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| "text": "[MUSIC PLAYING]", | |
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| { | |
| "text": "DAVID J. MALAN: All right, this\nis CS50, and this is week 4.", | |
| "start": 15.407, | |
| "duration": 4.873 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's consider first what we did\nlast time, which was focus on numbers", | |
| "start": 20.28, | |
| "duration": 5.15 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and focus on how we can search\nthem and how we can sort them.", | |
| "start": 25.43, | |
| "duration": 3.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And in particular, we took a\nlook at a number of algorithms", | |
| "start": 28.87, | |
| "duration": 3.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that we finally gave names to, a couple\nof which we actually saw back in week", | |
| "start": 32.07, | |
| "duration": 3.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "0, but didn't treat as formally.", | |
| "start": 35.33, | |
| "duration": 2.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So we looked more formally\nlast time at linear search,", | |
| "start": 37.39, | |
| "duration": 2.84 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "this process of searching elements\nfrom left to right or right to left", | |
| "start": 40.23, | |
| "duration": 3.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as though you're walking along\na line looking for some value.", | |
| "start": 43.97, | |
| "duration": 2.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We looked at binary search, a\ndivide and conquer algorithm", | |
| "start": 46.91, | |
| "duration": 2.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "whereby we started, in\nthis case, in the middle,", | |
| "start": 49.85, | |
| "duration": 2.092 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and then we looked left to\nright and then went to the left,", | |
| "start": 51.942, | |
| "duration": 2.458 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "went to the right, and then did\nthe same problem again and again.", | |
| "start": 54.4, | |
| "duration": 2.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We looked also at bubble sort.", | |
| "start": 57.27, | |
| "duration": 1.912 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "How do you get to the\npoint where you can", | |
| "start": 59.182, | |
| "duration": 1.708 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "use an algorithm like\nbinary search, which", | |
| "start": 60.89, | |
| "duration": 2.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "assumes that your inputs are sorted?", | |
| "start": 63.18, | |
| "duration": 2.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So how do you get to that sorted state?", | |
| "start": 65.5, | |
| "duration": 1.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, bubble sort was one\nalgorithm that essentially", | |
| "start": 67.26, | |
| "duration": 2.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "swapped elements pairwise from\nleft to right, from left to right,", | |
| "start": 69.6, | |
| "duration": 3.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "until finally the biggest\nelements bubbled up to the top,", | |
| "start": 73.15, | |
| "duration": 2.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and the whole list\nwas ultimately sorted.", | |
| "start": 75.63, | |
| "duration": 2.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But we also looked at selection sort.", | |
| "start": 77.93, | |
| "duration": 1.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And selection sort is the\nname implied, selected,", | |
| "start": 79.67, | |
| "duration": 3.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "then smallest element again and again\nand again, plucking it out of the list,", | |
| "start": 82.78, | |
| "duration": 4.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and putting it where it belongs.", | |
| "start": 87.0, | |
| "duration": 1.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Insertion sort, meanwhile, walked\nthrough the list really just once,", | |
| "start": 88.55, | |
| "duration": 3.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and as it encountered\neach element, it then", | |
| "start": 92.1, | |
| "duration": 2.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "inserted it into the sorted half of\nthe list, the left half of the list", | |
| "start": 94.44, | |
| "duration": 4.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in its proper place.", | |
| "start": 99.14, | |
| "duration": 1.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then lastly, and where we really\nconcluded and really got more bang", | |
| "start": 100.67, | |
| "duration": 4.6 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "for our buck was this\nfinal algorithm merge", | |
| "start": 105.27, | |
| "duration": 2.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "sort, which actually solved this same\nproblem no less correctly, but so much", | |
| "start": 107.63, | |
| "duration": 5.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "more efficiently.", | |
| "start": 112.83, | |
| "duration": 1.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, lends itself perhaps\nto a fundamentally better design", | |
| "start": 113.95, | |
| "duration": 3.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in so far as it leverages a much\nbetter running time, so to speak.", | |
| "start": 117.12, | |
| "duration": 4.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In fact, we started to ascribe\nthese kinds of formulas", | |
| "start": 121.58, | |
| "duration": 2.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to the running times of or the\nperformance of our algorithms n", | |
| "start": 124.48, | |
| "duration": 3.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "squared, otherwise known\nas quadratic, whereby", | |
| "start": 127.97, | |
| "duration": 2.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you take n times n number of\nsteps or minutes or seconds", | |
| "start": 130.63, | |
| "duration": 3.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or some unit of measure, n log in,\nwhich is actually what we achieved", | |
| "start": 134.0, | |
| "duration": 3.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "with the merge source,\nwhich was much faster", | |
| "start": 137.8, | |
| "duration": 2.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "recall than the end squared algorithms\nlike bubble sort and selection sort", | |
| "start": 140.28, | |
| "duration": 3.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and insertion sort in\ntheir upper bounds.", | |
| "start": 143.45, | |
| "duration": 2.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "n would be something linear, like\na straight line relationship.", | |
| "start": 145.77, | |
| "duration": 2.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Logarithmic of n, log\nof n, log base 2 of n,", | |
| "start": 148.62, | |
| "duration": 2.944 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "technically, would be\nsomething like week 0's divide", | |
| "start": 151.564, | |
| "duration": 2.166 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and conquer approach\nlooking for Mike Smith,", | |
| "start": 153.73, | |
| "duration": 2.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as well as last time's binary search.", | |
| "start": 155.91, | |
| "duration": 2.174 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then one, which doesn't\nhave to be literally one step.", | |
| "start": 158.084, | |
| "duration": 2.416 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Maybe it's two, maybe it's 10, but\nit is a fixed finite constant number", | |
| "start": 160.5, | |
| "duration": 4.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of steps.", | |
| "start": 164.7, | |
| "duration": 0.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that too might be the\nrunning time of some algorithm.", | |
| "start": 165.33, | |
| "duration": 2.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now how do we describe the\nrunning times of algorithms?", | |
| "start": 167.89, | |
| "duration": 2.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, we use some special\nnotation, asymptotic notation,", | |
| "start": 170.7, | |
| "duration": 3.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "so to speak, which while it might\nlook cryptic at first glance,", | |
| "start": 174.23, | |
| "duration": 2.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "really is just a handy way of succinctly\nexpressing the fact that you know what", | |
| "start": 176.94, | |
| "duration": 3.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the upper bound on some\nalgorithms running time is,", | |
| "start": 180.75, | |
| "duration": 2.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "what the lower bounds on some\nalgorithms running time is.", | |
| "start": 183.45, | |
| "duration": 2.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if those are one in\nthe same formulas in theta,", | |
| "start": 186.07, | |
| "duration": 3.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "do you have a coincidence of the two\nof big O, so speak, and capital theta.", | |
| "start": 189.16, | |
| "duration": 5.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So that, while Greek,\nliterally is just a way", | |
| "start": 194.65, | |
| "duration": 2.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of expressing a bit more succinctly\nwhat these running times are.", | |
| "start": 196.82, | |
| "duration": 2.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we'll continue to\nrevisit this issue as we", | |
| "start": 199.78, | |
| "duration": 1.916 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "look at more algorithms and\nsoon data structures still.", | |
| "start": 201.696, | |
| "duration": 2.894 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But this time, we apologize.", | |
| "start": 204.59, | |
| "duration": 3.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We pull back a layer here and admit\nthat there is no such thing as a string.", | |
| "start": 208.17, | |
| "duration": 6.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Indeed, all this time we've been saying\nthat there's ins, and there's floats,", | |
| "start": 214.9, | |
| "duration": 3.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and there's chars, and\nthere's doubles and more.", | |
| "start": 218.25, | |
| "duration": 2.075 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we've also been\nsaying there are strings,", | |
| "start": 220.325, | |
| "duration": 1.875 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but there really aren't strings.", | |
| "start": 222.2, | |
| "duration": 1.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This is sort of a figment of the\nimagination of our so-called CS50", | |
| "start": 223.96, | |
| "duration": 3.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "library.", | |
| "start": 227.21, | |
| "duration": 0.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But it's a pedagogical\nsimplification that we've", | |
| "start": 228.06, | |
| "duration": 2.28 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "been using for the past\nseveral weeks, so as to not get", | |
| "start": 230.34, | |
| "duration": 3.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "lost in the weeds, the\nlower level implementation", | |
| "start": 233.66, | |
| "duration": 2.234 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "details of what a string\nis, so that we can just get", | |
| "start": 235.894, | |
| "duration": 2.166 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "real work done in these first weeks.", | |
| "start": 238.06, | |
| "duration": 2.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But now we'll begin to\nlook underneath that hood", | |
| "start": 240.07, | |
| "duration": 2.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and see what a string actually\nis and what the implications are.", | |
| "start": 242.65, | |
| "duration": 3.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it turns out, while more\ncomplicated in some sense,", | |
| "start": 246.52, | |
| "duration": 3.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "it really just boils down\nto some first principles,", | |
| "start": 249.7, | |
| "duration": 2.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "what it is the computer is\ndoing underneath that hood.", | |
| "start": 252.65, | |
| "duration": 3.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's take a look at string first\nby way of a couple of examples.", | |
| "start": 255.66, | |
| "duration": 4.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's go in to CS50 IDE, create a new\nfile, save it as Compare zero dot C,", | |
| "start": 260.56, | |
| "duration": 5.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and look at the little program\nthat actually doesn't necessarily", | |
| "start": 265.83, | |
| "duration": 3.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "do what we think it's going to do.", | |
| "start": 269.28, | |
| "duration": 2.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In particular, let me go\nahead and include our typical,", | |
| "start": 272.0, | |
| "duration": 2.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "include CS 50 dot H. And let me go ahead\nand include standard IO dot H as well.", | |
| "start": 274.91, | |
| "duration": 5.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead and use\nmain void, so I'm not", | |
| "start": 280.2, | |
| "duration": 2.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "going to worry about any\ncommand line arguments for now.", | |
| "start": 282.21, | |
| "duration": 2.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then I'm going to go ahead\nand just prompt the user.", | |
| "start": 284.68, | |
| "duration": 2.333 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Hey user, give me a string\ncalled S for instance.", | |
| "start": 287.013, | |
| "duration": 2.144 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then I'm going to have no newline.", | |
| "start": 289.157, | |
| "duration": 1.583 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I just want that all in one same line.", | |
| "start": 290.74, | |
| "duration": 1.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now I'm going to go\nahead and do string S,", | |
| "start": 292.73, | |
| "duration": 3.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "gets gets string, open\nparen and close parens,", | |
| "start": 295.95, | |
| "duration": 2.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "so as to get a string from the user.", | |
| "start": 298.46, | |
| "duration": 2.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, let me do this.", | |
| "start": 300.58, | |
| "duration": 1.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me also print T colon and ask\nthe user, essentially, for a string", | |
| "start": 301.67, | |
| "duration": 4.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that I'll call T, since T\ncomes after S quite simply.", | |
| "start": 306.0, | |
| "duration": 4.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And now let me just compare these\nstrings as the filename suggests.", | |
| "start": 310.32, | |
| "duration": 3.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So I know how to compare,\nnot with if s equals t,", | |
| "start": 313.69, | |
| "duration": 4.706 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "because that's the assignment operator.", | |
| "start": 318.396, | |
| "duration": 1.624 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But we know that s equals equals t\nshould compare the values on the left", | |
| "start": 320.02, | |
| "duration": 5.062 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and on the right.", | |
| "start": 325.082, | |
| "duration": 0.708 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's try this.", | |
| "start": 325.79, | |
| "duration": 0.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So if s equals equals t, then I'm\ngoing to go ahead and print out same.", | |
| "start": 326.67, | |
| "duration": 5.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Elts, they are presumably\ndifference, so I'm", | |
| "start": 332.13, | |
| "duration": 2.43 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "going to go ahead and print out\ndifferent with a newline character", | |
| "start": 334.56, | |
| "duration": 3.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and then save it.", | |
| "start": 338.54, | |
| "duration": 1.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So a pretty simple program, so let me\ngo down into my terminal window and run", | |
| "start": 339.62, | |
| "duration": 3.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "make compare 0.", | |
| "start": 343.31, | |
| "duration": 2.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now let me go ahead and\nrun dot slash compare 0. s,", | |
| "start": 345.43, | |
| "duration": 4.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'm going to go ahead\nand type in Zamyla.", | |
| "start": 349.92, | |
| "duration": 3.84 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I'm going to go ahead\nnow and type in Maria.", | |
| "start": 353.76, | |
| "duration": 3.127 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "OK, and they're different.", | |
| "start": 356.887, | |
| "duration": 1.083 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I expected as much.", | |
| "start": 357.97, | |
| "duration": 1.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now let's go ahead and run this again.", | |
| "start": 359.19, | |
| "duration": 1.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Again with Zamyla.", | |
| "start": 361.02, | |
| "duration": 1.696 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And let's just say\nZamyla again, different.", | |
| "start": 362.716, | |
| "duration": 4.744 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What did I do wrong?", | |
| "start": 367.46, | |
| "duration": 1.004 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me try this again.", | |
| "start": 368.464, | |
| "duration": 0.916 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Maybe it's the capitalization.", | |
| "start": 369.38, | |
| "duration": 1.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So Zamyla in all lower case, different.", | |
| "start": 371.01, | |
| "duration": 5.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, maybe it's just Zamyla's name.", | |
| "start": 376.12, | |
| "duration": 1.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me try Rob or RLB?", | |
| "start": 377.81, | |
| "duration": 3.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "How about RLB?", | |
| "start": 381.57, | |
| "duration": 1.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Those are different, as is Rob and Rob.", | |
| "start": 382.77, | |
| "duration": 2.86 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So what is going on?", | |
| "start": 385.63, | |
| "duration": 1.82 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Those strings pretty\nmuch look the same to me.", | |
| "start": 387.45, | |
| "duration": 2.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'm typing the same\nincantation of strings,", | |
| "start": 389.57, | |
| "duration": 2.273 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "so what is it that's going on here?", | |
| "start": 391.843, | |
| "duration": 2.777 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "You know what, let me do a\ntest with something else.", | |
| "start": 394.62, | |
| "duration": 2.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead and\ncreate a new file here.", | |
| "start": 397.08, | |
| "duration": 2.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'm going to call this copyzero.c.", | |
| "start": 399.69, | |
| "duration": 1.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Maybe I'm just misunderstanding\nhow comparison works.", | |
| "start": 401.35, | |
| "duration": 2.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But surely I should be able to copy\na string and make an identical copy,", | |
| "start": 404.13, | |
| "duration": 3.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "so let's do that now.", | |
| "start": 407.24, | |
| "duration": 1.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead and create\na file called copyzero.c.", | |
| "start": 408.38, | |
| "duration": 4.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And let me do an include cs50.h.", | |
| "start": 412.96, | |
| "duration": 2.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Include standard io.h into\nmain void, so just as before.", | |
| "start": 415.71, | |
| "duration": 6.027 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And now, let me go ahead and\njust prompt the user like before.", | |
| "start": 421.737, | |
| "duration": 2.583 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Give me a string s.", | |
| "start": 424.32, | |
| "duration": 1.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I'll put that in a variable,\ns, calling get string as before.", | |
| "start": 425.62, | |
| "duration": 4.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And now, I remember from prior\nclasses that I'm supposed to do,", | |
| "start": 429.85, | |
| "duration": 5.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "if s equals equals null, maybe I\nneed to do some error checking here.", | |
| "start": 434.94, | |
| "duration": 4.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if that's the case, I'm\ngoing to arbitrarily return 1.", | |
| "start": 439.65, | |
| "duration": 2.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So recall that main can return values.", | |
| "start": 442.13, | |
| "duration": 2.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "0 means all is well.", | |
| "start": 444.25, | |
| "duration": 1.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "1 or any other non-zero value\nmeans something is wrong.", | |
| "start": 445.45, | |
| "duration": 2.6 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So maybe that's what I was doing wrong\nearlier, just not error checking.", | |
| "start": 448.05, | |
| "duration": 3.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's try that.", | |
| "start": 451.05, | |
| "duration": 1.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, let me declare a variable of type\nstring called t and assign it to s.", | |
| "start": 452.09, | |
| "duration": 5.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So in other words, I\nwant to copy s into t.", | |
| "start": 458.03, | |
| "duration": 3.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I know that this happens\nfrom the right to the left.", | |
| "start": 461.12, | |
| "duration": 2.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So that's as I think it should be.", | |
| "start": 463.47, | |
| "duration": 2.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, if strleng of\nt is greater than 0--", | |
| "start": 465.88, | |
| "duration": 7.302 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you know what, I'm going\nto do one other thing.", | |
| "start": 473.182, | |
| "duration": 1.958 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Not just copy it.", | |
| "start": 475.14, | |
| "duration": 0.924 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'm going to go ahead and do this.", | |
| "start": 476.064, | |
| "duration": 1.416 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Recall, that you can\ntreat strings as arrays.", | |
| "start": 477.48, | |
| "duration": 2.02 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So I'm going to say the zeroth\ncharacter, the first character of t--", | |
| "start": 479.5, | |
| "duration": 3.477 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you know what?", | |
| "start": 482.977, | |
| "duration": 0.583 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I want to uppercase it.", | |
| "start": 483.56, | |
| "duration": 1.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I want to really make sure that\nthese two strings are indeed", | |
| "start": 485.17, | |
| "duration": 2.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "different as I intend.", | |
| "start": 487.96, | |
| "duration": 1.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And let's go ahead now and do this.", | |
| "start": 489.54, | |
| "duration": 3.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead now and do printf of s.", | |
| "start": 492.84, | |
| "duration": 4.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And let me plug-in s's\nvalue in a new line.", | |
| "start": 497.34, | |
| "duration": 2.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Plug-in s.", | |
| "start": 499.52, | |
| "duration": 0.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then printf t:%s\nfor a placeholder again.", | |
| "start": 500.22, | |
| "duration": 4.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Comma t semi-colon.", | |
| "start": 505.09, | |
| "duration": 1.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So in other words, if the length\nof t is greater than zero,", | |
| "start": 506.83, | |
| "duration": 3.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "let's capitalize it by\nchanging that first character.", | |
| "start": 510.52, | |
| "duration": 2.764 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, just print out s and t.", | |
| "start": 513.284, | |
| "duration": 1.375 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And surely, by capitalizing only t, I\nshould see only one capitalized word.", | |
| "start": 514.659, | |
| "duration": 5.091 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, I'm using both\nstrleng and two upper.", | |
| "start": 519.75, | |
| "duration": 1.812 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So rather than let Clang have a chance\nto yell at me, I'm going to go in here", | |
| "start": 521.562, | |
| "duration": 3.208 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and preemptively add ctype.h.", | |
| "start": 524.77, | |
| "duration": 3.056 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Which recall is a library\nyou might have seen", | |
| "start": 527.826, | |
| "duration": 1.874 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or certainly will soon see that\nhas a number of functions in it.", | |
| "start": 529.7, | |
| "duration": 3.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Among them, two upper.", | |
| "start": 533.04, | |
| "duration": 1.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, I also need to include\nstring.h, so that I can use strlen--", | |
| "start": 534.22, | |
| "duration": 4.094 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the function that gives me\nthe length of the string.", | |
| "start": 538.314, | |
| "duration": 2.166 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So Clang would have yelled at me if I\nforgot that, but let me preemptively", | |
| "start": 540.48, | |
| "duration": 2.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "solve that problem.", | |
| "start": 543.37, | |
| "duration": 0.82 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And now, do make copies zero.", | |
| "start": 544.19, | |
| "duration": 2.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "All seems to be well.", | |
| "start": 546.54, | |
| "duration": 1.03 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's run dot slash copy 0.", | |
| "start": 547.57, | |
| "duration": 1.861 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "All right.", | |
| "start": 549.431, | |
| "duration": 0.499 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's go ahead and type in-- how about\njust my own name in all lowercase.", | |
| "start": 549.93, | |
| "duration": 6.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Huh?", | |
| "start": 555.98, | |
| "duration": 1.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, why is this confusing?", | |
| "start": 557.29, | |
| "duration": 2.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So I wrote code that got a string\nfrom the user and stored it in s.", | |
| "start": 559.33, | |
| "duration": 5.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I then wrote code that\ndeclared a second variable, t.", | |
| "start": 564.86, | |
| "duration": 3.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I set t equal to s,\nthereby making I would", | |
| "start": 568.34, | |
| "duration": 2.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "think a copy-- as in past weeks\nof using the assignment operator.", | |
| "start": 571.22, | |
| "duration": 3.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Then down here, I made\nsure t was long enough.", | |
| "start": 574.92, | |
| "duration": 2.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That's just a quick sanity check.", | |
| "start": 577.13, | |
| "duration": 1.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then on this line\nhere, I'm just saying,", | |
| "start": 578.84, | |
| "duration": 3.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "set the first character of t, t bracket\n0, equal to the result of upper casing", | |
| "start": 582.02, | |
| "duration": 5.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the first character of t.", | |
| "start": 587.87, | |
| "duration": 2.13 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So the only code that's\ntouching t is this one here.", | |
| "start": 590.0, | |
| "duration": 3.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And yet, somehow my name gets\ncapitalized both in s and in t.", | |
| "start": 593.37, | |
| "duration": 5.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So what is it that's\nactually going on here?", | |
| "start": 598.75, | |
| "duration": 3.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It seems to be broken still.", | |
| "start": 602.42, | |
| "duration": 2.559 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In fact, let me go ahead and open\nanother example, rather than type", | |
| "start": 604.979, | |
| "duration": 2.791 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "this one out ourselves.", | |
| "start": 607.77, | |
| "duration": 1.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead and open up\nan example called no swap.", | |
| "start": 609.5, | |
| "duration": 4.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "As the name suggests,\nit's a bit of a spoiler.", | |
| "start": 613.92, | |
| "duration": 2.59 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I wrote this program in\nadvance to do the following.", | |
| "start": 616.51, | |
| "duration": 2.82 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "First, I've included standard\nio.h, so I can use printf.", | |
| "start": 619.33, | |
| "duration": 3.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I have a prototype of my function\ncalled swap up here, because indeed,", | |
| "start": 622.94, | |
| "duration": 3.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the goal at hand I decided was I just\nwant to write a simple function that", | |
| "start": 626.49, | |
| "duration": 4.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "swaps two values.", | |
| "start": 630.6, | |
| "duration": 1.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Given a and b, make b a and a, b.", | |
| "start": 632.29, | |
| "duration": 2.86 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, return.", | |
| "start": 635.15, | |
| "duration": 0.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So I'm just going to arbitrarily test\nthis out by declaring a variable x.", | |
| "start": 636.14, | |
| "duration": 3.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Setting it equal to 1.", | |
| "start": 639.2, | |
| "duration": 1.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A variable y setting it equal to 2.", | |
| "start": 640.37, | |
| "duration": 2.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, just as a sanity check, I'm\ngoing to print out x is such and such,", | |
| "start": 642.72, | |
| "duration": 3.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "y is such and such.", | |
| "start": 646.02, | |
| "duration": 1.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, I'm going to\nclaim swapping dot dot dot.", | |
| "start": 647.2, | |
| "duration": 2.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, the key line\nis apparently this one.", | |
| "start": 650.12, | |
| "duration": 2.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Call a function called\nswap, passing in x and y.", | |
| "start": 652.8, | |
| "duration": 3.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if I implemented swap correctly,\nthis should swap the two variables.", | |
| "start": 656.31, | |
| "duration": 4.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Thereafter, I'm going to claim swapped\nx as such and such, y as such and such.", | |
| "start": 660.4, | |
| "duration": 4.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's run this program and see\nwhat else is apparently a lie.", | |
| "start": 665.09, | |
| "duration": 5.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Make no swap in my source directory.", | |
| "start": 670.28, | |
| "duration": 6.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "./noswap enter.", | |
| "start": 676.9, | |
| "duration": 3.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if we scroll back up in my\nhistory, you'll see x is 1, y is 2.", | |
| "start": 680.61, | |
| "duration": 4.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Swapping swapped.", | |
| "start": 685.56, | |
| "duration": 1.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "x is 1, y is 2.", | |
| "start": 687.22, | |
| "duration": 1.431 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "All right.", | |
| "start": 688.651, | |
| "duration": 0.499 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So maybe just the swap\nfunction is buggy.", | |
| "start": 689.15, | |
| "duration": 1.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This isn't necessarily\nindicative of a misunderstanding.", | |
| "start": 691.11, | |
| "duration": 3.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's look at the\nimplementation of swap.", | |
| "start": 694.28, | |
| "duration": 2.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Swap returns no value and I think\nthat's OK, so long as it takes inputs.", | |
| "start": 696.29, | |
| "duration": 4.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Swap takes two inputs, an ints and\nan ints, called a and b respectively.", | |
| "start": 700.79, | |
| "duration": 4.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, let's consider how this works.", | |
| "start": 705.43, | |
| "duration": 1.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So I've declared a temporary\nvariable, called temp--", | |
| "start": 707.15, | |
| "duration": 3.225 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "though I could call it anything I want.", | |
| "start": 710.375, | |
| "duration": 1.625 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I'm storing in it the value a.", | |
| "start": 712.0, | |
| "duration": 2.28 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So I'm taking a-- and it's the number 1.", | |
| "start": 714.28, | |
| "duration": 1.975 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I'm just temporarily\nstoring the number 1", | |
| "start": 716.255, | |
| "duration": 1.875 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in this additional temporary\nvariable, so that I now", | |
| "start": 718.13, | |
| "duration": 2.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "have two copies of the number\none-- in a and in temp.", | |
| "start": 720.35, | |
| "duration": 3.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Then, I change the\nvalue of a to equal b.", | |
| "start": 723.69, | |
| "duration": 3.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So at this point in the story,\na should have a value of 2.", | |
| "start": 726.78, | |
| "duration": 3.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "b should have a value of 2.", | |
| "start": 730.7, | |
| "duration": 1.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Which could be problematic, except\nI've saved the original value 1", | |
| "start": 732.32, | |
| "duration": 3.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in my temporary variable.", | |
| "start": 736.2, | |
| "duration": 1.59 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so, indeed I change b to\nequal that temporary value.", | |
| "start": 737.79, | |
| "duration": 3.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So indeed, I can't do\nthis magical switcheroo.", | |
| "start": 741.76, | |
| "duration": 2.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because if I simultaneously\ntook one value and one value", | |
| "start": 744.39, | |
| "duration": 3.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and put them in each other's\nplaces, I would essentially", | |
| "start": 747.39, | |
| "duration": 2.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "risk clobbering one or the other.", | |
| "start": 750.19, | |
| "duration": 1.554 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because the computer typically\ncan only do one thing", | |
| "start": 751.744, | |
| "duration": 2.166 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "at a time underneath the hood,\neven though it's super fast.", | |
| "start": 753.91, | |
| "duration": 2.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So I run the risk of somehow getting\ntwo copies of that same value,", | |
| "start": 756.88, | |
| "duration": 5.43 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "unless I'm careful.", | |
| "start": 762.31, | |
| "duration": 0.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I really want to take one value,\nput it in a temporary space.", | |
| "start": 763.27, | |
| "duration": 3.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Then, copy one value over.", | |
| "start": 766.98, | |
| "duration": 1.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, do that switcheroo.", | |
| "start": 768.7, | |
| "duration": 1.84 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But it doesn't seem to work.", | |
| "start": 770.54, | |
| "duration": 1.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And yet, this is a good\nopportunity for one more tool.", | |
| "start": 772.08, | |
| "duration": 2.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me do a further check.", | |
| "start": 775.06, | |
| "duration": 1.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead and run\ndebug 50 on no swap.", | |
| "start": 776.54, | |
| "duration": 4.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And you know what?", | |
| "start": 781.04, | |
| "duration": 0.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'm going to set a break point right at\nthe beginning of this program on line", | |
| "start": 781.79, | |
| "duration": 3.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "10 by simply clicking in the so-called\ngutter of the line number here.", | |
| "start": 785.12, | |
| "duration": 3.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A red dot appears, so that\nnow when I run debug 50,", | |
| "start": 789.11, | |
| "duration": 3.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "notice my right hand bar pops out.", | |
| "start": 792.15, | |
| "duration": 2.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Notice that the line 10 in question\nis highlighted, because execution is", | |
| "start": 794.32, | |
| "duration": 3.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "paused at this line.", | |
| "start": 798.28, | |
| "duration": 1.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's take a look at what's going on\nthe right hand side of my debugger.", | |
| "start": 799.48, | |
| "duration": 3.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Notice that x has a value\nof 1 and y has a value of 2.", | |
| "start": 802.48, | |
| "duration": 4.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that's what I intend.", | |
| "start": 806.58, | |
| "duration": 1.15 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, let's begin to\nstep over these lines.", | |
