Boom Home Edition

NAME
    boom  -- count up or down until "Boom!"
    
SYNOPSIS
	boom [-uv] [-n stepsize] count
	
DESCRIPION

    Count down from count until zero and then print "Boom!". 

    The following options are available:
    
    -u Count up. This option will cause it to count up from 0 until count
       and then print "Boom!".
    -v Verbose output
    -n Stepsize; must be postive. Default is 1.
    
    If count is negative, exit without printing anything.

HISTORY
    Introduced in csc421.161 after a long history, e.g. see MTH120.982.
    
BUGS
    Stopping behavior is not defined if when counting up and count is not
    a multiple of the stepsize.

Goals

The goals of this project are:

To exercise the tools of this course: Ubuntu on Virtual box, Subversion and Make.
To understand the Testing directive of the course — to test to input-output behavior, and to automate that test as much as possible.
To exercise the use of options and arguments from the unix command line in a C program.

Specific steps

Modify Project Alpha's boom program:

Install Virtual Box; create an Ubuntu image; update and install subversion.
Check-out classes/csc421.171 from svn.cs.miami.edu.
Create directory proj0 just under your named directory and svn add proj0;
Copy all of class/proj0 to [yourname]/proj0
svn add these files files and commit with the message -m "initial commit".
Modify boom.c to function as in the above man-page.
Run the individual tests in the test target of the Makefile until boom.c performs accordingly; double check that make test runs without differences.
Commit for a grade by the due date.

Discussion

Possible points off for committing a large file that need not have been committed.

Generally, make test will do it all: if there hasn't been a recent build, it will cause a make build, and will run the test. The sequence make clean; make test is one way to make sure your build process hasn't forgotten anything.

You need not change the makefile to satisfy the requirements of this project, although you might want to add a run target, i.e. make run, so that you can quickly run your boom code in ways of your choosing, rather than the few runs of the test target.

Project Boom H.E. (the Home Edition)

by: burt rosenberg
at: university of miami
date: sep 2015

Goals

Specific steps

Discussion

Project Boom H.E. (the Home Edition)

by: burt rosenbergat: university of miami date: sep 2015

Goals

Specific steps

Discussion

by: burt rosenberg
at: university of miami
date: sep 2015