Schedule

This class meets every Tuesday and Thursday from 9:25 to 10:40 AM, except on University holidays or if I cancel class. All dates in the following schedule are tentative, except those fixed by the University; if some topic listed here as taking one lecture in fact takes two lectures to cover adequately, or vice versa, the schedule will shift.

I expect you to have read the specified chapters in the textbook before the lecture that deals with that topic; this way I can concentrate my time on answering questions and clarifying subtle or difficult points in the textbook, rather than on reading the textbook to you, which will bore both of us. Please read the textbook!

Date(s)	Assignment	Reading	Lecture Subject
5 Sept			Administrivia, accounts, passwords, introduction
10 Sept		1	Writing, compiling, and running C programs in Unix
12 Sept	HW1	info gdb	Debugging in Unix
17 Sept		2	Language structure: lexical elements
19 Sept			Using C operators
20 Sept			Last day to add courses
24 Sept		3	Language structure: control flow statements
26 Sept			Using loops, conditionals, etc.
1 Oct	HW1 due	4	Functions in C
3 Oct	HW2		Structured program design
4 Oct			Last day to drop courses
8 Oct		5	Characters in C
10 Oct		5	Characters in C
15 Oct		6	Other basic data types in C
17 Oct			Using primitive data types
22 Oct	HW2 due; HW3	8	Pointers and storage in C
24 Oct			Using pointers and different storage classes
29 Oct		9	Arrays and pointers in C
31 Oct		10	Strings and pointers in C
5 Nov		7	Inventing new types in C
7 Nov			Midterm exam
8 Nov			Last day to withdraw from classes
12 Nov	HW3 due		Discuss midterm; introduction to Scheme; atoms
14 Nov		Scheme tutorial	The read-eval-print loop, quote, functions, lists
19 Nov			Lists, defining new functions
21 Nov			Variables, define, set!, let, recursion
26 Nov		11	More recursive programming
28 Nov			Thanksgiving --- no classes
3 Dec	HW4		Code as data and data as code
5 Dec			Code as data and data as code
10 Dec			More Scheme stuff: backquote?
12 Dec	HW4 due		Catch up and review for final
19 Dec			10:30 AM--12:30 PM, Final Exam Note date change back to the original date!

Last modified: Thu Dec 12 10:56:27 EST 1996