| "start": 807.73, | |
| "duration": 2.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's step over the printf.", | |
| "start": 810.07, | |
| "duration": 1.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we see on my terminal\nwindow that x is 1.", | |
| "start": 811.84, | |
| "duration": 2.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Step over the next printf\nand we see that y is 2.", | |
| "start": 814.25, | |
| "duration": 2.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, let's step over that and we\nsee indeed swapping dot dot dot.", | |
| "start": 817.24, | |
| "duration": 3.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But rather than step over my call to\nthe swap function, let's step into it.", | |
| "start": 820.86, | |
| "duration": 4.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So I can actually see\nmaybe my logic is buggy.", | |
| "start": 825.17, | |
| "duration": 2.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's go ahead and step into swap.", | |
| "start": 827.84, | |
| "duration": 2.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And notice that debug 50 immediately\njumps down to the first line and swap.", | |
| "start": 830.21, | |
| "duration": 4.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And notice now on the right\nhand side, what's going on?", | |
| "start": 834.63, | |
| "duration": 3.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a is 1 and b is 2.", | |
| "start": 837.8, | |
| "duration": 2.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that's as expected,\nbecause I passed an x and y.", | |
| "start": 840.01, | |
| "duration": 3.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Swap calls it's two inputs a and\nb respectively, so a is 1, b is 2.", | |
| "start": 843.23, | |
| "duration": 4.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Temp though, very curiously is 32,767.", | |
| "start": 848.03, | |
| "duration": 6.629 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And where is that value coming?", | |
| "start": 854.659, | |
| "duration": 1.291 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, it turns out when\nyou declare a variable,", | |
| "start": 855.95, | |
| "duration": 3.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but haven't yet said it's of some\nvalue it's going to by definition have", | |
| "start": 859.33, | |
| "duration": 3.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "an undefined value.", | |
| "start": 862.91, | |
| "duration": 1.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A so-called garbage value.", | |
| "start": 864.09, | |
| "duration": 1.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Remnants of other\naspects of your program", | |
| "start": 865.6, | |
| "duration": 2.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "having used that chunk of memory before.", | |
| "start": 868.37, | |
| "duration": 2.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we'll see why this is in just a bit.", | |
| "start": 870.54, | |
| "duration": 1.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this is anomalous.", | |
| "start": 872.31, | |
| "duration": 1.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's not a bug in the program.", | |
| "start": 873.56, | |
| "duration": 1.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's to be expected, because\nI haven't yet assigned", | |
| "start": 874.81, | |
| "duration": 2.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "temp a value until-- let me zoom out.", | |
| "start": 877.03, | |
| "duration": 3.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Until I step over line 21 and\nactually let temp equal a.", | |
| "start": 880.14, | |
| "duration": 6.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And notice, if you watch the\nright hand side of my screen now,", | |
| "start": 886.72, | |
| "duration": 2.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "temp is currently 32,767.", | |
| "start": 889.47, | |
| "duration": 4.03 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And when I step over it, OK.", | |
| "start": 893.5, | |
| "duration": 2.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It becomes 1.", | |
| "start": 896.01, | |
| "duration": 1.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So that's as expected.", | |
| "start": 897.05, | |
| "duration": 1.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, a is about to become b.", | |
| "start": 898.34, | |
| "duration": 2.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, we now see that a\nis 2 b is 2 and temp is still 1.", | |
| "start": 900.95, | |
| "duration": 4.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So now we have to put temp into\nb, so let's step over that line.", | |
| "start": 905.15, | |
| "duration": 3.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, we've done\na switcheroo of a and b.", | |
| "start": 908.55, | |
| "duration": 3.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a is 2, b is 1.", | |
| "start": 912.12, | |
| "duration": 2.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "OK.", | |
| "start": 914.3, | |
| "duration": 0.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's go ahead and play this out.", | |
| "start": 914.8, | |
| "duration": 2.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's continue here.", | |
| "start": 917.35, | |
| "duration": 1.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I claim that I've swapped.", | |
| "start": 918.41, | |
| "duration": 1.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'm printing x-- and somehow\nx and y are still 1 and 2.", | |
| "start": 919.93, | |
| "duration": 6.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Even though the debunker\ntold me it would", | |
| "start": 926.61, | |
| "duration": 1.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "seem that my swap function was correct.", | |
| "start": 928.58, | |
| "duration": 2.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So what is happening after all of these\nweeks of CS50 and all of these problems", | |
| "start": 930.91, | |
| "duration": 4.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "solved thus far?", | |
| "start": 935.15, | |
| "duration": 0.792 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It would seem that all of\nour understanding of things", | |
| "start": 935.942, | |
| "duration": 2.208 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is kind of unraveling.", | |
| "start": 938.15, | |
| "duration": 1.059 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that's because we've been very\ncareful over the past few weeks,", | |
| "start": 939.209, | |
| "duration": 2.791 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "at least in class.", | |
| "start": 942.0, | |
| "duration": 0.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And in sections to try to avoid\ntripping over some of these lower-level", | |
| "start": 942.93, | |
| "duration": 3.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "implementation details.", | |
| "start": 946.34, | |
| "duration": 1.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And there's not that many of them.", | |
| "start": 947.6, | |
| "duration": 1.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But today, is now a time\nto peel back this layer", | |
| "start": 949.16, | |
| "duration": 4.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and understand exactly\nwhat it is that's going on.", | |
| "start": 953.28, | |
| "duration": 2.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Indeed, all of this time when you\nrun a program on your computer,", | |
| "start": 956.11, | |
| "duration": 4.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "double-click an icon or run the\nprogram's name with dot slash", | |
| "start": 960.17, | |
| "duration": 2.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "something or other at your\nterminal window-- what happens", | |
| "start": 963.06, | |
| "duration": 2.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is that your computer gives that program\nthe illusion of a really big chunk", | |
| "start": 965.62, | |
| "duration": 4.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of memory all of its own.", | |
| "start": 970.55, | |
| "duration": 1.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Maybe two gigabytes of memory,\neven though it doesn't necessarily", | |
| "start": 971.89, | |
| "duration": 3.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "use all of that memory.", | |
| "start": 974.94, | |
| "duration": 1.337 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that memory-- if you just\nthink of your computer's memory,", | |
| "start": 976.277, | |
| "duration": 2.583 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as we've done before, is\nlike a rectangular region.", | |
| "start": 978.86, | |
| "duration": 2.125 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we could number of\nthe bytes in my memory.", | |
| "start": 980.985, | |
| "duration": 1.922 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But it doesn't really matter what the\naddresses are, what the numbers are,", | |
| "start": 982.907, | |
| "duration": 3.083 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "just that it exists.", | |
| "start": 985.99, | |
| "duration": 1.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It turns out that when\nyou run a program,", | |
| "start": 987.77, | |
| "duration": 3.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "your operating system typically lays\nout your program's memory in a fairly", | |
| "start": 990.96, | |
| "duration": 3.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "standard way.", | |
| "start": 994.75, | |
| "duration": 1.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "There's a chunk of memory down here for\nsomething called environment variables.", | |
| "start": 996.4, | |
| "duration": 3.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "There's a bigger growable chunk\nof memory down here called", | |
| "start": 999.92, | |
| "duration": 3.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the so-called stack.", | |
| "start": 1003.58, | |
| "duration": 1.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "On the opposite side of the\npicture is a so-called heap.", | |
| "start": 1005.16, | |
| "duration": 2.379 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Another chunk of memory that actually\ngrows in the other direction.", | |
| "start": 1007.539, | |
| "duration": 2.791 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So long story short, bad things\ncan happen if both of those", | |
| "start": 1010.33, | |
| "duration": 3.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "grow bigger than you intend.", | |
| "start": 1013.37, | |
| "duration": 1.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Then, there's some kind of uninitialized\nand initialized data up top.", | |
| "start": 1015.15, | |
| "duration": 3.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, text.", | |
| "start": 1018.68, | |
| "duration": 1.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, it turns out text is\nthe segment of memory where", | |
| "start": 1020.07, | |
| "duration": 3.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "your program's zeros and ones live.", | |
| "start": 1023.27, | |
| "duration": 2.299 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So when you double-click\nan icon on your Mac or PC", | |
| "start": 1025.569, | |
| "duration": 2.111 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or when you run the command\ndot slash something,", | |
| "start": 1027.68, | |
| "duration": 2.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "those zeros and ones are loaded from\nyour hard disk or solid state disk", | |
| "start": 1029.75, | |
| "duration": 3.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "into RAM or memory.", | |
| "start": 1033.29, | |
| "duration": 1.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it's put conceptually\nat the top of the memory", | |
| "start": 1034.93, | |
| "duration": 3.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that your computer program is using.", | |
| "start": 1038.31, | |
| "duration": 1.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And below that is the actual\ndata that your program is using.", | |
| "start": 1039.95, | |
| "duration": 4.149 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The variables and the\nvalues inside of it.", | |
| "start": 1044.099, | |
| "duration": 2.451 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, each of these types of\nmemory have different purposes.", | |
| "start": 1046.55, | |
| "duration": 3.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we'll see in just a moment\nwhat it is that's going on.", | |
| "start": 1049.61, | |
| "duration": 3.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we'll ultimately\npeel back these layers.", | |
| "start": 1053.1, | |
| "duration": 2.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So what is it that's actually\ngoing on underneath the hood here?", | |
| "start": 1055.41, | |
| "duration": 3.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, let's consider this\nto be my computer's memory.", | |
| "start": 1058.94, | |
| "duration": 2.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So focusing on just that\nbottom most portion,", | |
| "start": 1061.71, | |
| "duration": 2.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "which I called the stack a moment ago.", | |
| "start": 1064.7, | |
| "duration": 2.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So if we draw just the bottom of my\ncomputer's memory kind of like this,", | |
| "start": 1066.78, | |
| "duration": 3.645 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the bottom of it has technically\nenvironment variables.", | |
| "start": 1070.425, | |
| "duration": 2.574 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But let's focus on the\nregion known as the stack.", | |
| "start": 1072.999, | |
| "duration": 2.041 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And the stack, as the name implies,\nis kind of like the stack of trays", | |
| "start": 1075.04, | |
| "duration": 3.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that you might see in a\ncafeteria or a dining hall,", | |
| "start": 1078.72, | |
| "duration": 2.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "where you put trays on top of another\nuntil it can get potentially pretty", | |
| "start": 1080.9, | |
| "duration": 3.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "tall.", | |
| "start": 1084.79, | |
| "duration": 0.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it turns out when\nyou run a program, not", | |
| "start": 1085.41, | |
| "duration": 2.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "only is your program given the illusion\nof this really big memory space laid", | |
| "start": 1088.15, | |
| "duration": 3.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "out as proposed, but\nit also by convention", | |
| "start": 1091.66, | |
| "duration": 3.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "uses this memory in a\nfairly standard way.", | |
| "start": 1094.89, | |
| "duration": 2.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Specifically, when main is called,\nmain is given a chunk of memory", | |
| "start": 1097.83, | |
| "duration": 5.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "at the bottom, so to\nspeak, of this stack space.", | |
| "start": 1103.3, | |
| "duration": 2.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so, let me go ahead\nhere and write main.", | |
| "start": 1105.78, | |
| "duration": 2.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And any local variables that main\nhas and any arguments to main,", | |
| "start": 1108.45, | |
| "duration": 5.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "namely argc an argv, end up inside here.", | |
| "start": 1113.45, | |
| "duration": 3.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So if indeed you are using\nsomething like argv and argc,", | |
| "start": 1116.95, | |
| "duration": 4.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you might have a value\nlike this down here.", | |
| "start": 1121.63, | |
| "duration": 2.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And you might have another chunk\nof memory carved out here for argv.", | |
| "start": 1124.46, | |
| "duration": 4.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if you have a couple of\nlocal variables, for instance x", | |
| "start": 1128.92, | |
| "duration": 4.03 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and another one, y, those two would\nbe allocated space in this slice", | |
| "start": 1132.95, | |
| "duration": 5.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "if you will.", | |
| "start": 1138.43, | |
| "duration": 0.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This frame of memory.", | |
| "start": 1138.96, | |
| "duration": 2.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Meanwhile, if main calls a\nfunction, like swap-- swap", | |
| "start": 1141.17, | |
| "duration": 4.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is allocated a swath of memory, a\nframe of memory, above main by design.", | |
| "start": 1145.89, | |
| "duration": 5.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So if I've called swap,\nits memory ends up here.", | |
| "start": 1151.34, | |
| "duration": 3.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if the swap function\nitself has arguments,", | |
| "start": 1154.9, | |
| "duration": 3.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "like a and b or any\nother local variables,", | |
| "start": 1158.16, | |
| "duration": 2.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "those values too are put inside\nof the so-called stack frame.", | |
| "start": 1161.1, | |
| "duration": 4.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this might be a and this might be b.", | |
| "start": 1165.2, | |
| "duration": 3.659 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In other words, the concepts\nthat we've been taking for", | |
| "start": 1168.859, | |
| "duration": 2.291 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "granted, both in Scratch and in C, at\nthe end of the day, boil down to values", | |
| "start": 1171.15, | |
| "duration": 4.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "needing to go somewhere physically.", | |
| "start": 1175.63, | |
| "duration": 2.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so, if you assume that\nthe big rectangular region", | |
| "start": 1177.73, | |
| "duration": 2.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "here is your computer's memory.", | |
| "start": 1180.04, | |
| "duration": 1.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, you consider that\nthe operating system really", | |
| "start": 1181.48, | |
| "duration": 2.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "just slices and dices this memory,\nsuch that mains memory is down here.", | |
| "start": 1183.97, | |
| "duration": 5.16 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Any function that main calls\nis immediately above it.", | |
| "start": 1189.13, | |
| "duration": 2.6 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And frankly, if swap called its own\nfunction, it would end up above it.", | |
| "start": 1191.73, | |
| "duration": 4.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But now, given this basic\ndefinition of memory management", | |
| "start": 1196.27, | |
| "duration": 4.16 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and the layout of computer\nprogram's memory space,", | |
| "start": 1200.43, | |
| "duration": 2.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you can perhaps start to infer\nwhy all of these failures", | |
| "start": 1203.3, | |
| "duration": 4.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "have started to happen in my program.", | |
| "start": 1207.53, | |
| "duration": 2.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A moment ago, I didn't\nhave argv and argc.", | |
| "start": 1209.61, | |
| "duration": 2.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I just had for instance x and y.", | |
| "start": 1212.49, | |
| "duration": 2.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I had the value 1\nand I had the value 2.", | |
| "start": 1214.53, | |
| "duration": 4.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Main then called swap and put a copy\nof 1 there and a copy of 2 there.", | |
| "start": 1218.74, | |
| "duration": 6.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, that's the key insight.", | |
| "start": 1225.27, | |
| "duration": 2.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "When a function calls another function,\npassing in arguments as inputs,", | |
| "start": 1227.61, | |
| "duration": 4.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that the function is being\npassed to copies of those inputs.", | |
| "start": 1232.16, | |
| "duration": 3.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So at this point in time, if you\nopened up the lid of your computer", | |
| "start": 1235.88, | |
| "duration": 3.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and looked inside digitally,\nyou would see 1 and 2 down here.", | |
| "start": 1238.89, | |
| "duration": 3.302 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And you would see\nanother pattern of bits", | |
| "start": 1242.192, | |
| "duration": 1.708 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "representing 1 and 2\nup here in duplicate.", | |
| "start": 1243.9, | |
| "duration": 2.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So now when my swap\nfunction operates, it", | |
| "start": 1246.77, | |
| "duration": 2.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "declares a temporary\nvariable recall, called temp.", | |
| "start": 1249.75, | |
| "duration": 2.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let me draw that here.", | |
| "start": 1252.44, | |
| "duration": 2.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And as I recall, it stores\nin temp, which value?", | |
| "start": 1255.06, | |
| "duration": 3.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The value of a.", | |
| "start": 1259.03, | |
| "duration": 1.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The value of a is 1.", | |
| "start": 1260.55, | |
| "duration": 2.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It then took the value of b, put it\nin a-- which puts that value here.", | |
| "start": 1262.66, | |
| "duration": 7.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And now at this point in the\nstory, a and b are incorrect.", | |
| "start": 1270.13, | |
| "duration": 3.15 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We still need to put the value 1 in b.", | |
| "start": 1273.28, | |
| "duration": 2.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that's why we then took\ntemps value, put it in b.", | |
| "start": 1275.73, | |
| "duration": 3.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Thereby giving the me ultimately\nthe number 1 in b's slot as well.", | |
| "start": 1279.66, | |
| "duration": 7.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so, at this point in the\nstory, temp still exists.", | |
| "start": 1286.74, | |
| "duration": 3.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And a and b have the correct\nanswers, 2 and 1 respectively.", | |
| "start": 1289.84, | |
| "duration": 3.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But the catch is the moment\nthat swap returns, this happens.", | |
| "start": 1293.63, | |
| "duration": 6.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Essentially, everything that was\nbeing used above main disappears.", | |
| "start": 1300.5, | |
| "duration": 4.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's not actually deleted.", | |
| "start": 1304.86, | |
| "duration": 1.099 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "All of those bits are still\nthere, so technically the numbers", | |
| "start": 1305.959, | |
| "duration": 2.541 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "are still there.", | |
| "start": 1308.5, | |
| "duration": 0.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But the computer just\nforgets about those values.", | |
| "start": 1309.17, | |
| "duration": 2.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, the key\ntakeaway here is that when", | |
| "start": 1311.37, | |
| "duration": 3.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "execution returns to main-- that\nis when swap says, return I'm done.", | |
| "start": 1314.71, | |
| "duration": 3.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And main takes over operation again,\n1 and 2 are completely unchanged.", | |
| "start": 1318.67, | |
| "duration": 5.017 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So all of the word that\nwe just did up there", | |
| "start": 1323.687, | |
| "duration": 1.833 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "was a complete waste\nof time in some sense.", | |
| "start": 1325.52, | |
| "duration": 2.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because even though it was correct\nin so far as it swapped a and b,", | |
| "start": 1327.52, | |
| "duration": 3.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "it did not actually have a\npermanent impact on the variables", | |
| "start": 1330.75, | |
| "duration": 3.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that I actually cared about.", | |
| "start": 1334.53, | |
| "duration": 1.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's consider another example now.", | |
| "start": 1336.2, | |
| "duration": 2.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Recall my previous example where when I\nwhipped up some code to compare values,", | |
| "start": 1338.26, | |
| "duration": 4.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I called get string once and\nstored its return value in s.", | |
| "start": 1343.05, | |
| "duration": 3.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I called get string twice and\nstored its return value in t.", | |
| "start": 1346.14, | |
| "duration": 3.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, I just tried\nto compare s and t.", | |
| "start": 1349.8, | |
| "duration": 2.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, what does that actually mean?", | |
| "start": 1352.72, | |
| "duration": 2.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It turns out that when\nyou call get string,", | |
| "start": 1354.83, | |
| "duration": 3.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "it's not technically\nreturning a string to per say.", | |
| "start": 1357.94, | |
| "duration": 3.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's not technically returning\nto you a sequence of characters.", | |
| "start": 1361.24, | |
| "duration": 3.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's actually returning\nsomething much simpler.", | |
| "start": 1365.05, | |
| "duration": 3.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "When I call get string and do this--\nstring s gets get underscore string,", | |
| "start": 1368.41, | |
| "duration": 11.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "all that's happening is this.", | |
| "start": 1380.17, | |
| "duration": 2.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The left hand side of this expression\nis telling the computer, hey, computer.", | |
| "start": 1382.86, | |
| "duration": 3.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I need a variable called s that's big\nenough to fit a string so to speak.", | |
| "start": 1386.28, | |
| "duration": 5.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "On the right hand side, get string\nindeed gets a string from the user,", | |
| "start": 1391.79, | |
| "duration": 3.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "like D-A-V-I-D or Z-A-M-Y-L-A.", | |
| "start": 1394.88, | |
| "duration": 3.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But where does that string come from?", | |
| "start": 1398.38, | |
| "duration": 1.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It turns out it comes from\nsomewhere else in memory.", | |
| "start": 1400.18, | |
| "duration": 2.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And suppose that the user has indeed\ntyped in Z-A-M-Y-L-A quote unquote", | |
| "start": 1402.97, | |
| "duration": 6.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "so to speak.", | |
| "start": 1409.09, | |
| "duration": 0.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That's just kind of floating\nsomewhere in my computer's memory.", | |
| "start": 1409.76, | |
| "duration": 2.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if this string happens to\nexist at address number 123,", | |
| "start": 1412.64, | |
| "duration": 5.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "byte number 123 in my computer's memory.", | |
| "start": 1418.3, | |
| "duration": 3.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What's actually going to get\nreturned is the value 123.", | |
| "start": 1421.6, | |
| "duration": 6.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In other words, a string is\ntechnically just the address", | |
| "start": 1427.98, | |
| "duration": 4.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of a character in memory.", | |
| "start": 1432.44, | |
| "duration": 1.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In fact, if we zoom\nin further on Zamyla,", | |
| "start": 1434.36, | |
| "duration": 2.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "recall that Zamyla's name really\nlooks like this underneath the hood.", | |
| "start": 1436.68, | |
| "duration": 4.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's an array, a block of\ncontiguous memory with a backslash 0", | |
| "start": 1441.56, | |
| "duration": 4.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "at the very end.", | |
| "start": 1446.24, | |
| "duration": 1.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if this first byte just\nhappens to be the number 123,", | |
| "start": 1447.35, | |
| "duration": 4.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the second byte is going to be 124.", | |
| "start": 1451.4, | |
| "duration": 2.28 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The third byte it's going to be 125.", | |
| "start": 1453.68, | |
| "duration": 2.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so forth.", | |
| "start": 1456.07, | |
| "duration": 0.647 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In other words, if my\ncomputer has a billion bytes", | |
| "start": 1456.717, | |
| "duration": 2.083 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of memory, 2 billion bytes of memory--\nlike a gigabyte or two gigabytes,", | |
| "start": 1458.8, | |
| "duration": 3.949 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you can certainly number each\nof those bytes and the computer", | |
| "start": 1462.749, | |
| "duration": 2.541 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "does underneath the hood.", | |
| "start": 1465.29, | |
| "duration": 1.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so Z-A-M-Y-L-A backslash 0 is simply\na sequence of 7 characters that live", | |
| "start": 1466.67, | |
| "duration": 8.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "somewhere physically in memory.", | |
| "start": 1475.34, | |
| "duration": 2.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And what a string technically is,\nis just kind of a breadcrumb--", | |
| "start": 1477.42, | |
| "duration": 5.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "specifically the address of, the number\nof the first byte of Zamyla's name.", | |
| "start": 1483.39, | |
| "duration": 5.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So when you return a string, you're not\nhanding back Z-A-M-Y-L-A backslash 0,", | |
| "start": 1488.96, | |
| "duration": 5.349 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you're handing back\nsomething much smaller.", | |
| "start": 1494.309, | |
| "duration": 1.791 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A little scrap of paper, if you\nwill, that's a map to Zamyla's name", | |
| "start": 1496.1, | |
| "duration": 4.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "somewhere in your computer's memory.", | |
| "start": 1500.41, | |
| "duration": 3.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so over here, this number 123 is\ngenerally called, not just a number,", | |
| "start": 1503.42, | |
| "duration": 5.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but an address.", | |
| "start": 1508.51, | |
| "duration": 1.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Much like post boxes and houses have\naddresses physically that uniquely", | |
| "start": 1509.91, | |
| "duration": 4.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "identify them, 123 uniquely\nidentifies that byte in memory.", | |
| "start": 1514.83, | |
| "duration": 3.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so via this address,\nthis map if you will,", | |
| "start": 1518.49, | |
| "duration": 2.905 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "can my program later on find Zamyla's\nname and do something with it.", | |
| "start": 1521.395, | |
| "duration": 5.095 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Like printed out, or capitalize it,\nor compare it, or anything else.", | |
| "start": 1526.49, | |
| "duration": 4.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so, how though\ndoes the computer know", | |
| "start": 1530.72, | |
| "duration": 3.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "where Zamyla's name begins and ends?", | |
| "start": 1533.86, | |
| "duration": 2.43 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, it begins at 123.", | |
| "start": 1536.29, | |
| "duration": 2.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And again, recall from two weeks\nago, it ends with backslash 0.", | |
| "start": 1539.08, | |
| "duration": 5.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So with those two markers,\nwhere does it begin?", | |
| "start": 1544.15, | |
| "duration": 2.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Where does it end?", | |
| "start": 1546.66, | |
| "duration": 0.82 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Can you infer the\nentirety of someone's name", | |
| "start": 1547.48, | |
| "duration": 2.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or the entirety of a string in between?", | |
| "start": 1550.15, | |
| "duration": 1.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, consider my second line of code.", | |
| "start": 1551.98, | |
| "duration": 2.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "String t gets get string.", | |
| "start": 1554.09, | |
| "duration": 3.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So what does this mean?", | |
| "start": 1558.07, | |
| "duration": 1.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This is another function call.", | |
| "start": 1559.87, | |
| "duration": 1.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And suppose that I just happen to type\nin Z-A-M-Y-L-A enter, just like before.", | |
| "start": 1561.72, | |
| "duration": 5.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What's happening there is that the\ncomputer, blind to the fact that,", | |
| "start": 1567.26, | |
| "duration": 4.13 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that might already exist\nsomewhere in memory,", | |
| "start": 1571.39, | |
| "duration": 2.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is going to give me another chunk of\nmemory somewhere with Z-A-M-Y-L-A.", | |
| "start": 1573.65, | |
| "duration": 6.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, backslash 0.", | |
| "start": 1580.3, | |
| "duration": 2.02 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Whereby, this is effectively\nan array of its own.", | |
| "start": 1582.32, | |
| "duration": 2.972 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I don't know where it is.", | |
| "start": 1585.292, | |
| "duration": 1.208 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Maybe it's at address number\n234, followed by 235 dot dot dot.", | |
| "start": 1586.5, | |
| "duration": 6.28 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's somewhere else in memory.", | |
| "start": 1592.78, | |
| "duration": 1.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I don't know or need to\neven care where it is.", | |
| "start": 1594.03, | |
| "duration": 2.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But the key detail here is that t in\nso far is it is a variable itself.", | |
| "start": 1596.29, | |
| "duration": 7.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It gets what value?", | |
| "start": 1603.8, | |
| "duration": 2.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, if the string's Zamyla,\nthe second time I type it in it", | |
| "start": 1606.44, | |
| "duration": 2.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "just happens to end up at location 234.", | |
| "start": 1609.11, | |
| "duration": 2.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What ends up in t is\nsimply the number 234.", | |
| "start": 1611.99, | |
| "duration": 5.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So if we change back to my code where\nI was comparing s and t, as I am here.", | |
| "start": 1617.43, | |
| "duration": 6.901 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I've called get string\nonce, stored the value in s.", | |
| "start": 1624.331, | |
| "duration": 2.124 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Called get string twice\nstored the value in t.", | |
| "start": 1626.455, | |
| "duration": 1.916 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, I'm quite simply saying,\nif s equals equals t, then say same.", | |
| "start": 1628.371, | |
| "duration": 4.524 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Else, say different.", | |
| "start": 1632.895, | |
| "duration": 2.315 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, when you consider what is really\ngoing on underneath the hood all", | |
| "start": 1635.21, | |
| "duration": 4.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "these weeks, certainly 123\nis not the same as 234.", | |
| "start": 1640.12, | |
| "duration": 5.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so, s does not equal t.", | |
| "start": 1645.51, | |
| "duration": 4.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Capitalization meanwhile.", | |
| "start": 1650.41, | |
| "duration": 1.419 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What happens with that other program?", | |
| "start": 1651.829, | |
| "duration": 1.541 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, we'll do this one more quickly.", | |
| "start": 1653.37, | |
| "duration": 2.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But if I for instance,\ncall string s gets get", | |
| "start": 1655.44, | |
| "duration": 6.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "underscore string open\nparen close paren.", | |
| "start": 1662.32, | |
| "duration": 4.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That again, is going to\ngive me something like this.", | |
| "start": 1666.39, | |
| "duration": 2.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it's going to give me something\nlike Z-A-M-Y-L-A backslash 0,", | |
| "start": 1668.65, | |
| "duration": 7.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "all of which I can think of, as before,\nlike an array-- if sloppily drawn.", | |
| "start": 1675.96, | |
| "duration": 5.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Maybe starting again at address 123.", | |
| "start": 1681.61, | |
| "duration": 2.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so that's what ends up in s.", | |
| "start": 1683.97, | |
| "duration": 2.085 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But in my copy 0 program,\nrecall that I did this.", | |
| "start": 1686.055, | |
| "duration": 3.315 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "String t gets s.", | |
| "start": 1689.37, | |
| "duration": 4.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I didn't call get string again.", | |
| "start": 1693.98, | |
