UNB/ CS/ David Bremner/ teaching/ old/ cs2023/ topics

Tentative list of topics

Topic chapters lectures
Month 1 
 12.0
Introduction 
  2.0
  • Context
 
    1 

  0.5
  • Compiling and Linking a simple C program
 
    2 

  0.5
  • Basics of C syntax
 
    2 

  1.0
Input/Output 
  1.0
  • printf and scanf
 
  2,3 

  0.5
  • character IO
 
    7 

  0.5
Expressions 
  2.5
  • Arithmetic Operators
 
    4 

  0.5
  • Assignment and side effects
 
    4 

  1.5
  • Expression evaluation
 
    4 

  0.5
Control Structures 
  2.0
  • "Boolean" expressions
 
    5 

  0.5
  • if, switch, and break
 
    5 

  0.5
  • while, do, for
 
    6 

  0.5
  • break, continue, goto
 
    6 

  0.5
Types 
  2.5
  • character, integer and floating point types
 
    7 

    1
  • type conversion and casting
 
    7 

    1
  • typedef and sizeof
 
    7 

  0.5
Arrays 
  1.0
  • One dimensional Arrays, initializers
 
    8 

  0.5
  • Multidimensional Arrays
 
    8 

  0.5
Functions 
    1
  • Procedural design/partition
 
    9 

    1
Month 2 
 12.0
Functions 
  2.0
  • Declarations, Arguments/parameters
 
    9 

    1
  • return and exit
 
    9 

  0.5
  • recursion
 
    9 

  0.5
Blocks and scope, external variables 
   10 

    1
Organization 
   10 

    1
Pointers I 
11,12 

  3.0
  • Pointer basics
 
   11 

    1
  • Pointers and arrays
 
   12 

  2.0
Strings 
   13 

  3.5
  • Strings Literals and Variables
 
  0.5
  • Initialization, Simple IO
 
  0.5
  • Character by Character I/O
 
  0.5
  • C String library
 
    1
  • String idioms
 
  0.5
  • Arrays of strings
 
  0.5
File IO 
   22 

  1.5
Month 3 
 13.0
Version Control 
    1
C preprocessor 
   14 

  2.0
  • How the Preprocessor works
 
  0.5
  • Directives and simple macros
 
  0.5
  • Parameterized macros
 
  0.5
  • Conditional compilation
 
  0.5
Multifile Organization 
  3.0
  • Source and include files
 
  0.5
  • Sharing definitions
 
    1
  • Dividing a program into files
 
  0.5
  • Building and linking with make
 
    1
Structures Unions and Enumerations 
   16 

  3.0
  • Structures
 
    1
  • Arrays of structures
 
  0.5
  • Unions
 
    1
  • Enumerations
 
  0.5
Dynamic Memory allocation 
   17 

    4
  • Malloc, calloc, realloc
 
   17 

    1
  • free, garbage, dangling pointers, debugging
 
    1
  • Linked lists
 
    1
  • Pointers to Pointers, pointers to functions
 
    1