CIS 61:  Computers and Computer Programming in Pascal 

Spring Semester, 1996

Instructor: Elliot Koffman
Office:     Computer Building, Room 311
Temple phone: 204-1913
 
Prerequisites:  First level core math course. 
Description: Introduces students to computers and computer
programming.  Topics covered include the general characteristics
of computers, techniques of problem solving and algorithm
specifications, and the debugging and testing of computer
programs in Pascal.  This course is a prerequisite for majors
courses in the College of Arts and Sciences. No credit for
students who have taken CIS59, CIS67, CIS71, or CIS81. 
This course is a second level core math course.

Textbook: Pascal, Fifth Edition, by Elliot Koffman, Addison-
Wesley, 1995
 
Each student will be assigned to a laboratory section. Attendance
in the laboratory is required. There will be two kinds of
laboratory assignments: 

1. Laboratory exercises involved with testing or modifying
programs that will be supplied to you. You should be able to
complete most of these exercises during the laboratory period 
for which they are assigned provided you familiarize yourself
with the assignment before the laboratory period and do some
preparation before lab. 

2. Programs written to solve programming projects assigned from
the textbook. You will probably need to spend several hours
working on these programs outside of the regular laboratory
period. You can consult with other students on the assignments
but each person should write his/her own programs. Put the names
of any students you consult with on your program when you hand
it in. It is very important that you follow the programming
conventions and styles described in class and the textbook. Also,
make sure that you demonstrate that your program works.

1/3 of your final grade will depend on your laboratory grade and
2/3 will depend on your exams.

Weeks 1-2  Intro. to computing                
computer history, overview of hardware, overview of software, 
translating and linking a program, introduction to UNIX operating
system and editor. 

Reading: Chapter 1 of textbook, lab. manual
Laboratory:  Familiarization with computer, lab. exercsise 1
 
Weeks 3-4  Problem solving, intro. to Pascal and data types 
problem solving and programming, software development method, 
overview of Pascal, declaration part of a program, executable 
part including input, output, and assignment statements, standard
data types. 

Reading: Chapter 2 
Laboratory: exercise 2 (week 3)
            Projects 1 and 3, page 79 (week 4)

Weeks 5    Intro. to procedures and functions      
top-down design and modularizing a program, structure charts, 
procedures without parameters, introduction to built-in 
functions. 
 
Reading: Chapter 3 
Laboratory:  Project 3, p. 112 (week 6)

Weeks 6-7  Decisions, if statement, case statement           
Boolean expressions, decisons, if statements, tracing an 
algorithm, nested if statements, case statement 

Reading: Chapter 4
Laboratory: exercise 3 (week 6)
            Project 6, p. 165 (week 7)
Exam: chapters 1-3

Weeks 8-9   Repetition and loops                   
Repetition in programs, while loop, accumulating a sum, for 
loop, debugging programs with loops 
 
Reading: Chapter 5
Laboratory: exercise 4 (week 8)
            Project 5, p. 213 (week 9)

Weeks 10-11   Modular programming 
Parameter lists, value parameters, functions, variable 
parameters, scope of identifiers                   

Reading: Chapter 6
Laboratory: exercise 5 (week 9)
            Project 1, p. 268 (week 10)
Exam: chapters 4-5
 
Week 12      Data Types 
Representation of numeric types, Boolean type and operators, type
Char, ordinal functions, subranges, compatibility

Reading: Chapter 7, sections 7.1 - 7.6
Laboratory: exercise 6 

Week  13-14
Arrays, subscripts, subarrays, searching and sorting 

Reading: Chapter 10, sections 10.1 - 10.5
Laboratory: exercise 7
            Project 9, p. 421

Week 15
strings and packed arrays
 
Reading: Chapter 11, sections 11.1-11.2
Laboratory: programming exercise 1, p. 431
final exam: chapters 6, 7, 10, 11 (sections covered in reading
only)