| "duration": 1.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I just said, store s inside of t.", | |
| "start": 1695.63, | |
| "duration": 3.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Effectively, I thought,\nmaking a copy of it.", | |
| "start": 1698.71, | |
| "duration": 2.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What this left-hand side gives\nme is another box called t.", | |
| "start": 1701.7, | |
| "duration": 3.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If this is s, this is t.", | |
| "start": 1704.81, | |
| "duration": 2.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But what goes inside of this new box t?", | |
| "start": 1707.55, | |
| "duration": 3.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, what goes inside\nis literally a copy of s.", | |
| "start": 1710.87, | |
| "duration": 2.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What is s? s is 123.", | |
| "start": 1713.21, | |
| "duration": 1.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "OK. t then, is 123, which\nmeans later in my copy program,", | |
| "start": 1715.15, | |
| "duration": 6.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "when I simply decided to\ncapitalize t bracket 0,", | |
| "start": 1721.7, | |
| "duration": 6.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the first character in\nmy string t-- that's", | |
| "start": 1727.78, | |
| "duration": 3.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "kind of misleading, because my\nstring t is really just my string s.", | |
| "start": 1731.43, | |
| "duration": 4.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "They're sort of synonyms for\none another at this point,", | |
| "start": 1736.08, | |
| "duration": 2.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "because one indeed equals the other.", | |
| "start": 1738.44, | |
| "duration": 2.02 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so what has happened is that I\nhave gone to the first character in t,", | |
| "start": 1740.46, | |
| "duration": 5.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "which of course is z.", | |
| "start": 1746.36, | |
| "duration": 1.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And recall from my example earlier when\nI typed it in all lowercase, David,", | |
| "start": 1747.73, | |
| "duration": 3.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "for instance, with a lowercase d, it\ncapitalized it not only in t, but also", | |
| "start": 1751.25, | |
| "duration": 5.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in s.", | |
| "start": 1756.56, | |
| "duration": 0.786 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In other words-- and frankly, it\ndoesn't really matter, typically,", | |
| "start": 1757.346, | |
| "duration": 4.184 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "what these addresses are.", | |
| "start": 1761.53, | |
| "duration": 1.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'm just using 123 and 234 because\nthey're sort of easy to say.", | |
| "start": 1762.77, | |
| "duration": 3.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But you can really think of\ns as again, being a map that", | |
| "start": 1766.75, | |
| "duration": 3.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "leads you to the string you care about.", | |
| "start": 1770.04, | |
| "duration": 2.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A pointer, if you will.", | |
| "start": 1772.66, | |
| "duration": 1.15 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Literally an arrow.", | |
| "start": 1773.81, | |
| "duration": 0.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And t, similarly, can be\nthought of as a pointer.", | |
| "start": 1774.77, | |
| "duration": 3.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And the key detail here is that\nbecause I've set s equal to t-- or t", | |
| "start": 1777.94, | |
| "duration": 6.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "equal to s-- they are effectively\npointing at the same thing.", | |
| "start": 1784.44, | |
| "duration": 5.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So strings are a lie.", | |
| "start": 1790.32, | |
| "duration": 1.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "There is no such thing\nas a string data type.", | |
| "start": 1791.65, | |
| "duration": 2.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "There are things called\nchars, characters", | |
| "start": 1793.74, | |
| "duration": 2.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that can live somewhere in memory.", | |
| "start": 1796.14, | |
| "duration": 1.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we humans can\narbitrarily decide that hey,", | |
| "start": 1797.59, | |
| "duration": 2.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "if we put a backslash 0 character at the\nend of a sequence of other characters,", | |
| "start": 1800.25, | |
| "duration": 4.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we can all just agree universally\nto treat that as the end of a quote", | |
| "start": 1804.99, | |
| "duration": 4.03 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "unquote \"string,\" that\nis a word or a phrase", | |
| "start": 1809.02, | |
| "duration": 2.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or paragraph or anything even bigger.", | |
| "start": 1811.29, | |
| "duration": 2.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But we need a convention for\nremembering where strings begin.", | |
| "start": 1813.59, | |
| "duration": 3.696 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We've already solved the\nwhere do they end problem.", | |
| "start": 1817.286, | |
| "duration": 2.124 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So where does the string begin?", | |
| "start": 1819.41, | |
| "duration": 1.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It begins at an address.", | |
| "start": 1820.73, | |
| "duration": 1.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It begins with a pointer.", | |
| "start": 1822.56, | |
| "duration": 2.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so this special data type\nthat we declare in CS50's library", | |
| "start": 1824.77, | |
| "duration": 2.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "called string really is just\nin CS50 IDE an 8-byte value,", | |
| "start": 1827.71, | |
| "duration": 5.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a 64-bit value that is just a\nreally big number that represents", | |
| "start": 1832.94, | |
| "duration": 5.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the address in memory of a string.", | |
| "start": 1838.45, | |
| "duration": 1.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I say really big just\nbecause the IDE gives you access", | |
| "start": 1840.19, | |
| "duration": 2.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to lots of memory, certainly\nnumbers bigger than 123.", | |
| "start": 1842.88, | |
| "duration": 3.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But a string is just a number, is\njust an address, AKA a pointer.", | |
| "start": 1846.02, | |
| "duration": 6.43 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that explains, then, why\nall three of these examples", | |
| "start": 1852.45, | |
| "duration": 3.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "did not behave as I might\nhave hoped, because rather", | |
| "start": 1855.52, | |
| "duration": 3.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "they were taking things\na little too literally.", | |
| "start": 1858.9, | |
| "duration": 3.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Or I was failing to appreciate\nwhat's actually going on.", | |
| "start": 1862.79, | |
| "duration": 3.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's pause for a moment,\ntake things down a notch.", | |
| "start": 1866.41, | |
| "duration": 2.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Make things a little more\nreal with a bit of claymation", | |
| "start": 1868.9, | |
| "duration": 2.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that will motivate, eventually,\npeeling back this layer further", | |
| "start": 1871.39, | |
| "duration": 3.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and seeing what's really going on.", | |
| "start": 1874.46, | |
| "duration": 3.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "[STRUMMED CHORD]", | |
| "start": 1877.67, | |
| "duration": 1.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "NICK PARLANTE: Hey, Binky.", | |
| "start": 1879.437, | |
| "duration": 1.083 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Wake up.", | |
| "start": 1880.52, | |
| "duration": 0.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's time for pointer fun.", | |
| "start": 1881.26, | |
| "duration": 2.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "BINKY: What's that?", | |
| "start": 1883.77, | |
| "duration": 1.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Learn about pointers?", | |
| "start": 1884.98, | |
| "duration": 1.748 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Oh, goodie!", | |
| "start": 1886.728, | |
| "duration": 2.789 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "DAVID J. MALAN: Binky, who exist\nhere only in claymation form,", | |
| "start": 1889.517, | |
| "duration": 2.583 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is the product of a good friend of\nours, Nick Parlante at Stanford,", | |
| "start": 1892.1, | |
| "duration": 3.372 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "who teaches computer science there.", | |
| "start": 1895.472, | |
| "duration": 1.458 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "You'll see more of Binky and hear\nmore of Nick in just a moment.", | |
| "start": 1896.93, | |
| "duration": 3.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But these here are\nsort of metaphorically", | |
| "start": 1900.55, | |
| "duration": 2.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the training wheels that we've\nhad on for the past few weeks.", | |
| "start": 1902.94, | |
| "duration": 2.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And the goal now at hand\nis to take these off,", | |
| "start": 1905.5, | |
| "duration": 2.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and to finally start looking at what's\nreally going on underneath the hood.", | |
| "start": 1907.87, | |
| "duration": 4.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And starting to remove,\nif you will, let's", | |
| "start": 1912.67, | |
| "duration": 2.426 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "see if-- [BANG] --probably\nnot the best idea.", | |
| "start": 1915.096, | |
| "duration": 4.564 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Remove, if you will,\nthese training wheels,", | |
| "start": 1919.66, | |
| "duration": 2.02 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and actually see what's\ngoing on, and understand", | |
| "start": 1921.68, | |
| "duration": 2.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and take advantage of the same.", | |
| "start": 1924.55, | |
| "duration": 1.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "As follows.", | |
| "start": 1926.12, | |
| "duration": 0.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's go ahead now into CS50\nIDE, and go ahead and open up,", | |
| "start": 1926.9, | |
| "duration": 4.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "let's say, compare1.c, which I\nwrote in advance to look as follows.", | |
| "start": 1931.08, | |
| "duration": 6.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And you'll notice that it works a\nlittle differently from version zero.", | |
| "start": 1937.49, | |
| "duration": 3.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Here we have a prompt for string s.", | |
| "start": 1940.53, | |
| "duration": 2.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we store in it the\nreturn value of get string.", | |
| "start": 1942.79, | |
| "duration": 3.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But notice what's on the left-hand side.", | |
| "start": 1946.59, | |
| "duration": 3.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Char star s, all of a sudden.", | |
| "start": 1950.23, | |
| "duration": 2.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Indeed, all of this time,\nI've been treating things", | |
| "start": 1952.81, | |
| "duration": 2.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as though they are strings, literally.", | |
| "start": 1954.99, | |
| "duration": 3.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But it turns out a\nstring is just a synonym", | |
| "start": 1958.53, | |
| "duration": 5.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "for a data type known as a char star.", | |
| "start": 1963.64, | |
| "duration": 2.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And the new syntax today,\nthen, is this star operator.", | |
| "start": 1966.18, | |
| "duration": 2.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The asterisk that actually has special\nmeaning in certain contexts, not just", | |
| "start": 1968.69, | |
| "duration": 3.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "multiplication.", | |
| "start": 1972.47, | |
| "duration": 0.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But in this case, it specifies\nthat the type of a variable", | |
| "start": 1973.41, | |
| "duration": 3.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is not a char literally,\nbut a char star, the address", | |
| "start": 1977.15, | |
| "duration": 3.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of a char, a pointer to a char.", | |
| "start": 1980.94, | |
| "duration": 3.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, why char?", | |
| "start": 1984.24, | |
| "duration": 0.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I thought we were talking about strings.", | |
| "start": 1984.94, | |
| "duration": 1.666 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But again, recall that a string\nis just a sequence of characters", | |
| "start": 1986.606, | |
| "duration": 3.174 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "back to back to back, and\ntherefore, you can define a string", | |
| "start": 1989.78, | |
| "duration": 4.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "by the address of its first character.", | |
| "start": 1994.29, | |
| "duration": 2.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Ergo, what we really\nneed underneath the hood", | |
| "start": 1997.09, | |
| "duration": 2.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is a data type that lets us\nstore the address of a character.", | |
| "start": 1999.4, | |
| "duration": 5.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "There is no string.", | |
| "start": 2004.69, | |
| "duration": 1.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so what does this allow us to do?", | |
| "start": 2006.37, | |
| "duration": 1.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go into CS50 IDE, and let\nme declare then, on this line", | |
| "start": 2008.29, | |
| "duration": 4.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "here, that s, this time, will\nnot be a \"string\" quote unquote.", | |
| "start": 2012.3, | |
| "duration": 4.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That was from the CS50 library.", | |
| "start": 2017.28, | |
| "duration": 1.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But rather it's going to be a char star.", | |
| "start": 2018.94, | |
| "duration": 3.022 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It turns out that all this time\nget string, again, does not", | |
| "start": 2021.962, | |
| "duration": 2.458 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "return a string, it returns\nthe address of a string, AKA", | |
| "start": 2024.42, | |
| "duration": 4.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the address of the first\ncharacter in a string.", | |
| "start": 2028.75, | |
| "duration": 3.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so the type of value it's\nreturning is not just a number.", | |
| "start": 2032.4, | |
| "duration": 3.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's not just an int.", | |
| "start": 2036.23, | |
| "duration": 0.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's a special type of an int.", | |
| "start": 2037.19, | |
| "duration": 2.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's used for a different purpose.", | |
| "start": 2039.28, | |
| "duration": 1.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's simply an integer that\nrepresents the address of a char.", | |
| "start": 2040.79, | |
| "duration": 3.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And the way you type out address\nof a char is literally char star.", | |
| "start": 2044.66, | |
| "duration": 4.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this, then, is identical to my\npreviously in weeks past having typed", | |
| "start": 2049.4, | |
| "duration": 5.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "string s.", | |
| "start": 2054.67, | |
| "duration": 1.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now I'm going to start\ntyping it as char star.", | |
| "start": 2055.75, | |
| "duration": 2.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Meanwhile, t is going to be the same.", | |
| "start": 2058.51, | |
| "duration": 1.709 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So when I prompt the user\nfor another string there,", | |
| "start": 2060.219, | |
| "duration": 2.125 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'm going to store that\nreturn value inside of t.", | |
| "start": 2062.344, | |
| "duration": 3.006 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And now, notice, just for\ngood measure, I'm making sure", | |
| "start": 2065.35, | |
| "duration": 2.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that both s and t are not null.", | |
| "start": 2068.12, | |
| "duration": 2.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'm using a bit of conditional\nlogic there, saying if s is not null", | |
| "start": 2070.83, | |
| "duration": 3.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and t is not null, it's safe to proceed.", | |
| "start": 2073.87, | |
| "duration": 2.099 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because recall that get string can\naccidentally return null sometimes", | |
| "start": 2075.969, | |
| "duration": 3.595 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "if your computer is out of memory,\nor something else goes wrong.", | |
| "start": 2079.564, | |
| "duration": 2.666 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Or not so much\naccidentally, but by design.", | |
| "start": 2082.23, | |
| "duration": 3.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But notice this new chunk of code.", | |
| "start": 2085.4, | |
| "duration": 2.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It turns out-- and we\nknow now from a moment", | |
| "start": 2088.25, | |
| "duration": 2.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "ago-- you can't just\ncompare s against t.", | |
| "start": 2091.05, | |
| "duration": 1.822 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "They're not going to\nequal the same thing", | |
| "start": 2092.872, | |
| "duration": 1.708 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "if you type in two independent strings.", | |
| "start": 2094.58, | |
| "duration": 2.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We need a special function that actually\ncompares strings in a conceptual way.", | |
| "start": 2096.92, | |
| "duration": 5.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I mean that a string is equal to another\nstring if every one of its characters", | |
| "start": 2102.25, | |
| "duration": 5.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "equals every one of the\nother string's characters.", | |
| "start": 2108.08, | |
| "duration": 2.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Thankfully, there exists in C a function\nthat does exactly that called strcomp,", | |
| "start": 2110.91, | |
| "duration": 4.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "string compare, and it\ntakes two arguments.", | |
| "start": 2115.58, | |
| "duration": 3.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The first is a string.", | |
| "start": 2118.67, | |
| "duration": 1.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The second is a string.", | |
| "start": 2119.81, | |
| "duration": 1.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Or more properly, the first\nis the address of a string.", | |
| "start": 2120.82, | |
| "duration": 2.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Or even more properly, the first\nis the address of a character.", | |
| "start": 2123.4, | |
| "duration": 4.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The second is the\naddress of a character.", | |
| "start": 2127.7, | |
| "duration": 2.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And str compare is just going to\nhope that both of those strings", | |
| "start": 2129.95, | |
| "duration": 4.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "eventually end in a\nbackslash zero, so that they", | |
| "start": 2134.87, | |
| "duration": 4.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "don't loop forever through memory.", | |
| "start": 2138.88, | |
| "duration": 1.6 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "They eventually hit that\nspecial null terminating byte.", | |
| "start": 2140.48, | |
| "duration": 2.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if so, and those characters are\nall entirely equal, you print same.", | |
| "start": 2143.33, | |
| "duration": 4.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Else, as before, we print out different.", | |
| "start": 2147.56, | |
| "duration": 4.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So now, when I compile this\nprogram, make compare 1,", | |
| "start": 2151.8, | |
| "duration": 3.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and then I do ./compare1.", | |
| "start": 2155.44, | |
| "duration": 4.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now I'll type in david in all\nlowercase, david in all lowercase.", | |
| "start": 2160.17, | |
| "duration": 3.951 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "They're indeed the same.", | |
| "start": 2164.121, | |
| "duration": 0.999 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's do it again.", | |
| "start": 2165.12, | |
| "duration": 0.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Zamyla with a capital Z. Zamyla with a\ncapital Z. There are indeed the same.", | |
| "start": 2166.06, | |
| "duration": 4.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's do Zamyla with a capital\nZ. zamyla with a lowercase z.", | |
| "start": 2170.99, | |
| "duration": 3.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Different.", | |
| "start": 2174.96, | |
| "duration": 1.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then FUBAR, clearly different.", | |
| "start": 2176.05, | |
| "duration": 2.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now we're actually comparing\nthese things properly.", | |
| "start": 2179.0, | |
| "duration": 2.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because now we're appreciating what\nit actually means to be a string,", | |
| "start": 2181.7, | |
| "duration": 3.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and we are underneath the hood\ncomparing what we should be doing.", | |
| "start": 2185.46, | |
| "duration": 3.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, underneath the hood,\nwhat is str compare doing?", | |
| "start": 2189.15, | |
| "duration": 2.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Honestly, it's probably just\na while loop or a for loop", | |
| "start": 2191.36, | |
| "duration": 2.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that is iterating over the\nstring and their lengths", | |
| "start": 2194.07, | |
| "duration": 2.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and looking at the i-th\ncharacter in each string,", | |
| "start": 2196.74, | |
| "duration": 3.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and making sure they're\nall in fact equal.", | |
| "start": 2199.79, | |
| "duration": 2.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's go ahead and fix\ncopy with version 1 here.", | |
| "start": 2202.28, | |
| "duration": 2.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Copy 1.c that I've written in\nadvance now looks like this.", | |
| "start": 2204.86, | |
| "duration": 4.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I still prompt the user for a\nstring s with these lines here.", | |
| "start": 2208.92, | |
| "duration": 4.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I then, just to be safe, say\nhey, wait a minute, if s equals", | |
| "start": 2213.65, | |
| "duration": 3.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "equals null, return 1.", | |
| "start": 2216.65, | |
| "duration": 1.179 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And again, 1 is just arbitrary.", | |
| "start": 2217.829, | |
| "duration": 1.291 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I just want to get out, lest\nI break something later.", | |
| "start": 2219.12, | |
| "duration": 3.59 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, down here, this\nis a new line of code.", | |
| "start": 2222.71, | |
| "duration": 2.227 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And this is perhaps one of\nthe most powerful ingredients", | |
| "start": 2224.937, | |
| "duration": 2.333 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we'll see this week, is this\nnew function called malloc,", | |
| "start": 2227.27, | |
| "duration": 3.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "memory allocate.", | |
| "start": 2230.82, | |
| "duration": 1.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This is a special function via which\nyou can ask the operating system, Linux", | |
| "start": 2232.46, | |
| "duration": 5.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in the case here, or Mac OS, or Windows,\nif you're running the code locally,", | |
| "start": 2237.51, | |
| "duration": 3.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "hey operating system, please give\nme a bunch of bytes of memory.", | |
| "start": 2240.91, | |
| "duration": 5.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, why do I want this?", | |
| "start": 2246.13, | |
| "duration": 1.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This program is copy 1.c.", | |
| "start": 2247.3, | |
| "duration": 1.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The goal at hand is to create a\nprogram that copies a string s", | |
| "start": 2248.94, | |
| "duration": 4.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and stores the copy in t, so to speak.", | |
| "start": 2253.18, | |
| "duration": 2.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Last time, it was not sufficient\njust to say t equals s,", | |
| "start": 2255.65, | |
| "duration": 3.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "because that copied the addresses.", | |
| "start": 2258.71, | |
| "duration": 1.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That didn't give me a copy of\nZ-A-M-Y-- Z-A-M-Y-L-A backlash 0.", | |
| "start": 2260.58, | |
| "duration": 7.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It instead just gave me\na copy of the address.", | |
| "start": 2267.89, | |
| "duration": 2.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So how do I get a complete\ncopy of Zamyla's name?", | |
| "start": 2270.16, | |
| "duration": 4.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I need to preemptively do\na little bit of arithmetic", | |
| "start": 2274.34, | |
| "duration": 2.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and say, all right, how\nlong is Zamyla's name?", | |
| "start": 2276.97, | |
| "duration": 2.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, it's the length\nof s, str len of s.", | |
| "start": 2279.02, | |
| "duration": 4.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But plus one.", | |
| "start": 2283.08, | |
| "duration": 1.223 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Why plus one?", | |
| "start": 2284.303, | |
| "duration": 2.878 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Why plus one?", | |
| "start": 2287.181, | |
| "duration": 1.409 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Yeah?", | |
| "start": 2288.59, | |
| "duration": 2.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Exactly.", | |
| "start": 2290.64, | |
| "duration": 0.59 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We now were hit the lowest\nlevel of the computer.", | |
| "start": 2291.23, | |
| "duration": 2.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If we don't ask the operating system for\nmemory for that extra backslash 0 byte,", | |
| "start": 2294.14, | |
| "duration": 5.047 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we're not going to get it.", | |
| "start": 2299.187, | |
| "duration": 1.083 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So we have to explicitly\nsay, give me one more byte,", | |
| "start": 2300.27, | |
| "duration": 2.266 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "because I know how strings are\nimplemented underneath the hood.", | |
| "start": 2302.536, | |
| "duration": 2.624 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I need to put that backslash\nzero there, ultimately,", | |
| "start": 2305.16, | |
| "duration": 2.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and then whatever that expression is,\nthe length of Zamyla, so Z-A-M-Y-L-A,", | |
| "start": 2307.46, | |
| "duration": 4.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "six, plus one, seven bytes.", | |
| "start": 2311.91, | |
| "duration": 2.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Times the size of a character.", | |
| "start": 2314.86, | |
| "duration": 1.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Turns out it's always going\nto be one, by definition.", | |
| "start": 2316.76, | |
| "duration": 2.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But just for good measure, I'm\nclearly saying, give me seven times", | |
| "start": 2319.02, | |
| "duration": 3.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the size of a char,\nwhich is going to be one.", | |
| "start": 2322.51, | |
| "duration": 2.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That gives me seven total bytes.", | |
| "start": 2324.88, | |
| "duration": 1.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So just to simplify.", | |
| "start": 2326.84, | |
| "duration": 1.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If you multiply all this out,\nbecause the line looks unnecessarily", | |
| "start": 2328.25, | |
| "duration": 2.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "cryptic at the moment, this really\nis equivalent, at the moment,", | |
| "start": 2331.06, | |
| "duration": 6.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to just this.", | |
| "start": 2337.36, | |
| "duration": 1.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Call the function malloc.", | |
| "start": 2338.54, | |
| "duration": 1.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Give it the number seven, so that\nmalloc, and in turn, the operating", | |
| "start": 2339.99, | |
| "duration": 3.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "system, looks inside of its memory\nbank, so to speak, and says,", | |
| "start": 2343.65, | |
| "duration": 2.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "hmm, where are there are seven available\nbytes that aren't currently in use?", | |
| "start": 2346.35, | |
| "duration": 3.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Ah, here is a chunk of them.", | |
| "start": 2349.93, | |
| "duration": 1.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it's a contiguous chunk.", | |
| "start": 2351.66, | |
| "duration": 1.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's going to find a block of memory,\na rectangular region, if you will,", | |
| "start": 2353.03, | |
| "duration": 3.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and grab seven bytes, and\nreturn them to my main function.", | |
| "start": 2356.47, | |
| "duration": 6.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But what do I mean to\nreturn a chunk of memory?", | |
| "start": 2363.11, | |
| "duration": 2.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, just as get\nstring returns a string", | |
| "start": 2365.45, | |
| "duration": 3.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "by returning the address of the\nfirst character in that string,", | |
| "start": 2369.37, | |
| "duration": 3.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "so does malloc equivalently\nsimply return the address", | |
| "start": 2373.32, | |
| "duration": 3.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of the first byte of memory.", | |
| "start": 2377.22, | |
| "duration": 3.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But the danger now is\nthat unlike a string,", | |
| "start": 2380.92, | |
| "duration": 3.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "malloc is not giving you characters.", | |
| "start": 2383.99, | |
| "duration": 1.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's just giving you seven bytes in\na row that you are now free to use.", | |
| "start": 2385.87, | |
| "duration": 3.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It does not give you a backslash\nzero at the end of them.", | |
| "start": 2389.8, | |
| "duration": 3.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If you want to remember the\nlength of the chunk of memory", | |
| "start": 2392.99, | |
| "duration": 3.43 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you just allocated, the burden is\nentirely on you, the programmer.", | |
| "start": 2396.42, | |
| "duration": 3.682 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, one of the most common\nsources of bugs in writing code in C", | |
| "start": 2400.102, | |
| "duration": 2.958 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is to forget about how long\nwas this chunk of memory,", | |
| "start": 2403.06, | |
| "duration": 2.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and to accidentally, with a loop,\ngo too far past the end of it.", | |
| "start": 2405.61, | |
| "duration": 3.376 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we'll see what can\nhappen in those cases.", | |
| "start": 2408.986, | |
| "duration": 1.874 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So now, assuming I do have in t the\naddress of that chunk of memory,", | |
| "start": 2410.86, | |
| "duration": 3.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "let me just say, if t equals\nequals null, return 1.", | |
| "start": 2414.78, | |
| "duration": 3.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Something happened that's bad,\nprobably the operating system just", | |
| "start": 2418.51, | |
| "duration": 3.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "didn't have seven extra\nbytes of memory to give me.", | |
| "start": 2421.72, | |
| "duration": 2.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So fine, I'll quit.", | |
| "start": 2423.99, | |
| "duration": 1.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Then down here, what do I want to do?", | |
| "start": 2425.5, | |
| "duration": 1.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, I now need to implement, at\nleast in this example, my own copying", | |
| "start": 2427.38, | |
| "duration": 4.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "process.", | |
| "start": 2432.36, | |
| "duration": 1.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Here, at this point in the story,\nI have two variables, s and t.", | |
| "start": 2433.82, | |
| "duration": 4.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "s contains the address\nof Zamyla's name. t", | |
| "start": 2437.94, | |
| "duration": 2.975 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "contains the address of a new\nchunk of memory of length seven.", | |
| "start": 2440.915, | |
| "duration": 3.495 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So here's what I want to do.", | |
| "start": 2444.41, | |
| "duration": 1.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Just like a couple of\nweeks ago, I'm going", | |
| "start": 2445.63, | |
| "duration": 1.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to iterate from zero on up\nto the length of the string.", | |
| "start": 2447.55, | |
| "duration": 3.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But not up to, but up through\nthe length of the string.", | |
| "start": 2451.2, | |
| "duration": 2.684 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because in this case, I actually\nwant to iterate with a for loop", | |
| "start": 2453.884, | |
| "duration": 2.666 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "up through that backslash 0 byte.", | |
| "start": 2456.55, | |
| "duration": 3.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then just this syntax\nfrom a couple of weeks ago,", | |
| "start": 2459.88, | |
| "duration": 2.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "when we simply manipulated strings as\nfor our cryptography ciphers, character", | |
| "start": 2462.29, | |
| "duration": 6.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "by character.", | |
| "start": 2468.35, | |
| "duration": 0.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Make the i-th character of t\nequal to the i-th character of s.", | |
| "start": 2469.33, | |
| "duration": 3.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And this is perfectly valid,\nbecause so long as this loop doesn't", | |
| "start": 2473.28, | |
| "duration": 3.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "go past n, the number of characters\nthat I allocated, seven, in this case,", | |
| "start": 2476.6, | |
| "duration": 5.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I can go to t bracket 0, bracket 1,\nbracket 2, all the way up through n,", | |
| "start": 2482.18, | |
| "duration": 5.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "effectively copying the string.", | |
| "start": 2487.82, | |
| "duration": 2.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so now when I actually print out s\nand t, I should see truly a copy of t.", | |
| "start": 2490.48, | |
| "duration": 8.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because even when I\nforce its first character", | |
| "start": 2498.6, | |
| "duration": 2.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to lower case with this same\nline of code here as before,", | |
| "start": 2500.97, | |
| "duration": 3.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'm actually changing different memory.", | |
| "start": 2504.21, | |
| "duration": 2.884 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's compile this.", | |
| "start": 2507.094, | |
| "duration": 0.916 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Make copy 1, ./copy1.", | |
| "start": 2508.01, | |
| "duration": 3.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And let me go ahead and type\nin zamyla in all lowercase,", | |
| "start": 2511.63, | |
| "duration": 3.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and now notice the\nprogram does seem to work.", | |
| "start": 2515.52, | |
| "duration": 2.86 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Zamyla is reprinted in lower\ncase for s, but it's then", | |
| "start": 2518.38, | |
| "duration": 3.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "print in uppercase for\nits first letter for t.", | |
| "start": 2522.05, | |
| "duration": 2.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And because the z's look pretty\nsimilar, let's do my name again,", | |
| "start": 2524.67, | |
| "duration": 2.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "whereby I type david in all lowercase.", | |
| "start": 2527.6, | |
| "duration": 2.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Type Enter.", | |
| "start": 2530.07, | |
| "duration": 0.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And now, you see s is\nstill david all lowercase,", | |
