COMS 3157 Advanced Programming

Fall 2023

• Two sections:
  • Sec 001 (call# 11211): TR 2:40-3:55pm, 301 Pupin Laboratories
  • Sec 002 (call# 11212): TR 5:40-6:55pm, 301 Pupin Laboratories

• Three in-class exams for both sections:

  • Exam 1 on Thursday, Oct 12
  • Exam 2 on Thursday, Nov 2
  • Exam 3 on Thursday, Dec 7
  • No final exam

  All students MUST take the exams at those times. There are no make-up or alternate exams. If you cannot make any of those exams, please take the course next semester.

• Instructor: Jae Woo Lee

• Office hours:
  • Jae’s office hours
  • TA office hours

Course essentials

• OVERVIEW AND LOGISTICS
• REQUIRED READING: ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICIES
• Course Syllabus
• Jae’s Git Tutorial
• Lab Workflow
• Helpful Guides

Past Lectures & Recitations

Lecture 1: T 9/5

• Course overview and logistics
  • Slides: OVERVIEW AND LOGISTICS

Lecture 2: R 9/7

• Introduction to command line interface (CLI)
  • Getting Started in the UNIX Programming Environment
  • Lecture notes 01: CLI basics

Recitation for Week 1: F 9/8

• CLI, Vim, hello.c
  • Review of 9/7 lecture
  • Some Vim tricks & .vimrc
  • hello.c

Lecture 3: T 9/12

• Compiling & linking
  • Separate compilation
  • Function declarations
  • Standard C Library
  • Using header file to prevent linking problem
  • Lecture notes 02: Separate Compilation and Make

Lecture 4: R 9/14

• Makefile
  • Lecture notes 02: Separate Compilation and Make (continued)
• Introduction to Git
  • Jae’s Git Tutorial
• Source code:
  • Makefile
  • myadd.c
  • myadd.h
  • mymod.c
  • myprogram.c

Recitation for Week 2: F 9/15

• Lab submission process
  • Quick review of the Git portion of 9/14 lecture
  • Lab workflow and submission using Git

Lecture 5: T 9/19

• C language basics
  • Integral data types
  • Binary numbers
  • Integer literals
  • Expression vs. statement
  • Bitwise operators
    • int f(int x) { return x & (1 << 5); }
  • Lecture notes 03: C language basics

Lecture 6: R 9/21

• C language basics (continued)
  • Bitwise operators (continued)
    • int g(int x) { return x | (1 << 5); }
  • Logical operators & short-circuit evaluation
  • Assignment as expression
  • Evaluation of x++
  • Lecture notes 03: C language basics (continued)
• Storage classes
  • Automatic variables
  • Static variables
  • Lecture notes 04: Storage classes

No Recitation for Week 3

Upcoming Lectures

Lecture 7: T 9/26

• Storage classes (continued)
  • Static variables (continued)
  • Lecture notes 04: Storage classes (continued)
• Process memory address space
  • Stack variable allocation
  • Lecture notes 04: Storage classes (continued)
• Pointers
  • Pointers and addresses
  • Pointer types
  • NULL pointers
  • Lecture notes 05: Pointers

Assignments

• HW0 Part A due Tue 9/5
• HW0 Part B due Thu 9/7
• Lab1 due Sun 9/24

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Last updated: 2023-09-25