Intro to Programming
COEN 10 - Fall 2009

Course Info

• Lecturer: Dr. Figueira (sfigueira@scu.edu)
• Classes: MWF, 10:30-11:35am
• Office Hours: T/Th 11am-12pm
• TAs: Jingjing Ren and Shikha Bansal
• Work: quizzes (20%) + midterms (30%) + final (30%) + lab projects (20%)

Bulletin-Board

• Quiz on Wed, 12/2 (C: Strings)
• Quiz on Wed, 11/18 (C: lectures 11 to 16)
• Example of a program with functions: f.c
• Midterm on Wed, 11/11 (C: lectures 11 to 14)
• Quiz on Wed, 11/4 (C: arrays, conditionals, loops, main function, scanf, printf)
• Quiz on Wed, 10/28 (C: conditionals, loops, main function, scanf, printf)
• Quiz on Wed, 10/21 (php: conditionals, loops, arrays, functions)
• Midterm on Wed, 10/14
• Quiz on Wed, 10/7

• The projects will be done in C and html/php, using the Linux machines.
  • unix guide
  • vi guide
  • Getting started on vi.
  • free vi for Windows and other systems
  • free C compiler for Windows
  • remote login

• Makefile
  • makefile guide
  • example of a makefile file - new version!

• This is my list of advices for first-year students.

Lecture Notes

• Lecture 1 - Linux and vi: 9/21
• Lecture 2 - Computers and Programming: 9/23
• Lecture 3 - HTML: 9/25
• Lecture 4 - Programming Fundamentals: 9/28
• Lecture 5 - PHP - intro: 9/30
• Lecture 6 - PHP - forms: 10/2
• Lecture 7 - PHP - conditional statements: 10/2
• Lecture 8 - PHP - arrays: 10/5
• Lecture 9 - PHP - loops: 10/9
• Lecture 10 - PHP - functions: 10/16
• Lecture 11 - C - Overview: 10/21
• Lecture 12 - C - Arithmetic Expressions: 10/28
• Lecture 13 - C - Arrays: 10/30
• Lecture 14 - C - Conditionals: 11/6
• Lecture 15 - C - Repetition and Loop Statements: 11/9
• Lecture 16 - C - Functions: 11/13
• Lecture 17 - C - Strings: 11/18
• Lecture 18 - C - Pointers: 11/20

Homework/Practice

• Practice I -- answers
• Practice II -- answers
• Practice III
• Practice IV -- answers
• Practice V -- answers
• Practice VI --
• Practice VII --
• Practice VIII --

Lab Projects

Projects (TBA)

• Project 1 - demo (only) in week 1
• Project 2 - deadline: 2nd week in the lab
• Project 3 - deadline: 3rd week in the lab
• Project 4 - deadline: 4th week in the lab
• Project 5 - deadline: 5th week in the lab
• Project 6 - deadline: 6th week in the lab
• Project 7 - deadline: 7th week in the lab
• Project 8 - deadline: 8th week in the lab
• Project 9 - deadline: 9th week in the lab
• Project 10 - deadline: 10th week in the lab

Syllabus

• The Unix/Linux environment
• Computers and Programming
• Programming Fundamentals
• Basics of HTML and PHP
• Intro to C
  • Functions
  • Selection
  • Repetition
  • Modular Programming
  • Simple Data Types
  • Arrays

Text Book

• Problem Solving and Program Design in C,
  by Hanly and Koffman, Addison-Wesley, 6th Edition, 2010.

Other C Books

• The C Programming Language
  Kernighan and Ritchie, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, 1989.
• Practical C Programming
  Steve Oualline, 3rd Edition, O'Reilly, 1997.

Unix Books

• The UNIX Programming Environment
  Brian W Kernighan and Rob Pike, Prentice Hall, 1984.

Programming Books

• The Practice of Programming
  Kernighan and Pike, Addison-Wesley, 1999.