BITS Pilani

BITS Pilani Avinash Gautam

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
Pilani Campus
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Pilani Campus

Object Oriented Programming (CS F213)

Avinash Gautam
avinash@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in
Chamber# 6121-Y, NAB
Web-page: http://www.bits-pilani.ac.in/~avinash

Consultation Hour
By appointment through mail
Outline

• What is Programming?
• How to be a Programmer?
• Summary

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Programming

Programming in machine-code compiled language like C:

1. Write program code
2. Compile program code, obtain executable consisting (mainly) of
machine code
3. Execute program: program loaded into memory and machine code
is executed by CPU

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 Programming

1. Programming in machine-code compiled language like C

2. Programming in bytecode interpreted language like Java:
a. Write program code
b. Compile program code to standardized machine code, obtain
executable
c. Execute program: program is loaded into machine-specific virtual
machine and interpreted
d. Sometimes, some parts of the program can be compiled to machine
code by the VM for faster execution
e. Goal of Java: Write once, run anywhere => reduce developer effort

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Programming

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 How to be a Programmer?

1. To be a Java programmer, we need to:

a. know how to write a program,
b. know how to compile a program,
c. know how to run a program using the Java JVM
2. . . . but this is the bare minimum. . .
a. Programs must be tested to discover errors
b. Errors must be found using a debugger and fixed
c. Bigger programs use libraries, each implementing one specific concern
d. Teams working on source code need source control and versioning
e. and Build tools
3. While students usually lean how to write programs, they usually don’t
learn anything about testing and debugging and hence deliver bad
smelling code/software until they actually learn to work in some
organization
4. We want to do this better. . .
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