Hiram: ECE244 Tidy Notes

Introduction

Why Hiram?

Professor Emara is from Egypt and she is also a master programmer. She titled her notes Snefru and Khufu (C and C++, respectively).

Because I am learning from her and I come from Political Science, I am like Hiram, a blacksmith from Tyre (today’s Lebanon) who learned stone masonry from master craftsmen from Egypt.

About ECE244 - Programming Fundamentals

This course provides a foundation in programming using an object-oriented programming language. Topics include classes and objects, inheritance, basic data structures (lists, tree, hash tables, etc.), Big-O complexity analysis, and testing and debugging. The laboratory assignments emphasize the use of object-oriented programming constructs in the design and implementation of reasonably large programs.

In memoriam

While tidying these notes, it was impossible not to go back to the many talks about mathematics with Prof. Luis Armando Dissett Vélez (1963-2021), who always answered my questions about convex separation properties, and I always ended up knowing more than I wanted to know about different theorems of the alternative and connections from calculus to statistics to graph theory. I will always remember him as a great teacher and a great person that truly represented the values of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Pacha’s notes

• The notes are 100% adjusted to the class.
• In the snippets folder, I have included some (unofficial) code snippets with the same examples from the notes, that I use to check if the code compiles.
• Some of the examples in the notes have small additions, such as using namespace std; or #include <iostream>, to make them compile.
• The diagrams are kinda ugly, my apologies! I’m not a graphic designer.