Augustana CSC Q&A - Recent questions and answers in CSC330

Answered: Is the essay now required regardless of culture points?

Wed, 13 May 2020 12:10:48 +0000

I am also really confused by his email. Id appreciate it if he would formulate the assignment using propositional logic. "If you have 7+ culture points, then you do not need to do the paper" vs "If you have 7+ culture points, then you must also do the paper"

Answered: Do we need to know the masks for the test?

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:18:37 +0000

Yes, Lab 3 material is considered fair game for the exam.

Bit masks really aren't that complicated. It's just using bitwise operations (like AND, OR) with a specific bit pattern in order to change some bits in another bit pattern.

See the first section of this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_(computing)

Answered: Stack on the exam 17/18

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:14:09 +0000

Yes, it would be okay to draw it, and then cross it out, as long as it was clear that you had "popped it off" the stack.

In reality though, the memory addresses that used to store silly would now be storing something else...

Answered: What's the difference between a regular Float and an IEEE single-precision float?

Thu, 13 Dec 2018 19:13:00 +0000

Nothing. A Java or C++ float follows the IEEE single-precision floating points standard. A Java or C++ double follows the IEEE double-precision floating-point standard.

(However, our textbook also consider smaller-bit-length floating-point numbers since they are easier to work with.)