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- Instructor: Brian M. Dennis
- Teaching Assistants:
- Tom Lechner, Bin Lin
- http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~bmd/cs211/
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- Class Meetings
- MWF Lecture
- Tu discussion
- 11:00 – 11:50
- Tech A110
- Attendance
- Not a stickler, but regular attendees generally do better
- Contact
- bmd@cs.northwestern.edu
- Working on Tom & Bin
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- Grading
- 50% Programming Labs
- 15% 5 written homeworks
- 15% Midterm exam
- 20% Final exam
- Late policy
- 1 day, 10% off / 90% max
- 2 days, 20% off / 80% max
- 3 days, 40% off / 60% max
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- Textbook
- “C++ How to Program” Deitel & Deitel 4th edition
- No guarantee about 3rd edition
- Seemed to work out for a few last year
- 2nd edition is probably too far out of sync
- Pros
- Thorough
- Lots of code examples
- Cons
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- Working platforms
- Easiest paths
- Visual C++ 6.0 in book
- Use CS TLab
- MSDN AA
- CS TLab
- Location
- Getting access
- Win XP Pro
- Linux Redhat 9.0
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- Will we use Scheme?
- Yes, as a working pseudo code
- Language contrast
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- Have fun
- Introduce systems programming
- Intro to C++/C
- Intro dev tools
- Introduce computer science
- We’re here for you
- Mostly no curve
- A
- B
- Reasonable effort
- Good performance
- C
- D/F
- Didn’t show for exams
- Didn’t turn in homeworks
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- Week 1
- SICP, 3 essential things in any language
- Expressions
- Combination
- Abstraction
- Examine in C++ context
- Intro to C++ dev environments
- HW 1 out on Friday
- Week 2
- Control flow constructs
- Introduce arrays & pointers
- One of the tougher areas of the course
- HW 1 due on Friday
- HW 2 out on Friday
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- Week 3
- More pointers & arrays
- Structs: simple C++ data abstraction
- Week 4
- Classes: sophisticated C++ data abstraction
- HW 2 due on Friday
- HW 3 out on Friday
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- Week 5
- Classes: wrapup basics
- Midterm Quiz, Wednsday
- Week 6
- Syntactic extension
- C++ stream I/O
- HW 3 due on Friday
- HW 4 out on Friday
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- Week 7
- Week 8
- More polymorphism & inheritance
- Class design
- HW 4 due on Friday
- HW 5 out
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- Week 9
- Templates: syntactic abstraction
- Elements of good programming
- Week 10
- More elements of good programming
- Wrapup
- HW 5 due Sunday night
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- Reading
- Re-read / skim the first chapter of SICP
- Read the first chapter of Deitel & Deitel
- Get your dev environment in shape
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