Open Source Computing

Week 5, Feb 10



Open Source as a business: pick up with Postgres

Linux history

LibreOffice, bash




expression evaluation: pld.cs.luc.edu/courses/271/spr18/demos/expressionsij.zip.

Notes: pld.cs.luc.edu/courses/271/spr18/mnotes/recursion.html#exprtrees

Demo of command-line expressions

With a calculator interface, things are a little different. Generally, the '(' key clears the display and starts a new subexpression. Operator keys might display the current operator on the screen. The ')' key acts like the '=' key for the current expression, displaying the results so far. galculator takes this approach.

The other alternative is to display the entire expression on the display line. qalculate does this.