Thursday, January 21, 2010

Blog #3

This week in oop344 started with the terrible email I received on Sunday night informing me that Fardad was sick and had to cancel Monday's lecture. I went into a deep state of shock until Wednesday when I saw Fardad and knew he was on the road to recovery. He taught us more about svn and reminded the class that there will be a quiz on Monday. Fardad also taught us about pointers and addresses. Fardad ask the class "what is an address" and pick me to see if i knew the answer. Fortunately, i did know and told him "an address is the location of something in memory". He went on with the lecture and told us about the importance of the type of target when referring to an address.

example:

double = 8 bytes
short int = 2 bytes
integer = 4 btyes

the type of target, the amount of space it takes up in memory (which is a signal dimension of characters).

Well folks, my bed is calling for me. I'll make another update next time.

Cheers

Brian P

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