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<h1 id="program-and-data-representation">Program and Data
Representation</h1>
<p><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a> | <a
href="#contents">Repository contents</a> | <a
href="#contributing">Contributing to this repository</a> | <a
href="#description">Course description</a> | <a
href="#markdown">Markdown</a> | <a href="#sourcecode">Source code</a> |
<a href="#license">License</a></p>
<h2 id="introduction"><a name="introduction"></a>Introduction</h2>
<p>This repository contains the materials for the course entitled “CS
2150: Program and Data Representation” in the <a
href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu">Computer Science Department</a> at the
<a href="http://www.virginia.edu">University of Virginia</a>. It
contains all of the slides, labs, exams, etc., used throughout the
course. The course description is <a href="#description">below</a>. The
github repository for this course is at <a
href="https://github.com/uva-cs/pdr">https://github.com/uva-cs/pdr</a>.
It can be viewed online at <a
href="http://uva-cs.github.io/pdr/">http://uva-cs.github.io/pdr/</a>.</p>
<p>Students <em>currently</em> in the course should view the <a
href="uva/index.html">uva/index.html</a> (<a href="uva/index.md">md</a>)
file in the <strong>cloned</strong> repository (i.e., don’t try to view
it on github.com); current students may also want to view the <a
href="uva/daily-announcements.html#/">daily announcements</a>. Note that
many of the course materials are modified right before they are needed –
for example, this repository will be updated right before the semester
starts.</p>
<p>Students who were previously in the course may want to view the
current version, or you can view the version from your semester. All
semester versions are tagged with an end-of-semester tag of the form
“year-semester”. For example, the spring 2014 semester was tagged as
<code>2014-spring</code>. To obtain a specific tag, you can enter
<code>git checkout tags/2014-spring</code> in an already cloned
repository.</p>
<p>The primary authors of this repository are <a
href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~mrf8t">Mark Floryan</a> (<a
href="mailto:mrf8t@cs.virginia.edu">mrf8t@cs.virginia.edu</a>), <a
href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~nn4pj">Rich Nguyen</a> (<a
href="mailto:nn4pj@virginia.edu">nn4pj@virginia.edu</a>), and <a
href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~asb">Aaron Bloomfield</a> (<a
href="mailto:aaron@virginia.edu">aaron@virginia.edu</a>). Many students
and faculty have worked on this course material over the years.</p>
<h2 id="repository-contents"><a name="contents"></a>Repository
Contents</h2>
<p><strong>Note that the links below will not work correctly if you are
viewing this online at github.com – you will need to clone (download)
the repository first</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="book/index.html">book</a> (<a href="book/index.md">md</a>):
the beginnings of a textbook to be used for this course. It is written
using LaTeX.</li>
<li><a href="docs/index.html">docs</a> (<a href="docs/index.md">md</a>):
a series of useful documents that are not labs or tutorials.</li>
<li><a href="uva/index.html">uva</a> (<a href="uva/index.md">md</a>):
the materials that are specific to CS 2150 as taught at the University
of Virginia, such as daily announcements, due dates, etc.</li>
<li><a href="exams/index.html">exams</a> (<a
href="exams/index.md">md</a>): past exams for the course; there are two
midterms and a final for each semester.</li>
<li><a href="ibcm/ibcm.html">ibcm</a> (<a href="ibcm/ibcm.md">md</a>):
the files necessary for the IBCM module on machine language, which is
taught about two thirds of the way into the course.</li>
<li><a href="labs/index.html">labs</a> (<a href="labs/index.md">md</a>):
the labs are the main assignments in the course, and each lab is split
into pre-lab, in-lab, and post-lab parts. There are 11 full labs, with a
partial 12th lab that is an optional component of the course. The labs
are written using <a
href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">markdown</a>, and
the rendered HTML version of each lab is also committed to this
repository.</li>
<li><a href="slides/index.html">slides</a> (<a
href="slides/index.md">md</a>): Contains the slides used in the course.
