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.
Jan 22
Introduction
-
Introducing C
- King – Chapter 1
- (pp. 1–7)
-
How Pair Programming Really Works
- Stuart Wray, IEEE Software
Jan 24
Overview of C
- Course Syllabus
-
C Fundamentals
- King – Chapter 2
- (pp. 9–29)
- Homework 1: Welcome
Jan 26
Expressions
-
Expressions
- King – Chapter 4
- (pp. 53–66)
- Week 1 Quiz
- Lab: Expressions
- Homework 1: Welcome (11:59pm)
Jan 29
Conditionals
-
Selection Statements
- King – Chapter 5
- (pp. 73–90)
- Week 1 Lab Report (before class)
Jan 31
Loops
-
Loops
- King – Chapter 6
- (pp. 99–118)
Feb 2
Basic Types
Feb 5
Arrays
-
Arrays
- King – Chapter 8
- (pp. 161–175)
- Week 2 Lab Report (before class)
- Homework 2: Ticket Pricing (11:59pm)
Feb 7
Functions
-
Functions
- King – Chapter 9
- (pp. 183–209)
Feb 9
Models of Computation
Feb 12
Testing
- Week 3 Lab Report (before class)
- Homework 3: Calculating Credit Card Interest (11:59pm)
Feb 14
Integer Representation
Feb 16
Floating Point Representation
Feb 19
Debugging
-
Beej’s Quick Guide to gdb
- Skip Window Functions, Display Registers and Assembly, and Writing a Front-End
- Week 4 Lab Report (before class)
- Homework 4: Counting Bigrams (11:59pm)
Feb 21
Exam Review Day
No reading
Feb 23
Exam 1
No reading
-
Exam 1
- Covers all material through week 4
Feb 26
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
Feb 28
Makefiles
-
An Introduction to Makefiles (all sections)
- GNU make manual – Chapter 2
- Week 5 Lab Report (before class)
Mar 1
Program Organization
Mar 4
Pointers
-
Pointers
- King – Chapter 11
- (pp. 241–252)
- Week 6 Lab Report (before class)
- Homework 5: Encryption (11:59pm)
Mar 6
Pointers, continued
Mar 8
Arrays as Pointers
-
Pointers and Arrays
- King – Chapter 12
- (pp. 257–271)
- Week 7 Quiz
- Lab: Arrays as Pointers
Mar 11
Strings
-
Strings
- King – Chapter 13
- (pp. 277–304)
- Week 7 Lab Report (before class)
Mar 13
Strings, continued
Mar 15
Reading and Writing Files
-
File Input/Output
- Beej's Guide to C Programming – Section 9.1–9.5
- Week 8 Quiz
- Lab: File Input/Output
Apr 1
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 (11:59pm)
Apr 3
Unions and Enumerations
-
Unions and Enumerations
- King – Section 16.4–5
- (pp. 396–404)
Apr 5
Pause for Breath
No reading
- Week 9 Quiz
Apr 8
Exam 2 Review
No reading
- Week 10 Lab Report
- Week 9 Lab Report (before class)
Apr 10
AddressSanitizer
Apr 12
Exam 2
No reading
-
Exam 2
- Focused on material from weeks 6–9, but may include earlier concepts.
Apr 15
Memory Allocation
-
Dynamic Storage Allocation
- King – Section 17.1–4
- (pp. 413–423)
- Week 11 Lab Report
- Week 10 Lab Report (before class)
Apr 17
Memory Allocation, continued
Apr 19
Ownership
Apr 22
Linked Lists
-
Linked Lists
- King – Section 17.5
- (pp. 424–437)
- Week 11 Lab Report (before class)
- Homework 7: Grocery List (11:59pm)
Apr 24
Linked Lists, continued
Apr 26
Linked List Variations
Apr 29
Abstract Data Types
-
Program Design
- King – Chapter 19
- (pp. 483–503)
- Abstract Datatypes and Sequences
- Week 12 Lab Report (before class)
May 1
Implementing Stacks and Queues with Linked Lists
No reading
- Homework 8: Paranoia Game (11:59pm)
May 3
Implementing Stacks and Queues with Dynamic Arrays
May 6
Pointers to Functions
-
Pointers to Functions
- King – Section 17.7
- (pp. 439–444)
- Week 13 Lab Report (before class)
May 8
Drawing in the Terminal with ncurses
May 10
Wrap Up
No reading
May 17
Final Exam for Section 01 (2–5pm)
No reading
-
Exam 3
- Focused on material from weeks 11–14, but may include earlier concepts.
- Week 14 Lab Report (before exam time)
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