• Introduction
• Types, Operators, Expressions
• Input/Output
• Control statements
• Loops
• Arrays and Strings
• Pointers
• Functions
• Structures, Unions and Enumerations
• File Handling
• C Standard Library
• Advanced debugging and profiling techniques

• Homeworks - 25%
• 3 exams - 20% each
• Project - 15%

• Attendance and Class Demeanor: Attendance is highly recommended but not required. However, you are responsible for all the material covered in class. Cell phones and other electronic devices must be completely silent during class. And, no phone calls or messaging during class. Use of laptops during lecture is discouraged.
• Late assignments: Late assignments will be accepted with a penalty of 10% of credit for every hour late (rounded up to the next hour).
• Collaboration: The project and homeworks are individual work. You may discuss broad ideas with other students but you must write your own code.
• Academic Honesty: See http://www.dso.ufl.edu/judicial/honestybrochure.htm for Academic Honesty Guidelines. All academic dishonesty cases will be handled through the University of Florida Honor Court procedures as documented by the office of Student Services, P202 Peabody Hall. You may contact them at 392-1261 for a "Student Judicial Process: Guide for Students" pamphlet.
• Students With Disabilities: Students requesting classroom accommodation must first register with the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must then provide this documentation to the Instructor when requesting accommodation.

Announcements

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Last modified: Wed Apr 23 12:07:43 2008

05/02/2008: Grade and solutions of HW6 are available on CourseWorX. The average shown in CourseWorx is invalid.

04/25/2008: Venkat's office hour today [Friday (5:10 - 6:00 PM)] is canceled. For questions Cem will be in CSE 309 between 5:00-6:00 PM.

04/23/2008: If you downloaded sample0.txt before this announcement, make sure you download the current version. The old sample0.txt did not work correctly.

04/22/2008: Here are two sample saved files for the project: sample0.txt sample1.txt We will be using similar files to test your project, so it is important that your file format confirm to that of the spec. (Note that they are text files and not binary files)

04/21/2008: Cem's office hours today are canceled. If you have questions, see Venkat in his office (CSE E522).

04/21/2008: Exam 3 will test you on material covered through Friday Apr 18 (and since Exam 2).

04/16/2008: Homework 6 solution are now available: problem 1 problem 2

04/16/2008: Project spec update: it turns out that there no standard easy way to implement the "press any key to continue" feature. So, it is sufficient if you ask the user to "Press the enter key to continue" instead.

04/10/2008: Homework 6 is now up. This will be the last homework.

04/09/2008: Parts of an earlier version of the project spec seemed to suggest that there were 19 rows and 19 columns in the board (instead of 15 rows and 15 columns). This has now been fixed.

04/02/2008: The project specification is now available.

04/01/2008: Grade and solutions of HW5 are available on CourseWorX. The average shown in CourseWorx is invalid.

03/31/2008: Through Exam 2, 54.29 % of your grade has been determined (assuming we will have 7 homeworks, totally). The average is 36.88, the median is 39.25. Here is the histogram:

03/26/2008: More information on curving is here.

03/24/2008: Homework 5 is now up

03/21/2008: As announced in class, if you have a conflict for Exam 3, you must email Venkat by the end of next week, specifying which course you have an exam conflict with and your schedule on the same day.

03/21/2008: You have until March 31 to to seek clarifications/request regrades for Exam 2.

03/20/2008: Exam 2 scores are now available via Courseworx. The average shown in CourseWorx is invalid. The real average is 65. The The median is 73.
You can get the exams back during office hours. Here is a note on grading.
Cem graded questions 1, 2, Venkat graded 3 and Xiaoke graded 4 and 5.
Here is the histogram with the score distribution for Exam 2:

03/17/2008: Exam 2 solutions are available here.

03/04/2008: Grade and solutions of HW4 are available on CourseWorX.

03/02/2008: Some observations (you should make) pertaining to Homework 4:

• fgets_generalized has the same arguments as fgets exscept for one extra argument namely the term char. In particular, from the manpage you will observe that it must take in a parameter FILE *stream. You don't have to worry about what this does now (although we will talk about this when we discuss File handling). All you will do is in-turn pass this to fgets, when you use it in the function definition of fgets_generalized.
• For to_lower, look at the ASCII table, find where the lowercase and uppercase letters sit and observe that the each of them are contiguous in the table and corresponding uppercase and lowercase letters are a constant distance away. You will need to use this property. Also, remember that char variables are really integers, which represent the ASCII codes of the characters they represent. Try adding numbers to a char variable and print the result to see how they behave.

02/29/2008: Exam 2 will test you on material taught since the first exam (which corresponds to Chapters 7, 8 and 10 of text).

