SYLLABUS Fall 2012 CSCI-E113

Class Date Lecture Reading Section Homework
Sep 5 Overview
Unix/C and the web
Sample Program
D:Ch 1,2,3,5 or 6
K:Ch 2,3,4
Using Unix
Files and Dirs
Editors
Sep 12 The structure of C programs
Functions and filters
Arrays and Strings
D:Ch 4,7,10
K:Ch 5,6,7,9
Functions and strings Assignment 0
Sep 19 Arrays and Strings
More Loops
Generating HTML
K:Ch 8, 10,
K:Sect 13.1-13.5
Arrays and memory
debugging
Assignment 1
Short Ones
due Sat Sep 22
Sep 26 Interfaces: HTML forms and shell scripts
structs, arrays, functions
See web page Shell scripts
Forms
Oct 3 Pointers
Strings
Functions
K:Ch 11,12
K:Sect 13.6
Using pointers Assignment 2
Table Converter
due Oct 6
Oct 10 Structs
Dynamic Memory Allocation
Linked Lists
K: Sect 16.1-16.2
K: Sect 17.1-17.6
Linked lists
Pointer Bugs
Assignment 3
Paper Pointers
due Oct 13
Oct 17 More Pointers
Multi-File Programs
K:Ch 14, 15; D:Ch 16.1-16.4 Pointer roundup
Using make
Oct 24 File I/O
Command Line Args
K:Ch 18, 22
K:Sect 13.7
Test Review Assignment 4
Word Freq
due Oct 27
Oct 31 Midterm Exam
Nov 7 Shell Programming 1
Scripts and args
D:Ch 13 Focus on Files
and argv[]
Nov 14 Shell Programming 2
Wildcards and Loops
Shell scripts Assignment 5
Formletter
due Sat Nov 17
Nov 21 No Class
Thanksgiving Eve
Nov 28 Shell Programming 3
CGI in sh
See Web Site loops and quotes Assignment 6
Shell Scripts
due Sat Dec 1
Dec 5 Complex CGI Programs stat(), system() See Web Site How a web
server works
Dec 12 Other languages
Regular expressions
map, transform, reduce
See Web Site Final Review Assignment 7
due Dec 15
Dec 19 Final Exam
Tue, Jan 29 First lecture of
CSCI-E215
Unix Systems Programming