CPSC 601 Programming with C & Java

Spring 2009
Course Information

Instructor: Dr. Hyunyoung Lee [E-mail: hlee (put at sign here) cs (dot) tamu (dot) edu]
Where: RICH, Room 912B
When: TR 3:55PM-5:10PM
Office: HRBB, Room 410B
TA: Xiaoyong Li [E-mail: xiaoyong (put at sign here) cs (dot) tamu (dot) edu]

Syllabus

Course Description:

Survey of the C and Java programming languages, including principles of procedural and object-oriented languages; multi-disciplinary applications including business, Internet and engineering problems.

Office Hours

Monday Xiaoyong Li, HRBB Lab 214, 1-3 PM
Tuesday Hyunyoung Lee, HRBB 410B, 2:00-3:30 PM
Wednesday Xiaoyong Li, HRBB Lab 214, 1-3 PM
Friday Xiaoyong Li, HRBB Lab 214, 1-3 PM

Announcements

Classroom and class time have been changed from the original schedule (see above).
[Friday, Jan 30] The two textbooks are requested for course reserve at the Evans library.
Lecture notes and sample programs are available from the elearning system (http://elearning.tamu.edu/).
The total points for the last homework (homework 10) is changed from 30 to 50 points.

Homework

Problem Set 1 due on Wednesday, Feb 4 (Only Problems from Chapters 1 and 2.)
Problem Set 2 due on 3 PM Thursday, Feb 12.
Problem Set 3 due on 3 PM Tuesday, Feb 24.
Problem Set 4 due on 3 PM Tuesday, March 3.
Problem Set 5 due on 3 PM Thursday, March 26.
Problem Set 6 due on 3 PM Thursday, April 2.
Problem Set 7 due on 3 PM Tuesday, April 14.
Problem Set 8 due on 3 PM Thursday, April 23.
Problem Set 9 due on 3 PM Thursday, April 30.
Problem Set 10 due on 3 PM Thursday, May 7. (worth 50 points)

Lectures

Week 1 (R Jan 22): Syllabus; Computing Resources.
Week 2 (T Jan 27, R Jan 29):

Intro to Programming and C Language. [Read: KP Chapter 1] Ch 1 example programs.
Lexical Elements, Operators, and the C System. [Read: KP Chapter 2] Ch 2 example programs.

Week 3 (T Feb 3, R Feb 5):

Flow of Control. [Read: KP Chapter 3] Ch 3 example programs.
Functions and Structured Programming. [Read: KP Chapter 4] Ch 4 example programs.

Week 4 (T Feb 10, R Feb 12):

Character Processing. [Read: KP Chapter 5] Ch 5 example programs.
The Fundamental Data Types. [Read: KP Chapter 6] Ch 6 example programs.
Enumeration Types and typedef. [Read: KP Chapter 7]

Week 5 (T Feb 17, R Feb 19):

Functions, Pointers, and Storage Classes. [Read: KP Chapter 8]
Arrays and Pointers. [Read: KP Chapter 9]

Week 6 (T Feb 24, R Feb 26):

Arrays and Pointers (cont). [Read: KP Chapter 9]
Strings and Pointers. [Read: KP Chapter 10]
Recursion. [Read: KP Chapter 11]
Structures and ADTs. [Read: KP Chapter 12]

Week 7 (T Mar 3, R Mar 5):

Structures and ADTs (cont). [Read: KP Chapter 12]; Review for Midterm.
Midterm Exam: Thursday, Mar 5.

Week 8 (T Mar 10, R Mar 12):

Structures and ADTs (cont). [Read: KP Chapter 12]
Input/Output and Files. [Read: KP Chapter 13]
Intro to Java Language. [Read: Liang Chapter 1]

Week 9 (T Mar 24, R Mar 26):

Elementary Programming. [Read: Liang Chapter 2]
Selections. [Read: Liang Chapter 3]

Week 10 (T Mar 31, R Apr 2):

Loops. [Read: Liang Chapter 4]
Methods. [Read: Liang Chapter 5]
Arrays. [Read: Liang Chapter 6]

Week 11 (T Apr 7, R Apr 9):

Arrays (cont).
Objects and Classes. [Read: Liang Chapter 7]

Week 12 (T Apr 14, R Apr 16):

Strings and Text I/O. [Read: Liang Chapter 8]
Thinking in Objects. [Read: Liang Chapter 9]
Inheritance and Polymorphism. [Read: Liang Chapter 10]

Week 13 (T Apr 21, R Apr 23):

Abstract Classes and Interfaces. [Read: Liang Chapter 11]
Generics. [Read: Liang Chapter 21]
Lists, Stacks, and Queues. [Read: Liang Chapter 24]

Week 14 (T Apr 28, R Apr 30):

Trees, Iterators, Heaps, and Priority Queues. [Read: Liang Chapter 25]
Graph Applications. [Read: Liang Chapter 27]
Review for final exam.

Final Exam: Tuesday, May 12 1-3 p.m.

Additional Information

Claiming your CS account (MS Word document)
VPN (You need to connect to VPN to be able to login to CSNet and submit your homework there.)
PuTTY
Basic UNIX Commands
vi Editor Commands
Java Tutorials