In the calendar below, holidays are marked in red (Oct 9th, Nov 23rd) as well as the Reading Day (Dec 7th). The final exam period is marked in green. You can also see the full Northeastern University Academic Calendar, which is a PDF document.

    
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Note: The reading assignments below should be completed before coming to the class meeting they apply to. FK = Friedman/Koffman book, HCW = How Computers Work book.

First major topic, weeks 1 and 2: Overview of computers, programming and the C++ language. Chapters 1 and 2.

Week 1

Thurs. September 21st

The textbook and other resources.

Lectures, homework, machine problems, quizzes, and exams.

Machine problems and overall code/documentation structure.

We will begin by discussing Chapter 1 of your Friedman/Koffman book.

 

Week 2

Mon. Sept. 25th

Read all of Chapter 1 (FK). Computer memory holds instructions and data. The path from source code to running program is described.

Read pages 12-15 (HCW). For fun: Try to find out what "Dip" means (pg. 15) (it's an acronym, in fact, a TLA). Use google.com.

 

Tues. Sept. 26th

Read Chapter 2, Sections 2.1-2.5 (FK)

QUIZ on material from Monday's readings.

 

Wed. Sept. 27th

Lab #1 Writing a program that outputs a web page.

 

Thurs. Sept. 28th

Read Chapter 2, Sections 2.6-2.8 (FK)

 

Second major topic, weeks 3 and 4: Top-down design, functions and classes. Chapter 3.

Week 3

Mon. Oct. 2nd

Read Chapter 3 (FK) Sections 3.1-3.2.

 

Tues. Oct. 3rd

Read Chapter 3 (FK) Sections 3.3-3.4.

QUIZ covering readings due Sept. 26th through Oct. 2nd.

 

Wed. Oct. 4th

Lab #2 -- Computing resizing for gif and jpeg images.

 

Thurs. Oct. 5th

Read Chapter 3 (FK) Sections 3.5-3.6.

 

Week 4

Monday. Oct. 9th

Columbus Day holiday. University closed.

 

Tues. Oct. 10th

Read Chapter 3 (FK) Section 3.7.

No quiz today.

Wed. Oct. 11th

Lab #3 -- Resizing images using functions you define.

 

Thurs. Oct. 12th

Read Chapter 3 (FK) Section 3.8.

 

Third major topic, weeks 5 and 6: Decisions controlling program flow. Chapter 4.

Week 5

Mon. Oct. 16th

Computers ultimately make decisions on the basis of logical (true-false) values. Chapter 4 (FK) Secs. 4.1 and 4.2 on logical expressions.

 

Tues. Oct. 17th

Double-length quiz (20 minutes) covering Chapter 3 of FK.
You will be asked to write a program, using functions, from the English-language description of the program I will give you.

Our first control expressions: The "if statement". FK, Sec. 4.3.

 

Wed. Oct. 18th

Lab #4 -- Using conditional ("if") statements, strings and scope concepts.

 

Thurs. Oct. 19th

Read about how you input and view information (HCW) Chapters 23, 24 and 25. Read any other sections you find useful for understanding these three chapters.

"if" statements controlling blocks of code, FK, Secs. 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6.

 

Week 6

Mon. Oct. 23rd

Nested "if" statements (messy, tricky!). FK, Sec. 4.7.

 

Tues. Oct. 24th

The "switch" statement. FK, Secs. 4.8 and 4.9.

 

Wed. Oct. 25th

Lab #5 -- Scope of names in C++

 

Thurs. Oct. 26th

Introduction to "bulk" operations: Overview of the while and for statements.

 

Fourth major topic, weeks 7 and 8: Repetition via loops. Chapter 5.

Week 7

Mon. Oct. 30th

Basics of the for loop -- a specialization of the while statement.
The focus will be on Sec. 5.4, with examples drawn from the other sections 5.1 through 5.5.

 

Tues. Oct. 31st

Review for Thursday's Midterm (no quiz today)

 

Wed. Nov 1st

No Lab this week.

 

Thurs. Nov. 2nd

Midterm Exam. Full class period. Preparation notes here.

 

Week 8

Mon. Nov. 6th

Go over the Midterm.

 

Tues. Nov. 7th

Various iteration strategies. do-while, nested for loops, etc. Finishing up all material in Chap. 5.

No quiz today.

 

Wed. Nov. 8th

Lab #6 -- Conditionals and Iteration -- if, while, and for control statements

 

Thurs. Nov. 9th

Introduction to the Final topics of weeks 9 and 10. Files and file input output, Secs. 8.1 and 8.2. "How Disk Storage Works" -- Chap. 14 of HCW. Extra credit on the Final Exam will cover material from other chapters on Data Storage, Chaps. 15-19 of HCW.

 

Final topics, weeks 9 and 10: Streams, files, arrays and structures. Sections of Chapters 8 and 9.

Week 9

Mon. Nov. 13th

Continuing with files, Secs. 8.1-8.3. More on string operations, Sec. 3.7, Sec. 8.4

 

Tues. Nov. 14th

Input/Output manipulators for formatting. Sec. 8.5

15 minute OPEN-BOOK QUIZ on iteration beyond Sec. 5.5 and basic file I/O operations from Secs. 8.1 and 8.2.

 

Wed. Nov.15th

Lab #7 -- Reading and writing files

 

Thurs. Nov. 16th

Data structures: Basics of arrays, Sec. 9.1. Iteration (for loops) over arrays, Sec. 9.2

 
 

Week 10

Mon. Nov. 20th

Array arguments in functions, Sec. 9.3.

 

Tues. Nov. 21st

20 minute Quiz #4 on file I/O and simple arrays, through material of Thursday Nov. 16th.

Searching and sorting arrays. The efficiency of algorithms, Secs. 9.5 and 9.6.

 

Wed. Nov.22nd

No lab this week.

 

Thurs. Nov. 23rd

Thanksgiving Day. University closed.

 

Consolidation, week 11: Bringing together all that we have learned, plus a glimpse into the future

Week 11

Mon. Nov. 27th

Program organization and style. Topics from Chapter 6. Multi-file projects with your own header files.

 

Tues. Nov. 28th

Structs and objects -- Object-Oriented Programming.

 

Wed. Nov.29th

Lab #8 -- Arrays and sorting. Due Friday, Dec. 1st, 4pm.

 

Thurs. Nov. 30th

Other consolidation topics to be announced.

 

Week 12: Review for the Final Exam.

Week 12

Mon. Dec. 4th

Review for Final

 

Tues. Dec. 5th

Last day of class.

Rinal Review wrapup.

 

Thurs. Dec. 7th

Reading day. No classes.

 

Fri. Dec. 8th - Thurs. Dec. 14th

Final Exam period.

 

Have a nice break!

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