Instructor: Ronnie Gerola, P.E. [email protected]
We plan to follow the class schedule shown. However, it's possible that discussion topics and activities may occasionally vary.
This can be due to any class cancellations, student requests to focus on areas of special interest, or attention to other matters.
| Class | Monday Night |
Before Class Reading |
Assignment Or Quiz |
Class Discussion/Activi ty Topic (Text reading assignment due prior to start of class) |
| 1 | Aug 29 | C1+C2 | Get Text | Programming as a problem-solving activity; use of the lab. |
| - | Sep 01 | - | - | NO CLASS - Labor Day Holiday |
| 2 | Sep 08 | C3 | - | C++ as a language, syntax, operators, simple program structures. |
| 3 | Sep 15 | C4 | 1 | Developing ideas, building expressions, formulas, modularity. |
| 4 | Sep 22 | C5 | - | Flow control mechanisms, logical expressions, branching. |
| 5 | Sep 29 | C6-C7 | 2 | Looping, nested loops, functions, parameter passing. |
| 6 | Oct 06 | C8 | Quiz 1 | Advanced functions, nature of algorithms, heuristics. |
| 7 | Oct 13 | C9 | 3 | Review Quiz 1, additional function calling, parameters, control structures. |
| 8 | Oct 20 | C10 | - | Data types, uses and methods, character data, 1-D arrays. |
| 9 | Oct 27 | C11-C12 | 4 | Multidimensional arrays, structured data types. |
| 10 | Nov 03 | C13 | - | Records, structs vs. arrays, example struct uses. |
| 11 | Nov 10 | C14 | 5 + Quiz 2 | Database-like operations, structs vs. classes, impications for C++. |
| 12 | Nov 17 | C15 | - | Review Quiz 2, more on constructors, destructors, examples of OO techniques. |
| 13 | Nov 24 | C16 | 6 | OO software development, pointers, recursion applications. |
| 14 | Dec 01 | C17 | - | OO software development, pointers, recursion applications. |
| 15 | Dec 08 | All | - | *** FINAL EXAM: Comprehensive, 2 hours, 6:30 - 8:30 PM *** |
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