.", "start": 6290.31, "duration": 3.757 }, { "text": "So, actually, we can distill\nthis kind of like last week", "start": 6294.067, "duration": 2.333 }, { "text": "as, this is the name or the\nalgorithm of the code we're", "start": 6296.4, "duration": 2.63 }, { "text": "going to write-- the\nalgorithm underlying", "start": 6299.03, "duration": 1.731 }, { "text": "the code we're going to write.", "start": 6300.761, "duration": 1.249 }, { "text": ">> This is its input.", "start": 6302.01, "duration": 1.17 }, { "text": "This is its output.", "start": 6303.18, "duration": 1.49 }, { "text": "This function, print name, is\ndesigned to take a string called name,", "start": 6304.67, "duration": 4.06 }, { "text": "or whatever, as input, and then void.", "start": 6308.73, "duration": 2.62 }, { "text": "It doesn't return anything,\nlike get string or get int does.", "start": 6311.35, "duration": 2.554 }, { "text": "So it's going to hand me something back.", "start": 6313.904, "duration": 1.666 }, { "text": "It's just going to have a\nside effect, so to speak,", "start": 6315.57, "duration": 2.39 }, { "text": "of printing a person's name.", "start": 6317.96, "duration": 1.61 }, { "text": "So notice, line 7, I\ncan call print name.", "start": 6319.57, "duration": 2.69 }, { "text": "Line 10, I can define\nor implement print name.", "start": 6322.26, "duration": 3.66 }, { "text": "But, unfortunately, that's not enough.", "start": 6325.92, "duration": 2.53 }, { "text": ">> Let me go ahead and\nrecompile this after saving.", "start": 6328.45, "duration": 2.78 }, { "text": "Whoa, now, I've made it\nworse, it would seem.", "start": 6331.23, "duration": 2.68 }, { "text": "So implicit declaration of\nfunction print name is invalid.", "start": 6333.91, "duration": 3.117 }, { "text": "And, again, there's more errors.", "start": 6337.027, "duration": 1.333 }, { "text": "But as I cautioned earlier, even\nif you get overwhelmed with,", "start": 6338.36, "duration": 3.07 }, { "text": "or a little sad to see so many\nerrors, focus only on the first", "start": 6341.43, "duration": 3.42 }, { "text": "initially, because it might just\nhave had a cascading effect.", "start": 6344.85, "duration": 2.65 }, { "text": "So C, or Clang more specifically,\nstill does not recognize print name.", "start": 6347.5, "duration": 4.47 }, { "text": ">> And that's because Clang,\nby design, is kind of dumb.", "start": 6351.97, "duration": 2.61 }, { "text": "It only does what you tell it to do.", "start": 6354.58, "duration": 1.7 }, { "text": "And it only does so in the order\nin which you tell it to do.", "start": 6356.28, "duration": 4.67 }, { "text": ">> So I have defined main on line four,\nlike we've been doing pretty often.", "start": 6360.95, "duration": 4.32 }, { "text": "I've defined print name on line 10.", "start": 6365.27, "duration": 2.71 }, { "text": "But I'm trying to use\nprint name on line seven.", "start": 6367.98, "duration": 3.813 }, { "text": ">> It's too soon, doesn't exist yet.", "start": 6371.793, "duration": 1.877 }, { "text": "So I could be clever, and be like,\nOK, so let's just play along,", "start": 6373.67, "duration": 5.48 }, { "text": "and move print name up\nhere, and re-compile.", "start": 6379.15, "duration": 4.53 }, { "text": "Oh my God.", "start": 6383.68, "duration": 0.87 }, { "text": "It worked.", "start": 6384.55, "duration": 0.71 }, { "text": "It was as simple as that.", "start": 6385.26, "duration": 1.41 }, { "text": ">> But the logic is exactly that.", "start": 6386.67, "duration": 1.45 }, { "text": "You have to teach Clang what it\nis by defining the function first.", "start": 6388.12, "duration": 2.75 }, { "text": "Then you can use it.", "start": 6390.87, "duration": 1.05 }, { "text": "But, frankly, this feels\nlike a slippery slope.", "start": 6391.92, "duration": 2.02 }, { "text": ">> So every time I run\ninto a problem, I'm just", "start": 6393.94, "duration": 1.833 }, { "text": "going to highlight and copy the code\nI wrote, cut it and paste it up here.", "start": 6395.773, "duration": 3.677 }, { "text": "And, surely, we could\ncontrive some scenarios", "start": 6399.45, "duration": 1.92 }, { "text": "where one function might\nneed to call another.", "start": 6401.37, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "And you just can't put every\nfunction above every other.", "start": 6403.286, "duration": 2.744 }, { "text": ">> So it turns out there's\na better solution.", "start": 6406.03, "duration": 1.9 }, { "text": "We can leave this be.", "start": 6407.93, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": "And, frankly, it's generally nice,\nand convenient, and good design", "start": 6410.1, "duration": 3.577 }, { "text": "to put main first, because, again,\nmain just like when green flag clicked,", "start": 6413.677, "duration": 3.083 }, { "text": "that is the function that\ngets executed by default.", "start": 6416.76, "duration": 2.267 }, { "text": "So you might as well put\nit at the top of the file", "start": 6419.027, "duration": 2.083 }, { "text": "so that when you or any\nother human looks at the file", "start": 6421.11, "duration": 2.45 }, { "text": "you know what's going on\njust by reading main first.", "start": 6423.56, "duration": 2.8 }, { "text": "So it turns out, we can tell Clang\nproactively, hey, Clang, on line four,", "start": 6426.36, "duration": 9.0 }, { "text": "I promise to implement\na function called Print", "start": 6435.36, "duration": 2.58 }, { "text": "Name that takes a string called name\nas input, and returns nothing, void.", "start": 6437.94, "duration": 4.66 }, { "text": "And I'll get around to\nimplementing it later.", "start": 6442.6, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": ">> Here comes Main.", "start": 6444.77, "duration": 0.91 }, { "text": "Main now on line 9 can use\nPrint Name because Clang", "start": 6445.68, "duration": 3.45 }, { "text": "is trusting that, eventually,\nit will encounter the definition", "start": 6449.13, "duration": 3.47 }, { "text": "of the implementation of Print Name.", "start": 6452.6, "duration": 2.28 }, { "text": "So after saving my file, let\nme go ahead and make prototype,", "start": 6454.88, "duration": 2.51 }, { "text": "looks good this time.", "start": 6457.39, "duration": 1.108 }, { "text": "Dot slash, prototype, let me\ngo ahead and type in a name.", "start": 6458.498, "duration": 4.972 }, { "text": "David, hello David, Zamila, hello\nZamila, and, indeed, now it works.", "start": 6463.47, "duration": 4.97 }, { "text": ">> So the ingredient here is that we've\nmade a custom function, like a custom", "start": 6468.44, "duration": 3.76 }, { "text": "Scratch block we're calling it.", "start": 6472.2, "duration": 2.019 }, { "text": "But unlike