| "start": 2530.71, | |
| "duration": 3.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but t has only now been\ncapitalized itself.", | |
| "start": 2533.85, | |
| "duration": 3.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It hasn't had a side\neffect of some sort on s,", | |
| "start": 2537.21, | |
| "duration": 1.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "because they're different\nchunks of memory.", | |
| "start": 2539.19, | |
| "duration": 2.571 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Why?", | |
| "start": 2541.761, | |
| "duration": 0.499 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, what has just happened\nin this program is this.", | |
| "start": 2542.26, | |
| "duration": 3.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We have, again, done\nstring s gets get string.", | |
| "start": 2545.98, | |
| "duration": 4.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And when we typed get\nstring, this gives me", | |
| "start": 2553.34, | |
| "duration": 5.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a chunk of memory for the address of s.", | |
| "start": 2558.86, | |
| "duration": 2.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Get string gives me a name,\nlike D-A-V-I-D in all lowercase,", | |
| "start": 2561.18, | |
| "duration": 4.84 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "plus that backslash 0.", | |
| "start": 2566.02, | |
| "duration": 1.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Which again, is really just an\narray underneath the hood like this,", | |
| "start": 2567.66, | |
| "duration": 3.6 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that starts at some byte, and maybe\nit's again, by coincidence, 123.", | |
| "start": 2571.26, | |
| "duration": 3.446 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Just because it's easy\nto say, but that's not", | |
| "start": 2574.706, | |
| "duration": 1.874 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "where it's necessarily going to end up.", | |
| "start": 2576.58, | |
| "duration": 1.624 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so what ends up here is 123.", | |
| "start": 2578.204, | |
| "duration": 3.176 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then later, when\nI allocate t, I again", | |
| "start": 2581.38, | |
| "duration": 3.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "get this little chunk of\nmemory that's supposed", | |
| "start": 2585.33, | |
| "duration": 3.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to store the address of a character.", | |
| "start": 2588.41, | |
| "duration": 2.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And actually, recall\nthat we're now doing this", | |
| "start": 2590.82, | |
| "duration": 2.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as char star, not even string.", | |
| "start": 2593.04, | |
| "duration": 3.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So t is similarly a char star.", | |
| "start": 2596.35, | |
| "duration": 2.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And what happens, malloc,\nwhen I ask it for seven bytes,", | |
| "start": 2598.71, | |
| "duration": 3.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "gives me 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,\n6, 7 bytes of memory.", | |
| "start": 2602.28, | |
| "duration": 5.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "There's no null terminating\ncharacter just yet.", | |
| "start": 2607.75, | |
| "duration": 2.02 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's just a block of memory.", | |
| "start": 2609.77, | |
| "duration": 1.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And frankly, there could be\nsome random values here, as", | |
| "start": 2610.96, | |
| "duration": 3.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "denoted with question marks here.", | |
| "start": 2614.38, | |
| "duration": 1.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's just a chunk of memory that\nmight have been used previously", | |
| "start": 2616.17, | |
| "duration": 2.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in my program for some other purpose.", | |
| "start": 2618.85, | |
| "duration": 1.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But what gets stored here, if\nthis happens to be at address 234,", | |
| "start": 2620.51, | |
| "duration": 5.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is this value here, 234.", | |
| "start": 2625.63, | |
| "duration": 2.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if you're not liking\nthe numbers, again, you", | |
| "start": 2628.48, | |
| "duration": 2.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "can think of these as just\nbeing pointers, arrows,", | |
| "start": 2630.66, | |
| "duration": 3.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to these chunks of memory.", | |
| "start": 2634.51, | |
| "duration": 1.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But now, in my C code, when I have\na few lines above this loop whereby", | |
| "start": 2636.25, | |
| "duration": 9.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I am copying from s\nbracket i into t bracket", | |
| "start": 2645.49, | |
| "duration": 3.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "i, each of the characters in my\nloop, what's actually happening?", | |
| "start": 2649.28, | |
| "duration": 5.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, fairly intuitively, this lower\ncase d ends up getting copied here.", | |
| "start": 2654.48, | |
| "duration": 4.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This lower case a ends\nup getting copied here.", | |
| "start": 2659.44, | |
| "duration": 2.692 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "V-I-D, on through.", | |
| "start": 2662.132, | |
| "duration": 3.218 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And David can't count,\nso-- backslash-- oh, right.", | |
| "start": 2665.35, | |
| "duration": 3.467 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "David's name is shorter than Zamyla's\nname, which means we didn't actually", | |
| "start": 2668.817, | |
| "duration": 3.083 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "ask for this many characters over here.", | |
| "start": 2671.9, | |
| "duration": 2.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But we have taken the\ncomputer more literally now.", | |
| "start": 2674.69, | |
| "duration": 2.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Give me six bytes, not\nseven bytes, in this case.", | |
| "start": 2677.18, | |
| "duration": 2.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then literally copy each of the\ncharacters from the original string", | |
| "start": 2679.71, | |
| "duration": 3.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "into this new string all the way up\nthrough that backslash 0 character.", | |
| "start": 2683.65, | |
| "duration": 5.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then when you capitalize\nthe first character in t,", | |
| "start": 2688.65, | |
| "duration": 3.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you are literally only changing\nthis-- we can do better than this.", | |
| "start": 2692.38, | |
| "duration": 5.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We are only changing this\nfirst character here,", | |
| "start": 2697.65, | |
| "duration": 4.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "which looks like that now.", | |
| "start": 2701.87, | |
| "duration": 3.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that's what's going\non underneath the hood.", | |
| "start": 2705.33, | |
| "duration": 2.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this is why, then, in\nthe beginning of the class,", | |
| "start": 2707.87, | |
| "duration": 2.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we don't introduce\nstrings as char stars,", | |
| "start": 2710.05, | |
| "duration": 2.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "because you very quickly get\ncaught up in a lot of this minutia.", | |
| "start": 2712.24, | |
| "duration": 2.797 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But at the end of the day,\nit's not all that complicated", | |
| "start": 2715.037, | |
| "duration": 2.333 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "once you realize that a\nstring is just an address,", | |
| "start": 2717.37, | |
| "duration": 2.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and malloc, this new function,\nalso just returns an address.", | |
| "start": 2720.32, | |
| "duration": 3.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This is very powerful,\nbecause now you have", | |
| "start": 2723.57, | |
| "duration": 2.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "these sort of breadcrumbs that can\nlead you to different places in memory.", | |
| "start": 2725.74, | |
| "duration": 4.15 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A little map, so to speak, that can\nlead you to actual strings in memory,", | |
| "start": 2729.89, | |
| "duration": 3.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and can actually now solve\nproblems more effectively.", | |
| "start": 2733.84, | |
| "duration": 2.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "For instance, we can go back\nand solve one other problem", | |
| "start": 2736.62, | |
| "duration": 2.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we saw a moment ago, which was swap.", | |
| "start": 2739.09, | |
| "duration": 4.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this version of swap was broken why?", | |
| "start": 2743.26, | |
| "duration": 4.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What was the source of\nthis fundamental problem?", | |
| "start": 2747.44, | |
| "duration": 3.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Yeah?", | |
| "start": 2751.43, | |
| "duration": 1.319 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "STUDENT: [INAUDIBLE]", | |
| "start": 2752.749, | |
| "duration": 0.833 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "DAVID J. MALAN: Yeah.", | |
| "start": 2755.765, | |
| "duration": 0.875 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "When you went back to main, you\nerased the memory on top of it,", | |
| "start": 2756.64, | |
| "duration": 3.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and the fundamental problem there\nwas when I passed in x and y,", | |
| "start": 2759.64, | |
| "duration": 5.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "they became copies called a and\nb, in different chunks of memory.", | |
| "start": 2765.19, | |
| "duration": 4.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so the fundamental\nproblem seems to be", | |
| "start": 2769.67, | |
| "duration": 2.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that swap is incorrectly implemented.", | |
| "start": 2772.6, | |
| "duration": 2.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's logically correct.", | |
| "start": 2775.21, | |
| "duration": 1.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It does swap two values.", | |
| "start": 2776.79, | |
| "duration": 1.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we saw that with debug 50, but it's\nkind of fundamentally flawed in so far", | |
| "start": 2777.99, | |
| "duration": 4.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as it requires, it\nseems, by design of C,", | |
| "start": 2782.76, | |
| "duration": 3.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that a and b be passed in by\nvalue as copies, so to speak.", | |
| "start": 2786.57, | |
| "duration": 4.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We need some way to change this function\nto say main, hey, uh-uh, don't give me", | |
| "start": 2791.37, | |
| "duration": 4.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "copies of your variables.", | |
| "start": 2795.99, | |
| "duration": 1.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Give me a treasure map that\nwill lead me to your variables.", | |
| "start": 2797.57, | |
| "duration": 3.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Give me the address of x.", | |
| "start": 2801.06, | |
| "duration": 2.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Give me the address of y.", | |
| "start": 2803.18, | |
| "duration": 1.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I'll still call them a\nand b, or whatever I want,", | |
| "start": 2805.09, | |
| "duration": 2.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but lead me to the original values.", | |
| "start": 2807.46, | |
| "duration": 2.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Don't just pass me\ncopies of those values.", | |
| "start": 2809.96, | |
| "duration": 2.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so we can change swap as follows\nfrom a program or a function that's", | |
| "start": 2812.89, | |
| "duration": 4.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "incorrect entirely, but\ninto one that is correct.", | |
| "start": 2817.21, | |
| "duration": 5.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we need to change\nthe syntax a little bit.", | |
| "start": 2822.44, | |
| "duration": 2.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So before is what we had here.", | |
| "start": 2824.56, | |
| "duration": 3.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "After is what we now have.", | |
| "start": 2827.76, | |
| "duration": 2.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Before, after.", | |
| "start": 2829.99, | |
| "duration": 2.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Before, after.", | |
| "start": 2832.11, | |
| "duration": 1.619 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So if you see it in\nrapid succession there,", | |
| "start": 2833.729, | |
| "duration": 1.791 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "all you see is that a whole bunch\nof stars are appearing in the code.", | |
| "start": 2835.52, | |
| "duration": 3.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And unfortunately, C was not\ndesigned in the best of ways", | |
| "start": 2839.16, | |
| "duration": 3.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to make clear what star\nmeans in different contexts,", | |
| "start": 2843.01, | |
| "duration": 2.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but it's all related as follows.", | |
| "start": 2845.58, | |
| "duration": 2.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The fact that I have now\nchanged a and b to be not ints,", | |
| "start": 2847.72, | |
| "duration": 4.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but ints stars, int pointers, if you\nwill, means that when main calls swap,", | |
| "start": 2852.33, | |
| "duration": 7.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "it is by design of the C language,\ngoing to pass in the address of x", | |
| "start": 2859.75, | |
| "duration": 4.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and the address of y.", | |
| "start": 2863.82, | |
| "duration": 0.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So that's what the star means.", | |
| "start": 2864.77, | |
| "duration": 1.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Give me the address of an int and the\naddress of an int, not actual ints.", | |
| "start": 2866.02, | |
| "duration": 4.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, down here, the star unfortunately\nmeans something slightly different,", | |
| "start": 2870.1, | |
| "duration": 3.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but related in spirit.", | |
| "start": 2873.33, | |
| "duration": 1.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Int temp just gives me an integer,\nan int variable called temp.", | |
| "start": 2875.12, | |
| "duration": 4.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Star a, in this context, without\nthe word int in front of it again,", | |
| "start": 2879.9, | |
| "duration": 5.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "means go to that location.", | |
| "start": 2884.91, | |
| "duration": 2.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Follow the treasure map, so to speak.", | |
| "start": 2887.57, | |
| "duration": 1.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Go to the address that is in a.", | |
| "start": 2889.37, | |
| "duration": 2.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So for instance, if the\naddress of a is say,", | |
| "start": 2892.08, | |
| "duration": 3.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "33 Oxford Street,\nCambridge, Massachusetts.", | |
| "start": 2895.86, | |
| "duration": 2.739 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That happens to be the address\nof the CS building at Harvard.", | |
| "start": 2898.599, | |
| "duration": 2.541 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Star a means go to 33 Oxford\nStreet in Cambridge, Massachusetts.", | |
| "start": 2901.14, | |
| "duration": 5.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The star just means go to\nthat particular address.", | |
| "start": 2906.2, | |
| "duration": 4.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So what does that mean, then, down\nhere, when I say star a gets star b?", | |
| "start": 2910.32, | |
| "duration": 4.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That means go to the address\nin b and get its value,", | |
| "start": 2914.49, | |
| "duration": 3.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and store it at whenever\na is pointing at to.", | |
| "start": 2918.05, | |
| "duration": 3.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So go to a and wait for me for a value.", | |
| "start": 2921.5, | |
| "duration": 2.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Go to b, get a value, and put\nthat value at the location in a.", | |
| "start": 2924.47, | |
| "duration": 4.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then lastly, this just\nmeans go to the location in b,", | |
| "start": 2929.08, | |
| "duration": 3.645 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "go to whatever building\nthat is, so to speak,", | |
| "start": 2932.725, | |
| "duration": 2.295 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and put the value that is in\ntemp inside of that building.", | |
| "start": 2935.02, | |
| "duration": 4.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So a pointer is just an address.", | |
| "start": 2939.9, | |
| "duration": 2.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "These stars just mean\npointers are involved.", | |
| "start": 2942.86, | |
| "duration": 3.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Give me the address of an int,\ngive me the address of an int.", | |
| "start": 2946.61, | |
| "duration": 3.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And again, confusing,\nadmittedly, the star", | |
| "start": 2949.65, | |
| "duration": 2.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in this context where we don't have\nthe word int in front of it again,", | |
| "start": 2952.23, | |
| "duration": 3.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "on the side of the equal sign,\njust means go to that address.", | |
| "start": 2955.96, | |
| "duration": 2.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Go to that building.", | |
| "start": 2958.79, | |
| "duration": 1.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Go to that other building\nand put something there.", | |
| "start": 2960.08, | |
| "duration": 3.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So we can now fix our\nswap program correctly.", | |
| "start": 2963.63, | |
| "duration": 3.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We can now open up, as I will here,\nswap dot c, which I wrote in advance.", | |
| "start": 2967.61, | |
| "duration": 5.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That looks almost the same, except\nthat I've changed the swap function", | |
| "start": 2972.71, | |
| "duration": 3.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as follows. a is now\nint*, b is now int*,", | |
| "start": 2976.65, | |
| "duration": 3.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and I also borrowed the stars\ninside of the function, as well.", | |
| "start": 2980.15, | |
| "duration": 3.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But something's gotta change.", | |
| "start": 2983.77, | |
| "duration": 1.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "There's one more line of code I need\nto change for all of this to work.", | |
| "start": 2985.65, | |
| "duration": 4.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What is that?", | |
| "start": 2990.11, | |
| "duration": 0.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What line needs to change?", | |
| "start": 2994.161, | |
| "duration": 1.649 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well who cares about swap?", | |
| "start": 2995.81, | |
| "duration": 1.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's main that was calling\nthis thing in the first place,", | |
| "start": 2997.54, | |
| "duration": 3.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "so let's go back to the original story.", | |
| "start": 3000.61, | |
| "duration": 2.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Main, here, declares x and y as 1 and\n2, does some printfs here, as before.", | |
| "start": 3002.9, | |
| "duration": 5.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But notice this line has to change.", | |
| "start": 3008.63, | |
| "duration": 1.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So one more piece of syntax today.", | |
| "start": 3010.27, | |
| "duration": 2.739 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we're running out of new symbols.", | |
| "start": 3013.009, | |
| "duration": 1.541 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We've seen most of C already.", | |
| "start": 3014.55, | |
| "duration": 2.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "&x and &y means get me the address\nof x, and get me the address of y,", | |
| "start": 3016.66, | |
| "duration": 7.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and pass those in instead.", | |
| "start": 3023.66, | |
| "duration": 1.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So x,y would just mean pass in\na copy of x and a copy of y,", | |
| "start": 3025.55, | |
| "duration": 4.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or the values thereof.", | |
| "start": 3029.66, | |
| "duration": 2.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "&x &y means give me a little, you know,\nmap with the address of x and a little", | |
| "start": 3031.89, | |
| "duration": 5.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "map with the address of y, so that\nswap-- who's receiving those maps--", | |
| "start": 3037.25, | |
| "duration": 4.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "can go there.", | |
| "start": 3041.96, | |
| "duration": 1.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So what does this mean\nin pictorial form?", | |
| "start": 3043.94, | |
| "duration": 2.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If we now go back to the\nbeginning of this story,", | |
| "start": 3046.75, | |
| "duration": 2.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "where we were looking at my computer's\nmemory as this big rectangular region", | |
| "start": 3049.01, | |
| "duration": 4.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "like this.", | |
| "start": 3053.54, | |
| "duration": 1.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "With main's chunk of\nmemory at the bottom here.", | |
| "start": 3054.8, | |
| "duration": 4.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And inside of main was two variables,\nlike x, and another variable y.", | |
| "start": 3059.41, | |
| "duration": 6.16 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And inside of those were\nthe numbers 1 and 2.", | |
| "start": 3065.57, | |
| "duration": 3.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then I called swap.", | |
| "start": 3068.97, | |
| "duration": 1.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so swap gets its own frame\non the stack, so to speak.", | |
| "start": 3070.89, | |
| "duration": 3.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This is swap's frame.", | |
| "start": 3074.46, | |
| "duration": 1.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It, too, had a variable called\na and a variable called b.", | |
| "start": 3076.23, | |
| "duration": 6.472 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But what goes in there now?", | |
| "start": 3082.702, | |
| "duration": 1.638 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's not 1 and 2.", | |
| "start": 3084.34, | |
| "duration": 1.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We need to know a little something\nmore about my computer's memory.", | |
| "start": 3085.83, | |
| "duration": 2.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I don't know where\neverything's laid out,", | |
| "start": 3088.63, | |
| "duration": 2.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but let me just arbitrarily\nassume that, you know,", | |
| "start": 3090.85, | |
| "duration": 3.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "it's inside of my computer's memory.", | |
| "start": 3094.27, | |
| "duration": 1.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Maybe this is byte number 90.", | |
| "start": 3096.19, | |
| "duration": 2.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This is going to be 91.", | |
| "start": 3098.67, | |
| "duration": 1.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This here is going to be 92,\n93, 94, 95, and so forth.", | |
| "start": 3100.64, | |
| "duration": 3.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I just need to know that there's\nsome kind of numbering scheme there.", | |
| "start": 3104.55, | |
| "duration": 3.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So what goes inside of a is 91.", | |
| "start": 3107.88, | |
| "duration": 3.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What goes inside of b is 92.", | |
| "start": 3111.39, | |
| "duration": 3.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And not the values 1 and 2, but rather\nthe addresses of those values 1 and 2.", | |
| "start": 3115.33, | |
| "duration": 7.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because now my code for the swap\nfunction, consider what it does.", | |
| "start": 3122.55, | |
| "duration": 4.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It says, upon receiving\nthe address of an integer,", | |
| "start": 3126.78, | |
| "duration": 3.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "called a, upon receiving the address\nof another integer, called b,", | |
| "start": 3130.22, | |
| "duration": 4.531 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "go there and store that value in temp.", | |
| "start": 3134.751, | |
| "duration": 3.469 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Go to the address in b and store\nthat value at the address in a.", | |
| "start": 3138.22, | |
| "duration": 4.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Store the value in temp\nat the address in b.", | |
| "start": 3142.68, | |
| "duration": 3.6 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's see what happens then.", | |
| "start": 3146.28, | |
| "duration": 2.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So first of all, I need another\nvariable here, called temp.", | |
| "start": 3148.54, | |
| "duration": 4.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Temp, meanwhile, is not a pointer.", | |
| "start": 3153.05, | |
| "duration": 3.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's just an integer,\nbut what does it store?", | |
| "start": 3156.61, | |
| "duration": 3.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, according to my\ncode, temp gets the value", | |
| "start": 3160.15, | |
| "duration": 4.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of going to a, going\nto the address in a.", | |
| "start": 3164.7, | |
| "duration": 3.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So what is a?", | |
| "start": 3167.95, | |
| "duration": 1.583 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a is 99.", | |
| "start": 3169.533, | |
| "duration": 1.777 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That's like a treasure map leading\nto, OK, this chunk of memory", | |
| "start": 3171.31, | |
| "duration": 3.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "down here in my computer.", | |
| "start": 3174.71, | |
| "duration": 1.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And what value is there\nonce I've gone there?", | |
| "start": 3176.32, | |
| "duration": 2.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Once I've gone to the CS building\ninside of it, I see the number 1,", | |
| "start": 3178.43, | |
| "duration": 3.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and so I put the number 1 in temp.", | |
| "start": 3182.23, | |
| "duration": 3.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Meanwhile, my second line of\ncode says go to the address in b", | |
| "start": 3185.35, | |
| "duration": 4.795 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and grab its value, and put\nit at the address that's in a.", | |
| "start": 3190.145, | |
| "duration": 5.015 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So what does that mean?", | |
| "start": 3195.16, | |
| "duration": 1.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, star b means\nstart here and go to 92.", | |
| "start": 3196.8, | |
| "duration": 4.767 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So it's like an arrow-- kind\nof like chutes and ladders,", | |
| "start": 3201.567, | |
| "duration": 2.333 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "if you know the game--\nlike go to address 92.", | |
| "start": 3203.9, | |
| "duration": 2.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What value is there?", | |
| "start": 3206.54, | |
| "duration": 0.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The number 2.", | |
| "start": 3207.53, | |
| "duration": 0.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And the other half of the\nequation, on the left,", | |
| "start": 3208.51, | |
| "duration": 2.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "said, go to the address\nin a, which is here,", | |
| "start": 3210.51, | |
| "duration": 2.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and copy the 2 into that location.", | |
| "start": 3213.3, | |
| "duration": 4.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then the last line--\nonly one more line--", | |
| "start": 3218.19, | |
| "duration": 2.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is this, get the value in temp-- that's\neasy-- and put it at the address in b.", | |
| "start": 3220.8, | |
| "duration": 5.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So we have to go to b\nand put temp in there.", | |
| "start": 3226.33, | |
| "duration": 3.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So to do that, here's\ntemp, it's the number 1.", | |
| "start": 3229.62, | |
| "duration": 4.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I have to go to the address in b.", | |
| "start": 3233.97, | |
| "duration": 1.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The address and b is 92.", | |
| "start": 3235.66, | |
| "duration": 1.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's go there, and\naha, let me go ahead then,", | |
| "start": 3236.84, | |
| "duration": 3.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and overwrite the value that's\nthere with the number 1.", | |
| "start": 3240.28, | |
| "duration": 7.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So now this frame of\nmemory on the stack--", | |
| "start": 3247.67, | |
| "duration": 3.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the 91, the 92, and the\ntemporary variable--", | |
| "start": 3251.17, | |
| "duration": 2.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "they are, by design of my\nnew function, disposable.", | |
| "start": 3253.62, | |
| "duration": 3.43 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I really don't care, after swap\nreturns, if those things continue--", | |
| "start": 3257.05, | |
| "duration": 5.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I did care a little bit about that.", | |
| "start": 3262.12, | |
| "duration": 1.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I don't care if those\nthings continue to exist.", | |
| "start": 3267.43, | |
| "duration": 2.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "All I care about is that\nx and y continue to exist.", | |
| "start": 3269.95, | |
| "duration": 4.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So in this way is the new and\nimproved version of the swap function", | |
| "start": 3274.16, | |
| "duration": 3.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "actually having a permanent\nimpact on my data?", | |
| "start": 3278.07, | |
| "duration": 2.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And with the frame, the\nmemory still looks like that,", | |
| "start": 3280.96, | |
| "duration": 3.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "because it's gone to the address in a.", | |
| "start": 3284.03, | |
| "duration": 2.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Gone to the address in b, which\nleads it to the original x and y.", | |
| "start": 3286.04, | |
| "duration": 4.15 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so by way of pointers,\nby way of these addresses,", | |
| "start": 3290.19, | |
| "duration": 2.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "do we have the ability to actually\ngo much, much deeper into a program", | |
| "start": 3293.06, | |
| "duration": 4.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and actually get at\nvalues that previously we", | |
| "start": 3297.81, | |
| "duration": 3.43 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "had no way of even expressing.", | |
| "start": 3301.24, | |
| "duration": 3.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So it's at this point in the story where\nI usually admit that, at least for me,", | |
| "start": 3304.28, | |
| "duration": 5.13 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "this has been among the most challenging\ntopics when I, myself, was a student.", | |
| "start": 3309.41, | |
| "duration": 3.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And in fact, all these years later--\nit's like, 20, 20 year-- yeah,", | |
| "start": 3313.32, | |
| "duration": 2.905 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I think we're up to 20 years ago.", | |
| "start": 3316.225, | |
| "duration": 1.375 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "20 years ago-- I didn't\ntake this photo then--", | |
| "start": 3317.6, | |
| "duration": 2.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but I sat in what was, at the time,\nthe back right hand corner of Elliot", | |
| "start": 3320.56, | |
| "duration": 3.59 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "House's dining hall, here at Harvard.", | |
| "start": 3324.15, | |
| "duration": 2.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I sat down with my teaching\nfellow, who of all the TFs I had", | |
| "start": 3326.22, | |
| "duration": 2.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as an undergrad, still remember to\nthis day, [? Nishat ?] [? Meda ?].", | |
| "start": 3329.15, | |
| "duration": 2.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we just reconnected on\nFacebook, all these years later.", | |
| "start": 3331.57, | |
| "duration": 2.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Very exciting.", | |
| "start": 3334.09, | |
| "duration": 0.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it was he who\nwonderfully sat down with me", | |
| "start": 3335.05, | |
| "duration": 2.419 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "at office hours one\nday in the dining hall,", | |
| "start": 3337.469, | |
| "duration": 1.791 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "trying to help me understand pointers,\nbecause it was just so much more", | |
| "start": 3339.26, | |
| "duration": 3.03 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "technical than all the other stuff.", | |
| "start": 3342.29, | |
| "duration": 1.458 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Like, there is no puzzle piece in\nScratch for the address of something", | |
| "start": 3343.748, | |
| "duration": 3.142 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that leads you somewhere so\npowerfully as these stars seem", | |
| "start": 3346.89, | |
| "duration": 3.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to be able to, here.", | |
| "start": 3350.42, | |
| "duration": 1.011 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And this is only to say that\nthis is among those topics that", | |
| "start": 3351.431, | |
| "duration": 2.499 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "might take a little bit of\ntime to sink in, but it does.", | |
| "start": 3353.93, | |
| "duration": 3.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And when it does, it really is that\nproverbial light bulb that goes off.", | |
| "start": 3357.26, | |
| "duration": 3.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And for me, that light bulb\nwent off right then and there.", | |
| "start": 3360.65, | |
| "duration": 4.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, what more can we do with these\nthings, after that motivational speech?", | |
| "start": 3365.55, | |
| "duration": 3.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Pointer arithmetic.", | |
| "start": 3368.92, | |
| "duration": 1.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So, sort of complicated sounding\ntopic, but really, it just", | |
| "start": 3370.14, | |
| "duration": 3.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "goes back to first principles,\nas to what a pointer actually is.", | |
| "start": 3373.72, | |
| "duration": 3.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it allows us now\nto do things like this.", | |
| "start": 3376.84, | |
| "duration": 1.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead and open up one other\nprogram that I wrote in advance here,", | |
| "start": 3378.83, | |
| "duration": 3.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "called pointers dot c.", | |
| "start": 3382.21, | |
| "duration": 2.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And take a look at what\nthis thing does here.", | |
| "start": 3384.32, | |
| "duration": 2.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It works a little differently\nfrom the syntax we're used to,", | |
| "start": 3386.74, | |
| "duration": 2.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and from any of our\ncrypto problems thus far.", | |
| "start": 3389.46, | |
| "duration": 3.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So notice on this first line here,\nI get string and I store in s.", | |
| "start": 3392.55, | |
| "duration": 4.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "No more string right\nnow, just char star.", | |
| "start": 3396.63, | |
| "duration": 1.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We can be real and talk about\nit as the address of a char.", | |
| "start": 3398.48, | |
| "duration": 3.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A little sanity check,\nis s equal equal to null?", | |
| "start": 3402.03, | |
| "duration": 2.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If so, just return.", | |
| "start": 3404.47, | |
| "duration": 0.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Something went wrong, so\nlet's not deal with it now.", | |
| "start": 3405.41, | |
| "duration": 2.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Down here, a for loop.", | |
| "start": 3407.73, | |
| "duration": 1.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "For i gets 0 all the way up to n.", | |
| "start": 3409.48, | |
| "duration": 3.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this is just a standard syntax\nwe've used a few times now, even back", | |
| "start": 3413.19, | |
| "duration": 3.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in week 1 when we just\nwanted iterate over.", | |
