| Class 1 ‑ | Tue 18‑8‑2020 | Quick introductions. Why computers use binary instead of decimal. Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to do. | ||||
| Class 2 ‑ | Thur 20‑8‑2020 | Setting up a visual studio project Two sample programs A sample of the first test. | ||||
| Class 3 ‑ | Tue 25‑8‑2020 | Some graphics operations: a circle of squares. Solving quadratic equations - version 1. | ||||
| Class 4 ‑ | Thur 27‑8‑2020 |
Controlling repetition: I must not be late for class, Solving a lot of quadratics, Plotting some nice graphs, Operators in order of priority. | ||||
| Class 5 ‑ | Tue 1‑9‑2020 | Patterns of recursion: Counting down, Sixteen squares, Counting up, Digits of a number, Introducing the array, Up and down in the same function. | ||||
| Class 6 ‑ | Thur 3‑9‑2020 | A ridiculously over-long program.
A much improved version:
step 1,
step 2,
step 3,
step 4,
step 5, ten to the power ofs, two to the power ofs, Introducing cout, ten to the power ofs as doubles. | ||||
| Class 7 ‑ | Tue 8‑9‑2020 | A program that writes a program for us. functions that return results: the sum of a series. An array of animals, Searching the array in two different ways. | ||||
| Class 8 ‑ | Thur 10‑9‑2020 | More patterns of recursion, including drawing a circle. | ||||
| Class 9 ‑ | Tue 15‑9‑2020 | More about searching. | ||||
| Class 10 ‑ | Thur 17‑9‑2020 | More with the guessing game. Calculating square roots by binary chop search. The Collatz sequence. Today's notes. | ||||
| Class 11 ‑ | Tue 22‑9‑2020 | Brownian motion - introducing the while loop, Another use for a while loop, Some very basic encryption. | ||||
| Class 12 ‑ | Thur 24‑9‑2020 | Computing the sine function, and plotting successive approximations, Analysing recursive functions, Printing a number in binary, Today's notes. | ||||
| Class 13 ‑ | Tue 29‑9‑2020 | Test preparation: A sample, and solutions to Question 1, Question 2, Question 3. | ||||
| Class 14 ‑ | Thur 1‑10‑2020 | Test Day, another sample. | ||||
| Class 15 ‑ | Tue 6‑10‑2020 | Using variables: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. | ||||
| Class 16 ‑ | Thur 8‑10‑2020 | Test day, second attempt. Don't take today's test if you were able to take it last week. | ||||
| Class 17 ‑ | Tue 13‑10‑2020 | More with variables:
linear animal search, animal search by binary chop, Introducing update operators and the for loop: calculating sines. | ||||
| Class 18 ‑ | Thur 15‑10‑2020 |
Using ifstreams and ofstreams or access to disc files:
First example,
second example. A chemistry data file for us to work with: and The chemistry calculator. | ||||
| Class 19 ‑ | Tue 20‑10‑2020 | Sorting: Bubble sort and selection sort in ten steps: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. | ||||
| Class 20 ‑ | Thur 22‑10‑2020 | Going over the test, The answers. | ||||
| Class 21 ‑ | Tue 27‑10‑2020 | Introducing objects: The completed chemistry calculator. | ||||
| Class 22 ‑ | Thur 29‑10‑2020 | Why 0.1 times 10,000,000 might not be 1,000,000. Teaching C++ how to use fractions: stage one, stage two. | ||||
| Class 23 ‑ | Tue 3‑11‑2020 | Simulations: the boy and the bull. | ||||
| Class 24 ‑ | Thur 5‑11‑2020 | Review of arrays and structs Today's notes: one, two. | ||||
| Class 25 ‑ | Tue 10‑11‑2020 | Second test.
A sample.
Another sample. Topics: arrays, files, structs. | ||||
| Class 26 ‑ | Thur 12‑11‑2020 | Exploring complex numbers | ||||
| Class 27 ‑ | Tue 17‑11‑2020 | Completing the exploration of complex numbers: The Mandelbrot set. Working through a sample for question 2. Working through a sample for question 3. | ||||
| Class 28 ‑ | Thur 19‑11‑2020 | Test one, test two. Solutions for test 2, Another small structs example. |
| Lab 1, | Mon 24 Aug - Thur 27 Aug | |||||
| (pdf) | Using visual C++ to run programs; drawing stars and stick figures. | |||||
| Lab 2, | Mon 31 Aug - Thur 3 Sep | |||||
| (pdf) | Divide and conquer: building big programs from little functions. | |||||
| Lab 3, | Tues 8 Sep - Mon 14 Sep | |||||
| (pdf) | Controlling repetition in programs. Part C2 is for extra credit only. | |||||
| Lab 4, | Tue 15 Sep - Mon 21 Sep | |||||
| (pdf) | A video game: Space Invaders with a cannon. | |||||
| Lab 5, | Tue 22 Sep - Mon 28 Sep | |||||
| (pdf) | A real-time animated clock application. | |||||
| Lab 6, | Tue 29 Sep - Mon 5 Oct | |||||
| (pdf) | Generating calendars and using Unix. | |||||
| Lab 7, | Tue 6 Oct - Mon 12 Oct | |||||
| (pdf) | A randomly generated Happy Street Scene. | |||||
| Lab 8, | Tue 13 Oct - Mon 19 Oct | |||||
| (pdf) | An interactive desk calculator. | |||||
| Lab 9, | Tue 20 Oct - Mon 26 Oct | |||||
| (pdf) | Meteorological data processing and visualisation. the data files | |||||
| Lab 10, | Tue 27 Oct - Mon 2 Nov | |||||
| (pdf) | Database programming under Unix. The special timing function. | |||||
| Lab 11, | Tue 3 Nov - Mon 9 Nov | |||||
| (pdf) | A robot seaching for treasure in a maze.
sample maze;
alternate sample. | |||||
| Lab 12, | Tue 10 Nov - Mon 16 Nov | |||||
| (pdf) | An automatic robot: he turned into a video game. | |||||