Class 1 | Tue 22‑8‑2017 | Hello to everyone. Why computers use binary instead of decimal. Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to do. | ||||
Class 2 | Thur 24‑8‑2017 | Setting up a Visual Studio project. Our first little programs. | ||||
Class 3 | Tue 29‑8‑2017 | A function!. Being ready for exam question 1. A list of the most common operators in expressions. What happends when we're late for class, Something of an improvement. | ||||
Class 4 | Thur 31‑8‑2017 | Conditional exection, a quadratic equation solver
version 1,
version 2,
version 3. And at last, we are able to control repetition with recursion. | ||||
Class 5 | Tue 5‑9‑2017 | Today's experiments:
a count-down, tabulating square roots, backwards, a count-up, tabulating a more interesting function, plotting a pretty graph. | ||||
Thur 7‑9‑2017 | XXX | |||||
Tue 12‑9‑2017 | XXX | |||||
Thur 14‑9‑2017 | XXX | |||||
Tue 19‑9‑2017 | XXX | |||||
Thur 21‑9‑2017 | XXX | |||||
Class 6 | Tue 26‑9‑2017 | Reminding ourselves of the easy stuff: an anything-a-gon, A mysterious function to trace: private universes, stack frames, etc, Printing in binary, or just about any other base, Starting to analyse an even more mysterious function. | ||||
Class 7 | Thur 28‑9‑2017 | What does this function do? Analysing some recursive definitions. An absurdly long program. One step towards redesigning it properly. | ||||
Class 8 | Tue 3‑10‑2017 | Building up the number-saying function step-by-step:
step 1,
step 2,
step 3,
step 4,
step 5,
step 6. But the function got very big, here's an alternate approach, | ||||
Class 9 | Thur 5‑10‑2017 | Functions that return results, and functions as parameters. Tabulating a simple function, A slightly more complex function, Plotting two graphs with the same function, The length of the Collatz sequence, can you graph it? | ||||
Class 10 | Tue 10‑10‑2017 | Introduction to using unix. A program that produces a strange result - Not a Number. Using an Accumulating Parameter to solve that sort of problem. | ||||
Class 11 | Thur 12‑10‑2017 | Some Biology:
How to make bees, and
what a caprimulgus does at night. Simulating Brownian motion, the deliberately unending loop while (true). Thoughts about decorative lines. | ||||
Class 12 | Tue 17‑10‑2017 | The decorative lines that turn a triangle into a star/snowflake: a limited and over-long version, now better and recursive, finally calculating the perimeter and being interactive. Rabbit usernames this semester. The macintosh terminal command for connecting to rabbit is: ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-dss username@rabbit.eng.miami.edu | ||||
Class 13 | Thur 19‑10‑2017 | Basic encryption. Alphabetical Animals for searching. | ||||
Review | Friday at 5pm | Pre-test review session. Aim for room EB 237. | ||||
Review | Sunday at 1pm | Pre-test review session. Aim for room EB 237. | ||||
Review | Monday at 7pm | Extra pre-test review session. Aim for room EB 237. | ||||
Class 14 | Tue 24‑10‑2017 | First Test. A sample. | ||||
Class 15 | Thur 26‑10‑2017 | Introducing variables, for a loop, introducing setw calculating a value, ordinary array search, introducing break and cin, binary chop search. | ||||
Class 16 | Tue 31‑10‑2017 | Variables, functions, and reference parameters:
getting two variables in ascending order, three variables, six variables, finally a general sorting program. | ||||
Class 17 | Thur 2‑11‑2017 | Some exercises:
A circle,
A Spirograph pattern. Accessing files on disc: A program that writes a piece of program. Chemical symbol searching, and the data file it reads. | ||||
Class 18 | Tue 7‑11‑2017 | What we learned from the test. | ||||
Class 19 | Thur 9‑11‑2017 | Calculating the molecular weight for a formula. Reading the file into arrays, searching, does a string really make an int? | ||||
Class 20 | Tue 14‑11‑2017 | Conveniences: the update operators +=, -=, *=, /=, ++, --, the 'for' loop. How errors build up in doubles, writing non-whole numbers in binary. Introducing objects (structs) by creating fractions as a numeric type. | ||||
Class 21 | Thur 16‑11‑2017 | Finishing the fraction calculator, normalisation with the gcd. Converting the chemistry calculator to use objects. | ||||
Class 22 | Tue 28‑11‑2017 | Getting rid of the global variables with another object. Designing our own input object. | ||||
Class 23 | Thur 30‑11‑2017 | A dangerous simulation, using objects and arrays. | ||||
Review | Sunday at 4pm | Pre-test review session. Aim for room EB 237. | ||||
Review | Monday at 7pm | Pre-test review session. Aim for room EB 237. | ||||
Class 24 | Tue 5‑12‑2017 | Second Test. A sample. Another sample. | ||||
Class 25 | Thur 7‑12‑2017 | More practice with arrays and objects. | ||||
Class 26 | Tue 12‑12‑2017 | Final Test. | ||||
Class 27 | Tue 19‑12‑2017 |
Lab 1, | Mon 28 Aug - Thur 31 Aug | |||||
(pdf) | Using visual C++ to run programs; drawing stars and stick figures. | |||||
Lab 2, | Mon 25 Sep - Thur 28 Sep | |||||
(pdf) | Divide and conquer: building big programs from little functions. | |||||
Lab 3, | Mon 2 Oct - Thur 5 Oct | |||||
(pdf) | Controlling repetition in programs. | |||||
Lab 4, | Mon 9 Oct - Thur 12 Oct | |||||
(pdf) | A video game: Space Invaders with a cannon. | |||||
Lab 5, | Mon 16 Oct - Thur 19 Oct | |||||
(pdf) | A real-time animated clock application. | |||||
Lab 6, | Mon 23 Oct - Thur 26 Oct | |||||
(pdf) | Generating calendars and using Unix. | |||||
Lab 7, | Mon 30 Oct - Thur 2 Nov | |||||
(pdf) | A randomly generated Happy Street Scene. | |||||
Lab 8, | Mon 6 Nov - Thur 9 Nov | |||||
(pdf) | An interactive desk calculator. | |||||
Lab 9, | Mon 13 Nov - Thur 16 Nov | |||||
(pdf) | Meteorological data processing and visualisation. the data files | |||||
Lab 10, | Mon 27 Nov - Thur 30 Nov | |||||
(pdf) | Database programming under Unix. The special timing function. | |||||
Lab 11, | Mon 4 Dec - Thur 7 Dec | |||||
(pdf) | A robot seaching for treasure in a maze.
sample maze;
alternate sample. | |||||
Extra credit lab | ||||||
(pdf) | An automatic robot: he turned into a video game. |