#cs305

Differences between C and Java

Actually, this was a decent portion on the test, but I always forget. Both are high-level coding languages (meaning it needs a translator of some sort to mess with the 1s and 0s down below). Anyway, one of the main differences is that Java is object oriented, so it can create instances and structures REAALLLLLYY easily. Another one is that Java is a lot more secure because it has security built into it; you can break your machine really easily if you’re coding purely in C. Especially when you start coding in memory and you access things out of bounds. C is more portable, that’s kind of important too, because you can run C on nearly any computer. It’s a very direct workstation. Java, on the other hand, requires a Java environment to run, and because of that, is much more secure. That’s all I remember, but maybe I’ll read up on it more.

Alright, the rest of this will just be links to other topics because that was a lot more text than I wanted.

Learning Basic C

Header and Source Files Command-Line Build Types Functions and printf(); atoi() Preprocessor Constants Expressions: arithmetic, logical, conditional Statements: conditional and looping Arrays Pointers, memory architecture Command line arguments User-defined functions Strings Functions: scanf(), putchar() +  C preprocessor Structs Memory management: malloc() and free() Dynamically allocated arrays Addressing and manipulating arrays C debugging techniques, hunting down segfaults Passing pointers as function arguments File I/O

Basic Data Structures

Intermediate Data Structures