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Parkland College
2400 West Bradley Avenue, Champaign, Illinois 61821

Csc 125, Computer Science II,
Programming in C++
Traditional Classroom Section 001

Fall 2006

Class Notes:

I will have at least four hours every day Finals Week (Monday through Thursday) when I'll be in my office or in a class room and I'll be available to help or grade anyone that needs it. Anyone is welcome at any time listed.

I'll help or grade anyone until 3:00 pm Thursday. After I am finished helping everyone waiting at 3:00, I'll go home and start submitting my grades. Please remember if you wait until the very end (3:00 pm Thursday), you must expect to wait as long as necessary for me to grade the students in front of you. That may be hours if there is a crowd of students. If you wait until the very end, I won't accept any excuses that you have to leave and can not wait for me to get to you.

The Final Exam Study Guide is now available.

Syllabus:

Syllabus

Help!

Is Scott in his office?

Coordinated Office Hours and Help
Resources for Students

Angel:

You may see your grades using Parkland's Angel on-line courseware. I prefer that you use Angel to e-mail me, and I will set up a Chat Room on Angel so you can talk with the other students about the course. I may also use Angel for some tests. However, I will post all information about the course on this web site. The Angel "Syllabus" and "Content" tabs are set to just redirect to these pages.

Lab Times:

CSIT Department Open Lab Times

Free software:

CSIT - Microsoft Academic Alliance

Reference:

The Best Way to Program, Guaranteed (applicable to any programming language)

Getting PuTTY and WS_FTP LE

C and C++ Libraries Reference (clearly written web version)

string class operators and functions Reference (Scott's version)

An input flush for cin that works:
cin.ignore(INT_MAX, '\n');

StandardFunctions.h and StandardFunctions.cpp (for creating a class with typical constructors and overloaded operators)

Professional C++ Reference Pages (you will be overwhelmed)

Total Points: 0

Points	Task

Grade Scale

Grade	Points

A	90% of total:
B	80% of total:
C	70% of total:
D	60% of total:
F	below 60% of total: 00 or below.

Projects:

Projects will be graded individually, in-person, in my office, during a 10 minute time slot which you will sign up for. The sign-up will be at the end of the class before the time slots start. I will tell you your grade immediately when I evaluate your project in my office, and post the grade using Parkland's Angel on-line courseware.

Thurs., Sept 7

Project 1 due, graded using the Project 1 Grade Report

Tues., Oct. 3

Project 2 due, graded using the Project 2 Grade Report

Tue., Oct. 31

Project 3 due, graded using the Project 3 Grade Report

Thurs., Nov. 30

Project 4 due, graded using the Project 4 Grade Report

Tests:

Testing may be done either on your classroom computer during regular class time, using Parkland's Angel on-line courseware.
For programming tests taken in class, I will tell you your grade immediately when I evaluate your work. Otherwise grades will only be on Angel.

Final:

Wed., Dec. 13, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Note that this is not the normal class day or time
Final Exam Study Guide

Daily Topics:

The following schedule is tentative and may be modified as the semester progresses.

Tue., Aug. 22

The Unix Programming Environment

Thurs., Aug. 24

C Programs, Functions, Arrays, structs, and Pointers - start

Tue., Aug. 29

Work on the start of Project 1 - the Sieve of Atristophanes algorithm

Thurs., Aug. 31

C Programs, Functions, Arrays, structs, and Pointers - continuation

Tue., Sept. 5

C++ Classes and Objects

Thurs., Sept 7

Project 1 due, graded using the Project 1 Grade Report

Tue., Sept. 12

Review of functions and parameter passing, Abstract Data Types, Constructors and any other problems you are having with Project 1. I want to hear about your (C++) problems.

Thurs., Sept. 14

Review of Constructors
Reference Parameters

Tue., Sept 19

Dynamic Memory
Linked Lists - start

Thurs., Sept. 21

Linked Lists - completion

Tue., Sept. 26

Binary Trees - start

Thurs., Sept. 28

Binary Trees - completion

Tue., Oct. 3

Project 2 due, graded using the Project 2 Grade Report