CISC 181 Introduction to Computer Science, Fall, 1998

Latest Info -- evolved record of assignments and lecture topics

• Mon, Dec 14: Final Exam: 3:30 to 5:30pm in Gore 116.
  Mon, Dec 14: Question and answer session 12-1 in Trabant food court.
• Wed, Dec 9: review, summary
  Class vector, from the Standard Template Library. Regarding this and previous template examples, see Reading: C++htp Chapter 12.1-12.4.
• Mon, Dec 7: Degrees of program efficiency. Apparently intractable and truly impossible computational problems. See 181/C++examples/halts/*.
• Fri, Dec 4: character by character I/O.
  About Summer Job Opportunities .
• Wed, Dec 2: Input/Output patterns. Effective use of buffered iostreams. See 181/C++examples/iocrime/ files.
  Reading: C++htp Chapter 11, excluding section 5.
• Mon, Nov 30: HugeInt example: software methods same as hardware methods. Unsigned and signed integer types use same algorithms but different interpretation of data. See 181/C++examples/huge/. See 181/C++examples/huge/ files.
  Lab: team meeting, proposal due.
• Wed, Nov 25: Unix tools: man, egrep, and dbx.
  More on the HugeInt example
• Mon, Nov 23: Overloading operators.
  Reading: C++htp Chapter 8.
  Lab: final programming assignment.
• Fri, Nov 20: Review test, discuss various C++ elements.
• Wed, Nov 18: 2nd Midterm test
• Mon, Nov 16: Review for 2nd Midterm test
  Covers C++ book chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 7(Sections 1,2,6,7)
  Most questions will be directly from end of chapter summary material (summary, word list, tips, self-review, exercises).
• Fri, Nov 13: Sorting: files in 181/C++examples/sorting
  sortMain.cc, quickSort.cc, bubbleSort.cc,
• Wed, Nov 11: Making the Board Class more generally useful.
  Use files in 181/lab9/kt2.
  Reading: C++htp Chapter 7.1-7.7.
• Mon, Nov 9:
  Lab: Using a class and a makefile. Fri, Nov 6: Further examination of the Knight's tour example.
• Wed, Nov 4: Example swap of pointer and reference use.
  Using arrays and pointers with classes. Reading: C++htp Chapter 6.
  A solution to the Knight's tour puzzle, the associated Board class, and it's header file.
• Mon, Nov 2: 2 dimensional arrays, use and misuse.
  Lab: recursion and pointers.
• Fri, Oct 30: The use of pointers, the relation between pointers and arrays. Binary search revisited, pointerized.
  Reading: C++htp Chapter 5.
• Wed, Oct 28: Function templates, linear and binary search , Arrays in C++.
  Reading: C++htp Chapter 4.
• Mon, Oct 26: recursive and iterative factorial.
  Lab: Iterative Fibonacci and expmod.
• Fri, Oct 23: A clock skeleton from 181/java-examples/DCAS.java.
  A discussion of the fibonacci numbers, their growth rate and relation to the golden ratio.
• Thu, Oct 22: Delux Clock due.
  A clock skeleton from 181/java-examples/DCAS.java.
• Wed, Oct 21: functions, recursion
  Examples: factorial.cc. and fibonacci.cc
• Mon, Oct 19: Lab - work session on Clock.
  Lecture - C++ functions, random integers, function prototypes
  Examples: craps.cc and craps4.cc
  Reading: C++htp Chapter 3.
• Fri, Oct 16: GUI aspects. C++
  Example PingPongApplet.java is a good template for the structure of a Delux clock.
  Sys.snooze( msec ) can be used without any further code about snoozing if you have a copy of Sys.class in your directory (similarly for Rotation and ClockMechanism).
  181/java-examples/README is an index of examples we've discussed in class.
• Wed, Oct 14: GUI aspects Example TextCanvas.java has some problems.
• Mon, Oct 12: Go over Midterm, Clock tools.
• Mon, Oct 12: Basic Clock due. Modified specification and
  Clocks submission guidelines Reading: Style guide, Java Appendix K, pages 601-605.
  Lab on HTML Reading: HTML, Java Appendix G, pages 619-638.
• Fri, Oct 9: Midterm test on Java
• Wed, Oct 7: GUI. Review for midterm test
• Mon, Oct 5: Lab 4, including project description
• Mon, Oct 5: GUI. Hand out review sheet.
• Fri, Oct 2: Finish XOR, color discussion, applet parameters Color XOR, PARAMs Example
• Wed, Sep 30: Implicit and explicit type conversion.
  Reading: number conversions, Java Chapter 5, pages 171-179.
• Mon, Sep 28: Lab 3
• Mon, Sep 28: Color, Arrays.
  Reading: arrays, Java Chapter 6, pages 207-217.
• Fri, Sep 25: Animation basics. Sleep. Example of primitive animation is 181/Clock.java
• Wed, Sep 23: On Graphics
  Reading: Java Chapter 7, pages 251-276.
  Discussion of Clock applet.
• Mon, Sep 21: Lab 2
• Mon, Sep 21: On Designing Classes CelestialBody class example.
• Fri, Sep 18: Program development strategies with review of Evens/ex3_16 program example.
  Reading: Java Chapter 3 & 4 should be completely read by next Monday.
  Handed out programming exercises for lab 2.
• Wed, Sep 16: Basic data types and classes primitive data types and
• Mon, Sep 14: Language syntax, BNF language specification, Appendix N. control.
• Mon, Sep 14: Lab1 ontogeny
  
