Lecture 5 | Programming Paradigms (Stanford)

[so2murad]

is anybody studying in Stanford or US University ? Please PM I need to ask you some questions !

[btsmarco]

@so2murad I study CS in MSU.

[RandomNinjaOfEvil]

These are the int boards.

[TheRussificator]

prof. Jerry "Does That Make Sense To People" Chain - the best professor that i've ever seen...

[KenmoreTownKillaz]

Professor: Does That Makes Sense?

Troll Student: Hell No!

Thumbs? :)

[abhispicy]

why the unusual complication in simple things ??

[0000001100000]

I want a handout, damn it!

[autonify]

I can't understand why do we have to pass cmp function as 5th element

(an argument ) to lsearch function. 

[frailas]

@autonify

you want compare function to actually compare your specific data type.

memcmp function compares only bites of two pointers, but imagine if you have struct with char* type variable.

by comparing struct bytes, you compare address of char*, but you actually want to compare value stored by char*, so you need a function that does specific comparison to you.

Does that make sense to people?

p.s. you gotta love that phrase :D

[autonify]

@frailas

Thankyou for your responce, I understand it now.

[eatme690808]

@autonify You should re-watch the previous lecture. The cmpfn allows lsearch to be as generic as possible. Without it we have to use memcmp, which does a byte-sized comparison between two values. This works in some situations but we can run into problems when comparing character pointers, C-strings, etc, i.e. when we are not directly comparing memory patterns.

[autonify]

@eatme690808

Thankyou for the tip.

[bluetoothEnabled]

Great lectures, but what's with the odd, um, throat noises Cain keeps making...only a little distracting.

[emptycorp]

i followed his advice at the end of the video and moved into a new house twice the size of my old one, moved all my stuff over, and then i demolished my old house but it didn't sell for much money so he gave me bad advice.

[IceArdor]

He does know that F# == Gb, right?

[JesusMiddleEastGuy]

This professor his his class so quite ..

[lac0nix]

Is there a way to get the assignments?

[airyman]

Are there no projectors at Stanford?

[FlightSimXtreme]

@airyman

was thinking the same thing, must

[Piscivorus]

He's a good teacher. The only issue I have is how he says "star" and "ampersand" when what he means is "pointer" and "address of ". Not too bad though.

[scooped13]

very good POINT (i had to)

[frankfurt28]

God bless him for not having indian accent... in vogue lately at Standford and MIT...!!!

[moveaxebx]

Is he in shorts? :D

Anyway...great lectures, great professor.

"Does that make sense to people?"

"Yeah...sure....aaaa"

:D

[guitarfox]

haha.. I love that quote

"There's nothing modern about C, so don't adapt any modern conventions of C.."

[NameNotaNumber]

Great lecture. But isn't it funny how these academic eggheads can become experts in C++ but they can't figure out how to record audio without it distorting. Alas, a common problem with many lectures I've seen online. It isn't difficult guys - just check those levels before you start recording, or at least use a decent mic.

[Intosia]

lol so true

[sijojames18]

He looks like Ribery the french footballer( soccer player)

[MajDigi]

Damn, that's harsh.

[sijojames18]

Ribery is a good footballer, and Jerry Cain is a great lecturer in stanford uni ( Probable invented many things too ). I cant even get in there because of my GPA. Its meant as a compliment and to be honest i wud take brains & talent

(Hard work can get u that :) ) any day for looks

[antirealm]

this guy is awesome.

[marsrendezvous]

if it is the case that found == null then... you're sad... otherwise... hmm... you're happy.. mmkay? Does that make sense to people?

Gotta love that!

[NameNotaNumber]

I can't find the sad and happy faces on my keyboard :(

[silverpizza100]

@marsrendezvous it makes sence to me. He has humor. but he just used a hypothetical at the end, IDT he ment it.