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This is the home page for CS156, Introduction to C Programming I, part of the CSU Computer Science CS155/156/157 series.
Click on the links, above, for other class pages.

Grades Available

Tuesday April 9 6:57PM

~cs156/bin/grade will now show your final exam score (FINAL), your curved final exam score (FINAL-curved), your total score (TOTAL), and your letter grade (LETTER). The letter grade that you see is the one that you will get.

Read this if you have questions about your grade.

Silly Question

Monday April 8 5:37PM

The last question on the final exam was:

Write a formula that uses the digits 1–7, in that order, and no other digits, to give an answer of 100.

There are several answers, including:

1+23+4+5+67
1²+3⁴+5+6+7
12×3+√4−5+67
1+(2+3)!−4×5+6−7
−1+2−34+5!+6+7
(1+23)×4+5+6−7
1×(2+3)×4+56/.7
1+2+3/.4/.5×6+7
−1×2+3×4×5+6×7
1×|2-3×4×5-6×7|

Best abuse of the rules: 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+2+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+4+5+6+7

No Office Hours Monday

Friday April 5 2:01PM

I will have no office hours Monday, April 8th. I’ll be in CSB 250 (corner room) at that time if you want to talk.

HW4 Solution

Thursday April 4 8:29PM

My solution to HW4 is here.

HW4 Available

Thursday March 28 9:26PM

HW4 is now available.

HW3 Solution

Wednesday March 27 4:44PM

My solution to HW3 is here.

No Office Hours

Friday March 15 9:48AM

I will not have any office hours during spring break.

HW2 solution

Thursday March 14 11:00PM

My read-only solution to HW2 is here.

HW3 Available

Thursday March 14 10:58PM

HW3 is now available.

HW1 Solution

Saturday March 9 8:10PM

My solution to HW1 is here. It’s for viewing, only--you can’t save it.

HW2 Available

Thursday March 7 8:17PM

HW2 is now available.

HW1 Available

Wednesday February 27 8:26PM

HW1 is now available.

Office Hours

Saturday February 23 12:10PM

My office hours will actually be in my office, CSB 246, Monday February 25 and Tuesday February 26.

Homework worth more; quizzes worth less

Unlike CS155, homework is worth more than quizzes in CS156.

Syntax Highlighting

gedit, emacs and vi all provide mechanisms for highlighting C syntax, such that it is easy to differentiate between keywords, comments, variables, etc. In emacs, select “Options” and click on “Syntax Highlighting (Global Font Lock Mode)”. In vi, enter, “:syntax on”. Also consider using gvim instead of vi or vim.

CS156: Intro to C, Part I

Spring 2013

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