Course Schedule

This schedule is tentative and subject to change. Keep in mind that the slides may not include all the material discussed in lecture. You are responsible for any material we present in lecture, even if it does not appear in the posted slides. Notice that code examples can be found in the grace cluster (public directory).

Week Topics Slides Readings Work
CMSC216 Schedule
Week #1
(Jan 25)
Course Introduction, C Data Types, Operators, Input/Output, Control Statements, Active Learning Course-Intro.pdf
C-Intro.pdf
ActiveLearningWorkshop.pdf
King's book, Chapters
1 → 6
Week #2
(Feb 1)
Functions, scope, C Storage Types, Linkage, sizeof, Input/Output Redirection (lab) C-Lang-I.pdf
C-Lang-II.pdf
King's book,
7.1 → 7.4 7.6
9.1 → 9.4
Chapter 10
E1 Out (Mon)
E1 Due (Fri)
E2 Out (Fri)
Week #3
(Feb 8)
Pointers, Arrays, Debugging/GDB (lab), Math Library(lab) Pointers.pdf
Debugging.pdf
Pointers-Arrays.pdf
King's book, 8.1
Chapter 11
Q1 (Wed)
E2 Due (Wed)
P1 Out (Thu)
Week #4
(Feb 15)
Strings, Pointers, Command Line Arguments Strings.pdf
PtrsCommandLineArgs.pdf
King's book, Chapter 11, Chapter 13 Q2 (Wed)
P1a Due (Wed)
E3 Out (Fri)
Week #5
(Feb 22)
Pointer Arithmetic, 2-Dim Arrays, Structures PtrArith2DArrays.pdf
Structures.pdf
King's book, 8.2, Chapter 12, Chapter 16, 17.7 Q3 (Wed)
E3 Due (Fri)
P1 Due (Wed)
P2 Out (Wed)
Week #6
(Feb 29)
Formatted I/O, Preprocessor I IO.pdf
PreprocessorI.pdf
King's book, Chapter 14, Chapter 22 P3 Out (Wed)
Midterm I (Thu)(Lecture)
P2 Due (Wed)
Week #7
(Mar 7)
Make, Dynamic Memory Allocation, Function Pointers Make.pdf (Lab)
DynamicMemAlloc.pdf
FunctionPtrs.pdf
King's book, 15.4, 17.1 - 17.7 E4 Out (Tue)
P3 Due (Thu)
Spring Break 2016 (Mar 14-Mar 18)
Week #8
(Mar 21)
Bitwise Operations (Lab), Dynamic Structures, Assembly BitwiseOperators.pdf
DynamicMemAllocII.pdf
AssemblyI.pdf
King's book, 20.1 P4 Out (Tue)
Q4 (Wed)
E4 Due (Tue)
Week #9
(Mar 28)
Assembly AssemblyII-If-Loops.pdf
AssemblyIII-CallStack.pdf
P4a Due (Mon)
Q5 (Wed)
P4 Due (Thu)
P5 Out (Thu)
Week #10
(Apr 4)
Assembly, Process Control AssemblyIV-ParamLocal.pdf
ProcessControlI.pdf
Bryant's book, 1.7, 8.2 - 8.4 P5a Due (Fri)
Week #11
(Apr 11)
Process Control, System I/O (read, write, file descriptors) ProcessControlII.pdf
System-IO-I.pdf
Bryant's book, 10.1 - 10.4, 10.8 - 10.12 P5 Due (Wed)
E5 Out (Thu)
Week #12
(Apr 18)
System I/O (dup2, pipes)
System-IO-II.pdf
E5 Due (Tue) P6 Out (Tue) Midterm II
(Thu) (Lecture)

Week #13
(Apr 25)
Libraries, Concurrency, Time Libraries.pdf
Concurrency.pdf
Time.pdf
P6 Due (Tue)
P7 Out (Tue)
Week #14
(May 2)
Optimization, Data Representation, Course Evaluations Optimization.pdf
Data-Rep.pdf
Bryant's book, Chapter 2, 12.3 - 12.7 Q6 (Mon)
P7 Due (Fri)

Week #15
(May 9)
Preprocessor, Review PreprocessorII.pdf
Review.pdf
Last Day of Classes
(Tue/May 10)

Final Exam
(Thu/May 12 4pm-6pm)

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