| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 22 (W) | About the course (Notes) | ||
| August 24 (F) | Programming basics; introduction to Linux (Notes) | ||
| August 27 (M) | 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 (skip anything specific to Scala) | |
| August 29 (W) | Command-line basics and text editors, continued; introduction to C (Notes) | 1 | |
| August 31 (F) | Variables, types, and I/O (Notes) | 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.10; my notes on gcc | |
| September 3 (M) | Holiday | ||
| September 5 (W) | Introduction to C, continued; a little about binary numbers (Notes) | 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.9 | Homework 1: HTML, PDF |
| September 7 (F) | Binary numbers, continued (Notes) | D.1, D.2, D.3 | |
| September 10 (M) | Conditional execution (Notes) | 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.7, 5.9 | |
| September 12 (W) | Conditional execution, continued (Notes) | Homework 2: HTML, PDF | |
| September 14 (F) | Functions (Notes) | 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.9 | |
| September 17 (M) | Functions, continued (Notes) | Quiz 1 (Solution) | |
| September 19 (W) | Repetition via recursion (Notes) | 6.9 | Homework 3: HTML, PDF |
| September 21 (F) | Functions and recursion, continued (Notes) | ||
| September 24 (M) | Odds and ends (Notes) | Quiz 2 (Solution) | |
| September 26 (W) | Loops (Notes) | 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.7, 6.8, 6.12 | |
| September 28 (F) | Loops, continued (Notes) | Homework 4: HTML, PDF | |
| October 1 (M) | No class | ||
| October 3 (W) | Loops continued; a little about ``random'' numbers (Notes) | ||
| October 5 (F) | Loops continued (Notes) | Quiz 3 (Solution); Homework 5: HTML, PDF | |
| October 8 (M) | Review for midterm (Notes) | ||
| October 10 (W) | Midterm exam | (Review in HTML, PDF) | |
| October 12 (F) | Class recess | ||
| October 15 (M) | Files; command-line arguments (Notes) | 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.7; H.1, H.2 gnuplot tutorial (skim) | |
| October 17 (W) | A little about gnuplot; more about floating point (Notes) | ||
| October 19 (F) | No class | ||
| October 22 (M) | Arrays (Notes) | 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.7, 8.8 | |
| October 24 (W) | Arrays, continued (Notes) | 8.7, 8.8, 8.11 | |
| October 26 (F) | Sorting and searching; order of magnitude of algorithms (Notes) | 8.5, 8.6 | Homework 6: HTML, PDF |
| October 29 (M) | More about multi-dimensional arrays; introduction to pointers (Notes) | 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.7, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3 | |
| October 31 (W) | Pointers continued; dynamic memory allocation (Notes) | 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.8 | |
| November 2 (F) | Strings (Notes) | 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.7, 11.9 | Homework 7: HTML, PDF |
| November 5 (M) | Strings, continued; (Notes) | Quiz 4 (Solution) | |
| November 7 (W) | Multi-dimensional arrays revisited (Notes) | ||
| November 9 (F) | (Homework catch-up day) (Notes) | ||
| November 12 (M) | About Homework 9 (Notes) | Quiz 5 (Solution); Homework 8: HTML, PDF | |
| November 14 (W) | User-defined types (Notes) | 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4 (skim), 12.7 | |
| November 16 (F) | No class | ||
| November 19 (M) | More about user-defined structures (Notes) | ||
| November 21 (W) | Holiday | ||
| November 23 (F) | Holiday | ||
| November 26 (M) | Separate compilation and UNIX make (Notes) | K.1, K.2; "Simple Makefile Tutorial" (skim) | |
| November 28 (W) | A little about linked data structures (Notes) | 15.1, 15.2 (skim if interested) | Quiz 6 (Solution); Homework 9: HTML, PDF |
| November 30 (F) | Functions as parameters to other functions (Notes) | I.1, I.2 (skim if interested) | |
| December 3 (M) | Review for final; course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | Homework 10: HTML, PDF (accepted without penalty through 12/07) | |
| December 10 (M), noon | Final exam | (Review in HTML, PDF) | |
| December 11 (T) (Not a class day) | Final deadline for all homeworks (nothing accepted past this date) |