Inputs: Number of words to be entered; this value must be a positive integer greater than zero. Individual words. Is it guaranteed to terminate? Yes. The list nums_list is of finite length, so after looking at every element of the list the algorithm will stop.

Aggarwal’s path to electrical engineering included a few stops along the way, as she discovered new disciplines and ways of approaching problems. The experience prompted her to declare electrical engineering as her major. Aggarwal is one of a growing number of students opting to study in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) — enrollment in the department has roughly doubled since 2010-2011 from 637 students to 1,204 students in the current academic year. The summer before her senior year, Aggarwal worked at FormLabs, an MIT spinout in Somerville specializing in 3-D printing. “The definition of my job was ‘fix things that are broken and make things work better,’” she explains. Write an algorithm which repeatedly accepts numbers until the user enters “done”. Once “done” is entered, display the total sum of all the numbers, the count of numbers entered, and the average of all the numbers. She describes this experience as “the hardest thing I’ve ever done at MIT.” She still loves acting, but she loves directing even more. “I have a passion for it, just like I have a passion for science,” she says — a fact that speaks to her decision to add a second major, in MIT’s Music and Theater Arts Section.Dubai’s Burj Khalifa – the world’s tallest building – looks nothing like Microsoft’s Office Suite, and digital surround sound doesn’t work like a citywide telecommunication grid. Yet these engineering feats have much in common: they are the result of a unique thinking process combining abstract and structured thinking, common sense and great imagination. They are born of the engineering mindset. Ideas, not artifacts. It’s not just the software and hardware artifacts we produce that will be physically present everywhere and touch our lives all the time, it will be the computational concepts we use to approach and solve problems, manage our daily lives, and communicate and interact with other people; The goal of this book is to teach you to solve computational problems and to think like an engineer. Computational problems are problems that can be solved by the use of computations (a computation is what you do when you calculate something). Engineers are people who solve problems – they invent, design, analyze, build and test “things” to fulfill objectives and requirements. The single most important skill for you to learn is problem solving. Problem solving means the ability to formulate problems, think creatively about solutions, and express a solution clearly and accurately. As it turns out, the process of learning to program is an excellent opportunity to practice problem-solving skills. This book by its own admission is about systemic thinking based on the CDIO acronym (Conceive, Design, Implement, Operate). It later covers project management and all aspect of running a business, no matter what the business. It remains concerned with the Entrepreneurial mindset. The author repeats 33% of CEO’s are Engineers, only 10% are from Business Administration numerous times throughout the book. He believes that the Engineering mindset, is a good one for education and life. The way he argues it I find it hard to disagree. Problem: Print each keyboard character the users types in until the user chooses the ‘q’ (for ‘quit’) character.

The key to better algorithm design and thus to programming lies in limiting the control structure to only three constructs as shown below.In software engineering, a software design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem within a given context Write about a process in your life (e.g. driving to the mall, walking to class, etc.) and estimate the number of steps necessary to complete the task. Would you consider this a complex or simple task? What happens if you scale that task (e.g. driving two states away to the mall)? Is your method the most efficient? Can you come up with a more efficient way?