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Date	Topics	Slides	Reading	Homework
Mon Apr 8	Discuss HW0 Non-decimal bases Number representation 0.1+0.2 ≠ 0.3	Numbers	What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic Formatting More formatting Yet more formatting Output Formats Table of Output Formats Integers Float	Numbers Why did the programmer confuse Christmas and Halloween?
Wed Apr 10	Tomorrow is the last drop day Pointers	Pointers	Pointers 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Example Pointers and memory	Pointer Questions A dicussion on counting starting at zero
Fri Apr 12	Discuss HW1 Bits, Bytes, and More Cmd-Line Args	Cmd-Line arguments Bases and printf	Cmd-Line Args	HW0 due Sunday noon
Mon Apr 15	File reading example Structures GDB Debugger (optional)	Structures, unions, enums `typedef` More structures, unions, enums	GDB Tutorial or any tutorial you find on the internet—be sure to understand the material presented in lecture. Useful GDB commands GDB Quick Reference Card Structures 2 3 4 5 6	HW1 due Tuesday noon; late Wednesday noon structures enum, typedef
Wed Apr 17	Review HW1 Quiz #1 More on structures Unions and typedefs stdbool.h
Fri Apr 19	Discuss HW2 Dynamic Memory	Dynamic Memory Type Analysis	Memory Alloc malloc free realloc Safety	Dynamic Memory Questions
Mon Apr 22	Random numbers with `rand` & `srand` Multi-Dimensional arrays	Random numbers Multi-dimensional arrays		HW2 due Tuesday noon; late Wednesday noon Two-dimensional arrays Command-line arguments
Wed Apr 24	Today is the last withdraw day Review HW2 Quiz #2 More Pointers	Pointers Recap More pointers: ppt pdf pdf×4 Binky: BINKY!! More info on Binky
Fri Apr 26	Discuss HW3 Sorting	Sorting qsort Demos	search, sort
Mon Apr 29	Linked Lists	Linked List Example Linked List (second half): ppt pdf pdf×4	Linked Lists LL Example	HW3 Tuesday noon; late Wednesday noon
Wed May 1	Review HW3 Quiz #3 Trees	Trees: ppt pdf pdf×4
Fri May 3	Discuss HW4 Preprocessor directives Conditional Compilation, code portability Multiple files User includes	Preprocessor `#include`	Preprocessor Macros External Files Conditional Compilation Files	Preprocessor Directives Questions C isn’t that hard: `void ((f[])())()` defines `f` as an array of unspecified size, of pointers to functions that return pointers to functions that return `void`
Mon May 6	Using `make`	Makefile: ppt pdf pdf×4		HW4 Tuesday noon; late Wednesday noon
Wed May 8	Review HW4 Review for exam Course eval
Fri May 10	Final Exam Photo ID required

CS157: Intro to C, Part II

Spring 2013

Schedule