Previous Weeks in the CSci 161 class

Week 1: Monday, Jan 18

Reading: Chapter 1

Schedule:

• Monday: Martin Luther King day: no classes
• Tuesday: Introduction to the class
• Thursday: Lab day (meet in Thompson 120 lab)
• Friday: A model for the computer

Week 2: Monday, Jan. 25

Reading: Chapter 2

Schedule:

• Monday: Algorithms and computer languages
• Tuesday: Moving data about: variables, assignment statements, and calculations
• Thursday: I/O: cin and cout. Data types
• Friday: Data types, calculation, simple selection (if-then-else)

Week 3: Monday, Feb. 1

Reading:

• Chapter 2, start chapter 3

Schedule:

• Monday: Control structures
• Tuesday: Control structures
• Thursday: Control structures
• Friday: Control structures.

Other Notes:

• The first hour exam will be on Friday, Feb. 12 (next week)

Week 4: Monday, Feb. 8

Reading:

• Chapter 2, start chapter 3

Schedule:

• Monday: Final discussion on control structures
• Tuesday: Functions and how to use them
• Thursday: Review (worked exercise)
• Friday: First Hour Exam.

Other Notes:

• The first hour exam will be on Friday, Feb. 12 (next week)

Week 5: Monday, Feb. 15

Reading: Chapter 3, start chapter 4

Schedule:

• Monday: Defining functions
• Tuesday: More on functions: Argument lists and recursion
• Thursday: Call-by-reference
• Friday: Basic file IO

Week 6: Monday, Feb. 22

Reading:

• Chapter 4, start chapter 5

Schedule:

• Monday: Instructor home sick
• Tuesday: Design issues: Stepwise refinement and problem decomposition. Pre-and-post conditions.
• Thursday: Testing using program stubs.
• Friday: Basic file IO.

Week 7: Monday, March 1

Reading: Chapter 5

Schedule:

• Monday: Basics of Object Oriented Programming
  • objects/methods
  • polymorphism
  • inheritance
• Tuesday: More on functions: Argument lists and recursion
• Thursday: Introduction to data representation: binary numbers.
• Friday: Binary Arithmetic

Week 8: Monday, Mar. 8

Reading:

• Chapter 6, start chapter 7

Schedule:

• Monday: Data representation. C++ commands for bit manipulation
• Tuesday: Structures.
• Thursday: More structured data types.
• Friday: Additional Control structures

Other notes

• Friday is mid-term (not an exam)

The second hour exam will be held on Friday, March 26 (week after Spring Break)

Week 9: Monday, March 22

Reading: Chapter 7, start chapter 9 (skipping chapter 8 for now)

Schedule:

• Monday: Menus and the switch statement
• Tuesday: More on loops
• Thursday: Introduction to arrays
• Friday: Second Hour Exam

Week 10: Monday, Mar. 29

Reading:

• Chapter 9

Schedule:

• Monday: More on arrays
• Tuesday: Sorting
• Thursday: Sorting.
• Friday: Sorting

Week 11: Monday, April 5

Reading:

• Chapter 9, start of chapter 10

Schedule:

• Monday: Film: Sorting out sorting
• Tuesday: String manipulation.
• Thursday: Arrays of structures: searching
• Friday: Searching

Week 12: Monday, April 12

Reading:

• Chapter 9, remainder of chapter 6

Schedule:

• Monday: Binary search
• Tuesday: Recursion revisited
• Thursday: Recursive binary search.
• Friday: Introduction to object oriented programming and to classes

Week 13: Monday, April 19

Reading: Chapters 6, 8, 12

Schedule:

• Monday: Public and private: Abstract Data Types
• Tuesday: More on ADT's: Overloading
• Thursday: Quicksort: A recursive sorting algorithm
• Friday: Quicksort: A recursive sorting algorithm

• The third hour exam will be on Friday of next week

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