COMS 3157 Advanced Programming

Fall 2025

• In-person lectures on Tue & Thu 4:10-5:25pm, 417 International Affairs Building

• Three exams:

  • Exam 1 on Thursday Oct 16, 4:10pm
  • Exam 2 on Tuesday Nov 11, 4:10pm
  • Exam 3 (final exam) on Tuesday Dec 16, 4:20pm

  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

Lecture 1: T 9/2

• Course overview and logistics
  • Slides: OVERVIEW AND LOGISTICS

Lecture 2: R 9/4

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

Recitation 1: pre-recorded

• CLI, Vim, hello.c
  • CLI review
  • Some Vim tricks & .vimrc
  • hello.c

Lecture 3: T 9/9

• 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 9/11

• Compiling & linking (continued)
  • Using header file to prevent linking problem
  • Lecture notes 02: Separate Compilation and Make
• Makefile
  • Lecture notes 02: Separate Compilation and Make
• Introduction to Git
  • Jae’s Git Tutorial
• Source code:
  • Makefile
  • myadd.c
  • myadd.h
  • mymod.c
  • myprogram.c

Upcoming Lectures

Recitation 2: pre-recorded

• Lab submission process
  • Quick review of Git basics
  • Lab workflow and submission using Git

Lecture 5: T 9/16

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

Lecture 6: R 9/18

• C language basics (continued)
  • Bitwise operators (continued)
    • sign extension
  • Logical operators & short-circuit evaluation
  • Assignment as expression
  • Evaluation of x++
  • Lecture notes 03: C language basics
• Storage classes
  • Automatic variables
  • