Spring 2011
| Date | Topics Covered | Programs Discussed | Reading (J&K) | Handouts |
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| 3/28 | Prerequisites test, Understanding the syllabus, Computer hardware, Programming languages, OSs | Ch. 1, 2 | Unix Tutorial | |
| 3/30 | Problems and Solutions, Algorithms vs Code, n! algorithm, Software engineering, First C program | |||
| 4/1 | C program structure, main(), identifiers, variables, while loop | distance.c | ||
| 4/4 | if and if/else statement, EOF, UNIX: i/o redirection (<, >) | ph.c, prereq.c | Ch. 2 (skip 2.10) |
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| 4/6 | Operators (arithmetic, logical, relational, assignment), operator precedence, data types, | stat.c | Ch. 3 | Operator precedence |
| 4/8 | for statement, ++/--, ?:, UNIX: wc, find, grep | Ch. 3, 4 | UNIX: wc, find, grep | |
| 4/11 | switch, break and continue, C Program standards | primes.c, series.c, series2.c |
Ch. 4 |
C Program Standards |
| 4/13 | putchar(), getchar(), Functions: parameters, arguments, return | getcharex.c stat_func.c |
Ch 5 | |
| 4/15 | main(), Functions, call by value UNIX: make |
resistor.c Makefile |
UNIX: make | |
| 4/18 | First MIDTERM | Ch. 1-5.5 (skip 2.10) |
Practice Midterm Solutions |
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| 4/20 | Functions: Recursion (based on Inductive Definitions) | nfactr.c fib.c |
Ch. 5 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi |
| 4/22 | Hanoi Towers, Pre-processor, Macros | tower.c monte.c |
Ch. 5 (skip 5.10) |
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| 4/25 | Arrays as data type, Arrays of characters, Strings Programs across files (UNIX: make revisited) |
fourier.c arraysearch.c Makefile2 |
Ch. 6 | UNIX: make |
| 4/27 | Linear and binary search, Passing arrays to functions, Multidimensional Arrays | arraysearch.c linbinsearch.c matmult.c |
Ch. 6 | |
| 4/29 | String functions, string.h Arrays and pointers, & and * Pointers: constants, variables |
stringpuzzle.c length.c |
Ch. 7 | Pointer fun with Blinky video! gdb tutorial |
| 5/2 | Arrays and pointers Pointers: passing them to functions |
ptrex1.c ptrex2.c |
Ch. 7 | gdb tutorial |
| 5/4 | File I/O: FILE, fopen(), fclose(), fprintf(), fscanf(), fputs(), fgets() Pointers and arrays |
stringcopy.c phfile.c |
Ch. 7, 2.10 | gdb tutorial |
| 5/6 | Pointers & strings, Pointers & functions; UNIX: gdb | Ch. 7 | gdb tutorial | |
| 5/9 | Second MIDTERM | Ch.5.6-7.5 Ch. 2.10 |
Practice Midterm 2 Solutions |
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| 5/11 | Ragged Arrays, malloc, free |
strcatex.c raggedarray.c | Ch. 7.6, 11.1, 11.2 | |
| 5/13 | typedef, structures |
matrixd.c complex.c complex.h |
Ch. 10 | gdb tutorial |
| 5/16 | Operations on structures, Assignment | Ch. 10 | ||
| 5/18 | Pointers to structures, sorting: selection sort & qsort | sort1.c | Ch. 10, Ch. 7.8-7.10 | |
| 5/20 | qsort, Unions,
Enumerated Types, Pointers to functions |
sort2.c,
timer.c structptr.c |
Ch. 10 | |
| 5/23 | Command line arguments, Self-referential structs | elephnt1.c | ||
| 5/25 | Linked lists and operations on them |
elephnt2.c linkedlistops.c |
Ch. 7.7, Ch. 11.3 |
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| 5/27 | Storage classes and Type Qualifiers auto, extern, static; const, volatile | Ch. 8 (skip 8.2, 8.4, & 8.8) |
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| 5/30 | Labor Day, No class | |||
| 6/1 | Review | |||
| 6/8 | FINAL EXAM |
Practice Final Solutions |
Comprehensive, with
emphasis on material from May 6 on. One page of notes allowed. |
3:30-5:30, 1322 Storer |