Coding in C (Visit Days '09)

Click on "more info" for lyrics!

The UW CSE Band is a computer science parody rock band composed of grad students (and a postdoc!) from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. We perform mostly at department events, and our music makes fun of anything and everything relating to computer science, programming, and life as a grad student. This performance took place during the 2009 Visit Days for prospective students. As of spring 2009, the band consists of:

Alex Colburn (lead guitar)
Laura Effinger-Dean (vocals)
Andrew Guillory (bass guitar and vocals)
Chloé Kiddon (sax)
Natalie Linnell (keyboard)
Kristi Morton (drums)
Pradeep Shenoy (vocals)

Huge thanks go to Jon Hsieh for recording this video and to Peter Henry for being our sound guy.

Coding in C (to the tune of "You Give Love a Bad Name" by Bon Jovi):

Got a segfault!
And you're to blame, darling
Coding in C is a damn shame

Why use bools when you have bits
Love that pointer arithmetic
Save some time with plus plus i
One dangling pointer, kiss my program goodbye

Whoa, it's off by one
Whoa, my program won't run
And nothing will tell me if damage was done

(Chorus:)
Got a segfault!
And you're to blame, darling
Coding in C is a damn shame
At least it halts
That's not much to claim
Coding in C is a damn shame

Start each file with pound ifndef
I still don't know how to use printf
Should I use a union or a struct?
If I make the wrong choice then I'll be - ????

Whoa, need efficiency
Hold your breath and run gcc
And please don't compile with dash oh three

Chorus

Chorus

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Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• computer
• science
• rock
• segfault
• gcc
• programming
• you
• give
• love
• bad
• name
• bon
• jovi
• parody

[UselessSkill]

Awesome, who comes up with the lyrics ?

[CSEBand]

We all do! This particular song was my (Laura's) idea, but it was a group effort to get the rest of the song written.

[blood9raven]

Nice.