| "start": 3416.24, | |
| "duration": 2.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Or in week 2, when we wanted iterate\nover the characters in a string.", | |
| "start": 3418.6, | |
| "duration": 3.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But we've never seen this\nkind of craziness before.", | |
| "start": 3422.27, | |
| "duration": 2.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A star, and then some\narithmetic in parentheses.", | |
| "start": 3425.12, | |
| "duration": 3.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In the past, when we wanted to print\nout a character, as implied by %c here,", | |
| "start": 3428.59, | |
| "duration": 5.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we quite simply, as I recall, did this.", | |
| "start": 3433.59, | |
| "duration": 3.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Which was nice and intuitive, right?", | |
| "start": 3437.29, | |
| "duration": 1.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The square brackets\ndenote to treat the string", | |
| "start": 3438.79, | |
| "duration": 2.327 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as though it's an array, which it\nreally is, an array of characters.", | |
| "start": 3441.117, | |
| "duration": 2.833 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that means get the\ni-th character of s.", | |
| "start": 3443.95, | |
| "duration": 3.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But now that we understand what s is, we\ndon't need to use this syntactic sugar,", | |
| "start": 3447.0, | |
| "duration": 5.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as it's called.", | |
| "start": 3452.12, | |
| "duration": 0.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Any time a language has a\nfeature that's convenient to use,", | |
| "start": 3452.76, | |
| "duration": 2.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and easier to read sometimes,\nbut isn't fundamentally", | |
| "start": 3455.68, | |
| "duration": 2.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "necessary to express\nyourself, it's often", | |
| "start": 3458.37, | |
| "duration": 1.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "called syntactic sugar, which means\nit's just kind of a nicety to have.", | |
| "start": 3460.12, | |
| "duration": 3.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, that square\nbracket notation is just", | |
| "start": 3464.01, | |
| "duration": 2.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "sugar for this more arcane, but\nperhaps more well-defined syntax now.", | |
| "start": 3466.99, | |
| "duration": 7.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The star operator in this context is\nthe dereference operator, technically.", | |
| "start": 3474.41, | |
| "duration": 4.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's the go there operator,\nas I've been describing it.", | |
| "start": 3478.91, | |
| "duration": 2.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Go to some address.", | |
| "start": 3481.85, | |
| "duration": 1.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well s, recall, is a string.", | |
| "start": 3483.37, | |
| "duration": 1.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But there is no string.", | |
| "start": 3485.28, | |
| "duration": 1.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Strings are just the\naddresses of characters now.", | |
| "start": 3486.55, | |
| "duration": 2.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The first in a string.", | |
| "start": 3488.87, | |
| "duration": 1.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So initially in this\nloop, what am I doing?", | |
| "start": 3490.81, | |
| "duration": 3.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "s is the address of a string, the\naddress of its first character.", | |
| "start": 3494.23, | |
| "duration": 3.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And I'm saying, add to s, the value i.", | |
| "start": 3497.56, | |
| "duration": 2.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, i is just this variable in my\nfor loop that's initialized to 0.", | |
| "start": 3500.26, | |
| "duration": 4.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So s plus 0 is obviously just s.", | |
| "start": 3504.53, | |
| "duration": 3.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "s is the address of a char.", | |
| "start": 3507.72, | |
| "duration": 1.86 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "*s means go to s.", | |
| "start": 3509.58, | |
| "duration": 2.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What do you find when you get there?", | |
| "start": 3512.55, | |
| "duration": 1.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A character, because s is a char\nstar, the address of a character.", | |
| "start": 3514.46, | |
| "duration": 3.82 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so printing out %c\n*s effectively means,", | |
| "start": 3518.28, | |
| "duration": 4.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "go print that character right there.", | |
| "start": 3522.69, | |
| "duration": 2.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "On the second iteration of\nthe loop, i is, of course, 1.", | |
| "start": 3524.89, | |
| "duration": 2.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So s plus 1 is 1 byte farther\nfrom the beginning of the string.", | |
| "start": 3527.85, | |
| "duration": 4.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And the star means go to that\ncharacter and print it with %c.", | |
| "start": 3532.31, | |
| "duration": 4.59 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "One more iteration, i is now 2.", | |
| "start": 3536.9, | |
| "duration": 2.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "s plus 2 is 2 bytes away\nfrom the start of the string.", | |
| "start": 3539.25, | |
| "duration": 2.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Go there and print that\ncharacter in the string.", | |
| "start": 3541.6, | |
| "duration": 3.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so forth.", | |
| "start": 3544.6, | |
| "duration": 0.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And do this up until the\nlength of the string.", | |
| "start": 3545.17, | |
| "duration": 3.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now this is perfectly correct.", | |
| "start": 3548.47, | |
| "duration": 2.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if you really kind of want\nto look cool with your code", | |
| "start": 3550.59, | |
| "duration": 2.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you can use pointer arithmetic\nin this way, because all it is", | |
| "start": 3553.06, | |
| "duration": 2.541 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is just expressing more precisely\nwhat is going on underneath the hood.", | |
| "start": 3555.601, | |
| "duration": 3.668 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But it's a little more cryptic.", | |
| "start": 3559.269, | |
| "duration": 1.291 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's certainly a couple more characters.", | |
| "start": 3560.56, | |
| "duration": 2.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But it is functionally\nequivalent to what", | |
| "start": 3562.85, | |
| "duration": 3.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we've been doing for weeks, which\nhas been, again, just s [i].", | |
| "start": 3565.94, | |
| "duration": 3.86 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So whereas some of today's\nideas are admittedly", | |
| "start": 3569.8, | |
| "duration": 2.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "new-- allocating memory\nand actually looking", | |
| "start": 3572.7, | |
| "duration": 2.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "underneath the hood\nat what a string is--", | |
| "start": 3575.39, | |
| "duration": 1.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we're not really getting\nnewfound capabilities", | |
| "start": 3577.28, | |
| "duration": 3.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that we didn't already have when it\ncomes to manipulating existing strings.", | |
| "start": 3580.53, | |
| "duration": 4.82 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this is pointer arithmetic,\nso to speak, insofar", | |
| "start": 3585.35, | |
| "duration": 3.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as we are doing\narithmetic with pointers.", | |
| "start": 3588.89, | |
| "duration": 3.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Math with pointers.", | |
| "start": 3592.77, | |
| "duration": 2.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "All right, let's take a look now\nat where things can go wrong.", | |
| "start": 3595.5, | |
| "duration": 5.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this is a program written by our\nfriend Nick Parlante at Stanford,", | |
| "start": 3601.27, | |
| "duration": 3.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "inspired by Binky, who will\nreturn in just a moment.", | |
| "start": 3604.41, | |
| "duration": 2.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it's fundamentally broken.", | |
| "start": 3606.99, | |
| "duration": 1.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This code is incorrect.", | |
| "start": 3608.55, | |
| "duration": 1.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It also doesn't really\ndo anything useful.", | |
| "start": 3609.72, | |
| "duration": 2.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But it's meant to be demonstrative\nof things that can go wrong.", | |
| "start": 3611.98, | |
| "duration": 2.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So at the top of this program, notice\nwe are declaring two variables, x and y.", | |
| "start": 3614.7, | |
| "duration": 4.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But today those variables are not ints,\nas they might have been in weeks past,", | |
| "start": 3618.92, | |
| "duration": 3.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "they are int*s, the addresses ints.", | |
| "start": 3622.33, | |
| "duration": 2.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "They're not being initialized\nyet to any value, so that's fine.", | |
| "start": 3625.13, | |
| "duration": 2.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So really, this is just\ngiving us, if you will,", | |
| "start": 3628.03, | |
| "duration": 2.84 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "like, two boxes on the screen.", | |
| "start": 3630.87, | |
| "duration": 1.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So x at this point in the story looks\nlike this, y at this point in the story", | |
| "start": 3632.72, | |
| "duration": 4.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "looks like this.", | |
| "start": 3636.95, | |
| "duration": 1.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I have no idea what's inside of them.", | |
| "start": 3638.02, | |
| "duration": 1.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "They have garbage value, so to speak.", | |
| "start": 3640.0, | |
| "duration": 2.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because if we didn't\nassign them a value,", | |
| "start": 3642.06, | |
| "duration": 1.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the computer is not\ngoing to do it for us,", | |
| "start": 3643.85, | |
| "duration": 1.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "so they might just have remnants\nof some past usage of that memory.", | |
| "start": 3645.64, | |
| "duration": 2.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So we don't know what's inside of them.", | |
| "start": 3648.57, | |
| "duration": 1.625 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But that's OK, because on this next\nline I call malloc and actually allocate", | |
| "start": 3650.195, | |
| "duration": 6.455 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "enough memory for one int.", | |
| "start": 3656.65, | |
| "duration": 1.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now this is kind of a silly use.", | |
| "start": 3658.6, | |
| "duration": 2.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's not the best way\nto give yourself an int.", | |
| "start": 3660.69, | |
| "duration": 2.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We've seen for weeks\nnow how you get an int.", | |
| "start": 3663.42, | |
| "duration": 1.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "You say, like, int x, or int y, or int\nz, and the computer gives you an int.", | |
| "start": 3665.31, | |
| "duration": 5.124 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But if we want to use malloc\nin the simplest way possible,", | |
| "start": 3670.434, | |
| "duration": 2.416 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we can just say, hey, malloc,\ngive me enough space for an int.", | |
| "start": 3672.85, | |
| "duration": 3.86 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And recall from the past that an\nint here is generally 4 bytes.", | |
| "start": 3676.71, | |
| "duration": 5.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So give me 4 bytes of\nmemory, specifically", | |
| "start": 3681.95, | |
| "duration": 2.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the address of the first of those bytes.", | |
| "start": 3684.56, | |
| "duration": 2.16 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That's all malloc is doing, and\nit's storing that address in x.", | |
| "start": 3686.72, | |
| "duration": 2.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "For good measure I should check for\nnull, but we're not, in this case,", | |
| "start": 3689.48, | |
| "duration": 3.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "per Binky.", | |
| "start": 3692.56, | |
| "duration": 1.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So what's the next line do?", | |
| "start": 3693.56, | |
| "duration": 2.03 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This next line means go to the address\nin x and put the number 42 there.", | |
| "start": 3695.59, | |
| "duration": 5.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That seems OK.", | |
| "start": 3701.53, | |
| "duration": 0.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because assuming malloc\nreturns the address", | |
| "start": 3702.41, | |
| "duration": 2.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of a chunk of memory, the\nfirst address of 4 bytes,", | |
| "start": 3705.21, | |
| "duration": 3.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we can go there and put the number 42\nin binary, in 4 bytes worth of bits.", | |
| "start": 3708.21, | |
| "duration": 7.332 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But what about this line?", | |
| "start": 3715.542, | |
| "duration": 2.418 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I've flagged it in red\nbecause this program probably", | |
| "start": 3717.96, | |
| "duration": 2.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is going to go no further.", | |
| "start": 3720.77, | |
| "duration": 1.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In fact, something very,\nvery bad is about to happen.", | |
| "start": 3722.48, | |
| "duration": 4.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Why?", | |
| "start": 3726.94, | |
| "duration": 0.992 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, what is the value in y?", | |
| "start": 3727.932, | |
| "duration": 3.278 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, originally x was a garbage\nvalue until I called malloc", | |
| "start": 3731.21, | |
| "duration": 3.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and asked malloc, hey, malloc,\ngive me enough space for an int.", | |
| "start": 3734.84, | |
| "duration": 3.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So I'll draw it as a box here.", | |
| "start": 3738.6, | |
| "duration": 1.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Give me the address of\nthat chunk of memory.", | |
| "start": 3740.26, | |
| "duration": 2.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this question mark is really now\nan arrow to that chunk of memory.", | |
| "start": 3742.47, | |
| "duration": 3.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then I said, hey, computer, go\nahead and go there and put the value 42.", | |
| "start": 3746.39, | |
| "duration": 6.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But then my next line of code said,\nhey, computer, go to the value in y", | |
| "start": 3752.95, | |
| "duration": 4.16 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and put the unlucky number 13 there.", | |
| "start": 3757.11, | |
| "duration": 2.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So that's like saying, go-- I don't know\nwhere to go, because this has no value.", | |
| "start": 3759.58, | |
| "duration": 7.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so something very\nbad is going to happen.", | |
| "start": 3766.62, | |
| "duration": 2.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because the question mark\nimplies, this is a garbage value.", | |
| "start": 3769.41, | |
| "duration": 2.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Maybe it's 0, maybe it's 1,000, maybe\nit's some number in between or bigger.", | |
| "start": 3772.06, | |
| "duration": 3.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's some garbage value, which\nmeans if I just go there,", | |
| "start": 3775.35, | |
| "duration": 3.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "who knows where I'm going to end up?", | |
| "start": 3778.62, | |
| "duration": 1.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But odds are I'm going\nto end up somewhere", | |
| "start": 3780.2, | |
| "duration": 1.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I shouldn't, because I should not be\ntouching memory that is not my own.", | |
| "start": 3782.08, | |
| "duration": 4.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, thanks to Binky, we're about\nto see that bad things indeed happen", | |
| "start": 3786.41, | |
| "duration": 5.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "when you touch memory\nthat you shouldn't.", | |
| "start": 3791.79, | |
| "duration": 2.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's take a look.", | |
| "start": 3794.1, | |
| "duration": 0.894 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "[VIDEO PLAYBACK]", | |
| "start": 3794.994, | |
| "duration": 0.666 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Hey, Binky, wake up.", | |
| "start": 3797.236, | |
| "duration": 2.144 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's time for pointer fun.", | |
| "start": 3799.38, | |
| "duration": 2.016 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-What's that?", | |
| "start": 3801.396, | |
| "duration": 1.694 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Learn about pointers?", | |
| "start": 3803.09, | |
| "duration": 1.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Oh, goody!", | |
| "start": 3804.67, | |
| "duration": 1.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Well, to get started, I guess we're\ngoing to need a couple pointers.", | |
| "start": 3806.44, | |
| "duration": 3.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-OK.", | |
| "start": 3809.45, | |
| "duration": 0.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This code allocates two pointers\nwhich can point to integers.", | |
| "start": 3810.25, | |
| "duration": 3.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-OK, well, I see the\ntwo pointers, but they", | |
| "start": 3813.99, | |
| "duration": 2.457 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "don't seem to be pointing to anything.", | |
| "start": 3816.447, | |
| "duration": 1.583 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-That's right.", | |
| "start": 3818.03, | |
| "duration": 0.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Initially, pointers\ndon't point to anything.", | |
| "start": 3818.84, | |
| "duration": 2.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The things they point to are called\npointees, and setting them up's", | |
| "start": 3820.96, | |
| "duration": 2.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a separate step.", | |
| "start": 3823.94, | |
| "duration": 1.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Oh, right, right, I knew that.", | |
| "start": 3825.17, | |
| "duration": 1.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The pointees are separate.", | |
| "start": 3826.82, | |
| "duration": 1.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Er, so how do you allocate a pointee?", | |
| "start": 3828.47, | |
| "duration": 2.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-OK, well, this code allocates\na new integer pointee,", | |
| "start": 3831.08, | |
| "duration": 3.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and this part sets x to point to it.", | |
| "start": 3834.86, | |
| "duration": 3.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Hey, that looks better.", | |
| "start": 3837.95, | |
| "duration": 1.15 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So make it do something.", | |
| "start": 3839.1, | |
| "duration": 1.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-OK, I'll dereference the pointer x to\nstore the number 42 into its pointee.", | |
| "start": 3840.85, | |
| "duration": 5.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "For this trick I'll need my\nmagic wand of dereferencing.", | |
| "start": 3846.47, | |
| "duration": 3.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Your magic wand of dereferencing?", | |
| "start": 3850.03, | |
| "duration": 2.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Uh, that's great.", | |
| "start": 3852.8, | |
| "duration": 2.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-This is what the code looks like.", | |
| "start": 3855.18, | |
| "duration": 1.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'll just set up the number and--", | |
| "start": 3856.96, | |
| "duration": 1.555 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "[POP]", | |
| "start": 3858.515, | |
| "duration": 0.571 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Hey, look, there it goes.", | |
| "start": 3859.586, | |
| "duration": 2.434 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So doing a dereference on x follows\nthe arrow to access its pointee.", | |
| "start": 3862.02, | |
| "duration": 4.84 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In this case, to store 42 in there.", | |
| "start": 3866.86, | |
| "duration": 2.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Hey, try using it to store the number\n13 through the other pointer, y.", | |
| "start": 3869.03, | |
| "duration": 4.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-OK, I'll just go over here to\ny and get the number 13 set up,", | |
| "start": 3873.47, | |
| "duration": 5.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and then take the wand of\ndereferencing and just--", | |
| "start": 3879.17, | |
| "duration": 3.746 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "[BUZZER]", | |
| "start": 3882.916, | |
| "duration": 0.499 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Oh!", | |
| "start": 3883.415, | |
| "duration": 0.825 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Oh, hey, that didn't work.", | |
| "start": 3884.24, | |
| "duration": 2.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Say, Binky, I don't think the\ndereferencing y is a good idea,", | |
| "start": 3886.95, | |
| "duration": 3.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "because, you know, setting up\nthe pointee is a separate step,", | |
| "start": 3890.59, | |
| "duration": 3.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and I don't think we ever did it.", | |
| "start": 3893.84, | |
| "duration": 1.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Oh, good point.", | |
| "start": 3895.61, | |
| "duration": 1.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Yeah, we allocated the pointer y, but\nwe never set it to point to a pointee.", | |
| "start": 3897.5, | |
| "duration": 4.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Hm, very observant.", | |
| "start": 3902.11, | |
| "duration": 2.02 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Hey, you're looking good there, Binky.", | |
| "start": 3904.13, | |
| "duration": 2.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Can you fix it so that y points\nto the same pointee as x?", | |
| "start": 3906.32, | |
| "duration": 2.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Sure.", | |
| "start": 3909.28, | |
| "duration": 0.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'll use my magic wand\nof pointer assignment.", | |
| "start": 3909.85, | |
| "duration": 2.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Is that going to be a\nproblem, like before?", | |
| "start": 3912.66, | |
| "duration": 2.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-No, this doesn't touch the pointees.", | |
| "start": 3914.85, | |
| "duration": 1.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It just changes one pointer to\npoint to the same thing as another.", | |
| "start": 3916.65, | |
| "duration": 3.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Oh, I see.", | |
| "start": 3920.22, | |
| "duration": 1.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now y points to the same place as x.", | |
| "start": 3921.31, | |
| "duration": 2.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So wait, now y is fixed.", | |
| "start": 3924.08, | |
| "duration": 1.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It has a pointee, so you can try\nthe wand of dereferencing again", | |
| "start": 3925.86, | |
| "duration": 3.03 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to send the 13 over.", | |
| "start": 3928.89, | |
| "duration": 1.788 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Oh, OK, here goes,", | |
| "start": 3930.678, | |
| "duration": 3.402 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Hey, look at that.", | |
| "start": 3934.08, | |
| "duration": 1.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now dereferencing works on y.", | |
| "start": 3935.2, | |
| "duration": 1.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And because the pointers are sharing\nthat one pointee, they both see the 13.", | |
| "start": 3936.93, | |
| "duration": 4.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Yeah, sharing, whatever.", | |
| "start": 3941.04, | |
| "duration": 1.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So are we going to switch places now?", | |
| "start": 3942.84, | |
| "duration": 1.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Oh look, we're out of time.", | |
| "start": 3944.65, | |
| "duration": 1.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-But--", | |
| "start": 3946.61, | |
| "duration": 0.84 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Just remember the three pointer rules.", | |
| "start": 3947.45, | |
| "duration": 1.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Number one, the basic structure\nis that you have a pointer", | |
| "start": 3949.39, | |
| "duration": 3.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and it points over to a pointee.", | |
| "start": 3952.44, | |
| "duration": 2.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But the pointer and\npointee are separate,", | |
| "start": 3954.55, | |
| "duration": 1.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and the common error\nis to set up a pointer,", | |
| "start": 3956.51, | |
| "duration": 1.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but to forget to give it a pointee.", | |
| "start": 3958.5, | |
| "duration": 2.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Number two, pointer dereferencing\nstarts at the pointer", | |
| "start": 3960.88, | |
| "duration": 3.13 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and follows its arrow over\nto access its pointee.", | |
| "start": 3964.01, | |
| "duration": 2.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "As we all know, this only works if there\nis a pointee, which kind of gets back", | |
| "start": 3966.91, | |
| "duration": 3.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to rule number one.", | |
| "start": 3970.79, | |
| "duration": 1.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Number three, pointer\nassignment takes one pointer", | |
| "start": 3972.13, | |
| "duration": 2.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and changes it to point to the\nsame pointee as another pointer.", | |
| "start": 3974.91, | |
| "duration": 3.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So after the assignment the two\npointers will point to the same pointee.", | |
| "start": 3978.22, | |
| "duration": 3.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Sometimes that's called sharing.", | |
| "start": 3981.79, | |
| "duration": 1.867 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that's all there is to it, really.", | |
| "start": 3983.657, | |
| "duration": 1.583 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Bye bye, now.", | |
| "start": 3985.24, | |
| "duration": 1.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "[END PLAYBACK]", | |
| "start": 3986.76, | |
| "duration": 0.936 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "DAVID J. MALAN: So what\nelse can go wrong now", | |
| "start": 3987.696, | |
| "duration": 1.874 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that we have the ability\nto touch, correctly", | |
| "start": 3989.57, | |
| "duration": 2.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or incorrectly, any\nmemory that we actually", | |
| "start": 3991.93, | |
| "duration": 2.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "have access to inside of our program?", | |
| "start": 3994.12, | |
| "duration": 1.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, memory leaks are one such problem.", | |
| "start": 3995.97, | |
| "duration": 2.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now that you have the capability to\nask the operating system for memory", | |
| "start": 3998.28, | |
| "duration": 3.84 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "via the malloc function, you\nhave the ability to accidentally", | |
| "start": 4002.12, | |
| "duration": 4.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "not give that memory back.", | |
| "start": 4006.31, | |
| "duration": 1.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In fact, a very common mistake\nin some programming languages", | |
| "start": 4008.03, | |
| "duration": 3.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is to ask the operating\nsystem for a chunk of memory,", | |
| "start": 4011.08, | |
| "duration": 2.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "use it, and then never actually free it.", | |
| "start": 4013.34, | |
| "duration": 2.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "To give it back so that\nother parts of your program,", | |
| "start": 4015.86, | |
| "duration": 2.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or other programs on the computer,\ncan actually make use of that memory.", | |
| "start": 4018.56, | |
| "duration": 3.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But fortunately there exist tools\nvia which we can detect this,", | |
| "start": 4022.52, | |
| "duration": 3.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and one of them is called Valgrind.", | |
| "start": 4025.78, | |
| "duration": 1.6 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this is another debugging\ntool that you'll now", | |
| "start": 4027.38, | |
| "duration": 2.041 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "be able to use once\nyou start dynamically", | |
| "start": 4029.421, | |
| "duration": 2.679 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "allocating memory in your program.", | |
| "start": 4032.1, | |
| "duration": 1.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So up until now you probably\nhave not used malloc,", | |
| "start": 4033.97, | |
| "duration": 2.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and therefore you have\nnot likely actually asked", | |
| "start": 4036.41, | |
| "duration": 3.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the operating system for more\nmemory in this very dynamic way.", | |
| "start": 4039.61, | |
| "duration": 3.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Instead, you have just declared\nan integer or an array,", | |
| "start": 4042.86, | |
| "duration": 3.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and asked the computer for memory\nin other ways, not using malloc.", | |
| "start": 4046.22, | |
| "duration": 4.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But suppose that we have\na program like this.", | |
| "start": 4050.74, | |
| "duration": 2.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In memory dot c I've made some mistakes.", | |
| "start": 4053.0, | |
| "duration": 3.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Deliberately, but mistakes nonetheless.", | |
| "start": 4056.72, | |
| "duration": 3.614 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, this draws inspiration from\nthe documentation for this very tool", | |
| "start": 4060.334, | |
| "duration": 3.166 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to highlight a couple of\nits most useful features.", | |
| "start": 4063.5, | |
| "duration": 2.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's look at this program here.", | |
| "start": 4065.96, | |
| "duration": 1.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "There's no prototype\nfor this function f,", | |
| "start": 4067.48, | |
| "duration": 1.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "just because the example that Valgrind,\nthis tool, gives just puts it up top,", | |
| "start": 4069.25, | |
| "duration": 3.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and that's fine.", | |
| "start": 4072.65, | |
| "duration": 0.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But let's focus on main first.", | |
| "start": 4073.56, | |
| "duration": 1.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Main takes no command line\narguments, per it's mention of void,", | |
| "start": 4075.25, | |
| "duration": 2.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and it returns an int as usual.", | |
| "start": 4078.13, | |
| "duration": 1.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The function f gets called here.", | |
| "start": 4080.11, | |
| "duration": 2.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So f open bracket, close bracket\njust means call the function f,", | |
| "start": 4082.55, | |
| "duration": 3.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but pass it no inputs, and\nthen eventually return 0.", | |
| "start": 4085.93, | |
| "duration": 3.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's look at f.", | |
| "start": 4088.99, | |
| "duration": 0.82 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What happens?", | |
| "start": 4089.81, | |
| "duration": 1.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, f takes no inputs,\nproduces no outputs.", | |
| "start": 4090.87, | |
| "duration": 3.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It only apparently has\nthese two lines of code.", | |
| "start": 4093.92, | |
| "duration": 2.547 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And let's consider what it does.", | |
| "start": 4096.467, | |
| "duration": 1.333 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It calls malloc, memory allocate,\n10 times the size of int.", | |
| "start": 4097.8, | |
| "duration": 4.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So that just means, hey, malloc,\ngive me enough space for 10 integers.", | |
| "start": 4102.13, | |
| "duration": 4.599 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now we know on CS50 IDE that the size\nof an int recall is 4 bytes, or 32 bits.", | |
| "start": 4106.729, | |
| "duration": 5.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this is like saying, hey,\ncomputer, give me 40 bytes total.", | |
| "start": 4111.979, | |
| "duration": 4.891 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "4 times 10.", | |
| "start": 4116.87, | |
| "duration": 1.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Malloc recall returns the\naddress of that chunk of memory,", | |
| "start": 4118.13, | |
| "duration": 3.349 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and it stores it in x, which, according\nto the star, is the address of an int.", | |
| "start": 4121.479, | |
| "duration": 4.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So that's all.", | |
| "start": 4125.569, | |
| "duration": 0.811 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So borrowing some of the same\nideas from the Binky example.", | |
| "start": 4126.38, | |
| "duration": 2.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What is bad about this\nis this next line.", | |
| "start": 4129.13, | |
| "duration": 4.59 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Why is x[10]=0 a problem?", | |
| "start": 4133.72, | |
| "duration": 4.522 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, the size of this chunk of\nmemory is what, 10 ints worth.", | |
| "start": 4138.242, | |
| "duration": 3.848 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So 10 times 4, 40 bytes.", | |
| "start": 4142.09, | |
| "duration": 1.84 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But remember how chunks\nof memory are indexed", | |
| "start": 4143.93, | |
| "duration": 3.369 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "when you use square bracket notation.", | |
| "start": 4147.299, | |
| "duration": 1.541 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "When you use square bracket\nnotation, you better", | |
| "start": 4148.84, | |
| "duration": 2.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "start counting at 0, which means\nif we have 10 ints, first one is 0,", | |
| "start": 4150.84, | |
| "duration": 4.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the last one is 9, the\n10th one does not exist.", | |
| "start": 4154.84, | |
| "duration": 4.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so if I'm saying\nxx[10] gets any value,", | |
| "start": 4159.17, | |
| "duration": 3.149 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that's like saying go there\nand put the value 0 there,", | |
| "start": 4162.319, | |
| "duration": 3.281 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but I don't have access\nto that chunk of memory.", | |
| "start": 4165.6, | |
| "duration": 2.429 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I did not ask the\ncomputer for that memory.", | |
| "start": 4168.029, | |
| "duration": 2.361 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I asked the computer for all of this\nother memory, only 10 of these bytes.", | |
| "start": 4170.39, | |
| "duration": 4.639 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this feels problematic.", | |
| "start": 4175.029, | |
| "duration": 1.551 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Moreover, I have asked the operating\nsystem for memory via malloc,", | |
| "start": 4176.58, | |
| "duration": 3.699 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "hey, give me 40 bytes.", | |
| "start": 4180.279, | |
| "duration": 1.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I never handed it back.", | |
| "start": 4181.609, | |
| "duration": 2.091 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Thereby introducing what we\nwould call a memory leak.", | |
| "start": 4183.7, | |
| "duration": 4.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, as an aside, once your program\nquits, all of the memory it's allocated", | |
| "start": 4187.92, | |
| "duration": 3.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is actually automatically\ngiven back, but the problem is", | |
| "start": 4191.55, | |
| "duration": 2.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that, for long running programs,\nthings like your browsers,", | |
| "start": 4194.27, | |
| "duration": 2.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or word processing\nprograms, or any number--", | |
| "start": 4196.81, | |
