CS 160: Introduction to Procedural Programming /
ECE 160: Introduction to Programming for Electrical Engineers

• Instructor Info
• Textbook
• Grading
• Assignments
• Schedule

Instructor Info

Instructor: Carl Sable
Email: carl.sable@cooper.edu
Office: Room 614

Textbooks (optional)

These are not required, but if you want to own a textbook on C, these may be good choices (they will be briefly discussed in class):

"The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition"
Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie

"Computer Science: A Structured Programming Approach Using C, 3rd Edition"
Behrouz A. Forouzan and Richard F. Gilberg

"Practical C Programming, 3rd Edition"
Steve Oualline

"C Programming: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition"
K. N. King

Grading

• Quizzes (3 total): 10% each
• Final Exam: 20%
• Programming Assignments (5 total): 10% each

Programming Assignments

• Program #1
  Due before midnight the night of Tuesday, February 17

Schedule

• Tuesday, January 20
  Topic: Course Overview and Introduction to the C Programming Language (Slides)
  Code examples: hello.c, hello3a.c, hello3b.c, helloWithComments.c
  See the syllabus as a single document
• Wednesday, January 21
  Topic: Course Overview and Introduction to the C Programming Language (continued)
  Topic: Variables and Expressions (Slides)
  Code examples: variable_int.c, negative_int.c, weird_result.c, variable_char1.c, variable_char2.c, variable_char3.c, special_char1.c, special_char2.c, float.c, uninitialized.c, modulus.c, pi1.c, pi2.c
• Tuesday, January 27
  Topic: Variables and Expressions (continued)
• Wednesday, January 28
  Topic: Selection Statements (Slides)
  Code examples: if1.c, if2.c, if3.c, if4.c, if5.c, if6.c, if7.c, if8.c, if9.c, if10.c, silly_compound.c, sqrt.c, else1.c, else2.c, switch.c
• Tuesday, February 3
  Topic: Loops (Slides)
  Code examples: while1.c, while2.c, while3.c, while4.c, while5.c, while6.c, while_sumDigits.c, while_displayBits.c, do_while1.c, for1.c, for2.c, nested1.c, nested2.c, nested3.c, continue1.c,
• Wednesday, February 4
  Topic: Loops (continued)
  Program #1 assigned
• Tuesday, February 10
  Quiz #1
• Wednesday, February 11
  NO CLASS (official Friday schedule)
• Tuesday, February 17
  NO CLASS (official Monday schedule)
• Wednesday, February 18
  Topic: Standard Input and Output (Slides)
  Code examples: printf1.c, printf2.c, scanf1.c, scanf2.c, scanf3.c, scanf4.c, inout.c, count.c
  Topic: Arrays
• Tuesday, February 24
  Topic: Arrays (continued)
• Wednesday, February 25
  Topic: Functions
  Program #2 assigned
• Tuesday, March 3
  Topic: Tic-Tac-Toe!
• Wednesday, March 4
  Topic: Debugging
  Topic: Pointers
• Tuesday, March 10
  Quiz #2
• Wednesday, March 11
  Topic: Pointers (continued)
  Topic: Strings
  Program #3 assigned
• Tuesday, March 17
  NO CLASS (Spring Recess)
• Wednesday, March 18
  NO CLASS (Spring Recess)
• Tuesday, March 24
  Topic: Text Files
• Wednesday, March 25
  Topic: Recursion
• Tuesday, March 31
  Topic: Solving Mazes
• Wednesday, April 1
  Structures
  Program #4 assigned
• Tuesday, April 7
  Topic: Linked Lists in C
• Wednesday, April 8
  Topic: Linked Lists in C (continued)
• Tuesday, April 14
• Quiz #3
• Wednesday, April 15
  Topic: Team Programming
  Topic: Multiple Files and Makefiles
• Tuesday, April 21
  Program #5 assigned
• Wednesday, April 22
  Topic: Binary Search Trees in C
• Tuesday, April 28
  Topic: Introduction to Sorting
• Wednesday, April 29
  Topic: Introduction to Sorting (continued)
• Tuesday, May 5
  Topic: The call stack
• Wednesday, May 6
  Topic: Miscellaneous Subtopics
• Tuesday, May 12
  Review for Final Exam
• Wednesday, May 13
  Final Exam