Schedule
The schedule below shows the tentative dates for all class topics, readings, and assignments. You should complete all assigned reading before class on the day it is listed. Labs will be available shortly before the assigned lab day. There may be some revisions to the schedule during the semester, but I will make sure to announce these changes in class. If you view this page with JavaScript enabled you can jump to the current week on the schedule, and you should see the next day of class highlighted in the schedule below.
Aug 30
Introduction
-
Introducing C
- King – Chapter 1
- (pp. 1–7)
-
How Pair Programming Really Works
- Stuart Wray, IEEE Software
Sep 2
Overview of C
- Course Syllabus
-
C Fundamentals
- King – Chapter 2
- (pp. 9–29)
- Homework 1: Welcome (10:30pm)
Sep 4
Expressions
Sep 6
Conditionals
Sep 9
Loops
-
Loops
- King – Chapter 6
- (pp. 99–118)
- Week 1 Lab Report (before class)
Sep 11
Basic Types
Sep 13
Arrays
Sep 16
Class cancelled
No reading
Sep 18
Functions
-
Functions
- King – Chapter 9
- (pp. 183–209)
- Lab: Functions
- Quiz 3
- Week 2 Lab Report (before class)
- Homework 2: Rock, Paper, Scissors (10:30pm)
Sep 20
Models of Computation
Sep 23
Testing
- Week 3 Lab Report (before class)
- Homework 3: Wandering Player (10:30pm)
Sep 25
Integer Representation
Sep 27
Floating Point Representation
Sep 30
Exam Review Day
No reading
- Week 4 Lab Report (before class)
Oct 2
Exam 1
No reading
-
Exam 1
- Covers all material through week 4
Oct 4
Debugging
-
Beej’s Quick Guide to gdb
- Skip Window Functions, Display Registers and Assembly, and Writing a Front-End
Oct 7
Pointers
-
Pointers
- King – Chapter 11
- (pp. 241–252)
-
Pointer Arithmetic
- King – Section 12.1
- (pp. 257–260)
- Homework 4: Counting Bigrams (10:30pm)
Oct 9
Pointers, continued
-
Pointers – Cower in Fear! (Optional)
- Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 5
Oct 11
Arrays as Pointers
Oct 14
Source and Header Files
-
Multifile Projects
- Beej's Guide to C – Chapter 17
-
The C Preprocessor
- Beej's Guide to C – Section 19.1–19.3
- Week 6 Lab Report (before class)
- Homework 5: Encryption (10:30pm)
Oct 16
Makefiles
-
An Introduction to Makefiles (all sections)
- GNU make manual – Chapter 2
- Lab: Writing Makefiles
- Quiz 5
Oct 18
Program Organization
Oct 28
Strings
Oct 30
Strings, continued
Nov 1
Reading and Writing Files
Nov 4
Structures
-
Structure Variables; Structure Types; Nested Arrays and Structures
- King – Section 16.1–3
- (pp. 377–395)
- Week 8 Lab Report (before class)
- Homework 6: Participation Reflection (10:30pm)
Nov 6
Unions and Enumerations
-
Unions and Enumerations
- King – Section 16.4–5
- (pp. 396–404)
- Lab: Unions and Enumerations
- Quiz 7
Nov 8
Class cancelled
Nov 11
Exam 2 Review
No reading
- Week 9 Lab Report (before class)
Nov 13
Exam 2
No reading
-
Exam 2
- Focused on material from weeks 6–9, but may include earlier concepts.
Nov 15
Memory Allocation
-
Dynamic Storage Allocation
- King – Section 17.1–4
- (pp. 413–423)
Nov 18
Memory Allocation, continued
Nov 20
Ownership
Nov 22
Linked Lists
Nov 25
Linked Lists, continued
Nov 27
Linked List Variations
Nov 29
No Class for Thanksgiving Holiday
No reading
Dec 2
Abstract Data Types
Dec 4
Implementing Stacks and Queues with Linked Lists
Dec 6
Implementing Stacks and Queues with Dynamic Arrays
Dec 9
Pointers to Functions
-
Pointers to Functions
- King – Section 17.7
- (pp. 439–444)
- Week 13 Lab Report (before class)
- Homework 8: Maze Solver (10:30pm)
Dec 11
Class Cancelled
Dec 13
Wrap Up
No reading
Dec 17
Final Exam for Section 01 (9am–10:20am)
No reading
-
Exam 3
- Focused on material from weeks 11–14, but may include earlier concepts.B
- Week 14 Lab Report (before exam time)
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