CISC 1110 -- Introduction to Programming Using C++

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Announcements:

12/10/2015 The final exam is on Wednesday, December 23, from 1-3pm in room 1127N .
11/16/2015 Exam 2 is scheduled for Tuesday, November 24. Topics include: arrays (including comparing and searching arrays, passing arrays to functions as parameters, etc.), strings, history of computer science, and vectors. Review will be in class on Nov 19.
11/16/2015 REMINDER: You MUST be reading the textbook along with the class lectures. Many students get the basic idea during lecture, and feel that they are doing fine, when indeed you are not integrating the material. You should also be practicing with Codelab as we go along.
10/8/2015 Exam 1 has been scheduled for Tuesday, October 20th. The exam will be on everything that we learned this semester. This includes: introduction, variables, data types, expressions, if-else, for-loop, while-loop, files for input/output, functions. In the Gaddis textbook, it includes Chapters 1 - 6.
10/8/2015 Homework #4 has been posted. In addition, you should be working on the Codelab exercises and reading Chapter 6 in the textbook.
9/24/2015 Reading Assignment: Finish reading Chapter 3. You may skip section 3.8 on string objects. We completed Chapter 4 as well (you may skip 4.14 on the switch stmt). Chapter 5, Sections 5.1-5.9. This reading is a MUST. It will replace the cancelled Tuesday classes. However, most of the material should be familiar to you from class. If you have any questions, or don't understand a concept in the reading, you may email me.
9/16/2015 When a homework assignment says to "print," the intention is to use cout to display to the screen.
9/9/2015 Homework #2 has been posted.
9/1/2015 Homework #1 has been posted.
9/1/2015 Some students have asked about submitting output. Output refers to whatever gets displayed on your scrren while running the program. One way to submit output is to copy and paste into Notepad, as outlined in these instructions.
8/30/2015 Reading has been posted on the homwork assignment page: Chapter 1 (all sections except the last section) and Chapter 2, sections 2.1-2.5.
8/17/2015 Welcome to CISC 1110! This is the first programming course -- a gateway into the field of computer science. The department has a webpage for this course: see the link above on the left. You can find the syllabus and C++ compiler downloads at the Department website. Information specific to our section including announcements and lab and homework assignments can be found here. The first day of class is Thursday, August 27. There is a departmental final for this course which will take place on: Wednesday, December 23, 2015, 1:00-3:00 PM. Please plan your vacation accordingly.