| "duration": 2.521 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Skype-- or any number of other\nprograms that you might run locally", | |
| "start": 4199.331, | |
| "duration": 2.749 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "on your Mac or PC, if those bigger\nprograms have memory leaks, such", | |
| "start": 4202.08, | |
| "duration": 3.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that they keep asking Mac\nOS or Windows for memory", | |
| "start": 4206.02, | |
| "duration": 2.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and never actually\nremember to give it back,", | |
| "start": 4208.68, | |
| "duration": 2.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you might experience what you might\nhave in the past of your Mac or PC", | |
| "start": 4211.39, | |
| "duration": 4.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "really starting to slow\ndown and kind of crawl.", | |
| "start": 4215.56, | |
| "duration": 4.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that can be for any number\nof reasons, but one of them", | |
| "start": 4219.7, | |
| "duration": 2.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is if your program or programs inside\nof them have some form of memory leak.", | |
| "start": 4222.68, | |
| "duration": 4.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Not your fault. It's the programmer's\nfault. But memory leaks, nonetheless.", | |
| "start": 4226.89, | |
| "duration": 4.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So what is Valgrind good for here?", | |
| "start": 4231.25, | |
| "duration": 2.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, it turns out, that in Valgrind\nyou can run the command like here.", | |
| "start": 4233.89, | |
| "duration": 5.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Valgrind.", | |
| "start": 4238.93, | |
| "duration": 0.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Leak check equals full.", | |
| "start": 4239.67, | |
| "duration": 1.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Dot slash.", | |
| "start": 4241.38, | |
| "duration": 0.584 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then the name of your program.", | |
| "start": 4241.964, | |
| "duration": 1.416 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so let me do that.", | |
| "start": 4243.38, | |
| "duration": 1.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead back into CS50 IDE\nand let me go ahead and make memory.", | |
| "start": 4244.43, | |
| "duration": 5.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Compiles OK, so it doesn't appear\nto be syntactically flawed.", | |
| "start": 4249.74, | |
| "duration": 2.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Dot slash memory.", | |
| "start": 4252.48, | |
| "duration": 2.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Nothing bad seems to happen.", | |
| "start": 4254.57, | |
| "duration": 1.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So that's all fine and good.", | |
| "start": 4256.2, | |
| "duration": 1.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And you might think that, OK my\nprogram works, it's time to submit,", | |
| "start": 4257.77, | |
| "duration": 4.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "all is well, but not necessarily.", | |
| "start": 4261.96, | |
| "duration": 2.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead and run Valgrind.", | |
| "start": 4264.23, | |
| "duration": 2.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And let me actually go\nahead-- let me go up here", | |
| "start": 4266.42, | |
| "duration": 2.314 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and not create a new\nfile, but a new terminal.", | |
| "start": 4268.734, | |
| "duration": 1.916 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Just so that we have\na much bigger window.", | |
| "start": 4270.65, | |
| "duration": 1.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And let me go ahead into this directory\nand run Valgrind, dot slash memory.", | |
| "start": 4272.4, | |
| "duration": 4.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Without any command line\narguments besides that.", | |
| "start": 4277.34, | |
| "duration": 2.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And hit Enter.", | |
| "start": 4279.99, | |
| "duration": 0.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And the downside of\nValgrind, frankly, is", | |
| "start": 4280.9, | |
| "duration": 2.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that it's just-- output is atrocious.", | |
| "start": 4283.26, | |
| "duration": 1.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Like it's just not easy to read.", | |
| "start": 4285.16, | |
| "duration": 1.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But you start to learn\nto notice patterns in it.", | |
| "start": 4286.84, | |
| "duration": 2.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So I've learned to notice when I make\nmistakes in programs that invalid right", | |
| "start": 4289.29, | |
| "duration": 3.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of size 4, not a good thing.", | |
| "start": 4293.21, | |
| "duration": 1.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That's indeed a problem of some sort.", | |
| "start": 4294.95, | |
| "duration": 2.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But what's nice about\nValgrind is that it tells me", | |
| "start": 4297.07, | |
| "duration": 2.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that the source of this invalid\nright, whatever that means,", | |
| "start": 4299.9, | |
| "duration": 3.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "starts in memory.c line 13 and really\nrears its head in line 8 of memory.c.", | |
| "start": 4303.44, | |
| "duration": 7.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, what are those lines?", | |
| "start": 4311.36, | |
| "duration": 1.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's go to line 13.", | |
| "start": 4312.55, | |
| "duration": 2.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Ah, that's my call to F. And line 8.", | |
| "start": 4314.67, | |
| "duration": 2.6 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Oh, that's my use of x bracket 10.", | |
| "start": 4317.27, | |
| "duration": 3.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So why is Valgrind telling\nme invalid right of size 4?", | |
| "start": 4321.06, | |
| "duration": 3.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, size 4 sounds familiar.", | |
| "start": 4324.95, | |
| "duration": 1.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That's the size of an int.", | |
| "start": 4326.27, | |
| "duration": 1.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Invalid just means bad.", | |
| "start": 4327.98, | |
| "duration": 1.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Right means change something,\nlike mutate a value.", | |
| "start": 4329.51, | |
| "duration": 3.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So invalid right of size\n4 maybe just means this.", | |
| "start": 4332.87, | |
| "duration": 4.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I am in an invalid way\nchanging 4 bytes of memory", | |
| "start": 4337.25, | |
| "duration": 4.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "by storing 0 from the right hand side\ninto x bracket 10 on the left hand", | |
| "start": 4341.7, | |
| "duration": 4.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "side because, again, that x\nbracket 10 is an 11th byte, rather,", | |
| "start": 4345.99, | |
| "duration": 5.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "an 11th int, that I never\nask the operating system for.", | |
| "start": 4351.25, | |
| "duration": 4.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I only asked it for 10, not 11.", | |
| "start": 4355.32, | |
| "duration": 2.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so Valgrind is telling me, somewhat\ncryptically, that I've screwed up.", | |
| "start": 4358.3, | |
| "duration": 4.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "On line 8 ultimately I've screwed\nup by touching 4 bytes of memory", | |
| "start": 4362.99, | |
| "duration": 4.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that I shouldn't have.", | |
| "start": 4367.22, | |
| "duration": 1.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Meanwhile, a little\nmore worrisome is this.", | |
| "start": 4368.85, | |
| "duration": 2.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Address such and such as\nzero bytes after a block", | |
| "start": 4371.59, | |
| "duration": 2.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of size 4 allots, da-da da-da.", | |
| "start": 4374.22, | |
| "duration": 1.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Oh, not that.", | |
| "start": 4376.16, | |
| "duration": 0.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's focus on-- here we go.", | |
| "start": 4376.94, | |
| "duration": 3.103 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Uh oh.", | |
| "start": 4380.043, | |
| "duration": 0.747 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Leak summary.", | |
| "start": 4380.79, | |
| "duration": 1.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Definitely lost.", | |
| "start": 4381.85, | |
| "duration": 1.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Oh, my god.", | |
| "start": 4382.97, | |
| "duration": 0.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Like I have lost 40 bytes\nof the computer's memory.", | |
| "start": 4383.68, | |
| "duration": 2.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now what does that mean?", | |
| "start": 4386.39, | |
| "duration": 1.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This simply means that\nValgrind has noticed", | |
| "start": 4387.47, | |
| "duration": 2.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that I must have called malloc\nor some similar function,", | |
| "start": 4389.48, | |
| "duration": 2.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "asked for memory, 40 bytes'\nworth, and never gave it back.", | |
| "start": 4391.92, | |
| "duration": 3.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, we haven't introduced the\nway of giving memory back so let", | |
| "start": 4395.69, | |
| "duration": 2.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "me at least address that now.", | |
| "start": 4398.58, | |
| "duration": 1.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But let me take this advice.", | |
| "start": 4400.21, | |
| "duration": 1.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Rerun with leak check full to\nsee details of leaked memory.", | |
| "start": 4401.66, | |
| "duration": 2.999 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let me go ahead and do that.", | |
| "start": 4404.659, | |
| "duration": 1.291 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead and copy\nthis so I can rerun Valgrind.", | |
| "start": 4405.95, | |
| "duration": 4.323 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Whoops.", | |
| "start": 4410.273, | |
| "duration": 0.967 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Valgrind.", | |
| "start": 4411.24, | |
| "duration": 0.857 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "With that command line argument.", | |
| "start": 4412.097, | |
| "duration": 1.333 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Dot slash memory.", | |
| "start": 4413.43, | |
| "duration": 1.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And now I'll see a little\nmore detail sometimes.", | |
| "start": 4415.01, | |
| "duration": 2.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Although, it appears in this\ncase it's already pretty verbose.", | |
| "start": 4417.88, | |
| "duration": 3.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so indeed I've still\nlost 40 bytes in one block.", | |
| "start": 4421.24, | |
| "duration": 3.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And up here again is a reiteration\nof that invalid right of size 4.", | |
| "start": 4424.93, | |
| "duration": 4.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So how do I fix this?", | |
| "start": 4428.94, | |
| "duration": 1.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, let me go back into my program.", | |
| "start": 4430.32, | |
| "duration": 1.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And you know what?", | |
| "start": 4432.06, | |
| "duration": 0.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The program's still pretty useless,\nbut at least let me fix that mistake.", | |
| "start": 4432.82, | |
| "duration": 3.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And go ahead now and go at x bracket 9.", | |
| "start": 4436.73, | |
| "duration": 3.43 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me remake my program.", | |
| "start": 4440.16, | |
| "duration": 1.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Make memory.", | |
| "start": 4441.51, | |
| "duration": 1.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And let me in my bigger terminal\nwindow do Valgrind dot slash memory.", | |
| "start": 4442.99, | |
| "duration": 6.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And now, oh, damn it.", | |
| "start": 4449.89, | |
| "duration": 1.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Still have definitely lost\n40 bytes in one blocks,", | |
| "start": 4451.01, | |
| "duration": 2.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but notice the output\nis much shorter now.", | |
| "start": 4453.54, | |
| "duration": 3.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I don't have a mistake that\nwas higher up here before.", | |
| "start": 4456.73, | |
| "duration": 2.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So I fixed one problem.", | |
| "start": 4459.3, | |
| "duration": 1.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead and\nfix that other problem.", | |
| "start": 4460.5, | |
| "duration": 1.86 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "After using this memory,\nlet me go ahead and free x.", | |
| "start": 4462.36, | |
| "duration": 4.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So free is the opposite\nof malloc in this case.", | |
| "start": 4466.56, | |
| "duration": 3.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if I go ahead and recompile\nmake memory and then run it", | |
| "start": 4469.66, | |
| "duration": 3.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in my bigger terminal window, nice.", | |
| "start": 4473.1, | |
| "duration": 3.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "All heap blocks were freed.", | |
| "start": 4476.5, | |
| "duration": 2.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "No leaks are possible.", | |
| "start": 4478.8, | |
| "duration": 2.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now what does that mean?", | |
| "start": 4481.15, | |
| "duration": 1.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, it turns out, when we\nlook at our computer's memory,", | |
| "start": 4482.34, | |
| "duration": 4.124 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "there is indeed that stack at the\nbottom that we talked about earlier.", | |
| "start": 4486.464, | |
| "duration": 2.916 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And the stack is where frames of\nmemory go, slices of memory go,", | |
| "start": 4489.38, | |
| "duration": 3.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that are used when\nfunctions are being called.", | |
| "start": 4493.34, | |
| "duration": 2.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And they get layered\non top of each other", | |
| "start": 4495.87, | |
| "duration": 2.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and get un-layered only\nonce the function's return.", | |
| "start": 4498.05, | |
| "duration": 2.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The heap, meanwhile, is a chunk of\nmemory above the stack, by design.", | |
| "start": 4500.69, | |
| "duration": 3.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "At least as we've drawn it here.", | |
| "start": 4504.46, | |
| "duration": 1.59 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And in the heap you have just\na pool of available memory", | |
| "start": 4506.05, | |
| "duration": 4.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that you can draw from at any point.", | |
| "start": 4510.49, | |
| "duration": 2.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And what's powerful\nabout the heap is that,", | |
| "start": 4513.25, | |
| "duration": 2.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "whereas the stack keeps growing\nup and then as functions return", | |
| "start": 4515.62, | |
| "duration": 3.28 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "it grows back down thereby\nthrowing away, effectively", | |
| "start": 4518.9, | |
| "duration": 3.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "losing track of, any memory\nthat we had on the stack,", | |
| "start": 4522.57, | |
| "duration": 2.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "like x's and y's and a's and\nb's and temp variables still,", | |
| "start": 4525.26, | |
| "duration": 3.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the heap does not experience\nthat kind of disposal of memory.", | |
| "start": 4528.96, | |
| "duration": 5.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If you ask for memory via malloc, malloc\ngives you a chunk of memory over here,", | |
| "start": 4534.4, | |
| "duration": 5.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or over here, or over here, up above\nthe stack inside of the so-called heap.", | |
| "start": 4539.78, | |
| "duration": 4.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And even when your function\nreturns, whether it's f, or swap,", | |
| "start": 4544.7, | |
| "duration": 3.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or something else, that use of\nmemory persists permanently.", | |
| "start": 4548.47, | |
| "duration": 5.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Only once you call free do\nyou give that chunk of memory", | |
| "start": 4553.96, | |
| "duration": 3.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "back to the operating\nsystem and allow it to reuse", | |
| "start": 4557.07, | |
| "duration": 2.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that memory for something else.", | |
| "start": 4559.75, | |
| "duration": 2.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But unfortunately this\npicture kind of suggests", | |
| "start": 4562.23, | |
| "duration": 3.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a problem and bad design in some sense.", | |
| "start": 4565.46, | |
| "duration": 2.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Although, given a finite\namount of memory, eventually", | |
| "start": 4568.08, | |
| "duration": 2.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "something's got to bump\nup against something else", | |
| "start": 4570.45, | |
| "duration": 2.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "if you want to keep asking\nfor and using memory.", | |
| "start": 4572.63, | |
| "duration": 2.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Those arrows kind of suggest\nthat the stack and the heap", | |
| "start": 4575.01, | |
| "duration": 3.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "are really destined to collide\nwith each other if what happens?", | |
| "start": 4578.56, | |
| "duration": 3.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, if the stack grows too large.", | |
| "start": 4581.7, | |
| "duration": 1.907 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In other words, if you keep calling\nfunction after function after function", | |
| "start": 4583.607, | |
| "duration": 3.083 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "after function and never return.", | |
| "start": 4586.69, | |
| "duration": 1.43 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And maybe this is accidental.", | |
| "start": 4588.12, | |
| "duration": 1.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Maybe you're using\nrecursion, per last time,", | |
| "start": 4589.39, | |
| "duration": 2.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and you accidentally\ndon't have a base case", | |
| "start": 4591.58, | |
| "duration": 2.285 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "so you just keep calling functions.", | |
| "start": 4593.865, | |
| "duration": 1.795 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So much so that you\nrun out of stack space.", | |
| "start": 4595.66, | |
| "duration": 3.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Or maybe you call malloc so many\ntimes that the heap keeps growing down", | |
| "start": 4599.07, | |
| "duration": 4.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and down and hits the stack, meanwhile.", | |
| "start": 4603.6, | |
| "duration": 2.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Either of those problems can persist.", | |
| "start": 4605.8, | |
| "duration": 1.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And you might recognize\nsome familiar terms.", | |
| "start": 4607.65, | |
| "duration": 2.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The first of those scenarios\ndescribe stack overflow.", | |
| "start": 4609.88, | |
| "duration": 2.601 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So if any of you have ever discovered\nthe website, Stack Overflow,", | |
| "start": 4612.481, | |
| "duration": 2.749 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "which is a wonderful\nplace to go for advice", | |
| "start": 4615.23, | |
| "duration": 3.632 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and tips and tricks with\nprogramming, more generally.", | |
| "start": 4618.862, | |
| "duration": 2.208 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "stackoverflow.com draws its name\nfrom exactly that programming", | |
| "start": 4621.07, | |
| "duration": 4.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "risk and problem.", | |
| "start": 4625.94, | |
| "duration": 1.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Heap overflow is similar in spirit.", | |
| "start": 4627.44, | |
| "duration": 1.922 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's just the opposite.", | |
| "start": 4629.362, | |
| "duration": 0.958 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "When the heap grows down\ntoo far, as we've drawn it.", | |
| "start": 4630.32, | |
| "duration": 2.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And they're both\nexamples, more generally,", | |
| "start": 4633.08, | |
| "duration": 1.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of what you might call buffer overflows.", | |
| "start": 4635.07, | |
| "duration": 2.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A buffer is a chunk of space that's\ntypically finite in some form", | |
| "start": 4637.32, | |
| "duration": 4.31 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and you can eventually overflow it\nby trying to use more memory then", | |
| "start": 4641.63, | |
| "duration": 3.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you should have.", | |
| "start": 4645.1, | |
| "duration": 0.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And a buffer overflows\ntypically actually relates", | |
| "start": 4645.79, | |
| "duration": 2.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to arrays and chunks of memory.", | |
| "start": 4648.32, | |
| "duration": 2.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And, in fact, a great example\nfrom Wikipedia is this one here.", | |
| "start": 4650.49, | |
| "duration": 3.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The code is a little cryptic too because\nit doesn't really do anything useful,", | |
| "start": 4653.66, | |
| "duration": 4.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but it's fundamentally\nflawed in the following way.", | |
| "start": 4657.7, | |
| "duration": 2.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's consider exactly what happens\nwhen you have a stack overflow.", | |
| "start": 4660.05, | |
| "duration": 4.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It turns out that this is a bad\nenough problem that you can actually", | |
| "start": 4664.09, | |
| "duration": 3.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "lose control over your computer itself.", | |
| "start": 4667.48, | |
| "duration": 2.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It can be hacked into if\nan adversary, a bad guy,", | |
| "start": 4670.25, | |
| "duration": 3.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "has the ability somehow to inject his\nor her own adversarial code, code that", | |
| "start": 4673.46, | |
| "duration": 5.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "deletes your files, or encrypt your\nfiles, or does something malicious,", | |
| "start": 4678.87, | |
| "duration": 3.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "into your program because of a\nmemory related mistake you've made.", | |
| "start": 4682.66, | |
| "duration": 3.13 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's consider this example.", | |
| "start": 4685.79, | |
| "duration": 1.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Here's the main function.", | |
| "start": 4687.09, | |
| "duration": 1.15 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In this particular example, it takes\ncommand line arguments arg-c and arg-v", | |
| "start": 4688.24, | |
| "duration": 4.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and just apparently calls this function\nfoo, passing in the second word", | |
| "start": 4692.31, | |
| "duration": 5.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that the user typed in.", | |
| "start": 4697.31, | |
| "duration": 1.02 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So the first command line argument\nthat the user ran at the prompt.", | |
| "start": 4698.33, | |
| "duration": 2.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it just blindly does this.", | |
| "start": 4701.16, | |
| "duration": 1.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It doesn't check arg-c, it doesn't check\nfor null, it doesn't check anything.", | |
| "start": 4702.41, | |
| "duration": 3.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It just blindly passes\nin arg-v bracket 1.", | |
| "start": 4705.94, | |
| "duration": 2.714 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that's generally bad practice.", | |
| "start": 4708.654, | |
| "duration": 1.416 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Right?", | |
| "start": 4710.07, | |
| "duration": 0.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If you're not error checking, bad things\nare likely going to happen eventually.", | |
| "start": 4710.57, | |
| "duration": 3.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, what does foo do?", | |
| "start": 4714.14, | |
| "duration": 1.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Foo takes a char star as inputs.", | |
| "start": 4715.9, | |
| "duration": 2.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, a week ago, we would\nhave said string bar,", | |
| "start": 4718.89, | |
| "duration": 2.794 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but we don't need to\nhide that detail anymore.", | |
| "start": 4721.684, | |
| "duration": 1.916 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Bar is just the address of a character.", | |
| "start": 4723.6, | |
| "duration": 3.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's a string.", | |
| "start": 4726.94, | |
| "duration": 1.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Foo returns nothing, but\nhas two lines of code.", | |
| "start": 4728.13, | |
| "duration": 2.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "First, it declares an array\ncalled c-- just because.", | |
| "start": 4730.66, | |
| "duration": 3.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This is kind of a\ncontrived example online,", | |
| "start": 4734.54, | |
| "duration": 3.28 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but the pictures will\ntell it all-- of size 12.", | |
| "start": 4737.82, | |
| "duration": 3.126 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this is saying, hey, computer.", | |
| "start": 4740.946, | |
| "duration": 1.374 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Give me an array of 12 characters.", | |
| "start": 4742.32, | |
| "duration": 2.16 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Or give me a chunk of memory of size\n12 that I plan to put characters into.", | |
| "start": 4744.48, | |
| "duration": 4.265 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then, mem copy, you\nmight not have seen before,", | |
| "start": 4748.745, | |
| "duration": 2.125 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but it essentially does this it\ncopies into this chunk of memory", | |
| "start": 4750.87, | |
| "duration": 4.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "whatever is at that chunk of\nmemory up to this many bytes.", | |
| "start": 4755.67, | |
| "duration": 4.59 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So mem copy, as the names\nsuggests, copies memory from here", | |
| "start": 4760.26, | |
| "duration": 3.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to here a total number\nof this many bytes.", | |
| "start": 4763.84, | |
| "duration": 4.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So why is this worrisome?", | |
| "start": 4767.85, | |
| "duration": 2.13 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, if for whatever reason\nyou have only allocated 12 bytes", | |
| "start": 4769.98, | |
| "duration": 4.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and the user has typed\na word at the prompt", | |
| "start": 4774.1, | |
| "duration": 2.82 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "when running your program\nthat is more than 12 bytes,", | |
| "start": 4776.92, | |
| "duration": 3.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "it would seem that the user\nis able to touch memory", | |
| "start": 4780.7, | |
| "duration": 6.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that you the programmer never intended.", | |
| "start": 4787.4, | |
| "duration": 1.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Why?", | |
| "start": 4789.21, | |
| "duration": 0.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, your use of mem copy is\nchecking the length of something,", | |
| "start": 4789.99, | |
| "duration": 3.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but it's checking the length of bar.", | |
| "start": 4793.63, | |
| "duration": 1.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So if the user types in not 12\ncharacters, but 20 characters,", | |
| "start": 4795.55, | |
| "duration": 3.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "strleng of bar is going to be 20.", | |
| "start": 4799.26, | |
| "duration": 2.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The user's input is 20 characters long.", | |
| "start": 4801.92, | |
| "duration": 1.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So your code is saying copy\n20 characters from bar into c.", | |
| "start": 4803.7, | |
| "duration": 5.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Unfortunately, c is only of size 12 and\nso that's 8 bytes you end up copying", | |
| "start": 4809.2, | |
| "duration": 5.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that you shouldn't.", | |
| "start": 4814.56, | |
| "duration": 1.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So if you were given a chunk of\nmemory here that's only of size 8", | |
| "start": 4815.91, | |
| "duration": 3.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and you're just 12, you're touching\n8 more bytes to the right of it,", | |
| "start": 4819.71, | |
| "duration": 3.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "so to speak, that don't\nactually belong to you.", | |
| "start": 4823.64, | |
| "duration": 3.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, at best, nothing's going to happen.", | |
| "start": 4826.9, | |
| "duration": 2.056 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Your computer, your program\nis not going to notice.", | |
| "start": 4828.956, | |
| "duration": 2.124 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Things are just going to hum along\nand all is going to seem fine.", | |
| "start": 4831.08, | |
| "duration": 3.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Much like my memory\nprogram a moment ago.", | |
| "start": 4834.47, | |
| "duration": 1.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Seemed fine, but Valgrind\nthought otherwise.", | |
| "start": 4836.41, | |
| "duration": 2.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In this case, really\nbad things can happen.", | |
| "start": 4839.2, | |
| "duration": 3.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because if what the human adversary,\nthe bad guy, has typed at the prompt", | |
| "start": 4842.52, | |
| "duration": 4.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is not just some word like foo,\nor bar, or David, or Zamyla,", | |
| "start": 4847.37, | |
| "duration": 3.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or any number of sort\nof innocuous strings,", | |
| "start": 4851.35, | |
| "duration": 3.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but is actually the ASCII equivalent,\nso the textual equivalent,", | |
| "start": 4854.45, | |
| "duration": 3.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of some malicious code-- so if he or\nshe actually somehow typed at the prompt", | |
| "start": 4858.38, | |
| "duration": 4.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a pattern of characters that really\nrepresent a pattern of bits that", | |
| "start": 4863.25, | |
| "duration": 3.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "do something bad, like\ndelete all your files,", | |
| "start": 4867.15, | |
| "duration": 2.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or spam everyone in your address\nbook, or any number of things.", | |
| "start": 4869.32, | |
| "duration": 3.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If they provide a string that's\nlonger than 12 characters,", | |
| "start": 4872.93, | |
| "duration": 3.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the overflow is going to\nend up somewhere in memory.", | |
| "start": 4876.67, | |
| "duration": 3.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And where is that?", | |
| "start": 4879.92, | |
| "duration": 1.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, let's zoom in a little lower level\nto what your computer's memory looks", | |
| "start": 4881.09, | |
| "duration": 4.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "like on the stack.", | |
| "start": 4885.61, | |
| "duration": 1.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So it's a little more detail.", | |
| "start": 4887.39, | |
| "duration": 1.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's absorb this for just a moment.", | |
| "start": 4888.91, | |
| "duration": 1.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Think of this now as the bottom of\nthe stack, parent routines stack.", | |
| "start": 4890.87, | |
| "duration": 4.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So you can think of this as main, or\nfoo, or some function on the stack.", | |
| "start": 4895.54, | |
| "duration": 3.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It turns out-- and I didn't\nmention this earlier--", | |
| "start": 4899.18, | |
| "duration": 2.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that besides there being arguments\nor parameters on the stack", | |
| "start": 4901.37, | |
| "duration": 3.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and local variables on the stack,\nit turns out that the computer also", | |
| "start": 4904.49, | |
| "duration": 4.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "uses the stack just to kind of store\na reminder for itself of the address", | |
| "start": 4908.7, | |
| "duration": 5.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in memory of the\nfunction that called it.", | |
| "start": 4914.38, | |
| "duration": 3.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So if this picture represents foo, the\nfunction right now, who called foo?", | |
| "start": 4917.61, | |
| "duration": 5.82 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Main called foo and so what foo\ndoes is, on its own stack, it", | |
| "start": 4923.43, | |
| "duration": 4.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "just kind of jots down a note to\nitself here in pink, where it says,", | |
| "start": 4927.79, | |
| "duration": 3.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "return address, when I'm done,\nreturn to this address of main.", | |
| "start": 4930.79, | |
| "duration": 3.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The computer does that for itself.", | |
| "start": 4934.03, | |
| "duration": 2.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So when foo is done executing,\npreviously, I just wipe the screen", | |
| "start": 4936.59, | |
| "duration": 3.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and remove foo.", | |
| "start": 4939.86, | |
| "duration": 1.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But how does the program know where\nto go back to after foo is done?", | |
| "start": 4940.9, | |
| "duration": 3.424 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's because it put a little\nbread crumb for itself.", | |
| "start": 4944.324, | |
| "duration": 2.166 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The address of main, itself.", | |
| "start": 4946.49, | |
| "duration": 2.112 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Not the address of variables, the\naddress of the function itself,", | |
| "start": 4948.602, | |
| "duration": 2.708 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "which, recall, is in the text\nsegment of your computer's memory.", | |
| "start": 4951.31, | |
| "duration": 3.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But never mind that for now.", | |
| "start": 4954.77, | |
| "duration": 1.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So now, let's look at what the stack\nframe for foo is actually like.", | |
| "start": 4956.72, | |
| "duration": 5.441 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Here is that array of size 12.", | |
| "start": 4962.161, | |
| "duration": 1.919 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it's drawn as a rectangle.", | |
| "start": 4964.08, | |
| "duration": 1.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If we made it wider, we could just\ndo 0, 1, 2, all the way through C 11,", | |
| "start": 4965.5, | |
| "duration": 4.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but the author of this graphic has just\ndrawn things a little more square like.", | |
| "start": 4969.6, | |
| "duration": 4.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this is the first byte in C and\nthis is the last byte in C, 0 and 11,", | |
| "start": 4974.23, | |
| "duration": 4.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "respectively.", | |
| "start": 4978.75, | |
| "duration": 0.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then bar, recall, is the\nonly argument to the foo function", | |
| "start": 4979.6, | |
| "duration": 3.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and that, as I did mention before,\nbelongs on the stack as well.", | |
| "start": 4982.68, | |
| "duration": 4.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But here's the problem.", | |
| "start": 4987.12, | |
| "duration": 1.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And this is by design.", | |
| "start": 4988.45, | |
| "duration": 1.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It appears that whoever\ndesigned the stack,", | |
| "start": 4989.89, | |
| "duration": 4.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "has it growing upwards,\nas in this picture.", | |
| "start": 4993.89, | |
| "duration": 2.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that's how I described it earlier.", | |
| "start": 4996.55, | |
| "duration": 1.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So the stack itself grows up.", | |
| "start": 4998.45, | |
