• Syllabus Overview
• Course Introduction
• Canvas tour
• How to be successful in this course
• Using the ARC computing environment

Exercises are due by midnight on the date due unless it is stated otherwise. Activities must be submitted during lab period. All reading assignments must be completed prior to the indicated class meeting.

• Verification of Prerequisites
• Log on to the class website
• Establish your ARC gmail account

Quiz 0

Entry-level skills evaluation. (This test is scored, but does not contribute toward your grade in this class.)

Activity 1

Complete the pre-test (Quiz 0), and Syllabus quiz

• Begin Chapter 1 & 2
• Computer Systems: Hardware and Software
• Programming Languages, Compiling, Interpreting
• Input, Processing, and Output
• Using an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• The parts of a C++ Program
• The cout object
• Primitive Data Types
• Variable Assignments
• Arithmetic Operators
• Symbolic Constants
• Preprocessor
• View #1 - Installing CodeBlocks (7:54) [transcript]
• Getting Started with Code Blocks
• View #2 - Understanding a Simple C++ Program (9:49) [transcript]
• View #3 - More on Printing Text (5:50)[transcript]
• View #4 - Variables (5:28)[transcript]

Read Chapter 1

Introduction to Computers and Programming

Read Chapter 2

Introduction to C++

Quiz 1

on Chapter 1 completed during lab

Activity 2

3x5 card about you, career discussion, register with CodeLab

Exercise 1 (Recommended submission date)

Code Lab: Basics

Quiz 2

on Chapter 2

• Chapter 2, continued

Quiz 3

on Chapter 3. Data types, Expressions. Students who have not yet obtained a textbook may wish to review Basics of C++ in the online tutorial. http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

• Begin Chapter 3
• The cin object
• Evaluating Expressions Using Precedence and Associativity
• Mixed-type Expressions, Coercion, and Type Casting
• Formatted Input and Output Using Stream Manipulators
• Calling Library Functions
• Pseudo-Random Numbers
• Using Code::Blocks to link an object file to your executable for testing
• Hand Tracing a Program to find errors
• Simple debugging techniques
• View 5 - Creating a Basic Calculator # [transcript]
• View #6 - Variables Memory Concepts [transcript]
• View #7 - Basic Arithmetic (5:58) [transcript]
• View #27 - Random Number Generator [transcript]

Read Chapter 3

Expressions and Interactivity

Exercise 1

Code Lab: Basics

Activity 3

Related Content

Exercise 2

CodeLab: Console I/O, arithmetic operators

Exercise 3

Program: sequence, formatted I/O

Quiz 4

On Chapter 4

• Chapter 3, continued

Read Chapter 4

Expressions and Interactivity

Activity 4

Related Content

• Begin Chapter 4
• Relational Operators
• Logical Operators
• More on the bool Data Type
• if Construct
• if - else Construct
• Nested if Constructs
• The switch Statement
• Validation of User Input
• View #8 - if Statement (7:14) [transcript]
• View #17 - if / else Statement (7:02) [transcript]
• View #25 - switch (7:24) [transcript]
• View #26 - Logical Operators (7:21) [transcript]

Activity 5

D2L Team A and Team B exercises and Discussion Forum

Exercise 4

CodeLab: Logical Expressions, Branching

Quiz 5

On Chapter 5

• Chapter 4 Continued

Read Chapter 5

Loops and Files

Activity 6

Related Content

• Begin Chapter 5
• Iteration
• The while Loop
• do-while Loop
• for Loop
• Accumulation
• Sentinels
• Nested Loops
• The break and continue Statements
• Chapter 5, continued

Activity 7

Related Content

Exercise 5

CodeLab: Loops and Iteration

Exercise 6

Program: Loops and input validation

Quiz 6

On Chapter 6

• Reading and Writing data with Text Files
• Sequential Access Plain Text Files; priming read, and eof processing
• Data Input Validation; the failbit
• Function Video (not C++)

Read Chapter 6

Nested repetition, validation, failbit

Activity 8

Related Content

• Chapter 5 continued

Activity 9

Related Content

Exercise 7

CodeLab: Functions (complete any 50 exercises)

