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Programming in C/C++ (2009)

Vrije Universiteit, Dept. of Computer Science, Amsterdam

Course description

• Credit points: 2 ECTS (FEW 400012)
• Duration: 4 weeks; starts 2 February 2009
• Structure: 4 lectures (8 hours) and 4 practical assignments (48 hours). Lectures are given in English.
• Schedule: Lectures on Mondays 2-02, 9-02, 16-02 and 23-02, 13:30-15:15 in C121. Labs have no fixed times.
• Registration: e-mail to nsilvis@few.vu.nl. No registration possible after Friday, January, 30.
• Assesment: There is no exam. A student is declared passed if all 4 practical assignments are of satisfactory quality and have been submitted in time.

Teaching staff

• Coordinator: Natalia Silvis-Cividjian (nsilvisATfew.vu.nl)
• Jeff Napper (jnapperATcs.vu.nl) will give the lectures this year.
• Teaching assistants:

  Name: E-mail: Dennis Andriesse dae400@few.vu.nl Frank Evers fevers@few.vu.nl Richard van Heuven richard@few.vu.nl Eline van Mantgem emantgem@few.vu.nl Robert van der Mast rjvdmast@few.vu.nl Bas Meeuwissen bemeeuwi@few.vu.nl

Students

There are no labs planned for this course, but each student has an assistant assigned. The student can contact his assistant any time he needs help or advice and has to deliver the solution to the assignments per e-mail according to the specified deadlines.
• The list of course participants and their assigned assistants

Material

• Course slides:
  • Lecture 1 [6-up pdf]: (data types, pointers, functions)
  • Lecture 2 [6-up.pdf]: (file I/O, linked lists, stacks & queues)
  • Lecture 3 [6-up pdf]: (object oriented programming in C++)
  • Lecture 4 [6-up pdf]: (generic programming in C++)

• Assignments:
  • The assignments for this year can be found here .
  • The data files and deadlines for each assignment can be found below:
    
    • Assignment1: Warm-up; Deadline: Monday 9 February
    • Assignment2: AEX ; Deadline: Monday 16 February
      AEX2009.txt AEX-10jan-2009.txt AEX-12jan-2009.txt
    • Assignment3: Company; Deadline: Monday 23 February
      employees.txt
    • Assignment4: Tourists; Deadline: Monday 2 March
      attractions.txt

• A C/C++ practical guide for FEW environment

• Books:
  • S. Prata, C++ Primer Plus, SAMS, 2005.
  • Leen Ammeraal, Basiscursus C++, Academic service,1999. See also the author's web page.
  • Walter Savitch, Problem solving with C++, Addison Wesley, 2005 ; material from this book is used in the lectures
  • Timothy Budd, C++ for Java Programmers, Addison Wesley, 1999
  • Stanley Lipmann, Josee Lajoie, C++ Primer, AT&T, 1998
  • Liberty Jones, Teach yourself C++ in 21 days, SAMS, 2005

• Articles:
  • An empirical comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Phyton, Rexx and Tcl
  • Find Simplicity and Portability in PNGwriter Graphics Library by V. Volkman
  • How to plot data using Microsoft Excel

• Examples:
  • Adapted programs from Ammeraal's book; see also README.

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  • Stack example (from lecture 3): Stack.h Stack.cpp test.cpp

• Useful links:
  • Dev C++ free compiler
  • C Tutorials and resources
  • All C/C++ functions
  • C++ Tutorials and resources
  • STL programming guide
  • C++ FAQ
  • GNU C Library
  • Standard C++ Library v3 GNU/FSF
  • Brad Appleton's C++ Links
  • Beej's Guide to Network Programming
  • UNIX System Calls and Subroutines using C
  • The getline bug
  • PNGwriter C++ 2D graphics library

Announcements

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Questions and answers

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