| "duration": 1.84 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Frames go up and up and up and up.", | |
| "start": 5000.29, | |
| "duration": 2.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But within a frame, notice what happens.", | |
| "start": 5002.68, | |
| "duration": 2.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Within a frame, if you've got a buffer,\nan array of memory, a chunk of memory,", | |
| "start": 5005.06, | |
| "duration": 4.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and you write to it, you start\nwriting to that memory, by design,", | |
| "start": 5009.89, | |
| "duration": 4.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "at the top left corner, so to\nspeak, to the right, and then down,", | |
| "start": 5014.43, | |
| "duration": 4.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and then down.", | |
| "start": 5018.72, | |
| "duration": 1.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So top left to bottom\nright, so to speak.", | |
| "start": 5019.82, | |
| "duration": 2.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Pictorially.", | |
| "start": 5022.58, | |
| "duration": 1.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This was not necessarily a good\nthing, at least in this case.", | |
| "start": 5024.08, | |
| "duration": 3.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because if the stack is growing up\nand this is the top of foo's frame", | |
| "start": 5028.0, | |
| "duration": 4.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and it's use of the array\nc is by design going down,", | |
| "start": 5032.47, | |
| "duration": 3.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that's all fine if the user only\nprovides a string of length 12 or less,", | |
| "start": 5036.38, | |
| "duration": 4.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "12 or shorter, but in this case if\nthe adversary types in a 20 character", | |
| "start": 5040.76, | |
| "duration": 5.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "string or 200 character\nstring, the computer", | |
| "start": 5045.8, | |
| "duration": 2.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is not just going to stop there.", | |
| "start": 5048.45, | |
| "duration": 1.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Unless you wrote code\nwith an if condition", | |
| "start": 5049.89, | |
| "duration": 1.86 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to check the length that the user\nis trying to pass in and protect", | |
| "start": 5051.75, | |
| "duration": 3.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "against that, it's\ngoing to overwrite all", | |
| "start": 5055.67, | |
| "duration": 2.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of these bytes, all of these bytes,\nwhatever this is, all of these bytes,", | |
| "start": 5057.97, | |
| "duration": 4.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and this is what's worrisome.", | |
| "start": 5062.48, | |
| "duration": 1.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If you have a really smart\nadversary up against you,", | |
| "start": 5064.12, | |
| "duration": 3.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "trying to hack into your system, and he\nor she is smart enough or lucky enough", | |
| "start": 5067.58, | |
| "duration": 4.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to figure out how to inject a pattern\nof bits into your program in this way,", | |
| "start": 5072.16, | |
| "duration": 5.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "such that he or she overwrites\nthis return address,", | |
| "start": 5077.77, | |
| "duration": 3.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a really clever adversary\ncan trick your program", | |
| "start": 5081.22, | |
| "duration": 3.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "into returning to, not the\nfunction that called foo, main,", | |
| "start": 5084.68, | |
| "duration": 4.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but returning to the address\nof the adversary's own function", | |
| "start": 5089.67, | |
| "duration": 4.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that he or she has somehow injected\nby way of typing input at the prompt,", | |
| "start": 5093.99, | |
| "duration": 5.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in this case.", | |
| "start": 5099.49, | |
| "duration": 1.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In other words, if the user types in\njust, hello, h-e-l-l-o, backslash, 0,", | |
| "start": 5100.6, | |
| "duration": 4.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "all is fine and good and it\nfits perfectly in that frame.", | |
| "start": 5105.22, | |
| "duration": 3.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But because we didn't\nhave good error checking", | |
| "start": 5108.27, | |
| "duration": 1.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "on the length of the\nmemory we're copying,", | |
| "start": 5110.21, | |
| "duration": 2.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "suppose the adversary includes a\nwhole bunch of adversarial code, which", | |
| "start": 5113.0, | |
| "duration": 3.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the author here abstracted away as a,\na, a, adversary, or attack, attack,", | |
| "start": 5116.49, | |
| "duration": 4.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "attack, what might actually happen here?", | |
| "start": 5120.63, | |
| "duration": 2.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, if that adversary gets\nlucky enough or is smart enough,", | |
| "start": 5123.42, | |
| "duration": 4.28 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "he or she might be able to\noverwrite these 4 bytes here", | |
| "start": 5127.7, | |
| "duration": 5.16 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "with the address, brilliantly,\nof his or her own attack code,", | |
| "start": 5132.86, | |
| "duration": 5.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "which is the bits or the characters\nthat he or she typed at the prompt.", | |
| "start": 5138.73, | |
| "duration": 3.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So again, a lot of this is luck.", | |
| "start": 5142.24, | |
| "duration": 1.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Or a lot of this is trial\nand error sometimes,", | |
| "start": 5143.7, | |
| "duration": 2.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to attack a program in\nthis way, but if you", | |
| "start": 5145.78, | |
| "duration": 2.28 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "can trick the computer into\njumping to an address that", | |
| "start": 5148.06, | |
| "duration": 3.82 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "happens to point at data you\ninjected into the program,", | |
| "start": 5151.88, | |
| "duration": 4.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you have effectively taken\nover that user's program,", | |
| "start": 5156.27, | |
| "duration": 2.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "tricking the program into running\nany and all code that in this case", | |
| "start": 5159.1, | |
| "duration": 5.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you provided by a arg-v. So if you've\never heard of a server getting hacked,", | |
| "start": 5164.14, | |
| "duration": 3.59 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or in the future you will hear\nof a server getting hacked,", | |
| "start": 5167.73, | |
| "duration": 2.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or a program getting compromised,\ncould mean any number of things,", | |
| "start": 5170.21, | |
| "duration": 3.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but one of them, and an\nall too common approach,", | |
| "start": 5173.31, | |
| "duration": 2.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is that the programmer who wrote\nthe software used a buffer,", | |
| "start": 5175.75, | |
| "duration": 4.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "used an array, a chunk\nof memory, and he or she", | |
| "start": 5180.43, | |
| "duration": 2.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "did not check the boundaries\nof that array sufficiently.", | |
| "start": 5182.67, | |
| "duration": 4.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Did not make sure that\nhis or her own code", | |
| "start": 5187.23, | |
| "duration": 1.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "was not going too far as was\nthis particular example here.", | |
| "start": 5189.02, | |
| "duration": 5.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So now that we have this\npower of going anywhere", | |
| "start": 5194.66, | |
| "duration": 2.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we want in memory, it's incredibly easy\nto accidentally or maliciously use,", | |
| "start": 5197.43, | |
| "duration": 5.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but that's it.", | |
| "start": 5202.79, | |
| "duration": 1.03 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That boils down to just\nthis basic understanding", | |
| "start": 5203.82, | |
| "duration": 2.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of what's going on underneath\nthe hood and what you can now", | |
| "start": 5205.83, | |
| "duration": 2.458 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "do with the computer's memory.", | |
| "start": 5208.288, | |
| "duration": 2.322 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And now, let's transition to the\nsecond of our real world demands.", | |
| "start": 5213.57, | |
| "duration": 4.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now that we have the ability\nto talk about memory addresses", | |
| "start": 5218.38, | |
| "duration": 3.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and actually do things at\nthis lower level, turns out,", | |
| "start": 5221.48, | |
| "duration": 3.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we can start solving some really\ninteresting problems, among them", | |
| "start": 5224.92, | |
| "duration": 3.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "related to images and forensics, the art\nand science of recovering information.", | |
| "start": 5227.92, | |
| "duration": 5.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In fact, you might recall from various\nTV shows or movies, that it's all", | |
| "start": 5233.61, | |
| "duration": 3.28 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "too common for the good guys\nin the movies and the TV", | |
| "start": 5236.89, | |
| "duration": 3.382 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "shows to be looking over\nthe shoulder of a tech", | |
| "start": 5240.272, | |
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| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and seeing some footage of a burglary\nor some other crime that's committed", | |
| "start": 5242.23, | |
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| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and say, hey, can you clean that up?", | |
| "start": 5245.61, | |
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| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Or can you enhance that?", | |
| "start": 5247.35, | |
| "duration": 1.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And, indeed, let's take a look at\none such clip from the real world", | |
| "start": 5249.12, | |
| "duration": 3.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and see how it relates\nto the actual world", | |
| "start": 5252.68, | |
| "duration": 2.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and how we can leverage some of this\nnew found savvy with memory addresses", | |
| "start": 5255.09, | |
| "duration": 3.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and computing to actually solve\nsome of these problems for real.", | |
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| "duration": 4.804 | |
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| "text": "-He's lying.", | |
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| "text": "-About what?", | |
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| "text": "-I don't know.", | |
| "start": 5266.24, | |
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| "text": "-So what do we know?", | |
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| "text": "-That at 9:15 Ray\nSantoya was at the ATM.", | |
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| "text": "-OK, so the question is,\nwhat was he doing at 9:16?", | |
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| "start": 5283.55, | |
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| { | |
| "text": "DAVID J. MALAN: OK.", | |
| "start": 5318.25, | |
| "duration": 0.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this is just nonsense.", | |
| "start": 5319.05, | |
| "duration": 1.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Like, you can't just\nclean up an image, or look", | |
| "start": 5320.31, | |
| "duration": 2.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "at something that's very\npixelated, so to speak,", | |
| "start": 5322.42, | |
| "duration": 2.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "where pixels are dots on the\nscreen, and just kind of zoom in", | |
| "start": 5324.42, | |
| "duration": 2.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and clean that up and enhance it.", | |
| "start": 5327.09, | |
| "duration": 1.944 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And, indeed, that's kind\nof this running joke.", | |
| "start": 5329.034, | |
| "duration": 1.916 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Enhance doesn't really\ngenerally mean enhance when you", | |
| "start": 5330.95, | |
| "duration": 3.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "have a finite amount of information.", | |
| "start": 5334.36, | |
| "duration": 1.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "For instance, here is a\nfinite amount of information.", | |
| "start": 5335.94, | |
| "duration": 2.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A photograph of Zamyla that\nlooks to be of very high quality.", | |
| "start": 5338.52, | |
| "duration": 3.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "You can see lots of detail.", | |
| "start": 5342.05, | |
| "duration": 1.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so you might think that we can\nmaybe see the reflection of someone", | |
| "start": 5343.62, | |
| "duration": 3.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in her eye if we really just\nzoom in and enhance, but no.", | |
| "start": 5347.09, | |
| "duration": 4.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This is what you see, and it's actually\nkind of creepy at this distance.", | |
| "start": 5351.15, | |
| "duration": 3.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This is what you see when you zoom\nin on that exact same photo of Zamyla", | |
| "start": 5355.09, | |
| "duration": 5.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to find that glint in her eye of the\nbad guy, or the badge on his shoulder,", | |
| "start": 5360.15, | |
| "duration": 3.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or whatever it was.", | |
| "start": 5363.55, | |
| "duration": 1.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "There is only a finite\namount of information here.", | |
| "start": 5364.82, | |
| "duration": 2.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "There is literally only a finite\nnumber of rows and columns", | |
| "start": 5367.39, | |
| "duration": 3.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and therefore really big pixels\nfrom which to glean information.", | |
| "start": 5370.78, | |
| "duration": 3.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now, there do exist algorithms and\nsoftware that can smooth this out.", | |
| "start": 5374.28, | |
| "duration": 4.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "You can enhance the image in the\nsense that you can kind of maybe", | |
| "start": 5378.54, | |
| "duration": 3.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "tweak the color so that it looks a\nlittle more gradual, the color changes,", | |
| "start": 5381.92, | |
| "duration": 3.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and a little less jarring, but\nyou can't just put pixels there,", | |
| "start": 5385.83, | |
| "duration": 3.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "put bits there that are not\nexistent in the first place.", | |
| "start": 5389.74, | |
| "duration": 4.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so, with this, invites the\nquestion well, then what is an image,", | |
| "start": 5394.14, | |
| "duration": 4.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "how do you represent it, and what\ncan you actually glean from it", | |
| "start": 5398.78, | |
| "duration": 3.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and do from it?", | |
| "start": 5401.95, | |
| "duration": 0.84 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, let's consider in the simplest\ncase what an image might be.", | |
| "start": 5402.79, | |
| "duration": 3.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Here is an image of a\nwonderfully simple smiley face.", | |
| "start": 5405.89, | |
| "duration": 2.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's black and white.", | |
| "start": 5408.77, | |
| "duration": 1.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if it's black and white, frankly, we\ncan get away with just ones and zeros.", | |
| "start": 5410.07, | |
| "duration": 4.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I might arbitrarily say that the number\n1 shall represent the color white", | |
| "start": 5414.12, | |
| "duration": 5.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and the number 0 shall represent\nthe color black and, as such,", | |
| "start": 5419.34, | |
| "duration": 3.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "if I just have a bunch of patterns\nof 8 bits, ones and zeros,", | |
| "start": 5422.76, | |
| "duration": 3.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I can effectively think\nof them as a grid.", | |
| "start": 5426.68, | |
| "duration": 2.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Rows and columns.", | |
| "start": 5429.02, | |
| "duration": 1.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if I see a 0 pixel, assume it's\na black dot, if I see a 1 pixel,", | |
| "start": 5430.38, | |
| "duration": 4.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "it's a white dot.", | |
| "start": 5434.89, | |
| "duration": 2.03 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And, as such, I can\ncreate a bitmapped image.", | |
| "start": 5436.92, | |
| "duration": 3.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Bitmap, it's like a map, x's and\ny's, of bits, bitmapped image.", | |
| "start": 5440.55, | |
| "duration": 4.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "There is the simplest, perhaps,\nsmiley face we can draw.", | |
| "start": 5445.02, | |
| "duration": 2.994 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now it's not all that interesting.", | |
| "start": 5448.014, | |
| "duration": 1.416 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It would be a pretty useless\nphotograph if you only", | |
| "start": 5449.43, | |
| "duration": 2.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "had dots of that level of detail.", | |
| "start": 5452.41, | |
| "duration": 1.599 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed we saw, when you\nreally zoom in on Zumilah's eyes,", | |
| "start": 5454.009, | |
| "duration": 2.541 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you have really big grids.", | |
| "start": 5456.55, | |
| "duration": 1.084 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And those were colorful, but\nthere isn't that much information.", | |
| "start": 5457.634, | |
| "duration": 2.624 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We need more resolution.", | |
| "start": 5460.258, | |
| "duration": 1.082 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We need more dots,\nmore pixels, more bits.", | |
| "start": 5461.34, | |
| "duration": 2.82 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so the general case is to use\nnot something as simple as this,", | |
| "start": 5464.16, | |
| "duration": 3.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but a more standard format like JPEG.", | |
| "start": 5467.46, | |
| "duration": 1.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "JPEG is what you see on Facebook\nand on your cameras, most likely.", | |
| "start": 5469.43, | |
| "duration": 3.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's an image format that\nphotographs are commonly stored in,", | |
| "start": 5472.7, | |
| "duration": 4.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "because it stores millions of\ncolors-- potentially for photographs--", | |
| "start": 5476.97, | |
| "duration": 3.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and it also allows you to compress them.", | |
| "start": 5480.67, | |
| "duration": 3.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "You can compress JPEGs in\nsuch a way that you throw away", | |
| "start": 5483.86, | |
| "duration": 3.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "some of the 0's and 1's,\nthereby degrading the image.", | |
| "start": 5486.95, | |
| "duration": 2.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So it's a little blurrier,\nor a little splotchy,", | |
| "start": 5489.87, | |
| "duration": 2.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but at least it's much, much smaller\nand can be emailed or texted or stored", | |
| "start": 5492.63, | |
| "duration": 3.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "with far less space involved.", | |
| "start": 5496.46, | |
| "duration": 2.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it turns out, if we\nput on our forensics hats", | |
| "start": 5498.63, | |
| "duration": 3.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "now-- it turns out that JPEGs\nall share something in common.", | |
| "start": 5502.04, | |
| "duration": 5.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Any of the JPEGs you see on the\ninternet or have on your hard drive", | |
| "start": 5507.8, | |
| "duration": 3.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or on your phone start with the\nsame three bytes, typically.", | |
| "start": 5511.22, | |
| "duration": 4.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Specifically, the first three bytes\nare the numbers 255, 216, 255.", | |
| "start": 5516.21, | |
| "duration": 7.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Why that?", | |
| "start": 5523.65, | |
| "duration": 0.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's just the standard that was\nadopted some time ago for JPEGs.", | |
| "start": 5524.17, | |
| "duration": 4.15 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's like a magic number, if you\nwill, at the start of the image.", | |
| "start": 5528.32, | |
| "duration": 3.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now it turns out these\nare decimal numbers.", | |
| "start": 5531.5, | |
| "duration": 1.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And frankly, in the world\nof computing, and really", | |
| "start": 5533.33, | |
| "duration": 2.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the world of file inputs and\noutput-- file management--", | |
| "start": 5536.3, | |
| "duration": 3.147 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "we don't really talk in decimal.", | |
| "start": 5539.447, | |
| "duration": 1.333 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's just not commonly done.", | |
| "start": 5540.78, | |
| "duration": 1.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "More commonly done is to talk,\nnot in decimal, not in binary", | |
| "start": 5542.07, | |
| "duration": 3.58 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as we did in week 0, but in hexadecimal.", | |
| "start": 5545.65, | |
| "duration": 2.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So it looks a little spooky\nat first, but it really", | |
| "start": 5548.56, | |
| "duration": 3.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is an alphabet of 16 characters\ninstead of 10, instead of 2.", | |
| "start": 5552.27, | |
| "duration": 4.904 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And you start counting at 0, as the real\nworld does-- 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,", | |
| "start": 5557.174, | |
| "duration": 3.333 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "9-- but there is no 10, because\nthese are single digits.", | |
| "start": 5560.507, | |
| "duration": 4.643 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So after 9 comes A, B, C,\nD, E. So with hexadecimal,", | |
| "start": 5565.15, | |
| "duration": 5.13 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you can effectively count\nfrom 0 to 15 so long", | |
| "start": 5570.28, | |
| "duration": 3.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as you borrow some\nletters of the alphabet", | |
| "start": 5574.23, | |
| "duration": 1.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to do 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15.", | |
| "start": 5576.08, | |
| "duration": 3.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So let's map that onto\nthis pattern of numbers", | |
| "start": 5579.91, | |
| "duration": 3.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that demarcates the start of a JPEG.", | |
| "start": 5583.47, | |
| "duration": 2.03 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "These numbers, if we do them\nout in binary, equals this.", | |
| "start": 5585.5, | |
| "duration": 3.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we can leave this\nas an exercise at home", | |
| "start": 5589.0, | |
| "duration": 2.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "if you'd like, but trust\nme, per week 0, that these", | |
| "start": 5591.4, | |
| "duration": 4.36 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "are the patterns of bits that are\nequivalent to 255, 216, and 255.", | |
| "start": 5595.76, | |
| "duration": 4.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Those are the light bulbs you\nwould need to turn on and off.", | |
| "start": 5600.5, | |
| "duration": 2.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Meanwhile, we can add some\nspace there-- so before, after--", | |
| "start": 5603.49, | |
| "duration": 5.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and I did this deliberately.", | |
| "start": 5608.91, | |
| "duration": 1.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because it turns out that hexadecimal,\ninsofar as you can count as high as 15", | |
| "start": 5610.69, | |
| "duration": 6.91 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "for 16 total characters-- it turns\nout that hexadecimal is really useful.", | |
| "start": 5617.6, | |
| "duration": 3.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because with four bits,\nfour 0's and 1's, you", | |
| "start": 5621.57, | |
| "duration": 3.71 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "can count from zero\nall the way up to what?", | |
| "start": 5625.28, | |
| "duration": 4.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "All the way up to 15, which is perfect,\nbecause if you have four 1 bits,", | |
| "start": 5629.78, | |
| "duration": 4.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that's 15.", | |
| "start": 5634.56, | |
| "duration": 0.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If you have four 0 bits, that's 0.", | |
| "start": 5635.33, | |
| "duration": 2.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it turns out that patterns\nof 4 bits-- so half of a byte--", | |
| "start": 5637.38, | |
| "duration": 4.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "map perfectly to hexadecimal characters.", | |
| "start": 5641.6, | |
| "duration": 2.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "You can express chunks of 4 bits with\nhexadecimal characters perfectly.", | |
| "start": 5644.07, | |
| "duration": 4.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "As such, it turns out that 15,\nagain, is F. So we have FF.", | |
| "start": 5648.18, | |
| "duration": 5.16 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it turns out that\n1101 and 1000 from 216.", | |
| "start": 5653.34, | |
| "duration": 5.419 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If you take those 8 bits\nand just spread them out", | |
| "start": 5658.759, | |
| "duration": 2.041 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "slightly into two groups of four, is the\nletter D in hexadecimal and the number", | |
| "start": 5660.8, | |
| "duration": 4.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "8 in hexadecimal.", | |
| "start": 5665.01, | |
| "duration": 1.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then we have another couple\nof 15's-- two sets of four 1 bits.", | |
| "start": 5666.25, | |
| "duration": 4.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So that's FF.", | |
| "start": 5670.66, | |
| "duration": 1.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Which is to say that the first\nthree bytes at the start of any JPEG", | |
| "start": 5671.84, | |
| "duration": 5.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "happen to be FF D8 FF.", | |
| "start": 5677.07, | |
| "duration": 2.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it's human convention to prefix\nhexadecimal digits for clarity", | |
| "start": 5679.88, | |
| "duration": 4.03 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in the real world with just 0x.", | |
| "start": 5683.91, | |
| "duration": 1.76 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It means nothing fundamentally\nother than, hey world, here comes", | |
| "start": 5685.67, | |
| "duration": 3.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a hexadecimal number, so that the\nworld just knows what it's looking at", | |
| "start": 5688.84, | |
| "duration": 3.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and doesn't confuse it for some\nother numeric or base system.", | |
| "start": 5692.67, | |
| "duration": 3.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So 0x just means here comes a\nseries of hexadecimal digits.", | |
| "start": 5695.87, | |
| "duration": 3.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So that is what is at\nthe beginning of a JPEG.", | |
| "start": 5699.81, | |
| "duration": 2.88 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And in fact, one of the problems\nwe put before you in CS50 each year", | |
| "start": 5702.69, | |
| "duration": 4.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is to recover some JPEGs.", | |
| "start": 5707.02, | |
| "duration": 2.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In fact, it's all too common,\nunfortunately, to lose photographs", | |
| "start": 5709.83, | |
| "duration": 4.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "from a memory card or to accidentally\ndelete files from your computer.", | |
| "start": 5713.84, | |
| "duration": 3.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And typically, you might\nfreak out or be worried", | |
| "start": 5717.05, | |
| "duration": 2.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that, damn, I didn't mean to delete\nthose photos or delete those files.", | |
| "start": 5719.45, | |
| "duration": 3.86 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And sometimes they are gone for good.", | |
| "start": 5723.31, | |
| "duration": 2.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But it turns out that\ncomputers and even phones", | |
| "start": 5725.43, | |
| "duration": 2.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "don't necessarily delete\nphotos right away.", | |
| "start": 5727.77, | |
| "duration": 1.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "They forget where they are, but\nthey don't outright delete them.", | |
| "start": 5729.73, | |
| "duration": 2.915 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "They don't change the 0's to 1's and\nthe 1's to 0's unless you start taking", | |
| "start": 5732.645, | |
| "duration": 3.125 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "more and more photos immediately.", | |
| "start": 5735.77, | |
| "duration": 1.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But if you have accidentally formatted\nor corrupted your memory card", | |
| "start": 5737.41, | |
| "duration": 3.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in a phone or a computer, such that\nyou think you've now lost your photos,", | |
| "start": 5740.97, | |
| "duration": 4.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "what if you did this?", | |
| "start": 5745.39, | |
| "duration": 1.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What if you wrote software that iterated\nfrom the start of your memory card", | |
| "start": 5746.53, | |
| "duration": 4.49 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or your phone all the way to the end of\nyour phone or your memory card's memory", | |
| "start": 5751.02, | |
| "duration": 4.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "looking for this pattern of\nbits, this pattern of numbers", | |
| "start": 5755.57, | |
| "duration": 3.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or hexadecimal digits, this pattern\nof 24 bits-- 8 plus 8 plus 8?", | |
| "start": 5759.47, | |
| "duration": 4.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "With high probability,\nif, upon iterating", | |
| "start": 5764.41, | |
| "duration": 2.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "through your phone's memory or\ncamera's memory, you see FF D8 and FF,", | |
| "start": 5767.07, | |
| "duration": 5.13 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you can perhaps infer that the following\nmegabytes-- 2 megabytes, however", | |
| "start": 5772.2, | |
| "duration": 5.16 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "big the photograph is-- is\nthe entirety of a photo.", | |
| "start": 5777.36, | |
| "duration": 3.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if you just grab those\nbits and save a copy,", | |
| "start": 5781.0, | |
| "duration": 2.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "maybe you can recover\nall or some of the photo.", | |
| "start": 5783.0, | |
| "duration": 2.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, one of the challenges\nyou'll soon see in our problems", | |
| "start": 5785.35, | |
| "duration": 2.904 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that focus on forensics is\ngoing to be exactly this.", | |
| "start": 5788.254, | |
| "duration": 2.166 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We will accidentally format a memory\ncard from a camera or a phone.", | |
| "start": 5790.42, | |
| "duration": 4.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We will give you a forensic image\nof that memory card, so to speak,", | |
| "start": 5794.89, | |
| "duration": 3.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a perfect copy of all of the 0's and\n1's therein, give it to you as a file,", | |
| "start": 5798.3, | |
| "duration": 4.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and challenge you with writing software\nthat iterates over that file's bytes,", | |
| "start": 5802.97, | |
| "duration": 3.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "from the 0th byte all the way to the end\nof the file, looking for this pattern.", | |
| "start": 5806.76, | |
| "duration": 3.665 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And any time you see this\npattern, you will need to say,", | |
| "start": 5810.425, | |
| "duration": 3.675 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "this is probably a JPEG.", | |
| "start": 5814.1, | |
| "duration": 1.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me start copying these bytes into\na separate file name-- something.jpg.", | |
| "start": 5815.61, | |
| "duration": 5.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, if you get the code right,\nsuddenly out of this forensic image", | |
| "start": 5820.9, | |
| "duration": 4.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "pops any number of photographs\nthat we thought were lost forever.", | |
| "start": 5825.64, | |
| "duration": 5.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Bitmap is another type of\nimage file-- older, perhaps,", | |
| "start": 5831.12, | |
| "duration": 4.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "than JPEG and simpler--\ntruly a bitmapped image", | |
| "start": 5836.01, | |
| "duration": 2.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "with slightly less fancy\nalgorithms for compression.", | |
| "start": 5838.88, | |
| "duration": 2.82 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But if you remember this\nworld, this is perhaps", | |
| "start": 5841.7, | |
| "duration": 3.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a perfect example of a bitmap image\nfrom Windows XP back in the day.", | |
| "start": 5845.26, | |
| "duration": 4.45 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The wallpaper or desktop image that many\nof you might have had on your computers", | |
| "start": 5849.71, | |
| "duration": 3.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "looked like this.", | |
| "start": 5853.4, | |
| "duration": 0.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "As an aside, if you go poking\naround I think on Wikipedia,", | |
| "start": 5854.27, | |
| "duration": 2.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "someone wonderfully went\nto this same spot, found it", | |
| "start": 5856.77, | |
| "duration": 2.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "where the artist had taken\nthis photograph for Microsoft,", | |
| "start": 5859.5, | |
| "duration": 3.156 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and it now looks like this.", | |
| "start": 5862.656, | |
| "duration": 1.124 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So it's not quite the\nbeautiful place it once was,", | |
| "start": 5863.78, | |
| "duration": 3.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but that, indeed, is the same hill.", | |
| "start": 5867.39, | |
| "duration": 1.494 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And this is really just\nan opportunity to talk", | |
| "start": 5868.884, | |
| "duration": 1.916 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "about this picture,\nwhich is what's really", | |
| "start": 5870.8, | |
| "duration": 2.6 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "underneath the hood of that\nbeautiful grassy meadow.", | |
| "start": 5873.4, | |
| "duration": 3.6 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's this kind of file header.", | |
| "start": 5877.0, | |
| "duration": 2.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We very quickly can make nature\nseem very boring quickly with this.", | |
| "start": 5879.47, | |
| "duration": 3.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But this is a very complicated,\nconvoluted looking way", | |
| "start": 5882.81, | |
| "duration": 3.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of just formalizing\nwhat we mean by a file.", | |
| "start": 5886.14, | |
| "duration": 4.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Like, what is a file?", | |
| "start": 5890.36, | |
| "duration": 1.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A file is just a bunch of bits, 0's and\n1's, stored somewhere on your laptop,", | |
| "start": 5891.45, | |
| "duration": 3.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or desktop, or phone, or wherever.", | |
| "start": 5895.32, | |
| "duration": 2.367 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But what does it mean\nto be a Microsoft Word", | |
| "start": 5897.687, | |
| "duration": 1.833 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "file versus a JPEG versus\na bitmap versus an Excel", | |
| "start": 5899.52, | |
| "duration": 6.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "file versus any number\nof other file formats", | |
| "start": 5905.52, | |
