themes 🖼️

from programmer → to computer scientist

• analyse performance characteristics of an algorithm or data structure
• make decisions about appropriate data structures or algorithms

thinking about engineering to scale — what if we have 1000 inputs? 1000000 inputs?

COMP1511 Gap

style 🎨

some relaxation on style guide compared to COMP1511, but still required to follow the style guide

e.g. using assignment statements in expressions

an assignment statement will return the value that is assigned

e.g. ternary operators

x = c ? e1 : e2;

(if c is true, x = e1; else, x = e2)

e.g. ditch curly brackets if only one statement after if

if (x > 0)
	char *y = "yolo";

e.g. using ternary operators in for loops

for (int i = start; (start <= end) ? i <= end : i >= end; i += step) { // do stuff }

for loops 🔁

another way to write loops in a more ‘compact’ way

for (init, condition, increment) {}