Textbook

C++: How to Program, Fourth Edition
Deitel & Deitel
 

The textbook will serve as a general C++ reference for your assignments and as an alternate perspective on the material offered in lecture. Chapter numbers are given for each week in the schedule (below) but you will only be responsible for the topics covered in class and listed in the schedule. Some topics may be presented in class which are not covered in the book. These topics may still appear on exams and in homework assignments.

Online Resources

Course Web Page: www.unm.edu/~mfricke
Course Mailing List: cs151@cs.unm.edu

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Course related announcements will be made in class or via the course mailing list.

Discussion of class topics and sharing of ideas is encouraged. Posting of specific solutions (or parts of solutions) to homework assignments, projects, and exams is prohibited until three days after the assignment's due date (others may be turning assignments in up to 48 hours late).

Assignments will be made available on the course website. All projects and homework assignments will be due by 11:59:59pm on the date specified in the syllabus. These assignments are to be emailed to mfricke@unm.edu. If your solution consists of multiple files send it as a tar or zip attachment. Make the assignment name the subject line of your email.
 

Compiler

I will compile your programs with the GNU g++ compiler on the CIRT AIX computers when I grade them. You are welcome to use other compilers to test your programs at home but it is in your interest to make sure that your program works correctly after being compiled with g++.
 

Grading

Exams 30% (3 exams worth 10% each, including a final comprehensive exam)
Homework 30% + 5% (7 homework assignments worth 5% each)
Projects 40% (4 projects worth 10% each)
Total: 100% + 5% extra credit from homework

There will be three exams and four projects, together these will make up 70% of your grade. There will also be homework assignments designed to help you develop the skills you will need to do well in the projects and exams.

One of the homework assignments can be skipped or used for extra credit.
 

Late Policy and Makeup Exams

Due Date: Assignment worth 100%.

24 hours late: Assignment worth 66% (D)

48 hours late: Assignment worth 33% (F)

More than 48 hours late: Assignment worth 0% (F)

Makeup exams will be held on the Friday following the original exam date at 11:00am. Eligibility to take the makeup exam will be decided on a case by case basis.

Academic Honesty

Freshman and sophomore level computer science classes are especially prone to cheating. Assignments are typically in electronic format and so easily copied. Students often believe that computer code is formal and therefore has a certain anonymity. Nothing could be further from the truth. To someone who has been reading C++ for a while the style and idiosyncrasies of each programmer is obvious. By the end of the semester I expect to be able to identify the author of every assignment by coding style alone. This makes catching cheaters easy.

UNM's policies on cheating may be found at http://www.unm.edu/~brpm/r48.htm. The minimum penalty I will impose for cheating in this course is an F. The maximum penalty is dismissal from the University.

Cheating hurts the cheater and their fellow students. It hurts the cheater because they are not learning the material and will therefore do poorly on the exams and it hurts other students because it makes the assignments look artificially easy. By cheating to do well on an assignment that is too hard for you (and probably others) you ensure that the next assignment will be even more difficult.

Each semester of CS151 on average four or five cheaters are caught.

You may use the web and other resources (except other students) to help you write your programs. You may even include snippets of code in your projects and homework obtained on the internet. If you do so please mark that code clearly with the website address or a citation for the publication you used.

Letter grade translation:

100 <= A+ <= 105
93 <= A < 100
90 <= A- < 93
87 <= B+ < 90
83 <= B < 87
80 <= B- < 83
77 <= C+ < 80
73 <= C < 77
70 <= C- < 73
67 <= D+ < 70
63 <= D < 67
60 <= D- < 63
0 <= F < 60
 

Schedule

Week 1 - Read Chapter 1, Sections 1.1 - 1.4, 1.6 - 1.8, 1.11 - 1.15, 1.20 - 1.25

6/9                Course Information

                     What is programming? Algorithms

                     Anatomy of a Computer

                     Machine Language and Compilers

                     Brief History of Computer Languages

                     Anatomy of a C++ program

                     LAB: Everyone compile HelloWorld

6/11             Variable Declaration

                    Assigning Values to a Variable

                    Primitive Arithmetic Operators

                    Operator Precedence

                    Standard Input/Output

6/12              If control structure

                    Nested if and if ... else statements

6/16             Lab: write a program that reads in two numbers and determines    

                   whether the the first number is the square root of the second.

                   Scope of Variables

                   Iteration