• Fri, Sept 11: The language of computer language discussion:
  Program: declaration, definition, statement, expression
  Process: environment, state
  
• Wed, Sept 9: Applications and Applets, or how to say Hello.
• Fri, Sept 4: Discuss CS, use of javac (compiler), java (virtural machine)
  Reading: Java Chapter 2, pages 54-74
• Wed, Sept 2: Discussion of Computer Science, Computer Languages, course pragmas
  Reading: Java Chapter 2, pages 33-54

Syllabus -- general course information

• Instructor: B. David Saunders
  Office: 456 Smith Hall, Hours: TR 10:00-12:00 and by arrangement (by phone, by email, or just drop by)
  Phone: 831-6238, Email: saunders@cis.udel.edu, Web: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~saunders
  
• Teaching Assistant: Vaibhavi Redey
  Office: 404 Wolf Hall, Hours: 2:30-4:30pm Thursdays
  Phone: 831-1949 (214 Smith Hall), Email: redeyvai@cis.udel.edu
  
• Textbooks:
  • Java Software Solutions, Foundations of Program Design by Lewis and Loftus, Addison Wesley, 1998.
  • C++ How to Program, Second Edition by Deitel and Deitel, Prentice Hall, 1998,
• Computer project number (composers): 2016
  
• Lectures meeting time and place:
  Secton 80: MWF 11:15am-12:05pm in Gore Hall 320.
  Secton 81: MWF 10:10am-11:00pm in Gore Hall 306.
  Lab meeting time and place:
  Section 80: M 3:35-4:25pm in Willard Hall 009.
  Section 81: M 2:30-3:20pm in Willard Hall 009.
• Exam schedule:
  Friday, Oct 9, First Midterm Exam
  Wednesday, Nov 18, Second Midterm Exam
  Final Exam: 3:30 to 5:30pm, Monday, December 14, in Gore 116.
• Grading:
  20% - Midterm I
  25% - Midterm II
  20% - Homework Assignments, projects, classroom performance.
  35% - Final exam
  
• About the homework
  Assignments will be distributed throughout the semester, for the most part on a weekly basis. Homework assignments are due at the start of class on the announced due date.

• Policy on plagarism:

  All homework, programming projects, and exams in this course are designed to be done individually. You may discuss problems in general, you may help each other by discussing bugs and suggesting debugging strategies of computer programs. But the giving or taking of another person's work (with or without modification of detail) is plagarism and will be handled in accordance with University procedures.

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