cs3157 syllabus

disclaimer: subject to change without notice

	mon lecture	wed lab
jan 17-19		no lab -- first class is monday jan 24
jan 24-26	lec0: course intro and intro to perl (handout) course intro data types hashes local and global variables; global special variables statements operators examples from class today: hello.pl p1.pl lecture notes	lab0: perl lab #1
jan 31-feb 2	lec1: more perl (handout) overview, continued some built-in functions file handling lecture notes	lab1: perl lab #2
feb 7-9	lec2: intro to C (k&r ch 1-3, 7.3) compiling and the C pre-processor basic I/O (stdio library) basic data types and operators looping branching lecture notes	lab2: C output and input (numbers) and command-line compiling
feb 14-16	lec3: CGI, in perl and in C; more C and leftover perl (k&r ch 4.1-4.3,7.1-7.5) continuing with C control flow strings string library string tokenizing CGI leftover perl more built-in functions subroutines regular expressions pattern matching lecture notes cgi examples	lab3: CGI
feb 21-23	lec4: more C (k&r ch 5.1-5.6, plus absolute beginners ch 21, 24 handout) C pre-processor command-line arguments more on data types and operators: "booleans" in C logical and bitwise operators type conversion more libraries: math library random numbers (stdlib) character handling (ctype) intro to arrays and pointers lecture notes	labX: exam #1
feb 28-mar 2	lec5: still more C (k&r ch 5.7-5.11 plus absolute beginners ch 26 handout) notes on file I/O in C code example: files.c more pointers and arrays multi-dimensional arrays dynamic memory allocation of arrays with pointers functions function arguments arrays and pointers as function arguments lecture notes code examples: arrays.c pointers.c malloc.c swap.c	lab4: C pointers, arrays and strings and sh compile script
mar 7-9	lec6: finishing up C (k&r ch 6,7.6-7.9) structures enumerated data types lecture notes code examples: struct0.c struct1.c struct2.c struct3.c struct4.c	lab5: C structures
mar 14-16	spring break
mar 21-23	lec7: unix utilities C programs with multiple files regular expressions filters (cut, grep, sed, sort, wc) sh scripts lecture notes code examples: person.h person.c pmain.c build.sh (you may not be able to open this in a browser) clarification from class today regarding regular expressions	lab6: unix utilities
mar 28-30	lec8: sh scripts (finishing from last time) makefiles lecture notes	labX: exam #2
apr 4-6	lec9: intro to C++ (c++core ch 1-2; c++nutshell ch 1-4) software engineering basics object-oriented programming with classes c++ without classes writing to the screen lecture notes code examples: hello.cpp	lab7: C++ first program and makefile
apr 11-13	lec10: more C++ (c++core ch 3-6; c++nutshell 5-6,9) language basics data structures pointers and references I/O functions classes lecture notes code examples: array1.cpp array2.cpp array3.cpp array4.cpp array5.cpp	lab8: C++ object-oriented program
apr 18-20	lec11: even more C++ (c++core ch 7-9,11-13; c++nutshell 6-7) composition and derivation dynamic memory allocation (new/delete vs malloc/free) container classes iterator classes templates lecture notes code examples: array3a.cpp array4a.cpp	lab9: C++ create a class
apr 25-27	lec12: PHP whirlwind introduction to php lecture notes code examples: hello.php hello2.php hello3.php colors.php arrays.php myclass.php (also uses userclass.php) lunch.html (invokes lunch.php) to look at the code examples: log into your CS account and look in ~cs3157/public	no lab
may 2-4	mon: exam #3	wed: demo day