General Information

Instructor: Douglas Blank, 248 Park Hall, 526-6501
Email: dblank (at) cs (dot) brynmawr (dot) edu
WWW: http://cs.brynmawr.edu/~dblank
Office hours: Tuesday & Thursday 10 - 11am, 2 - 3pm, and by appointment.

Laboratories: Computer Science Lab Room 231 (Park Science Building)

Lab Assistants: The following Lab assitants will be available during the week (names and schedules will be posted by the end of this week) for assistance on lab assignments.

1. Jessica Billings, Thursdays, 2-4pm, in Park Science 230
2. Anne Miller, Tuesdays, 7:30 - 9:30pm, Park Science 231

These are the hours when the Lab will not be available:

Tues/Thursday 10-11:30am, 2:30-4pm

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Texts & Software

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Important Dates

January 23: First lecture
March 20: Exam 1
May 1: Last lecture/Exam 2

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Assignments

1. Assignment #1: write a C program of your own design
2. Assignment #2: edit a section of the on-line book
3. Assignment #3: write a first version of cellmate.c that will:
   • read in a .cm file
   • read multiple columns
   • write out the columns
4. Assignment #4: write a version of cellmate.c that can handle the -d flag to set a delimiter, and remove limits on numbers of rows and columns. See hints at cellmate-6.c

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Lectures

• Week 1 (January 22)
  
  January 22: First class meeting. Overview of the course.
  

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• Week 2 (January 28, 30)
  
  January 28: Read http://www.faqs.org/docs/learnc/
  
  January 30:
  

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• Week 3 (February 4, 6)
  
  February 4: No class today (Doug in DC)
  
  February 6: History of Unix and C
  

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• Week 4 (February 11, 13)
  
  February 11: Defining cellmate, a C program in the Unix style. See Cellmate
  
  February 13: Explore a matrix of pointers.
  

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• Week 5 (February 18, 20)
  
  February 18 : Explore arguments and structs. Due today, Assignment #3. cellmate-6.c hints
  
  February 20: Examine further the ideas of a linked list and cellmate-6.c. Due today, Assignment #4.
  

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• Week 6 (February 25, 27)
  
  February 25:
  
  February 27:
  

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• Week 7 (March 3, 5)
  
  March 3:
  
  March 5:
  

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• Week 8 (March 10, 12)
  
  No classes. Spring Break!
  

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• Week 9 (March 17, 19)
  
  March 17:
  
  March 19: Exam 1 is today.
  

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• Week 10 (March 24, 26)
  
  March 24:
  
  March 26
  

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• Week 11 (March 31, April 2)
  
  March 31:
  
  April 2:

• Week 12 (April 7, 9)
  
  April 7:
  
  April 9:
  

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• Week 13 (April 14, 16)
  
  April 14:
  April 16:
  

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• Week 14 (April 21, 23)
  
  April 21:
  
  April 23:
  

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• Week 15 (April 28, 30)
  
  April 28:
  
  April 30: Exam 2 is today.

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Grading

Final grades will be calculated as a weighted average of all grades according to the following weights:

Exam 1: 20%
Exam 2: 25%
Labs & Written Work: 55%
Total: 100%

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Links

1. http://wiki.roboteducation.org/Learning_GNU_C
2. http://wiki.roboteducation.org/CellMate

Created on January 18, 2008.