Lesson 4: It's Dangerous To Go Alone
Outline:
- Quiz #1
- Review: binary operations
- Character encodings
- codepoints vs encodings
- Unicode and UTF-8
- Bits assignment—any questions?
Reading assignment (to be completed by the next class):
- DiS Sec. 2.1: Parts of Program Memory and Scope
- DiS Sec. 2.2: C Pointer Variables
- Binky Pointer Fun Video C (video by Nick Parlante)
- Pointer basics (Stanford)
- Take a look at The 5-Minute Guide to C Pointers by Dennis Kubes. If you don’t read this now, return to it in a few days. Some of it won’t make sense until later this term, but it’s still valuable.
Note: Citation for the title of this lesson: The Legend of Zelda.