Scratch where you can\njust create it and start using it,", "start": 6474.219, "duration": 2.791 }, { "text": "now we have to be a\nlittle more pedantic,", "start": 6477.01, "duration": 2.32 }, { "text": "and actually train Clang\nto use, or to expect it.", "start": 6479.33, "duration": 4.08 }, { "text": "Now, as an aside, why all this time have\nwe been just blindly on faith including", "start": 6483.41, "duration": 5.73 }, { "text": "CS50.h, and including standard IO.h?", "start": 6489.14, "duration": 3.03 }, { "text": ">> Well, it turns out,\namong a few other things,", "start": 6492.17, "duration": 3.02 }, { "text": "all that's in those dot h\nfiles, which happen to be files.", "start": 6495.19, "duration": 3.36 }, { "text": "They're header files, so to speak.", "start": 6498.55, "duration": 1.91 }, { "text": "They're still written in C. But\nthey're a different type of file.", "start": 6500.46, "duration": 2.81 }, { "text": ">> For now, you can pretty much assume\nthat all that is inside of CS50.h", "start": 6503.27, "duration": 5.42 }, { "text": "is some one-liners like this, not\nfor functions called Print Name,", "start": 6508.69, "duration": 4.67 }, { "text": "but for Get String, Get\nFloat, and a few others.", "start": 6513.36, "duration": 3.48 }, { "text": "And there are similar prototypes,\none liners, inside of standard IO.h", "start": 6516.84, "duration": 4.67 }, { "text": "for printf, which is now in\nmy own Print Name function.", "start": 6521.51, "duration": 4.731 }, { "text": "So in other words, this whole time we've\njust been blindly copying and pasting", "start": 6526.241, "duration": 3.249 }, { "text": "include this, include\nthat, what's going on?", "start": 6529.49, "duration": 2.29 }, { "text": "Those are just kind of clues\nto Clang as to what functions", "start": 6531.78, "duration": 3.53 }, { "text": "are, indeed, implemented, just\nelsewhere in different files", "start": 6535.31, "duration": 4.86 }, { "text": "elsewhere on the system.", "start": 6540.17, "duration": 2.27 }, { "text": ">> So we've implemented print name.", "start": 6542.44, "duration": 2.72 }, { "text": "It does have this side effect of\nprinting something on the screen.", "start": 6545.16, "duration": 2.75 }, { "text": "But it doesn't actually\nhand me something back.", "start": 6547.91, "duration": 2.26 }, { "text": "How do we go about\nimplementing a program that", "start": 6550.17, "duration": 2.03 }, { "text": "does hand me something back?", "start": 6552.2, "duration": 2.31 }, { "text": ">> Well, let's try this.", "start": 6554.51, "duration": 1.07 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and implement\na file called return.c", "start": 6555.58, "duration": 5.78 }, { "text": "so we can demonstrate how something\nlike Get String, or Get Int,", "start": 6561.36, "duration": 3.17 }, { "text": "is actually returning\nsomething back to the user.", "start": 6564.53, "duration": 2.81 }, { "text": "Let's go ahead and define int main void.", "start": 6567.34, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": ">> And, again, in the future, we'll\nexplain what that int and that void", "start": 6569.84, "duration": 3.39 }, { "text": "is actually doing.", "start": 6573.23, "duration": 0.86 }, { "text": "But for today, we'll\ntake it for granted.", "start": 6574.09, "duration": 1.75 }, { "text": "I'm going to go ahead and printf,\nfor a good user experience, x is.", "start": 6575.84, "duration": 4.13 }, { "text": "And then I'm going to wait for the\nuser to give me x with get int.", "start": 6579.97, "duration": 4.39 }, { "text": ">> And then I'm going to go ahead\nand print out x to the square.", "start": 6584.36, "duration": 4.099 }, { "text": "So when you only have a\nkeyboard, people commonly", "start": 6588.459, "duration": 2.041 }, { "text": "use the little carrot\nsymbol on the keyboard", "start": 6590.5, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": "to represent to the power\nof, or the exponent of.", "start": 6592.6, "duration": 2.73 }, { "text": "So x squared is present i.", "start": 6595.33, "duration": 3.63 }, { "text": ">> And now I'm going to do this.", "start": 6598.96, "duration": 1.7 }, { "text": "I could just do-- what's x\nsquared? x squared is x times x.", "start": 6600.66, "duration": 3.28 }, { "text": ">> And we did this some\ntime ago already today.", "start": 6603.94, "duration": 2.75 }, { "text": "This doesn't feel like\nall that much progress.", "start": 6606.69, "duration": 2.04 }, { "text": "You know what?", "start": 6608.73, "duration": 0.84 }, { "text": "Let's leverage some of that idea\nfrom last time of abstraction.", "start": 6609.57, "duration": 3.53 }, { "text": ">> Wouldn't it be nice if\nthere's a function called", "start": 6613.1, "duration": 2.98 }, { "text": "square that does exactly that?", "start": 6616.08, "duration": 2.38 }, { "text": "It still, at the end of the\nday, does the same math.", "start": 6618.46, "duration": 2.18 }, { "text": "But let's abstract\naway the idea of taking", "start": 6620.64, "duration": 1.77 }, { "text": "one number multiplied by\nanother, and just give it a name,", "start": 6622.41, "duration": 2.87 }, { "text": "like square this value.", "start": 6625.28, "duration": 2.08 }, { "text": ">> And, in other words, in\nC, let's create a function", "start": 6627.36, "duration": 2.2 }, { "text": "called square that does exactly that.", "start": 6629.56, "duration": 3.1 }, { "text": "It's going to be called square.", "start": 6632.66, "duration": 1.94 }, { "text": "It's going to take an int.", "start": 6634.6, "duration": 1.19 }, { "text": "And we'll will just\ncall it n, by default.", "start": 6635.79, "duration": 2.03 }, { "text": ">> But we could call it anything we want.", "start": 6637.82, "duration": 1.583 }, { "text": "And all that it's going to\ndo, literally, is return", "start": 6639.403, "duration": 3.497 }, { "text": "the result of n times n.", "start": 6642.9, "duration": 2.91 }, { "text": "But because it is\nreturning something, which", "start": 6645.81, "duration": 3.17 }, { "text": "is the keyword in purple we've\nnever seen before, I, on line 11,", "start": 6648.98, "duration": 4.71 }, { "text": "can't just say void this time.", "start": 6653.69, "duration": 1.72 }, { "text": ">> Void, in the example we just saw\nrather of print name, just means,", "start": 6655.41, "duration": 5.91 }, { "text": "do something.", "start": 6661.32, "duration": 0.87 }, { "text": "But don't hand me something back.", "start": 6662.19, "duration": 1.98 }, { "text": "In this case, I do want\nto return n times n,", "start": 6664.17, "duration": 2.62 }, { "text": "or whatever that is, that number.", "start": 6666.79, "duration": 1.67 }, { "text": ">> So I can't say, hey, computer,\nI