| "duration": 2.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that you might have on your computer?", | |
| "start": 5907.77, | |
| "duration": 1.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "MPEG4, or MP3, or AAC, or any number\nof media formats as well-- well really,", | |
| "start": 5909.56, | |
| "duration": 5.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "what it means to be a file, is to be\nfilled with 0's and 1's-- that's true--", | |
| "start": 5915.19, | |
| "duration": 5.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but to follow a certain pattern of 0's\nand 1's such that the first several", | |
| "start": 5920.33, | |
| "duration": 5.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "bits or first many bits of a\nfile typically follow a pattern.", | |
| "start": 5925.41, | |
| "duration": 4.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, JPEGs have\na pretty simple pattern.", | |
| "start": 5929.98, | |
| "duration": 2.13 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Those first three bytes,\nthose first 24 bits,", | |
| "start": 5932.11, | |
| "duration": 2.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "follow a certain pattern\nof 255, 216, 255.", | |
| "start": 5934.25, | |
| "duration": 3.86 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And that demarcates the start of a JPEG.", | |
| "start": 5938.11, | |
| "duration": 1.889 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And there's some more\ncomplexity therein, too.", | |
| "start": 5939.999, | |
| "duration": 1.916 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In a bitmap, this looks\noverwhelming at first glance,", | |
| "start": 5941.915, | |
| "duration": 3.135 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but this is how the world\ndecided to standardize", | |
| "start": 5945.05, | |
| "duration": 2.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "what's inside of the first\nfew bytes of a bitmap", | |
| "start": 5947.52, | |
| "duration": 3.13 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "file like that grassy\nmeadow from Windows XP.", | |
| "start": 5950.65, | |
| "duration": 2.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And we'll come back to this in more\ndetail and the problem set before long.", | |
| "start": 5953.31, | |
| "duration": 3.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But you'll notice some identifiers\nhere that might jump out at you.", | |
| "start": 5957.0, | |
| "duration": 3.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So width, height, size, compression--\nso there are some key words in there", | |
| "start": 5960.39, | |
| "duration": 5.549 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that might make some intuitive sense.", | |
| "start": 5965.939, | |
| "duration": 1.541 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And indeed, somewhere inside of a\nbitmap image, like that grassy meadow,", | |
| "start": 5967.48, | |
| "duration": 3.96 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is information stored, like\nwhat is the width of that image?", | |
| "start": 5971.44, | |
| "duration": 2.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What is the height of that image?", | |
| "start": 5973.94, | |
| "duration": 1.374 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Is it compressed, and how?", | |
| "start": 5975.314, | |
| "duration": 1.116 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then more interestingly,\nat the bottom of this picture", | |
| "start": 5976.43, | |
| "duration": 3.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is the beginning of what bitmap calls\nRGB triples-- Red, Green, Blue triples.", | |
| "start": 5980.07, | |
| "duration": 5.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It turns out with\npatterns of three bytes,", | |
| "start": 5986.06, | |
| "duration": 5.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "you can represent, top to bottom,\nleft to right, essentially, the color", | |
| "start": 5991.48, | |
| "duration": 4.26 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "of every one of the dots in an image.", | |
| "start": 5995.74, | |
| "duration": 2.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So when we enhanced Zamyla's image, and\nyou literally saw those really big dots", | |
| "start": 5998.66, | |
| "duration": 3.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or pixels.", | |
| "start": 6002.34, | |
| "duration": 0.61 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Each of those dots or pixels\nhas 24 bits representing", | |
| "start": 6002.95, | |
| "duration": 4.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "its color-- how much red,\nhow much green, how much blue", | |
| "start": 6007.05, | |
| "duration": 2.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "per our discussion of colors in week 0.", | |
| "start": 6009.59, | |
| "duration": 2.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so that's what most\nof a bitmap file is here.", | |
| "start": 6012.29, | |
| "duration": 2.43 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "The dot dot dot just means these\ncan go on for quite some time.", | |
| "start": 6014.72, | |
| "duration": 3.362 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What color is this dot?", | |
| "start": 6018.082, | |
| "duration": 0.958 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What color is this dot?", | |
| "start": 6019.04, | |
| "duration": 0.958 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What color is this dot?", | |
| "start": 6019.998, | |
| "duration": 0.972 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "All of that is standardized\ninside of the file.", | |
| "start": 6020.97, | |
| "duration": 3.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it turns out in C, we can express\nand represent that kind of structure", | |
| "start": 6024.39, | |
| "duration": 5.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "using one last keyword for this week.", | |
| "start": 6030.17, | |
| "duration": 2.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In C, there is also a keyword\ncalled struct-- structure--", | |
| "start": 6032.79, | |
| "duration": 5.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that allows you to create\nan actual structure", | |
| "start": 6037.91, | |
| "duration": 2.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "inside of which you store information.", | |
| "start": 6040.55, | |
| "duration": 2.02 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "For instance, the programming\nlanguage C does not", | |
| "start": 6042.57, | |
| "duration": 2.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "come with a data type\nthat represents students.", | |
| "start": 6045.3, | |
| "duration": 2.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It comes with ints, and chars,\nand floats-- heck, it doesn't even", | |
| "start": 6047.44, | |
| "duration": 2.98 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "come with string.", | |
| "start": 6050.42, | |
| "duration": 1.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It certainly doesn't come with student.", | |
| "start": 6051.5, | |
| "duration": 2.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But I would generally\nthink of a student as being", | |
| "start": 6053.5, | |
| "duration": 2.647 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the combination of a few things.", | |
| "start": 6056.147, | |
| "duration": 1.333 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And let's keep it simple.", | |
| "start": 6057.48, | |
| "duration": 1.041 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "A student is a combination of the\nstudent's name and their dorm.", | |
| "start": 6058.521, | |
| "duration": 3.759 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And bunches of other detail, but for\nnow, let's just focus on name and dorm.", | |
| "start": 6062.28, | |
| "duration": 4.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now the syntax is a\nlittle new for us here,", | |
| "start": 6066.38, | |
| "duration": 1.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but all this is saying is, hey,\nC, define a type for me that", | |
| "start": 6068.19, | |
| "duration": 5.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is a structure containing two\nfields inside of it, name and dorm,", | |
| "start": 6073.83, | |
| "duration": 4.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and call this new type students.", | |
| "start": 6078.47, | |
| "duration": 1.984 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So it's a little more complicated\nthan our typedef for a string,", | |
| "start": 6080.454, | |
| "duration": 2.666 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "because a string was just\na synonym for char star.", | |
| "start": 6083.12, | |
| "duration": 2.55 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This case, a student, is a synonym\nfor this container of things.", | |
| "start": 6085.67, | |
| "duration": 4.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's like encapsulating two\npieces of data-- name and dorm.", | |
| "start": 6090.44, | |
| "duration": 4.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But this is really useful as follows.", | |
| "start": 6094.48, | |
| "duration": 3.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "With this kind of C code, can\nwe now do things like this?", | |
| "start": 6097.98, | |
| "duration": 4.83 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead and open up structs.h.", | |
| "start": 6102.81, | |
| "duration": 3.501 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And you'll see a little\nheader file I whipped up", | |
| "start": 6106.311, | |
| "duration": 1.999 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "here that contains very\nlittle information,", | |
| "start": 6108.31, | |
| "duration": 3.27 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "just that same typedef\nfor struct, but I've also", | |
| "start": 6111.58, | |
| "duration": 4.0 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "included CS50.h in my own header file.", | |
| "start": 6115.58, | |
| "duration": 3.02 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Why?", | |
| "start": 6118.6, | |
| "duration": 0.552 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Well, just for today's\npurposes, I wanted", | |
| "start": 6119.152, | |
| "duration": 1.708 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to relax our discussion of char star\nfor a moment and talk about string.", | |
| "start": 6120.86, | |
| "duration": 4.68 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But technically, I could just do this.", | |
| "start": 6125.54, | |
| "duration": 2.87 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And technically I could do this.", | |
| "start": 6128.41, | |
| "duration": 1.74 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then I could get rid of that,\nbecause now this is true C code.", | |
| "start": 6130.15, | |
| "duration": 3.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "There is no need for the CS50 library.", | |
| "start": 6133.96, | |
| "duration": 1.73 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But either is equivalent, and whatever\nyou're more comfortable with for now", | |
| "start": 6135.69, | |
| "duration": 3.125 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is certainly fine.", | |
| "start": 6138.815, | |
| "duration": 2.395 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But let me now open up structs-0.c\nand do something with this.", | |
| "start": 6141.21, | |
| "duration": 5.32 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So in this program, notice\nthat the top of this file, I", | |
| "start": 6146.53, | |
| "duration": 2.53 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "first define a value\ncalled students to be 3.", | |
| "start": 6149.06, | |
| "duration": 4.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This is an example of a constant.", | |
| "start": 6153.53, | |
| "duration": 1.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Sharp define or pound define here\nsays, define, not a variable,", | |
| "start": 6155.0, | |
| "duration": 5.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but a constant-- and the\nconvention in programming", | |
| "start": 6160.06, | |
| "duration": 2.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "is to use all capital letters--\ndefine a constant equal to some value.", | |
| "start": 6162.83, | |
| "duration": 3.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This is not a variable\nwhose value can change.", | |
| "start": 6166.2, | |
| "duration": 2.46 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "This is just a keyword,\nSTUDENTS, in all caps,", | |
| "start": 6168.66, | |
| "duration": 2.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that is fixed now on that value 3.", | |
| "start": 6171.35, | |
| "duration": 2.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it's one way to define a constant\nin C, a value that does not change.", | |
| "start": 6173.82, | |
| "duration": 3.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What am I now going\nto do with this value?", | |
| "start": 6177.29, | |
| "duration": 1.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I first, here, declare a variable called\nstudents containing three students.", | |
| "start": 6179.18, | |
| "duration": 5.334 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So it's a little confusing that we've\ngot students, STUDENTS, student,", | |
| "start": 6184.514, | |
| "duration": 2.916 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "but they all mean different things.", | |
| "start": 6187.43, | |
| "duration": 1.458 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "students is just going\nby the name of my array.", | |
| "start": 6188.888, | |
| "duration": 2.552 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "STUDENTS in all caps is the value\n3 from that constant up above.", | |
| "start": 6191.44, | |
| "duration": 4.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then student is the type of this\narray per the header file, structs.h.", | |
| "start": 6195.56, | |
| "duration": 6.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So this is just really a\nsuccinct way of saying,", | |
| "start": 6202.19, | |
| "duration": 2.33 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "hey, computer, give me an array of size\n3 inside of which are three students,", | |
| "start": 6204.52, | |
| "duration": 6.1 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "ultimately.", | |
| "start": 6210.62, | |
| "duration": 1.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now here's an array that\niterates from i up to three.", | |
| "start": 6211.69, | |
| "duration": 3.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I print out name colon, prompting\nthe user with getstring for a name.", | |
| "start": 6214.75, | |
| "duration": 4.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And then notice this new operator dot.", | |
| "start": 6218.89, | |
| "duration": 3.6 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because struct is being used, and\nstudents bracket i is a structure, not", | |
| "start": 6222.49, | |
| "duration": 6.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "an int, or a float, or a string itself,\nwe have to go inside of that structure", | |
| "start": 6229.11, | |
| "duration": 4.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to get its field called name.", | |
| "start": 6233.53, | |
| "duration": 1.79 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So dot name says, here's the\nstructure student-- go inside,", | |
| "start": 6235.32, | |
| "duration": 3.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and get at the name field, and\nput at that name field whatever", | |
| "start": 6238.67, | |
| "duration": 3.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the return value of getstring is.", | |
| "start": 6241.92, | |
| "duration": 1.549 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And do the same thing for dorm.", | |
| "start": 6243.469, | |
| "duration": 1.291 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Go into the i-th student's structure,\nand store at the dorm field", | |
| "start": 6244.76, | |
| "duration": 5.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "the string that has been typed in next.", | |
| "start": 6250.11, | |
| "duration": 2.28 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now let's scroll down a\nlittle lower and take a look", | |
| "start": 6252.39, | |
| "duration": 2.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "at what this program proceeds to do.", | |
| "start": 6254.59, | |
| "duration": 2.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It's a very simple loop that sort\nof, just for demonstration's sake,", | |
| "start": 6256.84, | |
| "duration": 3.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "says so-and-so is in such-and-such,\nprinting out the student's name", | |
| "start": 6260.48, | |
| "duration": 4.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and dorm respectively.", | |
| "start": 6264.95, | |
| "duration": 1.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In other words, if I go down here\nand compile structs-0, and then", | |
| "start": 6266.61, | |
| "duration": 3.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "run structs-0-- I'm going\nto go ahead and type", | |
| "start": 6270.51, | |
| "duration": 2.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in David Mather and Rob and\nKirkland and Zumilah and Courier,", | |
| "start": 6273.07, | |
| "duration": 8.7 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and you see literally a\nregurgitation of what I wrote.", | |
| "start": 6281.77, | |
| "duration": 3.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But what's key here is the\nsyntax that I've introduced.", | |
| "start": 6284.81, | |
| "duration": 2.59 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'm using a struct, and I'm\naccessing its properties or fields", | |
| "start": 6287.4, | |
| "duration": 3.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "within by way of this dot operator.", | |
| "start": 6290.79, | |
| "duration": 2.06 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Just means go inside the\nstruct and get that value.", | |
| "start": 6292.85, | |
| "duration": 2.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But more cool than that is that\nnow that we understand files,", | |
| "start": 6295.41, | |
| "duration": 5.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and now that we have the ability to\nstore arbitrary structures that did not", | |
| "start": 6300.79, | |
| "duration": 3.51 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "come with C, so to speak,\nnotice what else we can do.", | |
| "start": 6304.3, | |
| "duration": 4.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In this version of the program,\nI'm adding one final feature,", | |
| "start": 6308.54, | |
| "duration": 4.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "combining today's discussion\nof pointers with this most", | |
| "start": 6313.08, | |
| "duration": 3.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "recent discussion of files.", | |
| "start": 6316.98, | |
| "duration": 2.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "It turns out, in C-- and\nit's a little inconsistent--", | |
| "start": 6319.4, | |
| "duration": 2.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "there is a data type called FILE in all\ncapital letters, for whatever reason.", | |
| "start": 6322.05, | |
| "duration": 4.544 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "In lower case here, I'm just saying\nhey, computer, give me a variable called", | |
| "start": 6326.594, | |
| "duration": 3.166 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "file of type file star.", | |
| "start": 6329.76, | |
| "duration": 2.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That is, give me a\nvariable that will store", | |
| "start": 6331.98, | |
| "duration": 2.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a pointer to a file, the\naddress of a file, if you will.", | |
| "start": 6334.52, | |
| "duration": 4.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "fopen is a new function that\nwe've not used before that says,", | |
| "start": 6338.56, | |
| "duration": 4.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "hey, browser, open up the\nfile called students.csv", | |
| "start": 6342.6, | |
| "duration": 3.86 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "in write mode. w means write mode.", | |
| "start": 6346.46, | |
| "duration": 2.41 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So I want to save a file, not open and\nread a file, but write and save a file.", | |
| "start": 6348.87, | |
| "duration": 4.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Sanity check-- is file\nnot equal to null?", | |
| "start": 6353.62, | |
| "duration": 2.021 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If so, we're going to proceed.", | |
| "start": 6355.641, | |
| "duration": 1.249 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I just want to make\nsure nothing went wrong.", | |
| "start": 6356.89, | |
| "duration": 1.42 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And something might go wrong, if maybe\nI don't have permission on the computer", | |
| "start": 6358.31, | |
| "duration": 3.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to create files, maybe the computer's\nout of space or something-- something", | |
| "start": 6361.49, | |
| "duration": 3.125 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "could go wrong and null is returned per\nthe documentation for fopen or its man", | |
| "start": 6364.615, | |
| "duration": 4.545 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "page.", | |
| "start": 6369.16, | |
| "duration": 1.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So here I have a loop.", | |
| "start": 6370.17, | |
| "duration": 1.22 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "For i from 0 to 3-- so do\nthis 3 times-- fprintf.", | |
| "start": 6371.39, | |
| "duration": 3.99 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So fprintf is identical\nto printf that you've", | |
| "start": 6375.38, | |
| "duration": 2.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "come to get to know in recent\nweeks, but fprintf is file printf.", | |
| "start": 6378.01, | |
| "duration": 4.12 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it allows you to print strings,\nnot to the screen, but to a file.", | |
| "start": 6382.13, | |
| "duration": 4.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So its first argument\nis the name of the file", | |
| "start": 6386.85, | |
| "duration": 2.09 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that you've opened that\nyou want to print to.", | |
| "start": 6388.94, | |
| "duration": 1.95 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Second argument-- and all the others--\nare just the same as printf as always--", | |
| "start": 6390.89, | |
| "duration": 2.94 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "a string, maybe with some\nformat codes, and then some", | |
| "start": 6393.83, | |
| "duration": 2.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "values that you want to\nplug in here and here.", | |
| "start": 6396.07, | |
| "duration": 3.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So if you've ever seen a CSV file in the\nreal world-- a Comma Separated Values,", | |
| "start": 6399.27, | |
| "duration": 5.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "these are very simple\nMicrosoft Excel files", | |
| "start": 6404.41, | |
| "duration": 3.47 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or Apple Numbers files\nor Google Spreadsheets", | |
| "start": 6407.88, | |
| "duration": 2.14 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "can export these as well-- they are just\ntext files whereby all of the fields", | |
| "start": 6410.02, | |
| "duration": 4.19 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "are separated by commas.", | |
| "start": 6414.21, | |
| "duration": 1.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so we now, today, have the ability\nnot only to understand what's going on", | |
| "start": 6416.11, | |
| "duration": 3.56 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "underneath the hood\nmemory-wise, but we now", | |
| "start": 6419.67, | |
| "duration": 2.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "have the ability to use the star\noperator-- and therefore pointers more", | |
| "start": 6421.78, | |
| "duration": 4.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "generally, which are required\nin order to manipulate files", | |
| "start": 6425.98, | |
| "duration": 3.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "with fopen and this file data type-- and\nwith fprintf can I write information?", | |
| "start": 6429.37, | |
| "duration": 6.38 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Can I print information to those files?", | |
| "start": 6435.75, | |
| "duration": 2.17 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So for the first time ever,\nI have written a program", | |
| "start": 6437.92, | |
| "duration": 2.785 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that, when I run in just a moment,\nis going to have the ability", | |
| "start": 6440.705, | |
| "duration": 2.625 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to save information.", | |
| "start": 6443.33, | |
| "duration": 1.89 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I have effectively implemented the\nequivalent of the File Save menu", | |
| "start": 6445.22, | |
| "duration": 2.84 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "for the first time.", | |
| "start": 6448.06, | |
| "duration": 0.97 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Every other program\nwe've written so far just", | |
| "start": 6449.03, | |
| "duration": 1.875 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "throws its information and its\nmemory away, but not this time.", | |
| "start": 6450.905, | |
| "duration": 3.565 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let me go ahead and do\nmake structs-1, and then", | |
| "start": 6454.47, | |
| "duration": 8.21 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "dot slash structs-1, and let me go ahead\nand type in David and Mather and Rob", | |
| "start": 6462.68, | |
| "duration": 7.8 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and Kirkland and Zumilah and Courier.", | |
| "start": 6470.48, | |
| "duration": 4.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Enter.", | |
| "start": 6474.98, | |
| "duration": 1.08 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Nothing seems to happen.", | |
| "start": 6476.06, | |
| "duration": 1.62 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But let me go to my file browser in the\nIDE, and notice this-- students.csv.", | |
| "start": 6477.68, | |
| "duration": 6.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "If I open that, I have created this\nfile-- David comma Mather, Rob comma", | |
| "start": 6483.93, | |
| "duration": 5.13 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Kirkland, Zamyla comma Courier.", | |
| "start": 6489.06, | |
| "duration": 1.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And if I downloaded this\nfile, double-clicked it", | |
| "start": 6490.69, | |
| "duration": 2.54 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as you can now if you'd like,\nand open it on your Mac or PC,", | |
| "start": 6493.23, | |
| "duration": 3.29 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "if you have Numbers installed or Excel\ninstalled or some comparable program.", | |
| "start": 6496.52, | |
| "duration": 3.66 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That should open that program, because\nit will recognize the .csv extension.", | |
| "start": 6500.18, | |
| "duration": 3.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And it will display all of those\nnames and all of those dorms", | |
| "start": 6503.83, | |
| "duration": 3.44 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "or houses in separate columns.", | |
| "start": 6507.27, | |
| "duration": 2.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Because the world decided some\ntime ago that the format known", | |
| "start": 6509.66, | |
| "duration": 3.13 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "as CSV, Comma Separated Values,\nis just simple text file", | |
| "start": 6512.79, | |
| "duration": 3.34 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "with commas separating values.", | |
| "start": 6516.13, | |
| "duration": 3.37 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And so we now have the ability\nto express all of this and more.", | |
| "start": 6519.5, | |
| "duration": 4.65 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "So on the horizon is to solve some\nof these same kinds of problems", | |
| "start": 6524.15, | |
| "duration": 4.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and to actually implement for yourself\ncode that writes files and reads files.", | |
| "start": 6528.4, | |
| "duration": 4.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But to solve actual problems\nmotivated from the real world domain,", | |
| "start": 6532.64, | |
| "duration": 2.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to recover information\nthat's been deliberately", | |
| "start": 6535.39, | |
| "duration": 2.07 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "scrambled or obscured,\nto recover information", | |
| "start": 6537.46, | |
| "duration": 2.43 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "that's been accidentally\nor maliciously deleted,", | |
| "start": 6539.89, | |
| "duration": 2.23 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "to recover things, photographs,\nmemories that you actually", | |
| "start": 6542.12, | |
| "duration": 2.85 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "care about-- all with a\nfundamental understanding of what's", | |
| "start": 6544.97, | |
| "duration": 3.92 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "going on inside of your own computer.", | |
| "start": 6548.89, | |
| "duration": 2.24 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "But until then, keep an eye out for\nsuch TV shows and movies as these.", | |
| "start": 6551.13, | |
| "duration": 4.992 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "[VIDEO PLAYBACK]", | |
| "start": 6556.122, | |
| "duration": 0.666 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-OK.", | |
| "start": 6556.788, | |
| "duration": 1.482 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Now let's get a good look at you.", | |
| "start": 6558.27, | |
| "duration": 1.976 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Hold it.", | |
| "start": 6567.162, | |
| "duration": 0.988 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Run that back.", | |
| "start": 6568.15, | |
| "duration": 0.988 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Wait a minute.", | |
| "start": 6569.138, | |
| "duration": 0.988 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Go right.", | |
| "start": 6570.126, | |
| "duration": 1.814 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-There.", | |
| "start": 6571.94, | |
| "duration": 0.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Freeze that.", | |
| "start": 6572.44, | |
| "duration": 0.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Full screen.", | |
| "start": 6572.94, | |
| "duration": 0.792 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-OK, freeze that.", | |
| "start": 6573.732, | |
| "duration": 0.718 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Tighten up on that, will you?", | |
| "start": 6574.45, | |
| "duration": 1.25 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Vector in on that guy\nby the back of you.", | |
| "start": 6575.7, | |
| "duration": 1.93 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Zoom in right here on this spot.", | |
| "start": 6577.63, | |
| "duration": 2.64 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-With the right equipment, the\nimage can be enlarged and sharpened.", | |
| "start": 6580.27, | |
| "duration": 3.86 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-What's that?", | |
| "start": 6584.13, | |
| "duration": 0.703 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-It's an enhancement program.", | |
| "start": 6584.833, | |
| "duration": 1.222 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Can you clear that up any?", | |
| "start": 6586.055, | |
| "duration": 1.625 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-I don't know.", | |
| "start": 6587.68, | |
| "duration": 1.3 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Let's enhance it.", | |
| "start": 6588.98, | |
| "duration": 1.02 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Enhance section A6.", | |
| "start": 6590.0, | |
| "duration": 2.52 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-I enhanced the detail and--", | |
| "start": 6592.52, | |
| "duration": 1.302 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-I think there's enough to enhance.", | |
| "start": 6593.822, | |
| "duration": 1.458 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "Release it to my screen.", | |
| "start": 6595.28, | |
| "duration": 0.999 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Enhance the reflection in her eye.", | |
| "start": 6596.279, | |
| "duration": 1.872 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Let's run this through\nvideo enhancement.", | |
| "start": 6598.151, | |
| "duration": 1.749 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Edgar, can you enhance this?", | |
| "start": 6599.9, | |
| "duration": 1.208 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Hang on.", | |
| "start": 6601.108, | |
| "duration": 1.682 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-I've been working on this reflection.", | |
| "start": 6602.79, | |
| "duration": 2.05 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Someone's reflection.", | |
| "start": 6604.84, | |
| "duration": 1.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Reflection.", | |
| "start": 6605.85, | |
| "duration": 0.954 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-There's a reflection of the man's face.", | |
| "start": 6606.804, | |
| "duration": 1.666 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-The reflection.", | |
| "start": 6608.47, | |
| "duration": 0.666 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-There's a reflection.", | |
| "start": 6609.136, | |
| "duration": 1.084 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Zoom in on the mirror.", | |
| "start": 6610.22, | |
| "duration": 1.35 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-You can see a reflection.", | |
| "start": 6611.57, | |
| "duration": 2.069 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Can you enhance the image from here?", | |
| "start": 6613.639, | |
| "duration": 1.541 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Can you enhance it right here?", | |
| "start": 6615.18, | |
| "duration": 1.04 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Can you enhance it?", | |
| "start": 6616.22, | |
| "duration": 0.833 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Can you enhance it?", | |
| "start": 6617.053, | |
| "duration": 0.907 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Can we enhance this?", | |
| "start": 6617.96, | |
| "duration": 0.77 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Can you enhance it?", | |
| "start": 6618.73, | |
| "duration": 0.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Hold on a second.", | |
| "start": 6619.48, | |
| "duration": 0.75 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "I'll enhance.", | |
| "start": 6620.23, | |
| "duration": 0.59 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Zoom in on the door.", | |
| "start": 6620.82, | |
| "duration": 1.11 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Times 10.", | |
| "start": 6621.93, | |
| "duration": 0.984 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Zoom.", | |
| "start": 6622.914, | |
| "duration": 0.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Move in.", | |
| "start": 6623.414, | |
| "duration": 0.956 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "More.", | |
| "start": 6624.37, | |
| "duration": 0.67 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Wait, stop.", | |
| "start": 6625.04, | |
| "duration": 0.72 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Stop.", | |
| "start": 6625.76, | |
| "duration": 0.5 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Pause it.", | |
| "start": 6626.26, | |
| "duration": 0.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Rotate it 75 degrees\naround the vertical, please.", | |
| "start": 6626.83, | |
| "duration": 3.48 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Stop.", | |
| "start": 6630.31, | |
| "duration": 1.326 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "And go back to the part\nabove the doors again.", | |
| "start": 6631.636, | |
| "duration": 3.18 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Got an image enhancer that can bitmap.", | |
| "start": 6634.816, | |
| "duration": 1.624 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Maybe we can use the Pradeep\nSen method see into the windows.", | |
| "start": 6636.44, | |
| "duration": 3.182 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-This software is state of the art.", | |
| "start": 6639.622, | |
| "duration": 1.458 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-The eigenvalue is off.", | |
| "start": 6641.08, | |
| "duration": 1.69 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-With the right\ncombination of algorithms--", | |
| "start": 6642.77, | |
| "duration": 2.39 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-He's taken illumination\nalgorithms to the next level,", | |
| "start": 6645.16, | |
| "duration": 2.28 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "and I can use them to\nenhance this photograph.", | |
| "start": 6647.44, | |
| "duration": 2.2 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Lock on and enlarge the z-axis.", | |
| "start": 6649.64, | |
| "duration": 2.63 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Enhance.", | |
| "start": 6652.27, | |
| "duration": 1.01 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Enhance.", | |
| "start": 6653.28, | |
| "duration": 0.57 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Enhance.", | |
| "start": 6653.85, | |
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| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Freeze and enhance.", | |
| "start": 6654.45, | |
| "duration": 1.023 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "[END PLAYBACK]", | |
| "start": 6655.473, | |
| "duration": 0.583 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "DAVID J. MALAN: All right.", | |
| "start": 6656.056, | |
| "duration": 1.083 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "That's it for CS50.", | |
| "start": 6657.139, | |
| "duration": 1.491 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "We will see you next time.", | |
| "start": 6658.63, | |
| "duration": 1.737 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "[VIDEO PLAYBACK]", | |
| "start": 6664.023, | |
| "duration": 2.567 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "-Everyone knows you went to Yale,\nbut nobody knows what happened.", | |
| "start": 6666.59, | |
| "duration": 3.78 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What can you tell me about that weekend?", | |
| "start": 6670.37, | |
| "duration": 1.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "What can you tell me about Rosebud?", | |
| "start": 6672.18, | |
| "duration": 2.81 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "[DRAMATIC CHORD]", | |
| "start": 6674.99, | |
| "duration": 2.4 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]", | |
| "start": 6677.39, | |
| "duration": 24.9 | |
| }, | |
| { | |
| "text": "[END PLAYBACK]", | |
| "start": 6702.29, | |
| "duration": 1.25 | |
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