Material of interest to students of C, scripting languages, databases, regular expressions, finite state machines and robots

License

• This site and the GNU General Public License

Disclaimer

• NO integration of these handouts with the official LTU laptop image

Proposed Courses at LTU

• Designing for Accessibility

Courses at LTU

• BME 1003 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
• MCS 1142 Introduction to programming with C
• MCS 1632 Introduction to programming with NotQuiteC and Lego Mindstorms Robots
• MCS 3543 Introduction to databases
• MCS 3663 Computer Architecture and Assembly Language
• MCS 4643 Comparative Languages
• MCS 4653 Theory of computation
• MCS 4981-E01 Directed Studies, Introduction to robotics education
• MCS 4982 Directed Studies, Embedded Linux Vaccine Storage Monitor
• MCS 4993 Topics in MA/CS (Embedded Programming)
• MCS 5303 Introduction to database systems
• MCS 5603 Introduction to Bioinformatics
• MCS 5613 Functional Genomics
• MCS 5993 Bioinformatics Applications
• MCS 5993 Ruby for Rails
• MCS 6323 Distributed database systems

Projects, presentations and opinions

• RFID tag reader and a garage door opener
• A Ruby Demonstration for Communication Media Arts.
• Masters of Science in Computer Science Collaborative Projects
• Ruby, OBDLink SX and other OBD II Adapters
• Bioinformatics, Genomics and the Masters of Science in Computer Science Program
• Perl, Ruby and Tabular Data
• Current foci for research and reflection
• Scholarship with Scholar's Terms of Use: an oxymoron
• A Ruby companion guide to Exploring Bioinformatics by St. Clair and Visick
• A Slopegraph -- Self Referral Loopholes and Treatment Selection
• General Data Munging and Computational Biology.
• Expectations for Programming Homework Assignments.
• An Annotated List of Open Source Software Tools for Computational Biology.
• Testing Web site for the Detroit to Pittsburgh Canoe Project
• Cartesian to Polar Coordinates Practice Module
• A decimal computer simulator
• Database Development on a laptop
• Using the 68HC11 for data acquisition with C++Builder
• Using the 68HC11 and a Heath ID-4001 Weather Station
• A counting problem suggested by Tony Berard, with an answer using data structures found in common scripting languages
• Bioengineering, Gold Rushes and Ethics
• On privacy in medicine and education

About the LEGO Mindstorms learning system

• Notes for a custom NXT sensor with an Arduino
• Notes for Arduino Platform Summer Camp activities at LTU, 2012
• The NXT ultrasonic sensor and the Arduino
• WiFi and the Arduino
• A few tips for new coaches about Robofest 2005
• A Workshop on Not Quite C and Not eXactly C for Robofest
• A Workshop on Not eXactly C for Robofest 2009
• A Workshop on Not eXactly C for Robofest 2008
• Notes on Migrating from NQC to NXC
• Coaches' Corner for Robofest 2006
• Robofest Academy and Not Quite C at Academy of Michigan
• Planning your Robocamp and ideas that worked in 2005
• LEGO Mindstorms for math class or after school
• What's in the box?
• Lego Mindstorms: Links and books
• Lego Mindstorms: A shopping list to get started
• Lego Mindstorms: Bar codes big enough to be read by a Lego robot
• Notes on installing NQC on Windows
• Notes on installing NQC on the Mac OS X
• MCS 1632 Introduction to programming with NotQuiteC and Lego Mindstorms Robots
• Why embedded programming?
• MCS 4993 Topics in MA/CS (Embedded Programming)

Handouts

• Books: Some books by authors who can write
• The Flavor of C: an overview
• The C Family Tree
• Programming Style Points
• Getting Started with C++ Builder 5
• Cuting and Pasting: a review for Windows
• Binary Numbers: from -16 to 16 in binary, hex and octal
• String Constants: ASCII and the "\"
• Command Line Basics: an introduction to using the command prompt
• mcs1142.c: a template for class programming assignments
• A Phrasebook: for translating English to C, Perl, Python, Ruby
• HTML for busy students:
• Generating Random Numbers:
• A Web game in Perl:
• A sample C program:
• Why connect to the Web?
• RDBMS use, comparing the Perl way and the Python way.
• Sources for Rdb or Oracle documentation.
• Dates in various dialects of SQL.
• Quirks in various dialects of SQL.
• Regenerating the LCD home page.
• LCD projector request data model.
• An Introduction to Embedding SQL.
• Associative Arrays:
• Regular expressions in Perl, Python, Ruby and Lisp:
• Ramakrishnan's Sailors, Boats, Reserves practice tables in several SQL dialects:
• Ramakrishnan's Exercises 5.1 through 5.5 practice tables in several SQL dialects:
• Ramakrishnan's Exercises 5.1-5.5 tables in text form.: For use when the textbook Web site is down.
• Watson's practice tables in MySQL format:
• Watson's practice tables in RDB/VAX format:
• Watson's practice tables in PostgreSQL format:
• Database practice labs at LTU:
• Cygwin Setup for an LTU Laptop: For Fall 2004.
• PostgreSQL Setup for an LTU Laptop: For Fall 2004.
• MySQL Setup for an LTU Laptop: For Fall 2004.
• Perl, Python and Ruby Setup for an LTU Laptop: For Fall 2004.
• Perl, Python and Ruby with MySQL and PostgreSQL in T220: For Fall 2004.
• ssh and telenet Setup for an LTU Laptop: For Fall 2004.
• Apache Setup for an LTU Laptop: For Fall 2004.
• PHP Setup for an LTU Laptop: For Fall 2004.
• Emacs Setup for an LTU Laptop: For Fall 2004.
• A "Hello, World" program for Introduction to Database Systems.
• Additional tools for the study and use of Relational Database Management Systems.: An Old list.
• Approaches for Homework Problem 6: Embedded SQL with Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, C++, Delphi, Java, VBA, Access, VCL, Tk
• A Survival guide to Python used with SQL.
• Survival tactics for displaying RDBMS data in a workstation window.
• A Webscraping example.

Revised August 29, 2014