CS35: Programming and Problem Solving

Ray Ontko (rayo@ontko.com)
Department of Computer Science
Earlham College

Fall 1999
8:00 MWF
Lecture: Dennis 014
Lab: Dennis 224

This week in class

Handouts

Syllabus
Student Survey
Assignment 1 (due Fri, 8/27)
Assignment 2 (due Mon, 8/30)
Assignment 3 (due Wed, 9/1)
Assignment 4 (due Fri, 9/3)
Assignment 5 (due Mon, 9/6)
if and else
Assignment 6 (due Wed, 9/8)
while and getchar()
Assignment 7 (due Fri, 9/10)
Assignment 8 (due Mon, 9/13)
Project 1 (due Mon, 9/20)
Assignment 9 (due Fri, 9/24)
Assignment 10 (due Wed, 9/29)
Assignment 11 (due Fri, 10/1)
Assignment 12 (due Wed, 10/6)
Project 2 (due Fri, 10/8)
Elements of C Style
Quiz 1 (self-test).
Functions
Assignment 13 (due Wed, 10/13)
Assignment 14 (due Wed, 10/20)
Assignment 15 (due Fri, 10/22)
An Introduction to Pointers in C
Assignment 16 (due Wed, 10/27)
Project 3 (due Fri, 10/29)
Quiz 2 (self-test).
Assignment 17 (due Wed, 11/03)
Assignment 18 (due Fri, 11/05)
Project 3 Comments
Project 4 (due Fri, 11/12)
Final Project Specification (due Wed, 11/17)
Assignment 19 (due Fri, 11/19)
Quiz 3 (self-test).
Assignment 20 (due Wed, 12/01)
Final Project (due Mon, 12/06)
Quiz 4 (self-test).
Show and Tell (Wed, 12/08)

Sample Programs

hello.c, our first program
pounds.c, a simple program using numbers
Assignment 4, by Bobbi Clark
Assignment 5, by Chris Blinn
Assignments 5 & 6, by Bradley Stahlhut
compare.c, a demonstration of if and else
number_count.c, a demonstration of while with scanf
char_count.c, a demonstration of while with getchar()
letter_count.c, a demonstration of while with getchar() and if
Project 1a, by Maiko Teramoto
checkerboard.c and its output, a demonstration of parameterless functions
count_alpha_strings.c a simple "state" program
count_comments.c an example of a "state" program
Assignment 12, by Maiko Teramoto
y_or_n.c, a demonstration of do while and a function which returns a value
break_continue.c, a demonstration of break and continue and a function which accepts a parameter value
payment.c, a demonstration of a function having multiple parameters of different types and which returns a non-int value.
print_grade.c, a demonstration of a "void" function, one which performs an action but does not return a value.
gcf_lcm.c, a couple of useful routines: gcf (greatest common factor) and lcm (least common multiple).
sort_four.c, a demonstration of passing VARIABLES as parameters to functions using & and *.
fraction.c, a collection of related functions which demonstrate the difference between passing values and passing pointers.
letter_freq.c, a simple demonstration of an array
line_hist.c, another demonstration of an array
deck.c, a demonstration of arrays as parameters
replace.c, a demonstration of string handling: strlen(), strstr(), fgets(), and fputs()
upper.c, a simple demonstration of file functions: fopen(), fclose(), getc(), putc(), fprintf(), and perror()
timer.c, a simple demonstration of sleep() and fflush()
stopwatch.c, a simple demonstration of time() and difftime()
ndemo.c, a very simple demonstration of the ncurses library of windowing routines

Links

There are numerous pages on the web devoted to vi, pico, emacs, gcc, ftp, basic unix commands, etc. Here are a few.