ENEE 140 :: Spring 2016 :: Course Syllabus

Textbooks

Required:

B. Kernighan and D. Ritchie, The C Programming Language, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall 1988.
The best book about C, and a great reference for programming in general, but a bit challenging for students who are new to programming. Also known as K&R.
S. Summit, C Programming Notes. (available online)
Excellent notes to supplement K&R with more detailed explanations.

Recommended:

B. Kernighan and R. Pike, The Practice of Programming
A great book on programming principles, with practical advice and examples in several programming languages (including C).

Online resources

Stack Overflow
The C FAQ
IEEE@UMD holds tutoring sessions
Integrated Development Environments:

CLion: Quick start and video tutorials
Eclipse: Tutorial and instructions for launching Eclipse remotely from the GRACE machines

Google is also your friend

Syllabus

ENEE 140 S15 Syllabus.pdf

Prerequisites

Permission from the Electrical & Computer Engineering department.
Restriction: Must be in the Electrical Engineering program.

Grading

Your final grade for the course will be based on the following weights:

10% Quizzes: ~10 short quizzes on the reading assignments, due on Monday before class
20% Homeworks: 10-13 weekly recitation assignments, due every Friday.
35% Projects: 3 programming assignments.
35% Exams: one mid-term exam (10%) and one final exam (25%)
5% Bonus points (e.g. for answering your classmates' questions on Piazza)

Homeworks are due at 11:59 PM every Friday.

Quizzes and projects are due at 11:59 PM on Monday before class.

Tentative Schedule

Also available as an ical file that you can subscribe to.

	Date	Topics	Assignments	Readings for next week
1	Tue 01/26	Programming concepts [pdf] [Video 1]	Lab materials: Lab 01 No homework due this week Expectations Survey Quiz 1	K&R Introduction and Chapters 1.1, 1.2, 1.4. Weekly challenge: temperature_conversion.c [solution]
2	Tue 02/02	Basic program structure [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 02 Quiz 2	K&R Chapters 1.3, 1.5, 2.1, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2. Weekly challenge: word_per_line.c [solution]
3	Tue 02/09	Character I/O [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 03 Quiz 3	K&R Chapters 1.7, 1.8, 7.2, 7.4, B4. Weekly challenge: temperature_conversion_function.c [solution]
4	Tue 02/16	Functions [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 04 Quiz 4	K&R Chapters 2.5, 2.7, 2.8, 2.10, B2, B11. Weekly challenge: read_divide_ints.c [solution]
5	Tue 02/23	Integer & floating point arithmetic [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 05 No quiz	K&R Chapters 2.2, 2.9, 3.3, 6.1, B5, B6. Weekly challenge: dec2bin.c [solution]
6	Tue 03/01	Data types & type conversion [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 06 Quiz 5 Project 1 out.	K&R Chapters 1.6, 1.9, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 4.2, B3. Weekly challenge: strncpy.c [solution]
7	Tue 03/08	Arrays and strings [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 07 Quiz 6	K&R Chapters 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8, 4.9, 4.11. Weekly challenge: trim_strings.c [solution, strfun.c, strfun.h]
	Tue 03/15	Spring Break (no lecture)
8	Tue 03/22	Complex programs [pdf]	Project 1 due Project 2 out.	Review the material for the mid-term exam.
	Tue 03/29	Mid-term exam	Lab materials: Lab 08 Quiz 7	K&R Chapters 2.11, 2.12, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8. Weekly challenge: check_password_rules.c [solution]
9	Tue 04/05	Control flow [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 09 Quiz 8	K&R Chapters 5.10, 7.1, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, B1. Re-read chapters 7.2, 7.4. Weekly challenge: cat.c [solution]
10	Tue 04/12	File I/O (buffered) [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 10 Quiz 9 Project 2 due Project 3 out	K&R Chapters 6.2, 6.3, 6.7, 6.8, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4.
11	Tue 04/19	File I/O (unbuffered) [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 11	K&R Chapter 5.7. Re-read chapters 3.5, 3.7. Weekly challenge: eight_queens.c [solution]
12	Tue 04/26	Multi-dimensional arrays [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 12	K&R Chapter 5.11 (read about how to use qsort). Re-read chapters B11, 3.5. Weekly challenge: selection_sort.c [solution]
13	Tue 05/03	Sorting [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 13	Review the material for the final exam.
14	Tue 05/10	Final exam review	Project 3 due
	Wed 05/18	Final exam