IntroToProgramming

Teacher:Jenett Tillotson
Teacher's email: jtillots ]at[ gmail ]dot[ com

Website: http://harold.uits.indiana.edu/~jtillots/IntroToProgramming

Text: The C Programming Language: 2nd Edition by Kernighan and Ritchie
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Mailing list: introtoprogramming@bloominglabs.org

Software:

• Linux: Use the gcc package which comes with your Linux distribution
• Mac OSX: Use Clang
• Windows: Use Cygwin Installing GCC

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Lectures:

• Lecture 8 - November 12th
  • Notes
  • Code
  • Homework: Read half of chapter 5, and write fib (and hanoi for extra credit)

• Lecture 7 - November 5th
  • Notes
  • Code
  • Homework: Read Chapter 4, sections 4.6 - 4.11, exercise 4.4, and dividing a program into multiple files

• Lecture 6 - October 29th
  • Sorting
  • Notes
  • Code
  • Homework: Read Chapter 4, sections 4.1 thru 4.5, Bubble Sort
• Lecture 5 - October 22nd
  • Finish up last week's lecture
  • Notes
  • Code
  • Homework:
    • Read about sorting, finish up last week's homework, exercise 3-2

• Lecture 4 - October 15th
  • Notes
  • Code
  • Homework:
    • Read all of Chapter 3; exercises 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5

• Lecture 3 - October 1st
  • Notes
  • Code
  • Homework:
    • Read pages 41 through 54
    • Print out the ascii table for ascii values from 0 to 127. Include decimal, octal, hexidecimal, and char values for each value. You may find page 154 very helpful.
    • Directly compute the value ranges of unsigned char, short, and unsigned short. See values-char.c as an example
    • Extra credit: compute the ranges for int, unsigned int.
    • Extra, extra credit: compute the ranges for long and float

• Lecture 2 - September 24th
  • Notes
  • Code
  • Homework: Read pages 35 through 40; exer 1-15, 1-17; extra credit 1-13 (both horizontal and vertical), 1-19
  • Homework Answers

• Lecture 1 - September 17th
  • Notes
  • Code
  • Homework: Read pages 5 through 34; exer 1-1, 1-2, 1-4, 1-5
  • Homework Answers