University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)

Comprehensive lecture notes from the first year module: Mechanical Engineering Design (ENME1ED) taught at University of KwaZulu-Natal. This document contains summaries of relevant information provided by the lecturer, lecture slides as well as from the textbook Engineering Drawing Guide by S. B. Joelson.

The slides that follow present a basic introduction to C - structures that we will need in order to understand fundamental data structures. • Arrays allow us to define types of variables that can hold several data items of the same kind. • In contrast, structure is an example of user defined data type available in C that allows us to combine data items of different kinds. • Structures are used to represent a record. Suppose we want to keep track of our books in a library. We might wa...

A list of finite number of homogenous data elements • Data elements could be § Characters § Numbers § Structures Note!: After compilation, elements of array are stored in successive memory location Exception: User defined higher dimensional arrays

The study of data structures includes: • Logical description of the data structure • Implementation of the data structure • Quantitative analysis of the data structure Includes determining: - Amount of memory needed to store the data structure - Time required to process

// // main.c // Testing Filter // // Copyright © 2016 James Okello. All rights reserved. #include <stdio.h> #include "test_c_filter.h" int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) { // insert variables & code here... printf("Hello, World!n"); test_filter_parameters(); // prototype of this function in header file return 0; // return a value if necessary

Given some vector v, it possible to create a number (or a set) of vectors that when linearly combined will give any vector of a type similar to v § Similarly, given a graph, it is possible to create sub- graphs that together they define the original graph ü Note that a graph is constituted of vertices and edges

Consider const int result = 10; Trying to change value of result by assigning result to a different value WRONG: result += 30;

Given • a matrix variable “matrixA” of type double and size N-by-M (N rows and M columns) • a vector variable “vectorB” of type double and size M-by-1 Assume the variables vectorB, vectorC and matrixA have been declared #define SIZE_N 20 #define SIZE_M 10 : double matrixA[SIZE_N][SIZE_M], vectorB[SIZE_M], vectorC[SIZE_N];

The first item in the queue is the first to be served. • A queue is a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) structure • Also considered as a First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) structure • Is a special kind of list in which the basic insert and delete operations are restricted to the ends of the list. • Items are removed from a queue at one end, called front (head) of the queue, and elements are added only at the other end called back (rear or tail).

The first item in the queue is the first to be served. • A queue is a First-In-First-Out (FIFO) structure • Also considered as a First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) structure • Is a special kind of list in which the basic insert and delete operations are restricted to the ends of the list. • Items are removed from a queue at one end, called front (head) of the queue, and elements are added only at the other end called back (rear or tail).