The slides use <a
href="https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/">reveal.js</a>, an HTML
presentation framework.</li>
<li><a href="tutorials/index.html">tutorials</a> (<a
href="tutorials/index.md">md</a>): the tutorials that are used as part
of the lab assignments, these are primarily Linux tutorials.</li>
<li><a href="utils/index.html">utils</a> (<a
href="utils/index.md">md</a>): various utilities for this
repository</li>
</ul>
<h2
id="contributing-to-this-repository"><a name="contributing"></a>Contributing
to this Repository</h2>
<p>Updates to the repository are restricted to approved individuals
only, to prevent anybody from messing with the slides right before a
lecture. However, others can still contribute to this repository – to do
so, take the following steps:</p>
<ol type="1">
<li>Create a github account, if you do not have one</li>
<li>Fork this repository: you can click on the “Fork” link in the upper
right, or just click <a
href="https://github.com/uva-cs/pdr/fork">here</a></li>
<li>Clone your forked repository on to your local machine</li>
<li>Make any changes you want to your forked version</li>
<li>Run <code>make</code> - note that you will need <a
href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/">pandoc</a>, <a
href="http://astyle.sourceforge.net/">astyle</a>, and <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/source-highlight.html">source-highlight</a>
installed</li>
<li>Commit and push your changes back to your forked repository</li>
<li>Create a pull request, following the instructions <a
href="https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request">here</a></li>
</ol>
<p>At that point, I will receive a notice that a change has been
submitted, and I’ll look at it and hopefully accept it into the main
repository.</p>
<p>When you want to bring in the updates from the main pdr github
repository into your forked repository, you will need to follow the
instructions <a
href="https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork">here</a>.</p>
<h2 id="course-description"><a name="description"></a>Course
Description</h2>
<p>This course is a second-year course for computer science majors. It
is the primary data structures course in the <a
href="http://www.virginia.edu">University of Virginia</a>’s <a
href="http://www.cs.virginia.edu">computer science</a> curriculum.
Unlike many other data structure courses at other institutions, it is
intended as the <em>third</em> course in sequence, meaning that students
are expected to have taken two semesters of Java (or equivalent,
although some of the examples are specifically from Java). The course
focuses on how programs and data are represented from the high level
down to the low level. For programs, we examine (from high to low):
abstract data types, Java code, C++ code, C code, assembly (x86) code,
and a customized machine language. For data, we examine (also from high
to low): abstract data types, objects, primitive types, and how numbers
are encoded (both floats (IEEE 754) and integers (two’s complement)).
About two-thirds of this course is programming using C++. The remainder
of this course uses other languages, including (in decreasing order):
x86 assembly, IBCM (a machine language), C, Objective C, and shell
scripting.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.abet.org">ABET</a> course objects are as
follows:</p>
<ul>
<li>Understand program representation from the high-level programming
language perspective down to the underlying machine level
representation, including: number representation, operations,
conditionals, and control structures</li>
<li>Be able to implement basic and advanced abstract data types in C++
including: linked lists, stacks, queues, hash tables, trees, and
graphs</li>
<li>Be able to evaluate asymptotic time and space complexity analysis of
programs and data structure implementations using Big-O, Big-Omega, and
Big-Theta notation and assess the suitability of a data structure for a
particular problem</li>
<li>Understand the basic program execution model and the underlying
computer hardware and software (fetch-execute cycle, memory hierarchy,
operating system, compiler)</li>
<li>Be able to implement basic program control and data structures in an
assembly language (loops, conditionals, subroutines and parameter
passing modes, arrays)</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="markdown"><a name="markdown"></a>Markdown</h2>
<p>The majority of the content in this repository was created using <a
href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown</a>.
Unfortunately, the only standardized Markdown is very old (2004), and
has limited support for many HTML features, such as tables. A simple
conversion script in a Makefile is in the <a
href="utils/index.html">utils</a> (<a href="tutorials/index.md">md</a>)
directory, which uses <a
href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/">pandoc</a>. Assuming pandoc is
installed, run <code>make markdown</code> in the root repo directory to
re-create all the .html files from their associated .md files.</p>
<p>For all the Markdown files in this repository, both the original
(.md) file and the HTML version (.html) are added to the repository, so
that people who do not have Markdown installed can still view the
contents of this repository.</p>
<p>Note that Github supports an enhanced version of Markdown, called <a
href="https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown">Github
Flavored Markdown</a>, or GFM. This mostly pertains to this README file.
In an effort to ensure compatibility with other Markdown programs (such
as the one described here and what reveal.js uses), GFM specific
features are generally avoided. One example is the use of anchors in
this document – the HTML tags are included instead of using GFM’s
version.</p>
<h2 id="source-code"><a name="sourcecode"></a>Source code</h2>
<p>All source code is formatted via <a
href="http://astyle.sourceforge.net/">astyle</a> and then highlighted
via <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite/source-highlight.html">source-highlight</a>.
Both the original file (foo.cpp) and the highlighted version
(foo.cpp.html) are included in the repository. All links to source code
will like to the .html, with a “(<a href="README.md">src</a>)” after it
to link to the original source code. Utility scripts are provided to
convert all the files in the <a href="utils/index.html">utils</a> (<a
href="tutorials/index.md">md</a>) directory. <code>make format</code>
and <code>make highlight</code> can also be run to invoke the
scripts.</p>
<h2 id="license"><a name="license"></a>License</h2>
<p>The material in this repository is released under a <a
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a> (CC BY-SA).</p>
<p>Copyright (c) 2017-2018 by Mark Floryan Copyright (c) 2013-2017 by
Aaron Bloomfield.</p>
<p>Some parts of this repository are taken, with permission, from other
sources. The full details are in the <a href="license.html">License</a>
(<a href="license.md">md</a>) file. In particular, some parts of this
repository that were obtained elsewhere can not be used for commercial
purposes.</p>
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