EEN118, Programming I, Autumn 2005

• Library downloads and documentation
• Summary of the Most Useful graphics functions
• Guide to using Unix
• Geographical data files
• First mid-term: Thursday 20th October.
• Second mid-term: Tuesday 22nd November.
• Final Examination: Tuesday 13th December.
• Class History:
  • Class 1 (25-8-2005) General introductions; what the class is about, what programming really is.
  • Class 2 (30-8-2005) Case study of software development process: (database sample), (the program's development).
  • Class 3 (1-9-2005) Finishing the structured development overview; Entering, compiling, and running a program.
  • Class 4 (6-9-2005) The structure of a program, constants, literals, expressions, and functions.
  • Class 5 (8-9-2005) Arithmetic and Functions (notes part 1), (notes part 2).
  • Class 6 (13-9-2005) Naming constants for Correctness, Self-Commenting code, Maintainability, Efficiency, Sequencing.
  • Class 7 (15-9-2005) (today's samples) Predicting overflow, two-to-the-power-ofs; Conditional Execution.
  • Class 8 (20-9-2005) Hurricane day, no class.
  • Class 9 (22-9-2005) Review examples, happy street scene (notes).
  • Class 10 (27-9-2005) Professional responsibility in programming, the Mariner 1 probe; printf and switchable debugging; Scope of declarations.
  • Class 11 (29-9-2005) Repetition with functions: how do you do something 1000 times? Recursion; the bigger/smaller guessing game.
  • Class 12 (4-10-2005) (punched card demo); Serious use of recursion: numbers in English.
  • Class 13 (6-10-2005) Introducing loops and variables: while, break, declaration, assignment; many examples.
  • Class 14 (11-10-2005) Loop examples: formatted table; square-root calculator v1; and v2; day number calculator.
  • Class 15 (13-10-2005) (A Warning), Structured development, today's samples: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; Full date calculator. (and a reduced library.h for console apps).
  • Class 16 (18-10-2005) Analysing programs to work out what they do; another composition study.
  • Class 17 (20-10-2005) Mid-Term Exam.
  • Class 18 (25-10-2005) Hurricane day, no class.
  • Class 19 (27-10-2005) Hurricane day, no class.
  • Class 20 (1-11-2005) Fractals - design case study. (screen captures 1 2 3), (source), (executable (win)).
  • Class 21 (3-11-2005) Question 1; <iostream>, <fstream>, etc. Using cin, cout, and files.
  • Class 22 (8-11-2005) (intro sample). Introducing Objects (structs), points and triangles example. (Today's worked example)
  • Class 23 (10-11-2005) (cube sample cpp, exe) More on objects: weights and measures, dates and times.
  • Class 24 (15-11-2005) (samples) Introduction to arrays and digital audio.
  • Class 25 (17-11-2005) Reviewing files, objects, and arrays: normalizing sound levels, counting occurences, simple database.
  • Class 26 (22-11-2005) Mid-Term Exam.
  • Class 27 (29-11-2005) File processing and Arrays, Digital Elevation Models. (data files here), demo viewers: 1, 2, 3, 4.
  • Class 28 (1-12-2005) The hippopotamus family; database operations; sorting an array.
  • Class 29 (6-12-2005) For-loops, and occasional convenience; Orbital mechanics by simulation (.cpp, .exe).
  • Class 30 (8-12-2005) Image processing case study, the day I swallowed a dog. (samples: contrast enhancing program, image-file-1, image-file-2)
  • Class 31 (13-12-2005) Final Exam.
• Lab History:
  • Lab 1 (1/2-9-2004) Using visual C++ to run programs; drawing stick figures.
  • Lab 2 (8/9-9-2004) Structured Design: drawing stars, Texan flag, U.S. flag.
  • Lab 3 (15/16-9-2004) Clean design: interactive cannon aiming game.
  • Lab 4 (substitute) (22/23-9-2004) Make the Street Scene happen.
  • Lab 4 (real) (29/30-9-2004) More of structured design: An analogue clock.
  • Lab 5 (6/7-10-2004) Graph plotting.
  • (13/14-10-2004) No lab due to microscopic holiday on Friday.
  • Lab 6 (20/21-10-2004) Using Unix (sample) and Creating your own web site. (bring digital image if you've got one).
  • Lab 7 (3/4-11-2004) Ecological simulations: grass, bunnies, foxes, dinosaurs (samples).
  • Lab 8 (10/11-11-2004) An interactive map of the U.S.A. (download data file)
  • Lab 9 (17/18-11-2004) Audio Processing.
  • Lab 10 (1/2-12-2004) Video game, part 1.
  • Lab 10 (8/9-12-2004) Video game, part 2.