Topics for CS 1713 section 1

                       CS 1713/1711 Weekly Topics List

    Week         CS 1713 Topics and Due Dates      Suggested CS 1711 Topics
            Introduction to the class.
            Explanation of syllabus. Use of the
            World Wide Web, Usenet News, and
            E-mail. Levels of abstraction in the  Introduction to the lab.
 May 28/30  computer. Components of the computer. Some sample C programs.
            Input/Output. Number systems,         Description of the
            representation. Bits, bytes,          edit/compile/debug cycle.
            addresses. ASCII. Machine language.
            Compilers. Sample C programs.
            Assignment 1: Type-in Program and
            progress report, due Friday, June 6
            at midnight.

 June 2/4/6 Some C language data types.           Subdirectories for
            Statements and Expressions. Scalar    projects. Use of make.
            variables. Precision. Output to
            screen/standard output, user input
            from keyboard/standard input. Some
            simple problems solved in C.
            Assignment 2: Simple Computations
            with User Input , and progress report
            due Friday, June 13 at midnight
            (superstitious? turn it in Thursday).
                                                  Linking. Using the -l
 June                                             option, particularly for
 9/11/13    Operators and their precedence.       linking in the math
            Logical operators. Conditional
            statements: if/else and case.         library.
            Operator side-effects. Results of
            operations. Data conversion -
            casting.
            printf is your friend. Reference
            parameters to standard functions
 June       (like scanf). while and for loops.    More problems solved in
 16/18/20   Reading and writing files. Errors -   C.
            run time, compile time, syntactic,
            semantic. Good documentation and
            style.
            Assignment 3: if/else/switch, and
            progress report due Friday, June 27
            at midnight.

 June       Mathematical concept of function.     Using dbx. Examples of C
 23/25/27   Writing C functions. Conceptual       programs with loops and
            difference between a function and a   reading/writing files.
            subroutine (i.e., void function).
            Value and reference parameters.
            Command line parameters with argc and
            argv
            Midterm Exam on Wednesday, July 2.
                                                  Examples of C functions.
 July 2     Begin arrays. Arrays of numbers.      Separate compilation
            Sieving. Strings, standard C
            functions in string.h. Write our own  using make.
            string manipulation functions.
            Assignment 4: Loops and Files, and
            progress report due Friday, July 11
            at midnight.
            July 9 is the last day to drop this
            course and receive an automatic 'W'.
 July                                             Sample programs with
 7/9/11     Sorting and searching. Handwaving     arrays.
            analysis of algorithms. Begin
            pointers. Begin two-dimensional
            arrays, arrays of pointers. Using
            malloc to allocate storage for
            arrays.
            Assignment 5: Strings, and progress
            report due Friday, July 18 at
 July       midnight.                             Examples of C programs
 14/16/18                                         with pointers. Fun with
            Begin structures. typedef and header  malloc.
            files. Abstract data types. Software
            engineering.
            More abstract data types. Using
 July       structures to read/write files of     Examples of abstract data
 21/23/25   records. Reading and writing          types.
            structures with fread/fwrite. Stacks.
            Dependencies on header files in make.
            Assignment 6: Final Program, and
            progress report due Friday, August 1
 July       at midnight.
 28/30,                                           Review for final.
 August 1   Miscellaneous topics. Other
            programming languages. Foundations of
            computer science. Complexity.
            Incompleteness.