return nothing, void.", "start": 6668.46, "duration": 4.0 }, { "text": "It's going to return, by nature, an int.", "start": 6672.46, "duration": 3.706 }, { "text": "And so that's all that's going on here.", "start": 6676.166, "duration": 1.624 }, { "text": ">> The input to square\nis going to be an int.", "start": 6677.79, "duration": 2.28 }, { "text": "And so that we can use it, it has to\nhave a name, N. It's going to output", "start": 6680.07, "duration": 4.69 }, { "text": "an int that doesn't need a name.", "start": 6684.76, "duration": 1.48 }, { "text": "We can leave it to main, or whoever is\nusing me to remember this value if we", "start": 6686.24, "duration": 3.35 }, { "text": "want with its own variable.", "start": 6689.59, "duration": 1.53 }, { "text": ">> And, again, the only new\nkeyword here is Return.", "start": 6691.12, "duration": 2.11 }, { "text": "And I'm just doing some math.", "start": 6693.23, "duration": 1.25 }, { "text": "If I really wanted to be unnecessary,\nI could say int product gets n times n.", "start": 6694.48, "duration": 7.345 }, { "text": ">> And then I could say, return product.", "start": 6701.825, "duration": 2.345 }, { "text": "But, again, to my point earlier of\nthis just not being good design--", "start": 6704.17, "duration": 3.19 }, { "text": "like, why introduce a name,\na symbol, like product,", "start": 6707.36, "duration": 2.7 }, { "text": "just to immediately return it?", "start": 6710.06, "duration": 1.51 }, { "text": "It's a little cleaner,\na little tighter, so", "start": 6711.57, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": "to speak, just to say return n times\nn, get rid of this line altogether.", "start": 6713.67, "duration": 5.71 }, { "text": ">> And it's just less code to read,\nless opportunity for mistakes.", "start": 6719.38, "duration": 3.48 }, { "text": "And let's see if this\nactually now works.", "start": 6722.86, "duration": 2.32 }, { "text": "Now, I'm going to go\nahead and make return.", "start": 6725.18, "duration": 4.2 }, { "text": ">> Uh-oh, implicit declaration of function.", "start": 6729.38, "duration": 2.08 }, { "text": "I made this mistake before, no big deal.", "start": 6731.46, "duration": 2.62 }, { "text": "Let me just type, or highlight and\ncopy, the exact same function prototype,", "start": 6734.08, "duration": 4.87 }, { "text": "or signature, of the function up here.", "start": 6738.95, "duration": 2.392 }, { "text": "Or I could move the whole function.", "start": 6741.342, "duration": 1.458 }, { "text": ">> But that's a little lazy.", "start": 6742.8, "duration": 1.041 }, { "text": "So we won't do that.", "start": 6743.841, "duration": 1.029 }, { "text": "Now, let me make return\nagain, dot slash return.", "start": 6744.87, "duration": 3.09 }, { "text": ">> x is 2. x squared is 4.\nx is 3. x squared is 9.", "start": 6747.96, "duration": 4.83 }, { "text": "And the function seems\nnow to be working.", "start": 6752.79, "duration": 2.51 }, { "text": "So what's the difference here?", "start": 6755.3, "duration": 1.25 }, { "text": "I have a function that's called square,\nin this case, which I put in an input.", "start": 6756.55, "duration": 5.97 }, { "text": "And I get back an output.", "start": 6762.52, "duration": 1.31 }, { "text": "And yet, previously, if\nI open the other example", "start": 6763.83, "duration": 2.38 }, { "text": "from earlier, which\nwas called prototype.c,", "start": 6766.21, "duration": 5.43 }, { "text": "I had print name, which\nreturned void, so to speak,", "start": 6771.64, "duration": 3.13 }, { "text": "Or it returned nothing, and\nsimply had a side effect.", "start": 6774.77, "duration": 3.96 }, { "text": ">> So what's going on here?", "start": 6778.73, "duration": 1.5 }, { "text": "Well, consider the function\nget string for just a moment.", "start": 6780.23, "duration": 3.29 }, { "text": "We've been using the function\nget string in the following way.", "start": 6783.52, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": ">> We've had a function get\nstring, like include CS50.h,", "start": 6786.57, "duration": 3.894 }, { "text": "include standard IO.h, int, main, void.", "start": 6790.464, "duration": 6.16 }, { "text": "And then every time I've\ncalled get string thus far,", "start": 6796.624, "duration": 2.166 }, { "text": "I've said something like, string s\ngets get string, because get string--", "start": 6798.79, "duration": 4.47 }, { "text": "let's call this get.c-- get string\nitself returns a string that I can then", "start": 6803.26, "duration": 4.62 }, { "text": "use, and say, hello, comma,\npercent s, backslash n, s.", "start": 6807.88, "duration": 4.17 }, { "text": ">> So this is the same example,\nreally, that we had earlier.", "start": 6812.05, "duration": 3.61 }, { "text": "So get string returns a value.", "start": 6815.66, "duration": 2.26 }, { "text": "But a moment ago, print string\ndoes not return a value.", "start": 6817.92, "duration": 3.34 }, { "text": "It simply has a side effect.", "start": 6821.26, "duration": 1.461 }, { "text": "So this is a fundamental difference.", "start": 6822.721, "duration": 1.499 }, { "text": "We've seen different\ntypes of functions now,", "start": 6824.22, "duration": 2.49 }, { "text": "some of which have returned\nvalues, some of which don't.", "start": 6826.71, "duration": 2.78 }, { "text": "So maybe it's string, or int, or float.", "start": 6829.49, "duration": 2.4 }, { "text": "Or maybe it's just void.", "start": 6831.89, "duration": 1.59 }, { "text": ">> And the difference is\nthat these functions that", "start": 6833.48, "duration": 2.23 }, { "text": "get data and return a value are actually\nbringing something back to the table,", "start": 6835.71, "duration": 4.23 }, { "text": "so to speak.", "start": 6839.94, "duration": 1.17 }, { "text": "So let's go ahead and\nlook at one final set", "start": 6841.11, "duration": 2.6 }, { "text": "of examples that gives a sense, now, of\nhow we might, indeed, abstract better,", "start": 6843.71, "duration": 5.419 }, { "text": "and better, and better, or more,\nand more, and more, in order", "start": 6849.129, "duration": 2.541 }, { "text": "to write, ultimately, better code.", "start": 6851.67, "duration": 2.14 }, { "text": "Let's go ahead, and in the spirit\nof Scratch, do the following.", "start": 6853.81, "duration": 3.05 }, { "text": ">> Let me go ahead and include\nCS50.h and standard IO.h.", "start": 6856.86, "duration": 4.84 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and give\nmyself an int, main, void.", "start": 6861.7, "duration": 2.31 }, { "text": "And let me go ahead, call this cough.c.", "start": 6864.01, "duration": 3.37 }, { "text": ">> And let me go ahead and just\nlike Scratch, print out