Last modified: July 07, 2011
EECS 211: Fundamentals of Computer Programming
Quarter: Spring 2010
Lecture Time: Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday, 1:00PM - 1:50PM
Lecture Location: TECH M164
Instructor: Dr. Ioan Raicu (iraicu@eecs.northwestern.edu,
1-847-491-8163)
Office Hours Time: Tuesday/Friday, 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Office Hours Location: TECH M384
Teaching Assistants: Martin Luessi (m-luessi@northwestern.edu)
and Jingnan Wang
(jingnanwang2013@u.northwestern.edu)
Office Hours Time: Wednesday/Thursday 2:00PM - 3:00PM (Martin), Monday 2PM - 4PM
(Jingnan)
Office Hours Location: TECH M472 (Martin and Jingnan)
This class covers a variety of topics:
Introduction to UNIX
Introduction to C++
Object-oriented programming
Control structures
Functions
Abstract data types
Pointers
Classes
This course is required for computer science majors.
Course schedule, lecture topics, reading, and assignments :
| Date | Lecture Topic | Reading | Assignments |
| Week 1 03-29-2010 |
Overview of the course and Syllabus (slides) |
EECS 211 Syllabus EECS 211 Useful Links |
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| 03-30-2010 | Introduction to Computers, the Internet and The World Wide Web (slides) | Ch. 1: 1.2 - 1.12 |
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| 03-31-2010 | Introduction to Computers, the Internet and The World Wide Web, cont (slides) | Ch. 1: 1.13 - 1.19 | |
| 04-02-2010 | Introduction to C++ (slides) | Ch 2: 2.1 - 2.4 | Program 1 (PDF) program1.cpp |
| Week 2 04-05-2010 |
Introduction to C++ (slides) | Ch. 2: 2.4 - 2.6 | |
| 04-06-2010 | Introduction to C++ (slides) | Ch. 2: 2.6 - 2.7 | |
| 04-07-2010 | Quiz 1 (handout,
solutions) Control structures (slides) |
Ch. 4: 4.1 - 4.5 | |
| 04-09-2010 | Control structures (slides) | Ch. 4: 4.6 - 4.8 | |
| Week 3 04-12-2010 |
Control structures (slides) | Ch. 4: 4.9 - 4.12 Ch. 5: 5.2 - 5.5, 5.7 - 5.9 |
Program 1 due at 11:59PM |
| 04-13-2010 | Control structures & Functions (slides) | Ch. 5: 5.10 - 5.11 Ch. 6: 6.2 - 6.5 |
Program 2 (PDF) polydata.txt ReadFile example (TGZ, ZIP) |
| 04-14-2010 | Introduction to Linux (slides), guest lecture by Martin Luessi | Unix Cygwin Code::Blocks Makefile GDB BASH |
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| 04-16-2010 | Functions (slides) | Ch. 6: 6.6 - 6.13 | |
| Week 4 04-19-2010 |
Functions & Arrays (slides) | Ch. 6: 6.14, 6.16 - 6.17 Ch. 7: 7.1 - 7.4 |
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| 04-20-2010 | Arrays (slides) | Ch. 7: 7.4 - 7.5 | |
| 04-21-2010 | Quiz 2
(handout, solutions) C++ classes (slides) |
Ch. 3: 3.2 - 3.5 | Program 2 due at 11:59PM Project Overview: Program 3 - Program 8 (PDF) Program 3 (PDF) main.cpp |
| 04-23-2010 | C++ classes (slides) | Ch. 3: 3.6 - 3.10 | |
| Week 5 04-26-2010 |
Pointers (slides) | Ch. 8: 8.1 - 8.5, 8.7 - 8.8 | |
| 04-27-2010 | Pointers & Classes (slides) | Ch. 8: 8.9 - 8.11 Ch. 9: 9.2 - 9.5 |
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| 04-28-2010 | Classes: A Deeper Look (slides) | Ch. 9: 9.6 - 9.9 | |
| 04-30-2010 | Bits, Characters, and Structures (slides) | Ch. 21: 21.2 - 21.4, 21.7 | Program 3 due at 11:59PM Program 4 (PDF) p4input.txt |
| Week 6 05-03-2010 |
Classes: A Deeper Look (slides) | Ch. 10: 10.3 - 10.6 | |
| 05-04-2010 | Stream Input/Output and File Processing (slides) | Ch. 15: 15.3 - 15.12 Ch. 17: 17.2 - 17.4 |
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| 05-05-2010 | Quiz 3 (handout,
solutions) File Processing (slides) |
Ch. 17: 17.4 - 17.6 | |
| 05-07-2010 | File Processing and Strings (slides) | Ch. 17: 17.6 - 17.13 Ch. 18: 18.1 - 18.6 |
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| Week 7 05-10-2010 |
Strings and Recursion (slides) | Ch. 18: 18.6 - 18.14 Ch, 6: 6.19 |
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| 05-11-2010 | Recursion, Arrays and Vectors (slides) | Ch, 6: 6.20 - 6.21 Ch. 7: 7.7 - 7.11 |
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| 05-12-2010 | Search and Sorting (slides) | Ch 19: 19.2 - 19.4 | Program 4 due at 11:59PM Program 5 (PDF) p5input.txt |
| 05-14-2010 | Data structures (slides) | Ch. 20: 20.1 - 20.6 | |
| Week 8 05-17-2010 |
Data structures (slides) | Ch. 20: 20.6 - 20.7 | |
| 05-18-2010 | The Standard Library (slides) |
STL
Summary Ch. 22: 22.1 - 22.2 |
Program 5 due at 11:59PM |
| 05-19-2010 | Quiz 4 (handout,
solutions) The Standard Library (slides) |
Ch. 22: 22.2 | Program 6 (PDF) p6input.txt |
| 05-21-2010 | The Standard Library (slides) | Ch. 22: 22.2 | |
| Week 9 05-24-2010 |
Exception Handing (slides) | Ch. 16: 16.1 - 16.4, 16.11, 16.13 | |
| 05-25-2010 | Inheritance & Polymorphism (slides) | Ch. 12: 12.1 - 12.4 Ch. 13: 13.1 - 13.2 |
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| 05-26-2010 | Operator Overloading & Templates (slides) | Ch. 11: 11.1 - 11.5, 11.12 - 11.13 Ch. 14: 14.1 - 14.4 |
Program 6 due at 11:59PM Program 7 (PDF) p7input.txt Program 9 (PDF) -- Extra Credit |
| 05-28-2010 | Parallel Programming Models and Systems (slides) | ||
| Week 10 05-31-2010 |
NO CLASS, Memorial Day Holiday | ||
| 06-01-2010 | Parallel Programming Models and Systems (slides) | ||
| 06-02-2010 | Parallel Programming Models and Systems & Threads/Processes (slides) | ||
| 06-04-2010 | Threads/Processes (slides) | Program 7 due at 11:59PM Program 8 (PDF) -- Extra Credit p8input.txt |
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| Week 11 06-07-2010 |
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| 06-08-2010 9AM - 11AM TECH M164 |
Final Exam (handout, solutions) | ||
| 06-10-2010 | Program 8 due at 11:59PM Program 9 due at 11:59PM |
Please note that for both the lecture topics, and reading assignments, future dates beyond the next lecture are tentative, and are subject to change; once reading assignments are changed from grey to black, they are confirmed and unlikely to change.
Last modified:
July 07, 2011