ECE 161: Programming Languages

• Instructor Info
• Grading
• Assignments
• Schedule

Instructor Info

Instructor: Carl Sable
e-mail: sable2@cooper.edu
Office: Room 461
Office Hours: Monday 12:00 - 1:00; Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 11:00 - 12:00

Grading

Assignments

• Homework #1
  Due Sunday night, October 10, by midnight
• Homework #2
  Due Thursday night, October 28, by midnight
• Homework #3
  Due Sunday night, November 21, by midnight
  Click here for sample runs and related info.
• Homework #4
  Due Sunday night, December 12, by midnight
  Click here for a sample run.
  Click here for given code.

Schedule

Part I: General Programming Concepts and C

• Friday, September 10
  Topic #1: Structured Programming, Memory, and Activation Records
  Tic-Tac-Toe (code and sample run)
• Monday, September 13
  Topic #1 (continued)
• Friday, September 17
  Topic #2: Pointers, Strings, and Structures
  Palindrome detector (code)
  Formatter (code, sample input file, and sample run)
  Simple Phone Book (code, sample input file, and sample run)
• Monday, September 20
  Topic #2 (continued)
• Friday, September 24
  Topic #3: Recursion
  Grid searcher (code, sample input file, and sample run)
• Monday, September 27
  Topic #3 (continued)
• Friday, October 1
  Topic #4: Linked Lists
  Sample routines (code)
• Monday, October 4
  Topic #4 (continued)
• Friday, October 8
  Topic #5: Linked Lists Applications
  Complex Phone Book (code, sample input file, and sample run)
  Big Multiplication (code)
  Word Counter (code, sample input file, and sample run)
• Monday, October 11
  Topic #6: Binary Trees
  Another Word Counter (code)

Part II: Object-Oriented Programming and C++

• Friday, October 15
  Topic #7: Introduction to C++
• Monday, October 18
  Topic #7 (continued)
• Friday, October 22
  Topic #7 (continued)
• Monday, October 25
  Topic #7 (continued)
• Friday, October 29
  MIDTERM
  Check out last year's midterm and a solution set.
• Monday, November 1
  Topic #7 (continued)
• Friday, November 5
  Topic #8: Classes
• Monday, November 8
  Topic #8 (continued)
• Friday, November 12
  Topic #9: Operator Overloading
• Monday, November 15
  Topic #9 (continued)
• Friday, November 19
  Topic #10: Derived Classes, Inheritance, and Polymorphism
• Monday, November 22
  Topic #10 (continued)

Part III: Java and Perl

• Monday, November 29
  Topic #11: Java
• Friday, December 3
  Topic #11 (continued)
• Monday, December 6
  Topic #11 (continued)
• Friday, December 10
  Topic #12: Perl
• Monday, December 13
  Topic #12 (continued)
• Friday, December 17
  FINAL EXAM
  Check out last year's final and a solution set.