cough/n.", "start": 6867.38, "duration": 8.13 }, { "text": "And I want to do this three times.", "start": 6875.51, "duration": 1.66 }, { "text": "So I'm, of course, just going\nto copy and paste three times.", "start": 6877.17, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": "I'm now going to make\ncough dot slash cough.", "start": 6879.67, "duration": 6.77 }, { "text": "Let's give myself a little more room\nhere, Enter, cough, cough, cough.", "start": 6886.44, "duration": 3.68 }, { "text": ">> There's, obviously, already an\nopportunity for improvement.", "start": 6890.12, "duration": 3.85 }, { "text": "I've copied and pasted\na few times today.", "start": 6893.97, "duration": 1.709 }, { "text": "But that was only so I didn't\nhave to type as many characters.", "start": 6895.679, "duration": 2.582 }, { "text": "I still changed what\nthose lines of code are.", "start": 6898.261, "duration": 1.989 }, { "text": ">> These three lines are identical,\nwhich feels lazy and indeed is,", "start": 6900.25, "duration": 3.99 }, { "text": "and is probably not the right approach.", "start": 6904.24, "duration": 2.87 }, { "text": "So with what ingredient\ncould we improve this code?", "start": 6907.11, "duration": 3.919 }, { "text": "We don't have to copy and paste code.", "start": 6911.029, "duration": 1.541 }, { "text": ">> And, indeed, any time you feel\nyourself copying and pasting,", "start": 6912.57, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": "and not even changing code,\nodds are there's a better way.", "start": 6915.07, "duration": 2.63 }, { "text": "And, indeed, there is.", "start": 6917.7, "duration": 1.77 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and do a for loop,\neven though the syntax might not", "start": 6919.47, "duration": 3.04 }, { "text": "come naturally yet.", "start": 6922.51, "duration": 2.06 }, { "text": ">> Do this three times, simply\nby doing the following--", "start": 6924.57, "duration": 4.924 }, { "text": "and I happen to know this from practice.", "start": 6929.494, "duration": 1.666 }, { "text": "But we have a number of examples now.", "start": 6931.16, "duration": 1.65 }, { "text": "And you'll see online\nmore references still.", "start": 6932.81, "duration": 2.14 }, { "text": ">> This is the syntax on line 6, that\nmuch like Scratch that repeats", "start": 6934.95, "duration": 2.84 }, { "text": "block, repeat the following three times.", "start": 6937.79, "duration": 2.3 }, { "text": "It's a little magical for now.", "start": 6940.09, "duration": 1.25 }, { "text": "But this will get more,\nand more familiar.", "start": 6941.34, "duration": 1.71 }, { "text": ">> And it's going to repeat\nline eight three times,", "start": 6943.05, "duration": 2.0 }, { "text": "so that if I re-compile make cough,\ndot slash cough, cough, cough, cough.", "start": 6945.05, "duration": 7.34 }, { "text": "It still works the same way.", "start": 6952.39, "duration": 1.64 }, { "text": "So that's all fine and good.", "start": 6954.03, "duration": 1.52 }, { "text": "But that's not very abstracted.", "start": 6955.55, "duration": 2.65 }, { "text": ">> It's perfectly correct.", "start": 6958.2, "duration": 1.171 }, { "text": "But it feels like there\ncould be an opportunity,", "start": 6959.371, "duration": 1.999 }, { "text": "as in the world of\nScratch, to kind of start", "start": 6961.37, "duration": 2.38 }, { "text": "to add some semantics here so that\nI don't just have some for loop,", "start": 6963.75, "duration": 3.78 }, { "text": "and a function that says\ncough, or does cough.", "start": 6967.53, "duration": 2.337 }, { "text": "You know what?", "start": 6969.867, "duration": 0.583 }, { "text": "Let me try to be a\nlittle cooler than that,", "start": 6970.45, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": "and actually write a function that\nhas some side effects, call it cough.", "start": 6972.62, "duration": 3.47 }, { "text": ">> And it takes no input, and\nreturns no value as output.", "start": 6976.09, "duration": 4.74 }, { "text": "But you know what it does?", "start": 6980.83, "duration": 1.85 }, { "text": "It does this-- printf,\nquote unquote, cough.", "start": 6982.68, "duration": 6.69 }, { "text": ">> And now up here, I'm going\nto go ahead and for int,", "start": 6989.37, "duration": 3.01 }, { "text": "i gets zero, i less than 3, i plus plus.", "start": 6992.38, "duration": 3.69 }, { "text": "I'm going to not do printf, which is\narguably a low level implementation", "start": 6996.07, "duration": 3.7 }, { "text": "detail.", "start": 6999.77, "duration": 0.5 }, { "text": "I don't care how to cough.", "start": 7000.27, "duration": 1.083 }, { "text": "I just want to use the cough function.", "start": 7001.353, "duration": 1.887 }, { "text": "And I'm just going to call cough.", "start": 7003.24, "duration": 1.6 }, { "text": ">> Now, notice the dichotomy.", "start": 7004.84, "duration": 1.364 }, { "text": "When you call a function, if you don't\nwant to give it inputs, totally fine.", "start": 7006.204, "duration": 3.166 }, { "text": "Just do open paren, close\nparen, and you're done.", "start": 7009.37, "duration": 2.41 }, { "text": ">> When you define a function, or\ndeclare a function's prototype,", "start": 7011.78, "duration": 4.491 }, { "text": "if you know in advance it's not\ngoing to take any arguments,", "start": 7016.271, "duration": 2.499 }, { "text": "say void in those parentheses there.", "start": 7018.77, "duration": 2.4 }, { "text": "And that makes certain that you\nwon't accidentally misuse it.", "start": 7021.17, "duration": 4.49 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and make cough.", "start": 7025.66, "duration": 1.36 }, { "text": "And, of course, I've made a mistake.", "start": 7027.02, "duration": 1.52 }, { "text": ">> Dammit, there's that\nimplicit declaration.", "start": 7028.54, "duration": 1.87 }, { "text": "But that's fine.", "start": 7030.41, "duration": 0.915 }, { "text": "It's an easy fix.", "start": 7031.325, "duration": 1.265 }, { "text": "I just need the prototype higher up\nin my file than I'm actually using it.", "start": 7032.59, "duration": 5.65 }, { "text": ">> So now let me make cough again, nice.", "start": 7038.24, "duration": 1.83 }, { "text": "Now, it works.", "start": 7040.07, "duration": 0.72 }, { "text": "Make cough, cough, cough, cough.", "start": 7040.79, "duration": 2.14 }, { "text": "So you might think that we're really\njust over engineering this problem.", "start": 7042.93, "duration": 3.0 }, { "text": "And, indeed, we are.", "start": 7045.93, "duration": 0.833 }, { "text": "This is not a good\ncandidate of a program", "start": 7046.763, "duration": 2.107 }, { "text": "at the moment for\nrefactoring, and doing what's", "start": 