COMP1511 Week 03 Tutorial Questions

Tuts from now on will start with code reviews.
This week your tutor will show you how it is to be done in future weeks.
Your tutor will nominate a lab pair this week to do next week's code review.
How a code review works:
- The reviewees show their code on the projector, and briefly walk through how it works.
- The class and tutor (the reviewers) give feedback, ask questions, make suggestions. You tutor will show you how to do this at first but then will expect the other reviewers to take over.
- Reviewers are NOT negative, a review is to be supportive and constructive and helpful to the reviewees.
- The reviewees should speak very little, just give a brief overview of the code they want reviewed.
- Let everyone have a turn to speak, don’t dominate the conversation.
- Contribute and participate, don’t be silent. If you don’t understand anything then that doesn’t mean be silent - it means ASK for an explanation. By asking you are helping the coders to see how to be clearer.
Which of the following are valid variable names in C?
If they are valid, would they be a good name?
- THX1138
- 2for1
- mr_bean
- my space
- event_counter
- ^oo^
- _MEMLIMIT
- return
C is a typed language. What does this mean? Why is this useful?
Write a C program cm2feet.c which reads a height in centimetres and prints it in feet.
Reminder: there 2.54 centimetres in an inch and 12 inches in a foot.
Use only int variables.
Your program should behave like this:
```
./cm2feet
Enter your height in centimetres: 183
Your height in feet is 6
```
Would double variables have been a better choice?
Write a C program fahrenheit2celsius.c which reads a US temperature in Fahrenheit and prints it in Celsius . Reminder:
```
Celsius = 5/9 (Fahrenheit - 32)
```
Revision questions
The remaining tutorial questions are primarily intended for revision - either this week or later in session.
Your tutor may still choose to cover some of the questions time permitting.
Modify rectangle_area.c so that it reads floating-point (decimal) numbers and prints the area as a floating-point number.
```
./rectangle_area
Please enter rectangle length: 3.14159
Please enter rectangle width: 2.71828
Area = 8.539721
```
Note carefully the changes.

What is output by the following C program? Why? Make sure you compile the program and run it to confirm your answer.

#include <stdio.h>

#define FIRST_NUMBER     10
#define SECOND_NUMBER    20
#define TOTAL   FIRST_NUMBER + SECOND_NUMBER
#define AVERAGE TOTAL / 2

int main(void) {
    printf("The average of %d and %d is %d\n",
           FIRST_NUMBER, SECOND_NUMBER, AVERAGE);

    return 0;
}

The value of C arithmetic operations depends on the types of the operand. If the types of the operands differ, C automatically converts the types as appropriate.
Determine the value of each expression and sub-expression:
1. 1 / 2 * 500
2. 1 / 2.0 * 500
3. (17 / 5) * 5 + (17 % 5)
4. (12 - 17) % 6 - 4

Write a C program decompose.c that prompts the user to enter an integer, reads it from the input and prints out the number in individual digits. Allow the program to work for input numbers up to 5 digits, i.e. up to 99999. You should be able to write this program using some divisions and remainder (modulo '%') operations, if statements and simple comparisons.

Your program should behave as follows:

./decompose
Please enter an integer:
25
You entered 25 which is decomposed: 2 5
./decompose
Please enter an integer:
2825
You entered 2825 which is decomposed: 2 8 2 5
./decompose
Please enter an integer:
2
You entered 2 which is decomposed: 2

Your program should handle all integers in range (0 to 99999).

Hint use if divide (/) and mod (%).

Discuss the concept of short-circuit evaluation for the C logical operators || and &&. Give examples. Why is this feature useful?

Revision questions