CO 71:   Computer Programming in C 
Spring Semester, 1999
Instructor: Elliot Koffman
Office:     Computer Building, Room 311
Hours:  Tu-Th 1-2:30       
Temple phone: 204-1913   eMail: koffman@cis.temple.edu
Web page:  http://joda.cis.temple.edu/~koffman
 
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 C.  No credit for students who have taken CIS59, CIS61, 
CIS67, or CIS81. This is a second level math core course.

Textbook: Problem Solving and Program Design in C, 3rd Edition, by Hanly 
and Koffman, Addison-Wesley, 1999
 
Labs: 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. No credit will be 
granted for late labs.

Grading: 20% of your final grade will depend on your laboratory grade 
and 80% will depend on your exams. There will be approximately 4 exams 
including a final examination. You must receive a passing grade in lab 
to pass the course.

Weeks	Topics                                               Text Chapter	

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. 	Chap. 1

3-4	Problem solving, intro. to C and data types problem solving
	and programming, software development method, overview of
	C, declaration part of a program, executable part including
	input, output, and assignment statements 		Chap. 2

4-5	Top-down design and modularizing a program, structure
	charts, libraries and library functions, user-defined
	functions with no arguments and input arguments.	Chap. 3

6-7	Control Structures, Decisions, if statement, switch
	statement logical expressions and operators, tracing an
	algorithm, nested if statements 			Chap. 4

8-9	Repetition and loops, Repetition in programs, accumulating a
	sum, counting loops, conditional loops, do while and for
	loops, debugging programs with loops			Chap. 5

10	more on data types, data type char			chap 7

11-13   Arrays  Subscripts, array arguments,
	searching and sorting,			 	        Chap. 8

14   Modular programming   functions with output parameters
	scope of identifiers, debugging a 
	program with functions					Chap. 6