Computer programming - fall of 2018

Lectures

S.L. dr. ing. Alexandru IOVANOVICI

Monday: 12-14 (Each Week - until further notice), ASPC
Tuesday: 10-12 (Each Week), A109

Labs

S.L. dr. ing. Alexandru IOVANOVICI, ing. Raul STOIN, ing. Mario SAVU

Schedule according to the official one. NOTE: Group 3.1 will move to room B520 for Tuesday 08:00 lab!!!.

You have to attend all the labs and obtain a passing grade for all the required and graded activities in order to pass the laboratory part of the subject.

Lab standings can be found here.

Office hours

Thursdys, 10-12, B529 or B520

Additional slots can be provided on request

Lecture slides and supplementary material

Lecture 1: Introduction to programming. Basic program structure. Audio recording.
Lecture 2: Conditional execution of the programs. Operators. Loops1. Audio recording.
Lecture 3: Character type. Basic I/O. Loops 3
Lecture 4: Iteration. Side-effects. Break, continue, goto
Lecture 5: Internal representation of data. Bitwise operations. PrintsBits.
Lecture 6: Recursion. Digits and factorial
Lecture 7: Arrays. Copy positives.
Lecture 8: Strings.
Lecture 10: Input and Output
Lecture 11: Pointers. Pointers and qsort.
Lecture 12: Dynamic memory allocation. Fibbonaci strings.
Lecture 13: File I/O. Preprocessor
Lecture 14: Custom data types. Structures.

Lab Assignments

Week 1: Introduction. Basics of the language. Conditional execution of the programs.
Week 2: Character based I/O. Conditions. Loops1
Week 3: Basic input processing. Loops 2
Week 4: Internal representation. Bitwise operations (1). Prob 3., Prob 4.
Week 5: Internal representation. Bitwise operations (2)
Week 6: Recursion. Prob 6.
Week 7: Arrays
Week 8: Strings (character arrays)
Week 9: Input and output
Week 10: Pointers
Week 11: Dynamic allocation
Week 12: Files
Week 13: Preprocessor. Modular compilation
Week 14: Structures

Resources

Syllabus
Last year's course page is here.
Example Exam (for illustrative purposes and as a frame of reference). Those who consider themselves proficient in programming should try and solve this and later discuss with us the results. PB1.
VM image.
Midterm subjects.
Final exam, 1st attempt PbBytes; 2nd attempt.

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Khan Academy online.
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The Developement of the C programming language - Dennis Ritchie
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