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Lecture 6 Computer Applications 0933201 Chapter 4Effective documentation can beaccomplished with the use of1. Proper selection of variable names toreflect the quantities they represent.2. Use of comments within the program.3. Use of structure charts.4. Use of flowcharts.5. A verbal description of the program,often in pseudo-code. (in which naturallanguage and mathematical expressions areused to construct statements that look likecomputer statements but without detailedsyntax).Documenting with ChartsTwo types of charts aid in developing structuredprograms and in documenting them.These are structure charts and flowcharts.A structure chart is a graphical description showing howthe different parts of the program are connected together.4-6 Z.R.KZ.R.K4-7Structure chart of a game program. Figure 4.1–14-8Flowcharts are useful fordeveloping and documentingprograms that containconditional statements,because they can display thevarious paths (called“branches”) that a program cantake, depending on how theconditional statements areexecuted.Flowchart representationof the if statement.Figure 4.1–2Z.R.K4-9Finding BugsDebugging a program is the process of finding andremoving the “bugs,” or errors, in a program.Such errors usually fall into one of the followingcategories.1. Syntax errors such as omitting a parenthesis orcomma, or spelling a command name incorrectly.MATLAB usually detects the more obvious errorsand displays a message describing the error and itslocation.2. Errors due to an incorrect mathematical procedure.These are called runtime errors. They do notnecessarily occur every time the program isexecuted; their occurrence often depends on theparticular input data. A common example isdivision by zero.Z.R.K4-10To locate a runtime errors, try the following:1. Always test your program with a simpleversion of the problem, whose answers canbe checked by hand calculations.2. Display any intermediate calculations byremoving semicolons at the end ofstatements.3. To test user-defined functions, trycommenting out the function line andrunning the file as a script.4. Use the debugging features of theEditor/Debugger, which is discussed inSection 4.7.Z.R.KLogical operators Table 4.3–1Operator Name Definition~ NOT ~A returns an array the same dimension as A; thenew array has ones where A is zero and zeroswhere A is nonzero.& AND A & B returns an array the same dimension as Aand B; the new array has ones where both A and Bhave nonzero elements and zeros where either Aor B is zero.| OR A|Breturns an array the same dimension as Aand B; the new array has ones where at least oneelement in A or B is nonzero and zeros where Aand B are both zero.&& Short-Circuit Operator for scalar logical expressions. A&&BAND returns true if both A and B evaluate to true, andfalse if they do not.|| Short-Circuit Operator for scalar logical expressions. A ||BOR returns true if either A or B or both evaluate to true,4-11and false if they Z.R.Kdo not.Z.R.K. 2008 Page 2 of 7
Lecture 6 Computer Applications 0933201 Chapter 44-12Order of precedence for operator types Table 4.3–2PrecedenceOperator typeFirst Parentheses; evaluated starting withthe innermost pair.Second Arithmetic operators and logicalNOT (~); evaluated from left to right.Third Relational operators; evaluated fromleft to right.Fourth Logical AND ( & ).Fifth Logical OR ( | ).Z.R.KLogical functions Table 4.3–4Logical function Definitionall(x) Returns a scalar, which is 1 if all the elements inthe vector x are nonzero and 0 otherwise.all(A) Returns a row vector having the same number ofcolumns as the matrix A and containing ones andzeros, depending on whether or not the correspondingcolumn of A has all nonzero elements.any(x) Returns a scalar, which is 1 if any of the elementsin the vector x is nonzero and 0 otherwise.any(A) Returns a row vector having the same number ofcolumns as A and containing ones and zeros,depending on whether or not the correspondingcolumn of the matrix A contains any nonzeroelements.finite(A) Returns an array of the same dimension as A withones where the elements of A are finite and zeroselsewhere.4-13Z.R.K13 (continued …)Logical function Definitionischar(A) Returns a 1 if A is a character array and 0 therwise.isempty(A) Returns a 1 if A is an empty matrix and 0 otherwise.isinf(A) Returns an array of the same dimension as A, withones where A has ‘inf’ and zeros elsewhere.isnan(A) Returns an array of the same dimension as A withones where A has ‘NaN’ and zeros elsewhere. (‘NaN’stands for “not a number,” which means anundefined result.)isnumeric(A) Returns a 1 if A is a numeric array and 0 otherwise.isreal(A) Returns a 1 if A has no elements with imaginaryparts and 0 otherwise.logical(A) Converts the elements of the array A into logicalvalues.xor(A,B) Returns an array the same dimension as A and B;the new array has ones where either A or B isnonzero, but not both, and zeros where A andB are either both nonzero or both zero.4-14Logical functions Table 4.3–4 (continued)Z.R.K4-15Logical Operators & and the find Function>>x = [5, -3, 0, 0, 8]; y = [2, 4, 0, 5, 7];>>z = find(x&y)z =1 2 5Note that the find function returns the indices, and notthe values.In the following session, note the difference betweenthe result obtained by y(x&y) and the result obtainedby find(x&y) in the previous example.>>values = y(x&y)values =2 4 7>>how_many = length(values)how_many =3Z.R.KThe if and else StatementThe if statement’s basic form isif logical expressionstatementsendEvery if statement must have anaccompanying end statement. Theend statement marks the end of thestatements that are to be executedif the logical expression is true.The basic structure for the use ofthe else statement isif logical expressionstatement group 1elsestatement group 2end4-16Z.R.KFlowchart of the elsestructure. Figure 4.4–2More? See pages 201-202.4-17When the test, if logical expression, isperformed, where the logical expression maybe an array, the test returns a value of true only if allthe elements of the logical expression are true!For example, if we fail to recognize how the test works,the following statements do not perform the way wemight expect.x = [4,-9,25];if x < 0disp(’Some elements of x are negative.’)elsey = sqrt(x)endBecause the test if x < 0 is false, when this programis run it gives the resulty = 2 0 + 3.000i 5Z.R.K. 2008 Page 3 of 7Z.R.K
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