SE250:March 5

SE250: Agenda and minutes for Wednesday 5 March

• Minute taker - Rwan064 20:46, 3 March 2008 (NZDT)
• SESA presentation
• Lab 1 review

Minutes

• Rick [Rachit Bhatia] (rbha033) elected as class representative

• SESA Presentation by Shipra (president) and Danver (event organizer)
  • SESA is a socialising and learning network for students of software engineering. It cost $5 to sign up and most events are free.
  • "Shadow Class" is a class held by SESA members to tutor other software engineering students.
  • IRC Channel is used to chat to other software students in all years. Website: www.quantoaduro.com/Chat
  • SESA website: http://www.sesa.org.nz/
  • AGM
    • WHEN: 6th of March 2008 at 12pm
    • WHERE: On the Common Room in the 5th floor of the Computer Science Building.
  • Help for new SE students: Part_II:_Help_for_new_SEs

• Lab 1 Review
  • Looked at the labs of students ssre005 and rbha033. Also looked at John's lab. Discussed mistakes in code and made conclusions about overall measurement methods.

• • Conclusions from this lab exercise
    • Can't trust intuition when timing code with modern processors
    • To find program execution time, you cannot just add the times of the simpler parts.
    • And finally you cannot simply put a number on addition time.
      • Time depends on memory, processor, etc...

• Anything you want to know, like how to use gcc or emacs, put it up on the meeting agenda for the next meeting.
  • GCC tip: Use the "-S" option to look at the assembly code generated by the compiler. e.g. gcc -S main.c

Taken by Rwan064 19:34, 5 March 2008 (NZDT) Edited by Rbha033