7048.87, "duration": 3.06 }, { "text": "called hierarchical decomposition,\nwhere you take some code, and then", "start": 7051.93, "duration": 3.715 }, { "text": "you kind of factor things out, so as\nto ascribe more semantics to them,", "start": 7055.645, "duration": 3.145 }, { "text": "and reuse it ultimately longer term.", "start": 7058.79, "duration": 2.14 }, { "text": "But it's a building block toward\nmore sophisticated programs", "start": 7060.93, "duration": 2.56 }, { "text": "that we will start\nwriting before long that", "start": 7063.49, "duration": 2.11 }, { "text": "allows us to have the vocabulary\nwith which to write better code.", "start": 7065.6, "duration": 4.49 }, { "text": "And, indeed, let's see if we\ncan't generalize this further.", "start": 7070.09, "duration": 2.83 }, { "text": ">> It seems a little lame that I, main,\nneed to worry about this darn for loop,", "start": 7072.92, "duration": 5.064 }, { "text": "and calling cough again and again.", "start": 7077.984, "duration": 1.416 }, { "text": "Why can't I just tell cough,\nplease cough three times?", "start": 7079.4, "duration": 3.65 }, { "text": "In other words, why can't I just\ngive input to cough and do this?", "start": 7083.05, "duration": 5.12 }, { "text": ">> Why can't I just say, in\nmain cough three times.", "start": 7088.17, "duration": 3.1 }, { "text": "And now, this is kind of magical.", "start": 7091.27, "duration": 1.88 }, { "text": "It's very iterative here.", "start": 7093.15, "duration": 1.39 }, { "text": "And it's, indeed, a baby step.", "start": 7094.54, "duration": 1.4 }, { "text": ">> But just the ability to say on\nline eight, cough three times,", "start": 7095.94, "duration": 3.31 }, { "text": "it's just so much more readable.", "start": 7099.25, "duration": 1.48 }, { "text": "And, plus, I don't have to know\nor care how cough is implemented.", "start": 7100.73, "duration": 3.48 }, { "text": "And, indeed, later in the\nterm and for final projects,", "start": 7104.21, "duration": 2.25 }, { "text": "if you tackle a project with\na classmate or two classmates,", "start": 7106.46, "duration": 2.69 }, { "text": "you'll realize that you're going to\nhave to, or want to, divide the work.", "start": 7109.15, "duration": 3.22 }, { "text": ">> And you're going to want to decide\nin advance, who's going to do what,", "start": 7112.37, "duration": 2.28 }, { "text": "and in which pieces?", "start": 7114.65, "duration": 0.833 }, { "text": "And wouldn't it be nice\nif you, for instance,", "start": 7115.483, "duration": 2.037 }, { "text": "take charge of writing main, done.", "start": 7117.52, "duration": 2.58 }, { "text": "And your roommate, or your\npartner more generally,", "start": 7120.1, "duration": 3.37 }, { "text": "takes care of implementing cough.", "start": 7123.47, "duration": 1.76 }, { "text": ">> And this division, these\nwalls of abstraction,", "start": 7125.23, "duration": 4.31 }, { "text": "or layers of abstraction if\nyou will, are super powerful,", "start": 7129.54, "duration": 2.77 }, { "text": "because especially for larger,\nmore complex programs and systems,", "start": 7132.31, "duration": 3.17 }, { "text": "it allows multiple people to build\nthings together, and ultimately", "start": 7135.48, "duration": 4.59 }, { "text": "stitch their work together in this way.", "start": 7140.07, "duration": 2.61 }, { "text": "But, of course, we\nneed to now fix cough.", "start": 7142.68, "duration": 2.652 }, { "text": "We need to tell cough\nthat, hey, you know what?", "start": 7145.332, "duration": 1.958 }, { "text": "You're going to need to take an\ninput-- so not void, but int and now.", "start": 7147.29, "duration": 3.94 }, { "text": "Let's go ahead and put into\ncough the int. i gets zero.", "start": 7151.23, "duration": 3.94 }, { "text": ">> i is less than how many times.", "start": 7155.17, "duration": 1.72 }, { "text": "I said three before.", "start": 7156.89, "duration": 1.66 }, { "text": "But that's not what I want.", "start": 7158.55, "duration": 1.87 }, { "text": "I want cough to be generalized to\nsupport any number of iterations.", "start": 7160.42, "duration": 5.1 }, { "text": ">> So, indeed, it's n that I want,\nwhatever the user tells me.", "start": 7165.52, "duration": 3.28 }, { "text": "Now, I can go ahead and say print cough.", "start": 7168.8, "duration": 2.82 }, { "text": "And no matter what number\nthe user passes in,", "start": 7171.62, "duration": 3.13 }, { "text": "I will iterate that many times.", "start": 7174.75, "duration": 2.14 }, { "text": ">> So at the end of the day,\nprogram is identical.", "start": 7176.89, "duration": 2.27 }, { "text": "But notice all of this stuff\ncould even be in another file.", "start": 7179.16, "duration": 3.66 }, { "text": "Indeed, I don't know at the\nmoment how printf is implemented.", "start": 7182.82, "duration": 2.8 }, { "text": ">> I don't know at the moment how get\nstring, or get int, or get float", "start": 7185.62, "duration": 2.36 }, { "text": "are implemented.", "start": 7187.98, "duration": 0.666 }, { "text": "And I don't want to\nsee them on my screen.", "start": 7188.646, "duration": 2.284 }, { "text": "As it is, I'm starting to focus on\nmy program, not those functions.", "start": 7190.93, "duration": 4.39 }, { "text": ">> And so, indeed, as soon as you\nstart factoring code like this out,", "start": 7195.32, "duration": 3.75 }, { "text": "could we even move cough\nto a separate file?", "start": 7199.07, "duration": 2.327 }, { "text": "Someone else could implement it.", "start": 7201.397, "duration": 1.333 }, { "text": "And you and your program become the\nvery beautiful, and very readable,", "start": 7202.73, "duration": 4.08 }, { "text": "arguably, really four\nline program right there.", "start": 7206.81, "duration": 4.02 }, { "text": ">> So let's go ahead now\nand make one more change.", "start": 7210.83, "duration": 2.68 }, { "text": "Notice that my prototype\nhas to change up top.", "start": 7213.51, "duration": 2.67 }, { "text": "So let me fix that so\nI don't get yelled at.", "start": 7216.18, "duration": 2.21 }, { "text": ">> Make cough, let me run cough once\nmore, still doing the same thing.", "start": 7218.39, "duration": 4.19 }, { "text": "But now, notice we have an\ningredient for one final version.", "start": 7222.58, "duration": 3.43 }, { "text": "You know what?", "start": 7226.01, "duration": 0.93 }, { "text": "I don't want to just cough, necessarily.", "start": 7226.94, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": "I want to have something more general.", "start": 7229.04, "duration": 1.762 }, { "text": "So you know what?", "start": 7230.802, "duration": 0.708 }, { "text": "I want to do this.", "start": 7231.51, "duration": 0.94 }, { "text": "I want to