Quiz 7

On Chapter 7

• Begin Chapter 6
• Declaring, Defining, and Calling Functions
• Function Prototypes
• Identifier Scope, Storage Class
• Declaring and Using Constants vs. Variables
• Functions: Pass by Value vs. Pass by Reference (&)
• inline Functions
• Function Default Arguments, Overloading
• return vs. exit()
• Stubs and Drivers, Stub Testing
• Begin Chapter 7

Read Chapter 7

Functions, Random Numbers and arrays

Activity 10

Related Content

• Chapter 6 Continued

Activity 11

Related Content

Exercise 8

Codelab: Arrays

Quiz 8

On Chapter 8

• Begin Chapter 7
• One-Dimensional Arrays of All Types
• Initializing Arrays
• Loading Arrays from a Data File
• Processing Arrays
• Arrays as Function Arguments
• Two-Dimensional Arrays

Read Chapter 8

Searching and Sorting

Activity 12

Related Content

Exercise 9

Program: Map of the Universe

Quiz 9

on Chapter 9

• Chapter 7, continued
• Begin Chapter 10
• Character arrays
• The basics of c-strings
• The cctype library
• Using cin vs. cin.getline() with c-strings

Read Chapter 9

Pointers

Activity 13

Related Content

• Searching, Linear Search
• Binary Search
• Sorting
• Sorting Parallel Arrays

Activity 14

Related Content

Quiz 10

on Chapter 10

Exercise 10

Reading, validating input data, and calcuating statistics on input

• Chapter 8, continued
• Program Testing and Debugging
• ***Practice midterm***: in-class debugging activity

Read Chapter 10

C-strings

Activity 15

Related Content

• Chapter 10 continued
Midterm: This comprehensive lab practical involves content presented in chapters 1 through 8 and will take up the entire class period.

Activity 16

Related Content

Quiz 11

on Chapter 11

• Chapter 10, continued
• The C-String
• Character Library Functions
• Character Array Manipulation
• C-String Library Functions: strlen(), strcpy(), strcmp()

Read Chapter 11

Structures and Enumerated Data Types

Activity 17

Related Content

• Begin Chapter 9
• Pointers to Primitive Types
• Dereferencing Pointers
• Pointers vs. Arrays
• Pointer Arithmetic
• Pointer Parameters and Arguments to Functions (Pass by Reference)
• Use of const with Pointers
• Chapter 11 continued

Activity 18

Related Content

Exercise 12

Codelab: Structures

Exercise 11

Program: Game Grid Modelling using structures and enum types

Quiz 12

on Chapter 12

• Chapter 9 continued

Read Chapter 12

File IO, Compilation Units

Activity 19

Related Content

Quiz 13

on Chapter 13

• Dynamic Memory Allocation for Primitive Types
• Dynamic Memory Allocation for Arrays of Primitive Types
• Recursion; Recursive vs. Iterative Repetition

Read Chapter 13

Introduction to Classes

Activity 20

Related Content

Exercise 13

Codelab: on classes

Exercise 14

Program: Strategy game

• Character Library Functions (continued)
• Advanced C-String Library Functions: strstr(), strcat()
• Pointers and C-Strings
• C-Strings and Pointer Arrays

Activity 21

Related Content

• Begin Chapter 11
• Structures
• Arrays of Structures
• Reading data from a Sequential access file into a structure
• Structures as Function Arguments
• Pointers to Structures
• Sorting Structures

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• Dynamic Memory Allocation for Structures
• Chapter 12
• Reading/Writing Structures from/to Files

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• Chapter 12, continued

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• Chapter 12, continued

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• Preprocessor Summary
• Creating Header Files
• Separate Compilation Units (single source file)
• Separate Compilation Units (multiple source files)

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• Thanksgiving Recess

• Public vs. Private Data Members and Member Functions
• Class Scope and Member Access

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• Class Constructors, Destructors
• Predicate Functions, Access Functions

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• Introduction to Interactive I/O Using the C Standard Library
• Interactive I/O Using the C Standard Library Functions scanf and printf
• sscanf, sprintf

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• Files and FILE *: Using the C Standard Library
• In-class porting exercise
• Lab Practical Preview

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• Final Exam - during class and lab time 5:45 - 7:45pm