02/29/2008: A good source of more examples and programming exercises is Schaum's Outline of Programming with C. The library has this as an e-book accessble here (if you are accessing from within UF). If you are off-campus, login using UF proxy and search for the book from the UF library page.
Please be sure to click Close item, if you are not using the book for some time, because the website only allows a fixed number of people to simultaneously view the book.

02/29/2008: Homework 3 scores are now available on Courseworx. Cem graded this homework. As always, you have one week to seek clarifications/request regrades.

02/28/2008: Homework 3, problem 1 solution had a "printf" formatting error. The latest version is available at: problem 1

02/27/2008: Homework 4 is now up. Note that the second question pertains to recursion, which we will cover Friday.

02/27/2008: Venkat's office hours henceforth will be held in CSE E522 (instead of E309).

02/25/2008: Exam 1 scores are now available via Courseworx. You can get the exams back during office hours. Here are the exam solutions and a note on grading.
All clarifications/regrade requests for Exam 1 and Homework 2 must be sought by the end of next Monday. Cem graded questions 1, 2, 3, Venkat graded 4 and Xiaoke graded 5 and 6.
Here is the histogram with the score distribution for Exam 1:

02/23/2008: Homework 3 solution are now available: problem 1 problem 2

02/21/2008: For Problem 2, observe that fgets also appends a '\n' at the end of string. However, you will not check for the presence of a '\n' in s1 after an instance of s2 is found.
For Problem 1 (as mentioned in class), remember to link to the math library using the -lm switch, while compiling with gcc.

02/20/2008: Test cases for Problem 1 are now available in the note. Remember that we will also test your program with other test cases.

02/20/2008: For Problem 2, assume indices start at zero (as in C). You just need to report the starting index of the substring in the other string (if the substring is present).

02/17/2008: Homework 3 deadline is extended by 24 hours. It is due back thursday night instead. I wanted to do a few more example problems in class to help you tackle Problem 2.

02/18/2008: In Problem 2, use fgets to get input, instead of scanf (as was stated in the problem).

02/17/2008: In Problem 1 of Homework 3, the eigenvalues to be computed are for the sample covariance matrix, not the vectors.

02/17/2008: Here is a note on Problem 1 of Homework 3.

02/15/2008: Homework 3 is now up.

02/08/2008: Grade and solutions of HW2 are available on CourseWorX. Note that “Total points earned so farἿand “Assignment Weight᾿fields are invalid.

02/08/2008: As announced in class (and the website), Exam 1 is on Monday, Feb 11 at MCCB G086 between 8:20pm and 10:10pm. The exam is closed book/notes. No calculators or cheat sheets are allowed. Material covered through today (including readings) will be tested.

02/04/2008: When you use scanf to input a character, once you hit enter, the '\n' character is stored in the buffer, which is passed on to your variable when you do a scanf next to get another char from input. The way around this is to declare another variable say tmp (of type char), and assuming you want to read in the variable c, use something like this (so that the '\n' is read into tmp):
scanf("%c%c", &c, &tmp);

02/04/2008: Turns out a couple of things I said Friday were not accurate. Here is the correct story. I will also go over it in class today.

01/31/2008: Homework 2 is now up.

01/30/2008: Homework 2 will be posted Thursday night, instead of tonight.

01/30/2008: You have one week to seek clarifications/request regrades pertaining to Homework 1 grading. Please see Xiaoke (who graded Homework 1) for this.

01/29/2008: Grade and solutions of HW1 are available on CourseWorX. Note that “Total points earned so farἿand “Assignment Weight᾿fields are invalid.

01/28/2008:Couple of announcements about the homework:

• If your ASCII image has one of the characters \, ", ', ` or ?, you will get an error unless you replace that character with its escape sequence. These are listed in Page 428 of text.
• If you are using cygwin, you will have to locate the where it is putting your files in, before you can upload the tar file. To do this, just search for the file and you should be able to find it.

01/24/2008: Homework 1 is now up.

01/19/2008: Henceforth, please direct all TA email to the email ID cgs3460sp08@cise.ufl.edu, instead of sending email to their individual email addresses. One of the TAs will reply, after which you may send any follow-up question to that TA (on the ID from which he replied).

01/16/2008: Please register your ID in Courseworx. Here is a page that tells you how.

01/10/2008: Two copies of the text are now available on reserve at Marston Science Library. A copy of the reference book is also available.

01/09/2008: Office hours have been posted.

01/09/2008: A brief tutorial for cygwin installation can be found here

01/09/2008: The reference book (K&R) is now available on reserve at the Marston Science library for a 2-hour loan. Two copies of the text are also expected to be available there soon.

01/07/2008: Here is how you can get a CISE computer account for the class. This should also get you access (by swiping your Gator1 card) to E114, our 24x7 computer lab. Please apply for your account as soon as possible.

01/07/2008: Welcome !

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