MC38: Introduction to C++ Programming

Current Schedule and Course syllabus

Labs

• Week 1
• Getting started
• Introduction to GNU emacs (Monday)
• Compile-time and run-time debugging in emacs (Tuesday morning)
• A straight-line program to do date format conversion (Tuesday afternoon)
• Some introductory graphics programs (Wednesday)
• Teach a child about an analog clock (Thursday morning)
• Solving cubic equations (optional)
• Multiple clocks (Friday morning)

• Week 2
• Improved clocks (Monday morning optional)
• Stack frames and recursion (Monday afternoon)
• Logbook query program (Tuesday, Wednesday and improved Thursday)
• Integer point class (Friday morning)
• Two simple vector procedures (Friday morning)

• Week 3
• Robots games (All week)
• A decent Makefile

• Week 4
• Polymorphic robots (Monday, Tuesday)
• Operator overloading (Tuesday)
• Binary search trees (Wednesday and Thursday)
• Templated tables (Thursday)

Documentation

• Programming on the SGI's in MC-38
• Style guide
• Paul Hilfinger's notes on emacs
• Using g++
• Using gdb
• Using makefiles

Links

• David Wolfe
• Karl Knight
• Text web site for Cay Horstmann, Computing Concepts with C++ Essentials.
• ANSI C++ standard (for true hackers)

Evaluations

• Course evaluation
• Lab debriefing