Schedule

• Introducing C
  
  • King – Chapter 1
  • (pp. 1–7)
• Hello, World!
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 2
• The C Development Environment

• How Pair Programming Really Works
  
  • Stuart Wray, IEEE Software

• Lab: Linux Basics

• Syllabus
• Variables
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Section 3.1
• Operators and Expressions
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Section 3.2
• Expressions
  
  • King – Chapter 4
  • (pp. 53–66)

• Week 1 Quiz
• Lab: Setting up Git Access
• Lab: C Basics

• Flow Control
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Section 3.3
• Exiting from a Loop
  
  • King – Section 6.4
  • (pp. 111–116)

• Selection Statements
  
  • King – Chapter 5
  • (pp. 73–90)
• Loops
  
  • King – Chapter 6
  • (pp. 99–118)

• Lab: Loops and Conditionals

• Week 1 Lab Report (11:59pm)

• Functions
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 4
• Defining and Calling Functions
  
  • King – Section 9.1
  • (pp. 183–190)
• Function Declarations
  
  • King – Section 9.2
  • (pp. 190–193)

• Week 2 Quiz
• Lab: Functions

• Homework: Yahtzee

• Pointers – Cower in Fear!
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 5

• Lab: Pointers

• Arrays
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 6
• Strings
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 7

• Week 3 Quiz
• Lab: Arrays and Strings

• Pointers II: Arithmetic
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 11

• Arrays
  
  • King – Chapter 8
  • (pp. 161–175)
• Strings
  
  • King – Chapter 13
  • (pp. 277–304)

• Lab: Tic Tac Toe

No reading

• Week 4 Quiz

• Homework: Connect Four
  
  • Postponed

• Homework: Yahtzee (11:59pm)

• Structures, Unions, and Enumerations
  
  • King – Chapter 16
  • (pp. 377–404)

• Structs
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 8
• Structs II: More Fun with Structs
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 20
• Enumerated Types: enum
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 22

• Lab: Structures, Unions, and Enumerations
• Week 5 Quiz
  
  • Quiz Canceled

• Binary Representation of Integers in C
• Floating Point Representation

• Lab: Representing Numbers

• Testing
• Beej’s Quick Guide to gdb
  
  • Skip Window Functions, Display Registers and Assembly, and Writing a Front-End

• Week 6 Quiz
• Lab: Debugging with gdb

• Homework: Connect Four
  
  • Postponed

No reading

• Homework: Connect Four (11:59pm)

No reading

• Exam 1
  
  • Covers all material through week 6

• Introduction to ncurses

• Lab: Maze Editor (day 1)

• File Input/Output
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 9
• Command Line Arguments
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Section 18.1

• Lab: Maze Editor (day 2)

• Homework: Lightcycle

• Manual Memory Allocation
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 12

• Dynamic Storage Allocation
  
  • King – Section 17.1–4
  • (pp. 413–423)

• Lab: Memory Allocation

• Thinking About Ownership
• Address Sanitizer
  
  • Sreepathi Pai (for CSC 252/452 at University of Rochester)

• Week 9 Quiz
• Lab: Ownership
• Lab: Address Sanitizer

• Abstract Data Types

• Lab: Implementing Stacks and Queues with Arrays

No reading

• Week 10 Quiz

• Homework: Lightcycle (11:59pm)

• Linked Lists
  
  • King – Section 17.5
  • (pp. 424–437)

• Lab: Implementing Stacks and Queues with Lists

• Linked List Variations

• Week 11 Quiz

• Homework: Pathfinding

• Multifile Projects
  
  • Beej's Guide to C Programming – Chapter 17
• Program Organization

• Lab: Multifile Projects

No reading

• Project introduction and planning

• Homework: Final Project

• An Introduction to Makefiles (all sections)
  
  • GNU make manual – Chapter 2

• Lab: Writing Makefiles
• Project Working Time

• Introduction to SDL 2.0
  
  • SDL2 Wiki
• Beginning SDL2

• Week 13 Quiz
• Project Working Time

• SDL2 Textures

• Lab: Pong
• Project Working Time

No reading

• End of Course Evaluations
• Project Working Time

No reading

• Final Exam

No reading

• Final Exam

• Homework: Final Project (5:00pm)