Tentative Syllabus

• Programming in C
  • Some Fundamentals, Compiling and Running Programs
  • Variables, Data Types, Expressions
  • Making Decisions
  • Looping
  • Arrays
  • Modular Programming
  • Pointers
  • Strings
  • Structures
• Intro to Java

Schedule and Lecture Notes

Date:	Topic:	Readings:	Lecture notes and handouts:
Thu, Aug 27	Introduction to the course	Chapter 1	Lecture 1
Mon, Aug 31	Intro to UNIX		Lecture 2
Wed, Sept 2	Compiling and Running a Program	Chapter 2	Lecture 3
Thu, Sept 3	-- Your First Program -- printf() function	Chapter 3	Lecture 4 PA0 due
Mon, Sept 7	NO CLASS
Wed, Sept 9	-- Numbers in/Numbers out -- Identifiers		Lecture 5
Thu, Sept 10	-- Identifiers -- Constants and Variables -- Data Types	Chapter 4	Lecture 6
Mon, Sept 14	-- More about Data Types -- Assignment Statements	Chapter 4	Lecture 7
Wed, Sept 16	Arithmetic and Logical Expressions	Chapter 4	Lecture 8
Thu, Sept 17	Making Decisions: if statement	Chapter 6	Lecture 9 Code: program 1 PA1 assigned
Mon, Sept 21	Making Decisions: -- if-else statement -- else-if statement -- nested if	Chapter 6	Lecture 10
Wed, Sept 23	-- More about if statement -- switch statement	Chapter 6	Lecture 11
Thu, Sept 24	Program Looping: for statement	Chapter 5	Lecture 12 PA1 due
Mon, Sept 28	NO CLASS		PA2 assigned
Tue, Sept 29	BRANDEIS MONDAY Program Looping: -- more about for statement -- while statement	Chapter 5	Lecture 13
Wed, Sept 30	Program Looping: more about while statement	Chapter 5	Lecture 14
Thu, Oct 1	QUIZ 1 Reading Loop		Lecture 15
Mon, Oct 5	NO CLASS
Wed, Oct 7	Nested loops	Chapter 5	Lecture 16 PA2 due
Thu, Oct 8	do-while statement break statement	Chapter 5	Lecture 17
Mon, Oct 12	Arrays	Chapter 7	Lecture 18 PA3 assigned
Wed, Oct 14	MIDTERM
Thu, Oct 15	Working with Arrays	Chapter 7	Lecture 19
Mon, Oct 19	Multidimensional Arrays		Lecture 20 PA3 due
Wed, Oct 21	Review on Arrays		Lecture 21
Thu, Oct 22	-- Bubble-Sort -- Linear Seach		Lecture 22
Mon, Oct 26	Pointers	Chapter 11 p. 234-240	Lecture 23 PA4 assigned
Wed, Oct 28	Pointers	Chapter 11 p. 234-240	Lecture 24
Thu, Oct 29	Working with Functions	Chapter 8	Lecture 25
Mon, Nov 2	Pointers		Lecture 26 PA4 due
Wed, Nov 4	Pointers and arrays Pointer arithmetic	Chapter 11 p. 259-265	Lecture 27
Thu, Nov 5	-- Functions, Library Functions -- Pointers and functions	Chapter 11 p. 254-259	Lecture 28 PA5 assigned
Mon, Nov 9
Wed, Nov 11
Thu, Nov 12
Mon, Nov 16
Wed, Nov 18
Thu, Nov 19
Mon, Nov 23
Wed, Nov 25
Thu, Nov 26	NO CLASS
Mon, Nov 30
Wed, Dec 2