ENGINEER 1D04 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Analytical Engine, Bubble Sort, Machine Code

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Engineering (General)
• Course: ENGINEER 1D04
• Professor: Ned Nedialkov

Document Summary

Values: s are the information (called data) stored and manipulated by computer program. Including booleans (true false); machine integers ( ); floating point numbers; strings; lists; Expression: an expression is a syntactic entity that denotes a value. Data type: syntactic entity that denotes a collection of values of similar form. Type error type int string. Variable: a linguistic entity whose meaning can vary. [name bound to a value] *readable and writable. Statements: a syntactic entity that states something to be done. Modes of program execution: be interpreted line by line. (cid:28450) debug : be compiled into byte code portable(cid:28450) native , be compiled into native machine code. Integers: natural number, rationales, real number, complex number. Numeric type: a type of values that represents a number system. Module: python program that can be used as a unit. Design patterns: template for solving a general design problem within a particular context. Sequence: an enumerated collection of objects in which repartitions are allowed.