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Number Systems Overview of Programming: CSE115: Computing Concepts

This document provides an overview of key computer hardware components, input/output devices, memory, the central processing unit, storage devices, network devices, programming languages, and the C programming language. It discusses the main memory types ROM and RAM and what they store. It describes the three main parts of the CPU - the control unit, ALU, and registers. It also summarizes different types of programming languages from machine language to high-level languages like C.

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Number Systems Overview of Programming: CSE115: Computing Concepts

This document provides an overview of key computer hardware components, input/output devices, memory, the central processing unit, storage devices, network devices, programming languages, and the C programming language. It discusses the main memory types ROM and RAM and what they store. It describes the three main parts of the CPU - the control unit, ALU, and registers. It also summarizes different types of programming languages from machine language to high-level languages like C.

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Lecture 02

Number Systems
Overview of Programming
CSE115: Computing Concepts
Computer Hardware Components

Components of a PC
Input / Output Devices
• Input Devices
• Accepts information from the user and
transforms it to digital codes that the computer
can process
• Example: keyboard, mouse, scanner
• Output Devices
• An interface by which the computer conveys
the output to the user
• Example: monitor, printer
Main Memory
• A semiconductor device which stores the information
necessary for a program to run.
• 2 types
• ROM (Read Only Memory)
• Contains information that is necessary for the computer to boot up
• The information stays there permanently even when the computer is
turned off.
• RAM (Random Access Memory)
• Contains instruction or data needed for a program to run
• Gets erased when the computer is turned off.
Central Processing Unit (CPU)
• Does most of the work in executing a program
• The CPU inside a PC is usually the microprocessor
• 3 main parts:
• Control Unit
• Fetch instructions from main memory and put them in the instruction register
• ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit)
• Execute arithmetic operations
• Registers
• Temporarily store instructions or data fetched from memory
Storage Devices
• A magnetic device used to store a large amount of
information.
• Store the software components or data needed for
the computer to execute its tasks.
• Can be “read only” or “writable”.
• Example: Hard drive, CD ROM, floppy disks
Network Devices
• Connect a computer to the other computers.
• Enable the users to access data or execute
programs remotely.
• Example: modem, Ethernet card
Natural language
• Our everyday-language; spoken and written
• Not 100% needed to understand:
• “Do you want to buy this computer ?” remains comprehensible
• Depends on circumstances; the context:
• “Do you like one ?” doesn't make sense on its own. It needs a situation
around it:
• someone holding a bouquet of flowers: you might take one
• someone pointing to an expensive car: your opinion is asked
• someone 'offers' you an oily cloth to sneeze: you don't take it
Semantics and Syntax
• Semantics – the meaning of the language within a given
context
• Syntax - Syntax are the rules to join words
together in forming a correct expression or phrase (like
grammar rules of human’s languages).
• In natural languages it is often possible to assemble a
sentence in more than one correct ways.
What is Programming?
• Programming is instructing a computer to do something for you with the help of
a programming language
• The two roles of a programming language:
• Technical: It instructs the computer to perform tasks.
• Conceptual: It is a framework within which we organize our ideas about
things and processes.
• In programming, we deal with two kind of things:
• Data - representing 'objects' we want to manipulate
• Procedures -'descriptions' or 'rules' that define how to manipulate data.
Programming Language
• A programming language contains instructions for the
computer to perform a specific action or a specific task:
• 'Calculate the sum of the numbers from 1 to 10‘
• 'Print “I like programming”‘
• 'Output the current time'
Programming Language
• Can be classified into as a special-purpose and general-purpose
programming languages.
• Special-purpose : is designed for a particular type of application
• Structured Query Language (SQL)
• General-purpose : can be used to obtain solutions for many types
of problems
• Machine Languages
• Assembly Languages
• High-Level Languages
Machine Language
• The only language that the processor actually 'understands‘
• Consists of binary codes: 0 and 1
• Example: 00010101
11010001
01001100
• Each of the lines above corresponds to a specific task to be done by
the processor.
• Programming in machine code is difficult and slow since it is
difficult to memorize all the instructions.
• Mistakes can happen very easily.
• Processor and Architecture dependent
Assembly Language
• Enables machine code to be represented in words and numbers.
• Example of a program in assembler language:
LOAD A, 9999
LOAD B, 8282
MOV C, A
DIV A, C

Easier to understand and memorize (called Mnemonics), compared


to machine code but still quite difficult to use.
• Processor and Architecture dependent
High-Level Language
• Use more English words. They try to resemble English sentences.
Therefore, it is easier to program in these languages.
• The programming structure is problem oriented - does not need to
know how the computer actually executes the instructions.
• Processor independent - the same code can be run on different
processors. Also called machine-independent.
• Examples: Basic, Fortran, Pascal, Cobol, C, C++, Java
• A high level language needs to be analyzed by the compiler and
then compiled into machine code so that it can be executed by the
processor.
• Complier does the translation from high-level language to the
target computer’s machine language.
myprog.c

myprog.obj

myprog.exe

IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is a


software package that combines a simple word
processor with a compiler, linker and a loader.
C Programming Language
Why 'C' ?
• Because based on 'B'; developed at Bell Laboratories
• Developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories in the
1960s
• In cooperation with Ken Thomson it was used for Unix
systems
• The C Language was only vaguely defined, not
standardized, so that almost everyone had his own
perception of it, to such an extend that an urgent need for
a standard code was creeping up

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