have, much like Scratch\ndoes, a say block, but not just", "start": 7232.45, "duration": 4.69 }, { "text": "say something some number of times.", "start": 7237.14, "duration": 1.54 }, { "text": "I want it to say a very specific string.", "start": 7238.68, "duration": 2.83 }, { "text": "And, therefore, I don't\nwant it to just say cough.", "start": 7241.51, "duration": 2.34 }, { "text": "I want it to say whatever\nstring is passed in.", "start": 7243.85, "duration": 3.81 }, { "text": ">> So notice, I've generalized\nthis so that now", "start": 7247.66, "duration": 2.3 }, { "text": "say feels like a good name\nfor this, like Scratch,", "start": 7249.96, "duration": 3.15 }, { "text": "takes two arguments, unlike Scratch.", "start": 7253.11, "duration": 2.42 }, { "text": "One is a string.", "start": 7255.53, "duration": 1.04 }, { "text": "One is an int.", "start": 7256.57, "duration": 0.73 }, { "text": ">> And I could switch them.", "start": 7257.3, "duration": 0.83 }, { "text": "I just kind of like the idea of\nsay the string first, and then", "start": 7258.13, "duration": 2.583 }, { "text": "how many times later.", "start": 7260.713, "duration": 1.227 }, { "text": "Void means it still\ndoesn't return anything.", "start": 7261.94, "duration": 2.03 }, { "text": "These are just visual side\neffects, like with [? Jordan, ?]", "start": 7263.97, "duration": 2.458 }, { "text": "a verbal side effect of yelling.", "start": 7266.428, "duration": 1.812 }, { "text": "It still does something n times,\n0 up to, but not equal to n.", "start": 7268.24, "duration": 4.39 }, { "text": "This means n total times.", "start": 7272.63, "duration": 1.91 }, { "text": "And then just print out\nwhatever that string is.", "start": 7274.54, "duration": 2.0 }, { "text": "So I've really generalized\nthis line of code.", "start": 7276.54, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "So now, how do I implement\nthe cough function?", "start": 7279.06, "duration": 3.4 }, { "text": ">> I can do void cough.", "start": 7282.46, "duration": 3.06 }, { "text": "And I can still take in how\nmany times you want to cough.", "start": 7285.52, "duration": 2.981 }, { "text": "But you know what?", "start": 7288.501, "duration": 0.749 }, { "text": "I can now punt to say.", "start": 7289.25, "duration": 1.99 }, { "text": ">> I can call say with the\nword cough, passing in n.", "start": 7291.24, "duration": 5.3 }, { "text": "And if I want to also implement,\njust for fun, a sneeze function,", "start": 7296.54, "duration": 3.87 }, { "text": "I can sneeze some number of times.", "start": 7300.41, "duration": 1.88 }, { "text": "And I can keep reusing n, because\nnotice that m in this context or scope", "start": 7302.29, "duration": 5.01 }, { "text": "only exists within this function.", "start": 7307.3, "duration": 2.17 }, { "text": ">> And n in this context only\nexists within this function here.", "start": 7309.47, "duration": 3.297 }, { "text": "So we'll come back to\nthese issues of scope.", "start": 7312.767, "duration": 1.833 }, { "text": "And here, I'm just going to say,\nachoo, and then n times, semi-colon.", "start": 7314.6, "duration": 6.56 }, { "text": ">> And now, I just need to borrow\nthese function signatures up here.", "start": 7321.16, "duration": 3.18 }, { "text": "So cough is correct.", "start": 7324.34, "duration": 1.95 }, { "text": "Void sneeze is correct now.", "start": 7326.29, "duration": 3.8 }, { "text": ">> And I still just need say.", "start": 7330.09, "duration": 2.3 }, { "text": "So I'm going to say, say\nstring s, int n, semi-colon.", "start": 7332.39, "duration": 6.6 }, { "text": "So I've over-engineered the\nheck out of this program.", "start": 7338.99, "duration": 3.02 }, { "text": ">> And this doesn't\nnecessarily mean this is", "start": 7342.01, "duration": 1.75 }, { "text": "what you should do when writing\neven the simplest of programs.", "start": 7343.76, "duration": 2.583 }, { "text": "Take something that's obviously\nreally simple, really short,", "start": 7346.343, "duration": 2.937 }, { "text": "and re-implement it\nusing way too much code.", "start": 7349.28, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "But you'll actually see, and in\ntime look back on these examples,", "start": 7351.8, "duration": 2.76 }, { "text": "and realize, oh, those are the steps\nwe took to actually generalize,", "start": 7354.56, "duration": 4.05 }, { "text": "to factor something out,\nuntil at the end of the day", "start": 7358.61, "duration": 2.187 }, { "text": "my code is actually pretty reasonable.", "start": 7360.797, "duration": 1.583 }, { "text": "Because if I want to cough three\ntimes then sneeze three times,", "start": 7362.38, "duration": 3.58 }, { "text": "I'm simply going to rerun this,\nprogram make cough, and run cough.", "start": 7365.96, "duration": 4.46 }, { "text": "And I have three coughs\nand three sneezes.", "start": 7370.42, "duration": 3.2 }, { "text": ">> And so this is a basic\nparadigm, if you will,", "start": 7373.62, "duration": 2.37 }, { "text": "for how we might go about\nactually implementing a program.", "start": 7375.99, "duration": 4.12 }, { "text": "But let's just see now what it is\nwe've been doing all of this time,", "start": 7380.11, "duration": 3.11 }, { "text": "and what some of the final pieces\nare behind this simple command.", "start": 7383.22, "duration": 3.72 }, { "text": "At the end of the day, we've\nbeen using Clang as our compiler.", "start": 7386.94, "duration": 2.68 }, { "text": "We've been writing source\ncode, converting it", "start": 7389.62, "duration": 1.874 }, { "text": "via Clang into machine code.", "start": 7391.494, "duration": 1.326 }, { "text": ">> And we've been using Make just\nto facilitate our keystrokes so", "start": 7392.82, "duration": 2.72 }, { "text": "that we don't have to remember\nthose incantations of Clang itself.", "start": 7395.54, "duration": 5.2 }, { "text": "But what is Make actually doing?", "start": 7400.74, "duration": 1.9 }, { "text": "And, in turn, what is\nClang actually doing?", "start": 7402.64, "duration": 2.11 }, { "text": ">> It turns out, though we have simplified\ntoday's discussion by saying,", "start": 7404.75, "duration": 4.04 }, { "text": "you take source code, pass it as\ninput to a compiler, which gives you", "start": 7408.79, "duration": 4.3 }, { "text": "output of machine\ncode, turns out there's", "start": 7413.09, "duration": 2.66 }, { "text": "a few different steps inside there.", "start": 7415.75, "duration": 1.67 }, { "text": "And compiling happens to be the umbrella\nterm for a whole bunch of steps.", "start": 7417.42, "duration": 4.52 }, { "text": "But let's just tease\nthis out really quickly.", "start": 7421.94, "duration": 2.03 }, { "text": ">> It