| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 26 (W) | No class | ||
| August 28 (F) | About the course (Notes) | ||
| August 31 (M) | A little more about the course; introduction to Linux (Notes) | ||
| September 2 (W) | Command-line basics and text editors (Notes) | My notes on CLI commands; my notes on vi; Dr. Lewis's video lectures on Linux and the command line | |
| September 4 (F) | Command-line basics and text editors, continued (Notes) | My notes on gcc | |
| September 7 (M) | Holiday | ||
| September 9 (W) | Binary numbers (Notes) | 1, D.1, D.2, D.3 | Homework 1: HTML, PDF |
| September 11 (F) | Introduction to C; variables, types, and I/O (Notes) | 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7 | |
| September 14 (M) | Introduction to C, continued (Notes) | 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 | |
| September 16 (W) | Binary numbers, continued (Notes) | ||
| September 18 (F) | Conditional execution (Notes) | 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.7, 5.9 | |
| September 21 (M) | No class | ||
| September 23 (M) | Conditional execution, continued (Notes) | Homework 2: HTML, PDF | |
| September 25 (F) | No class | ||
| September 28 (M) | Functions (Notes) | 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6 | |
| September 30 (W) | Functions, continued (Notes) | Quiz 1 | |
| October 2 (F) | Functions, continued (optional class) | ||
| October 5 (M) | No class | ||
| October 7 (W) | No class | ||
| October 9 (F) | Repetition through recursion (guest lecturer Dr. Zhang) (Notes) | 6.9 | |
| October 12 (M) | Recursion, continued; loops (Notes) | 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.7, 6.8 | Homework 3: HTML, PDF |
| October 14 (W) | Loops, continued (Notes) | ||
| October 16 (F) | Class recess | ||
| October 19 (M) | Loops, continued (Notes) | Quiz 2 | |
| October 21 (W) | More loops (Notes) | ||
| October 23 (F) | No class | Homework 4: HTML, PDF | |
| October 26 (M) | Midterm exam (Review in HTML, PDF) | ||
| October 28 (W) | No class | ||
| October 30 (F) | No class | ||
| November 2 (M) | Arrays (Notes) | 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.7, 8.8 | |
| November 4 (W) | Floating point revisited; ``random'' numbers (Notes) | ||
| November 6 (F) | Arrays, continued; sorting and searching (Notes) | 8.5, 8.6 | |
| November 9 (M) | Text data (Notes) | ||
| November 11 (W) | No class | ||
| November 13 (F) | No class | ||
| November 16 (M) | Text data, continued; command-line arguments (Notes) | 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, H.1, H.2 | Quiz 3; Homework 5: HTML, PDF |
| November 18 (W) | Files (Notes) | 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 | |
| November 20 (F) (Notes) | Pointers | 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 11.5, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 | |
| November 23 (M) | No class | ||
| November 25 (W) | Holiday | ||
| November 27 (F) | Holiday | ||
| November 30 (M) | No class | ||
| December 2 (W) | Pointers revisited; dynamic memory allocation (Notes) | 10.5 | Quiz 4 |
| December 4 (F) | A little about user-defined types and linked data structures (Notes) | 12.1, 12.3, 15.1, 15.2 | |
| December 7 (M) | Course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | Homework 6: HTML, PDF | |
| December 11 (F), noon | Final exam (Review in HTML, PDF) | ||
| December 16 (W) | (Not a class day) | Homework X (extra credit): HTML, PDF |