Fall 2010 ECE 209 / CSCI 373 lecture schedule

This is a very sketchy schedule. It is my plan to cover all chapters of the Stephen Prata text Go ahead and start reading!

In the "Reading" column, SP refers to the Stephen Prata text and PP refers to the Patt and Patel text.

Date Topic Reading & Notes
Aug 24 Getting started SP Chapters 1 & 2, Introduction, C
Aug 26 Data and I/O SP Chapter 3, Types and formatted I/O
Aug 31 Format Specifiers SP Chapter 4, Bad Formatting, Advanced formatting
Sept 1 optional discussion of NetBeans at 1:00 pm in RH 223
Sept 2 Expressions SP Chapter 5, Expressions
Sept 7 Loops and conditionals I SP Chapters 6 & 7, Loops, Conditionals
Sept 8 optional discussion of Homework 3 at 1:00 pm in RH 223
Sept 9 Loops and conditionals II SP Chapters 6 & 7, Loops, Conditionals
Sept 14 Input validation SP Chapter 8, Validation
Sept 15 optional discussion of Homework 3 at 1:00 pm in RH 223
Sept 16 Functions SP Chapter 9, Functions
Sept 21
Sept 22 optional discussion of Homework 3 at 1:00 pm in RH 223
Sept 23 Arrays and Pointers SP Chapter 10, Arrays
Sept 28
Sept 29 creating NetBeans project for Homework 6 at 1:00 pm in RH 223
Sept 30 Arrays and Review Arrays, Exam 1 Review
Oct 5 Exam 1: Chapters 1 to 8
Oct 7 Thoughts about the exam, Thoughts about homework 6, Translating C
Oct 12 UNCA Fall break
Oct 14 Strings & Storage SP chaps 11 & 12, Strings, Variable allocation, HW6 revisited
Oct 19
Oct 20 optional hints for Homework 7 at 1:00 pm in RH 223
Oct 21 Translation of C Control structures, Simple expressions, Variables, Functions
Oct 26
Oct 27 optional hints for Homework 7 at 1:00 pm in RH 223
Oct 28 Dynamic memory allocation SP Chap 12,Heaps and type qualifiers
Nov 2 File I/O SP Chap 13, Files in C
Nov 3 optional discussion of Homework 9 at 1:00 pm in RH 223
Nov 4 Structures SP Chap 14, Structures in C
Nov 9 Unions and functions as paramters HW 7 revisited, SP Chap 14 & 15, Rest of 14
Nov 10 optional discussion of Homework 9 at 1:00 pm in RH 223
Nov 11 Bits and review Bit ops in C, Exam 2 Review
Nov 16 Exam 2: Chapters 1 to 13
Nov 18 Exams, and Homework 1X Exam 2 review, Homework 1X preview,
Nov 23 CPP and Homework 1X SP Chap 16, C preprocessor, Homework 1X, Hashing
Nov 25 Thanksgiving
Nov 30 Homework 1X Homework 1X, pictures
Dec 1 optional discussion of Homework 7 at 1:00 pm in RH 223
Dec 2 Homework 1X, more pictures, and Final review
Dec 9 Final Exam from 11:30 to 2:30
Students concurrently enrolled in MAE 310 may take the exam from 1:00 until 4:00