turns out that we've been doing\nmore things every time I run a program,", "start": 7423.97, "duration": 4.1 }, { "text": "or every time I compile a program today.", "start": 7428.07, "duration": 2.92 }, { "text": "So preprocessing refers to\nthis-- anything in a C program,", "start": 7430.99, "duration": 4.03 }, { "text": "as we'll see again and again,\nthat starts with this hash symbol,", "start": 7435.02, "duration": 3.7 }, { "text": "or the hashtag symbol here, means\nit's a preprocessor directive.", "start": 7438.72, "duration": 4.6 }, { "text": "That means, in this case, hey\ncomputer, do something with this file", "start": 7443.32, "duration": 4.01 }, { "text": "before you actually compile my own code.", "start": 7447.33, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": ">> In this case, hash include is,\nessentially, C's way of saying,", "start": 7449.43, "duration": 5.79 }, { "text": "hey computer, go get the contents\nof CS50.h and paste them here.", "start": 7455.22, "duration": 4.105 }, { "text": "Hey computer, go get the\ncontents of standard IO.h,", "start": 7459.325, "duration": 2.845 }, { "text": "wherever that is on the\nhard drive, paste it here.", "start": 7462.17, "duration": 2.52 }, { "text": "So those things happen\nfirst during preprocessing.", "start": 7464.69, "duration": 2.7 }, { "text": ">> And Clang does all of this for us.", "start": 7467.39, "duration": 1.49 }, { "text": "And it does it so darn\nfast, you don't even", "start": 7468.88, "duration": 1.63 }, { "text": "see four distinct things happening.", "start": 7470.51, "duration": 1.49 }, { "text": "But that's the first such step.", "start": 7472.0, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": ">> What actually happens next?", "start": 7474.1, "duration": 1.46 }, { "text": "Well, the next official\nstep is compiling.", "start": 7475.56, "duration": 2.76 }, { "text": "And it turns out that\ncompiling a program", "start": 7478.32, "duration": 2.065 }, { "text": "technically means going from\nsource code, the stuff we've", "start": 7480.385, "duration": 3.675 }, { "text": "been writing today, to something\ncalled assembly code, something", "start": 7484.06, "duration": 3.83 }, { "text": "that looks a little different.", "start": 7487.89, "duration": 1.37 }, { "text": ">> And, in fact, we can see this real fast.", "start": 7489.26, "duration": 1.79 }, { "text": "Let me actually go into my IDE.", "start": 7491.05, "duration": 2.84 }, { "text": "Let me go ahead and open hello.c, which\nis the very first program with which we", "start": 7493.89, "duration": 4.16 }, { "text": "began today.", "start": 7498.05, "duration": 1.07 }, { "text": "And let me go ahead and run Clang a\nlittle differently, Clang-s, hello.c,", "start": 7499.12, "duration": 5.01 }, { "text": "which is actually going to\ngive me another file hello.s.", "start": 7504.13, "duration": 3.59 }, { "text": ">> And we will probably never\nagain see this kind of code.", "start": 7507.72, "duration": 2.61 }, { "text": "If you take a lower level\nsystems class like CS61,", "start": 7510.33, "duration": 2.7 }, { "text": "you will see a lot more\nof this kind of code.", "start": 7513.03, "duration": 1.89 }, { "text": "But this is assembly language.", "start": 7514.92, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": "This is X86 assembly language\nthat the CPU that is underlying", "start": 7517.02, "duration": 5.03 }, { "text": "CS50 IDE actually understands.", "start": 7522.05, "duration": 2.41 }, { "text": ">> And cryptic as it does\nlook, it is something", "start": 7524.46, "duration": 2.6 }, { "text": "the computer understands pretty well.", "start": 7527.06, "duration": 2.12 }, { "text": "Sub q, this is a subtract.", "start": 7529.18, "duration": 1.61 }, { "text": "There's movements.", "start": 7530.79, "duration": 0.87 }, { "text": ">> There's calling of functions here,\nx oring, a movement, an add, a pop,", "start": 7531.66, "duration": 4.07 }, { "text": "a return.", "start": 7535.73, "duration": 0.7 }, { "text": "So there's some very\nlow level instructions", "start": 7536.43, "duration": 2.42 }, { "text": "that CPUs understand that\nI alluded to earlier.", "start": 7538.85, "duration": 2.43 }, { "text": "That is what Intel Inside.", "start": 7541.28, "duration": 1.82 }, { "text": ">> There are patterns of\nzeros and ones that", "start": 7543.1, "duration": 1.93 }, { "text": "map to these arcanely worded, but\nsomewhat well-named, instructions,", "start": 7545.03, "duration": 6.77 }, { "text": "so to speak.", "start": 7551.8, "duration": 0.98 }, { "text": "That is what happens when\nyou compile your code.", "start": 7552.78, "duration": 2.0 }, { "text": "You get assembly\nlanguage out of it, which", "start": 7554.78, "duration": 3.78 }, { "text": "means the third step is to assemble\nthat assembly code into, ultimately,", "start": 7558.56, "duration": 6.12 }, { "text": "machine code-- zeros and ones, not the\ntext that we just saw a moment ago.", "start": 7564.68, "duration": 4.4 }, { "text": ">> So pre-processing does that find\nand replace, and a few other things.", "start": 7569.08, "duration": 4.29 }, { "text": "Compiling takes your source\ncode from C, source code", "start": 7573.37, "duration": 3.06 }, { "text": "that we wrote, to assembly\ncode that we just glanced at.", "start": 7576.43, "duration": 2.55 }, { "text": "Assembling takes that assembly\ncode to zeroes and ones", "start": 7578.98, "duration": 3.19 }, { "text": "that the CPU really will\nunderstand at the end of the day.", "start": 7582.17, "duration": 2.51 }, { "text": "And linking is the last step\nthat happens for us-- again,", "start": 7584.68, "duration": 2.95 }, { "text": "so fast we don't even\nnotice-- that says,", "start": 7587.63, "duration": 2.2 }, { "text": "hey computer, take all of\nthe zeros and ones that", "start": 7589.83, "duration": 2.63 }, { "text": "resulted from compiling David's code,\nand his main function in this case.", "start": 7592.46, "duration": 4.29 }, { "text": ">> And hey computer, go get\nall of the zeros and ones", "start": 7596.75, "duration": 2.41 }, { "text": "that the CS50 staff wrote\ninside the CS50 library.", "start": 7599.16, "duration": 3.02 }, { "text": "Mix those in with David's.", "start": 7602.18, "duration": 1.26 }, { "text": "And hey computer, go get all the zeros\nand ones that someone else wrote years", "start": 7603.44, "duration": 3.208 }, { "text": "ago for printf.", "start": 7606.648, "duration": 0.822 }, { "text": "And add those into the\nwhole thing, so that we've", "start": 7607.47, "duration": 2.41 }, { "text": "got my zeros and ones, the\nCS50 staff's zeros and ones,", "start": 7609.88, "duration": 2.99 }, { "text": "the printf zeros and ones,\nand anything