Lecture slides

Lecture slides will be posted here as material is covered. The T stands for Tuesday and the R for Thursday in the table below.

Pre-lecture videos from Prof. Yih-Chun Hu are available here. These are made available to the class as an optional resource; they are not assigned readings or homework. The videos will neither be shown nor discussed in class.

# Day Date Topic Chen
BL1
Abraham
BL2
Bhowmik
BL3
1 T 08-26 Memory-mapped I/O: input from the keyboard, output to the monitor Lect01, Git, LOs Git, Lec Lec01, Git
2 R 08-28 Repeated code: TRAPs and Subroutines Lect02, Git, Git, Lec Lec02Git
3 T 09-02 Stack data structure and stack operations Lect03, Git, LOs Git, Lec Lec03, Git
4 R 09-04 Programming with stack; Arithmetic using a stack Lect04, Git Git, Lec Lec04, Git
5 T 09-09 Introduction to C: data types, operators, scope, storage Lect05, GitLOs GitLec Lec05Git
6 R 09-11 Introduction to C: control structures, basic I/O Lect06, Git Git, Lec Lec06Git
7 T 09-16 Introduction to functions in C Lect07, GitLOs Git, Lec Lec07Git
8 R 09-18 Implementing functions in C, run-time stack Lect08, Git GitLec, LecExt Lec08Git
9 T 09-23 Pointers and Arrays Lect09, GitLOs Git, Lec Lec09Git
  R 09-25 Midterm 1      
10 T 09-30 Strings; multi-dimensional arrays      
11 R 10-02 Problem solving with pointers and arrays      
12 T 10-07 Recursion      
13 R 10-09 Problem solving with recursion; Recursion with backtracking      
14 T 10-14 File I/O in C      
15 R 10-16 Data Structures      
16 T 10-21 Dynamic memory allocation      
17 R 10-23 Linked Lists      
18 T 10-28 Problem solving with linked lists      
  R 10-30 Midterm 2      
19 T 11-04 From C to LC-3 assembly with linked data structures      
20 R 11-06 Intro to C++: Objects, Constructors      
21 T 11-11 Intro to C++: inheritance and polymorphism      
22 R 11-13 Intro to C++: iterators and templates      
23 T 11-18 Trees, traversal and search      
24 R 11-20 C++ examples      
25 T 12-02 Interrupts and exceptions; Interrupt-driven I/O; TRAP      
26 R 12-04 Course Review Day 1      
27 T 12-09 Course Review Day 2      
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