I&C SCI 45C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scripting Language, For Loop, Priority Inversion

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Information and Computer Science
• Course: I&C SCI 45C
• Professor: Klefstad

Document Summary

I&c sci 45c intro to c/c++ 36640. Week 0 lecture 1 course intro. It"s not a matter of how intelligent a student is. Imagine having a car with the fastest engine and sleekest body but with a broken transmission. It"s similar to having a smart person who doesn"t do things: want to apply yourself and learn to be a performer. If you have past experience in python, will that aid you in picking up c++: a little bit, analogy, learning a language after or before english. Syntax vs. semantics: syntax the layout (ex. No: how well do you need to understand the language that you are coding in, you can"t just google everything, fluency. If you write programs without reference or the necessity of internet answers, you are considered fluent in the language. The meaning behind c++ and python: similar, but the syntax is different.