else we're using.", "start": 7612.87, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": ">> They all get combined together into one\nprogram called, in this case, hello.", "start": 7615.37, "duration": 5.04 }, { "text": "So henceforth, we will just\nuse the word compiling.", "start": 7620.41, "duration": 2.731 }, { "text": "And we will take for granted that when\nwe say, compile your program, it means,", "start": 7623.141, "duration": 3.249 }, { "text": "hey do the pre-processing,\nassembling, and linking.", "start": 7626.39, "duration": 2.459 }, { "text": "But there's actually some juicy stuff\ngoing on there underneath the hood.", "start": 7628.849, "duration": 3.041 }, { "text": "And especially if you\nget curious some time,", "start": 7631.89, "duration": 1.833 }, { "text": "you can start poking\naround at this lower level.", "start": 7633.723, "duration": 2.177 }, { "text": "But for now, realize that\namong the takeaways for today", "start": 7635.9, "duration": 3.76 }, { "text": "are quite simply the\nbeginning of a process,", "start": 7639.66, "duration": 3.76 }, { "text": "of getting comfortable with\nsomething like hello world.", "start": 7643.42, "duration": 3.28 }, { "text": "Indeed, most of what we did today\ncertainly won't sink in super fast.", "start": 7646.7, "duration": 2.875 }, { "text": "And it will take some\ntime, and some practice.", "start": 7649.575, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "And odds are, you will sort\nof want to hit your keyboard", "start": 7651.491, "duration": 2.373 }, { "text": "or yell at the screen.", "start": 7653.864, "duration": 0.916 }, { "text": "And all of that's OK.", "start": 7654.78, "duration": 1.1 }, { "text": "Though, perhaps try not to\ndo it in the library so much.", "start": 7655.88, "duration": 2.44 }, { "text": ">> And ultimately, you'll\nbe able though, to start", "start": 7658.32, "duration": 2.5 }, { "text": "seeing patterns, both in good code\nthat you've written and in mistakes", "start": 7660.82, "duration": 3.76 }, { "text": "that you've made.", "start": 7664.58, "duration": 0.79 }, { "text": "And much like the process of\nbecoming a TF or a CA is like,", "start": 7665.37, "duration": 3.595 }, { "text": "you'll start to get better and\nbetter at seeing those patterns,", "start": 7668.965, "duration": 2.625 }, { "text": "and just solving your\nown problems ultimately.", "start": 7671.59, "duration": 2.184 }, { "text": "In the meantime, there will be plenty\nof us to lend you support, and get you", "start": 7673.774, "duration": 3.166 }, { "text": "through this.", "start": 7676.94, "duration": 0.541 }, { "text": "And in the write-ups\nfor all of the problems", "start": 7677.481, "duration": 1.969 }, { "text": "will you be guided through\nall of the commands", "start": 7679.45, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "that I certainly know from\na lot of practice by now,", "start": 7681.366, "duration": 3.964 }, { "text": "but might have flown\nover one's head for now.", "start": 7685.33, "duration": 2.05 }, { "text": "And that's totally fine.", "start": 7687.38, "duration": 1.2 }, { "text": ">> But, ultimately, you're going\nto start to see patterns emerge.", "start": 7688.58, "duration": 2.65 }, { "text": "And once you get past all of the\nstupid details, like parentheses,", "start": 7691.23, "duration": 3.03 }, { "text": "and curly braces, and semi-colons,\nand the stuff, frankly,", "start": 7694.26, "duration": 2.45 }, { "text": "that is not at all\nintellectually interesting.", "start": 7696.71, "duration": 2.65 }, { "text": "And it is not the objective of\ntaking any introductory class.", "start": 7699.36, "duration": 3.33 }, { "text": "It's the ideas that are going to matter.", "start": 7702.69, "duration": 1.72 }, { "text": ">> It's the loops, and the\nconditions, and the functions,", "start": 7704.41, "duration": 2.249 }, { "text": "and more powerfully the abstraction,\nand the factoring of code,", "start": 7706.659, "duration": 3.893 }, { "text": "and the good design, and the good\nstyle, and ultimately the correctness", "start": 7710.552, "duration": 2.958 }, { "text": "of your code, that's ultimately\ngoing to matter the most.", "start": 7713.51, "duration": 3.82 }, { "text": "So next week, we will take these\nideas that we first saw in Scratch", "start": 7717.33, "duration": 3.595 }, { "text": "and have now translated\nto C. And we'll start", "start": 7720.925, "duration": 1.875 }, { "text": "to introduce the first of the\ncourse's real world domains.", "start": 7722.8, "duration": 2.94 }, { "text": ">> We'll focus on the world of security,\nand more specifically cryptography,", "start": 7725.74, "duration": 4.4 }, { "text": "the art of scrambling information.", "start": 7730.14, "duration": 1.84 }, { "text": "And among the first\nproblems you yourself", "start": 7731.98, "duration": 2.02 }, { "text": "will get to write beyond\nplaying with some of the syntax", "start": 7734.0, "duration": 2.84 }, { "text": "and solving some logical\nproblems, ultimately before long,", "start": 7736.84, "duration": 3.04 }, { "text": "is to actually scramble, or encrypt,\nand ultimately decrypt information.", "start": 7739.88, "duration": 4.08 }, { "text": "And everything we've done\ntoday, will fairly low", "start": 7743.96, "duration": 2.51 }, { "text": "level, is just going to allow\nus to take one, and one,", "start": 7746.47, "duration": 2.72 }, { "text": "and one more step above toward\nwriting the most interesting code yet.", "start": 7749.19, "duration": 4.36 }, { "text": ">> So more on that next week.", "start": 7753.55, "duration": 1.5 }, { "text": ">> [VIDEO PLAYBACK]", "start": 7757.834, "duration": 0.928 }, { "text": ">> -What can you tell me about\nthe last time you saw him?", "start": 7759.69, "duration": 2.316 }, { "text": "-What can I say, really?", "start": 7766.041, "duration": 0.999 }, { "text": "I mean, it was like any other\npre-production rehearsal,", "start": 7770.5, "duration": 4.84 }, { "text": "except there was something he said\nat the very end that stuck with me.", "start": 7775.34, "duration": 5.17 }, { "text": ">> -This was CS50.", "start": 7784.81, "duration": 1.83 }, { "text": ">> -That's a cut everyone,\ngreat job on rehearsal.", "start": 7789.44, "duration": 2.75 }, { "text": ">> -That's lunch?", "start": 7792.19, "duration": 0.88 }, { "text": ">> -Yeah, you and I can\ngrab a sandwich in a bit.", "start": 7793.07, "duration": 1.916 }, { "text": "Let me just debrief with\nDavid really quickly.", "start": 7794.986, "duration": 3.394 }, { "text": "David?", "start": 7798.38, "duration": 0.78 }, { "text": "David?", "start": 7799.16, "duration": 2.1 }, { "text": ">> [END PLAYBACK]", "start": 7801.26, "duration": 1.85 } ]