Quiz submission record for quiz2-2-1 at Tue Jun 29 18:39:59 2004:

Your Answer for Question 1:
I just started learning C a week ago, but so far I've only used while and if statements.  I never used do-while statements or goto statements when I was coding in Java. In thinking about which statements could be dropped, I think do-while statements can be dropped but not goto statements since goto statement is used even in assembly language like MIPS.

I think the designers of C included them all so the programmers don't have to think in machine language, and so the code becomes more readable.

Your Answer for Question 2:
Statements that are involved in making decisions:
if, else if
while
for
do...while
(...) ? ... : ...
switch
goto

for MIPS:
beq
bne
loop
slt

I think the designers wanted to keep things simple so that the code will run faster.  Statements like do...while and for are "extras"- they can be written using the statements we already have, so why use them if it's going to slow down the processing time?



Your Answer for Question 3:
I found this reading to be quite enjoyable.  Now I'm getting the hang of MIPS and registers, and the lab that we had today that dealt with xspim was really interesting.  I was surprised at how much more code MIPS requires to write the same code in C.


Your unique submission ID is quiz2-2-1-cs61c-cl-1088559599-736.