CSC 275 Syllabus Fall 2009

Email: hickslm@umflint.edu
         Outlook Web Mail  (Always use your umflint student email account for course related communication. )
Phone: (810) 762-3184  (voice mail leave a message)

Office Hours: 

• TTh: 1:45-3:00 pm in 213D msb
• W: 3:30-4:00  in 213D msb & 6:00-6:30 pm in 106 msb
• and by appointment

URL: packard.flint.umich.edu/~hickslm 

Grading: Your grade will be determined on the basis of the following weight factors:

  Program  Assignments         @ 45%
  Midterm Exam                    @ 20%
  Quizzes/Labs/Homework   @ 10%
  Final Exam                         @ 25%   

General Course Policies including:

• Grading Scale  
• Late Assignments
• Attendance  
• Academic Honor Policy
• Students With Disabilities 

Material covered (Chapters referenced are as in text, Absolute C++) 
(This is a tentative schedule for material covered, and is subject to change at any time. ) 

Tasks 

• Blackboard course notes. 
• Review of CSC 175 material: Chapter 1 - 4,
• Chapter 1: C++ Basics
• Chapter 2: Flow of Control
• Chapter 3: Function Basics

• Chapter 4: Parameters and Overloading
• Chapter 5: Arrays & Searching and Sorting Arrays
• Chapter 6: Structures and Classes

• Chapter 7: Constructors and Other Tools
  • Constructors
  • More Tools
  • Vectors-A Preview of the Standard Template Library

• Chapter 8: Operator Overloading, Friends, and References
  • Basic Operator Overloading
  • Friend Functions and Automatic Type Conversion
  • References and More Overloaded Operators 
• Chapter 11: Separate Compilation and Namespaces
  • Separate Compilation
  • Namespaces 

• Chapter 9: Strings
  • An Array Type for Strings
  • Character Manipulation Tools
  • The Standard Class string 

• Chapter 7: Vectors-A Preview of the Standard Template Library
• Chapter 10: Pointers and Dynamic Arrays
  • Pointers, Dynamic Arrays
  • Classes, Pointers, and Dynamic Arrays 

• Chapter 10: Pointers and Dynamic Arrays continued
• Chapter 12: Streams and File I/O
  • I/O Streams
  • Tools for Stream I/O
  • Stream Hierarchies: A Preview of Inheritance
  • Random Access to Files 

• Chapter 12: Streams and File I/O
• Midterm Exam - Tuesday Oct. 27^th
  • Drop Class without petition deadline Friday Oct. 30^th

• Chapter 12: Streams and File I/O
• Chapter 13 - Recursion

• Chapter 13 - Recursion

• Chapter 17: Linked Data Structures
  • Lists
  • Stacks
  • Queues

• Chapter 16: Templates
  • Function templates
  • Class Templates
  • Templates and Inheritance

• Thanksgiving Recess Wednesday – Sunday, November 25 - 29

• Chapter 14: Inheritance
• Chapter 15: Polymorphism and Virtual Functions
  • Virtual Function Basics
  • Pointers and Virtual FunctionS

• Chapter 18: Exception Handling
  • Exception Handling Basics
  • Programming Techniques for Exception Handling

 Final Exam Date:  Thursday, December 17 4:15p.m. – 6:45p.m.
Fall Final Exam Schedules