CSC 215: Procedural Programming

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to develop the students' ability to use basics of procedural programming. The students learn the main features of procedural programming: control structures, functions, arrays, c-style strings, pointers and structures,  FileI/O, and LinkedLists.

Grading Policy

• (10) Labs:                  10%   (1% each)
• (3) Lab Exams:          30%   (10% each)
• Midterm:                    20%  
• Final Exam:               40%

Important Reminder:

• Students will be denied final exams if they exceed 25% absence rate
• The absence rate is counted for both lectures and labs.
• Excuses of absence are accepted no later than one week of the absence.
• You must bring a pen and a notebook to each class.
• Cheating is not tolerated, students who cheat in exams, labs, quizzes will fail the course.

Textbook

The C Programming language. Second Edition. Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie.

Tentative Course Schedule  (slides to be added as the course progresses)

	Lecture	Assignments	Reading
Week 1	Introduction and Course Logistics	Lab 1	Ch. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2
Week 2	Types, Operators, and Expressions	Lab 2	Ch. 2
Week 3	Control Flow	Lab 3	Ch. 3
Week 4	Functions and Program Structure	Lab 4	Ch. 4.  Example
Week 5	Pointers and Arrays	Lab Test 1	Ch. 5.1 to 5.11
Week 6	Memory Management	Lab 5	Ch. 7.8  realloc example
Week 7	Structures	Lab 6	Ch. 6
Week 8	Review: R1	Lab 7	Ch 1-6
Midterm Exam: Thursday March 24th, 2016 6:30pm
Week 9	Input and Output	Lab 8	Ch. 7
Week 10	String operations  Exersice	Lab 9	Ch. 7.8   Examples
Week 11	Math Operations	Lab Test 2
Week 12	Linked Lists	Lab 10	Ch. 3.5, 5.6
Week 13	Sorting and Searching	Lab 11
Week 14	Review	Lab Test 3
Final Exam: Sunday May 8th at 1pm

TA

Visit the TAs webpage: Muhammed Zakariah

Reference Materials

• Putty download for Windows
• A very simple Makefile
• A simple Makefile tutorial
• GCC reference manual
• Download SSH secure shell