COSC 246 Fall 2006 Syllabus

• Sept. 7 lecture
  Course introduction
  Chapter 1.1 - 1.3, 2.5 Course intro. Computers and how they work
• Sept. 12 lab
  Chapter 1.4 writing, testing and debugging programs
• Sept. 14 lecture
  Chapter 2.1 - 2.3 Variable, data types, operators, I/O
• Sept. 19 lab
  working with I/O and variables - doing error checking
• Sept. 21 lecture
  Exam 1 (Chapters 1 - all sections and Chapter 2 sections 1-3 and 5)
• Sept. 26 lab
  doing more complex computations
• Sept. 28 lecture
  Chapter 3 Loops
• Oct 3 lab
  Chapter 3 - Be a user! For loops
• Oct 5 lecture
  Chapter 3 - more control statements
  How to design a program
• Oct 10 lab
  Switch statements
• Oct12 lecture
  Chapter 3 - Mixing and matching control statements
• Oct. 17 lab
  Writing programs for simple physics and chemistry problems.
• Oct. 19 lecture
  Chapter 4 - Using and writing functions
• Oct. 24 lab
  Writing functions
• Oct. 26 lecture
  Second Exam
• Oct 31 lab
  Go over exam
  Halloween program - writing functions
• Nov 2 lecture
  Chapter 5 - Designing functions
  Start your project
• Nov 7 lab
  Designing and writing functions
• Nov 9 lecture
  Call by value, call by reference
• Nov 14 lab
  Incorporate individually written functions into your project
• Nov 16 lecture
  Chapter 6 - file I/O
• Nov 21 lab
  Third Exam - everything up to lecture Nov. 16
• Nov 23 Thanksgiving
  Have fun!!
• Nov 28 lab
  Chapter 8 - String class
  Add string and character manipulation to your project
• Nov 30 lecture
  Chapter 9 - Pointers
• Dec 5 lab
  Work on your project
• Dec 7 lecture
  Chapter 10 - Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Dec 12 lab - DEMO DAY!!
  
• Dec 14 - FINAL EXAM - 1:30 -3:00pm in lecture room.
• That's all, folks! :)