Below you can find the tentative schedule for the Fall 2024 semester. The actual topic covered and relevant lecture slides can be found on the Lectures page.
| Week | Date | Topic | 2nd Ed. Book | 3rd Ed. Book | Quizes | MPS due | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 08-27 | Memory-mapped I/O: input from the keyboard, output to the monitor | 8.1-8.3 | 9.1-9.2 | |||
| 08-29 | Repeated code: TRAPs and Subroutines | 9 | 9.3, 8.1 | ||||
| 2 | 09-03 | Stack data structure and stack operations | 10.1 | 8.2 | |||
| 09-05 | Programming with stack; Arithmetic using a stack | 10.3-10.5 | 8.2 | MP 1 | 10th day drop deadline: 09/09 | ||
| 3 | 09-10 | Introduction to C: data types, operators, scope, storage | 11,12 | 11,12 | |||
| 09-12 | Introduction to C: control structures, basic I/O | 12,13 | 12,13 | Mock Quiz | MP 2 | Quiz due 09/09 - 09/11 | |
| 4 | 09-17 | Introduction to functions in C | 14 | 14 | Quiz 1 | Quiz due 09/16 -09/18 | |
| 09-19 | Implementing functions in C, run-time stack | 12.5, 14.3 | 12.5, 14.3 | MP 3 | |||
| 5 | 09-24 | Pointers and Arrays | 16 | 16 | |||
| 09-26 | Midterm 1 | ||||||
| 09-29 | MP 04 extended deadline | MP 4 | |||||
| 6 | 10-01 | Strings; multi-dimensional arrays; | 16 | 16 | Quiz 2 | Quiz due 09/30 -10/02 | |
| 10-03 | Problem solving with pointers and arrays | 16 | 16 | MP 5 | |||
| 7 | 10-08 | Recursion | 17 | 17 | Quiz 3 | Quiz due 10/07 - 10/09 | |
| 10-10 | Problem solving with recursion; Recursion with backtracking | 17 | 17 | MP 6 | |||
| 8 | 10-15 | File I/O in C | 18 | 18 | Quiz 4 | Quiz due 10/14 - 10/16 | |
| 10-17 | Data Structures | 19.1-19.3 | 8,19 | MP 7 | Drop deadline to avoid W: 10/18 | ||
| 9 | 10-22 | Dynamic memory allocation | 19.4 | 19.5 | |||
| 10-24 | Linked Lists | 19.5 | 19.5 | MP 8 | |||
| 10 | 10-29 | Problem solving with linked lists | |||||
| 10-31 | Midterm 2 | ||||||
| 11-03 | MP 09 extended deadline | MP 9 | |||||
| 11 | 11-05 | From C to LC-3 assembly with linked data structures | |||||
| 11-07 | Intro to C++: Objects, Constructors | 20.1-20.2 | |||||
| 12 | 11-12 | Intro to C++: inheritance and polymorphism | 20.2 | ||||
| 11-14 | Intro to C++: iterators and templates | 20.3 | MP 10 | ||||
| 13 | 11-19 | Trees, traversal and search | 20 | Quiz 5 | Quiz due 11/18 -11/20 | ||
| 11-21 | C++ examples | 19.2 | MP 11 | ||||
| 14 | 12-03 | Interrupts and exceptions; Interrupt-driven I/O; TRAP | 5.4,9.4 | Quiz 6 | Quiz due 12/02 - 12/04 | ||
| 12-05 | Course Review Day 1 | ||||||
| 12-08 | MP 12 extended deadline | MP 12 | |||||
| 15 | 12-10 | Course Review Day 2 | Deadline to report final conflict | ||||
| 15 | TBD | Final Exam |