Creating a Generic Swap Function for Data Types of Arbitrary Size
By Jerry Cain - Stanford
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Lecture Description
Creating a Generic Swap Function for Data Types of Arbitrary Size, Void* Type for Generic Pointers, Implementation of Swap Function Using memcpy, Client Interface to Generic Swap Function, Pros and Cons of C Generics vs. C++ Generics, Errors Resulting from Improper Use of C Generic Swap Function that Compile, Swapping Pointers, Pitfalls when Swapping Pointers Using Generics, Implementing a Generic Linear Search, Implementing a Generic Linear Search, Using Casts and Pointer Arithmetic, Comparing Memory Blocks Using memcmp or a Comparison Function
Course Description
Topics include: Advanced memory management features of C and C++; the differences between imperative and object-oriented paradigms; the functional paradigm (using LISP) and concurrent programming (using C and C++); brief survey of other modern languages such as Python, Objective C, and C#. Prerequisites: Programming and problem solving at the Programming Abstractions level. Prospective students should know a reasonable amount of C++. You should be comfortable with arrays, pointers, references, classes, methods, dynamic memory allocation, recursion, linked lists, binary search trees, hashing, iterators, and function pointers. You should be able to write well-decomposed, easy-to-understand code, and understand the value that comes with good variable names, short function and method implementations, and thoughtful, articulate comments.
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