Last updated: Jan 20, 2021

This document will evolve through the semester. Looking forward it expessses a plan. Looking backward, it expessses what actually happened.

• Week 1. Feb 15, 18
  Introduction. Unix and C basics
  • King: Ch 1-6
  • Shotts: Ch 1-4
• Week 2. Feb 22, 25
  scanf, printf, loops, arrays, types, pass by value. ctype library (and more generally generally using libraries) More Unix
  • King: Ch 7-9
  • Shotts: Ch 5
• Week 3. Mar 1, 4
  more with arrays. More with C libraries. .h files. UNIX: paths, which and redirection
  • King: Ch 7-9
  • Shotts: Ch 5-6
• Week 4. Mar 8, 11
  C: references, pointers and arrays. functions and pass by reference. string.h .h files and Makefiles UNIX: paths, which and redirection
  • King: Ch 11-13
  • Shotts: Ch 6-8
• Week 5. Mar 15, 18
  Midterm 1 and Review
• Week 6. Mar 22, 25
  multidimensional arrays and pointers thereto. Heap space and stack space. Recursion. Other topics from chapters 1-14, Macros and the preprocessor
  • King: Ch 14
  • Shotts: Ch 9-10
• Week 7. Apr 1
  Structs, unions and enum, setc Unix: regular expressions!
  • King: Ch 16
  • Shotts: Ch 19
• Week 8. Apr 5, 8
  c: Dynamic memory allocation Unix: Archiving
  • King: Ch 17
  • Shotts: Ch 18
• Week 9. Apr 12, 15
  Midterm 2 and review
• Week 10. Apr 19, 22
  c: Dynamic structures, function pointers; Unix: network information, text processing
  • King: Ch 17
  • Shotts: Ch 16, 20
• Week 11. Apr 27, 30
  Working with bits, shell scripting
  
  • King Ch 19
• Week 13. May 3, 6
  TBA
  
• Week 14. May 10
  Wrapup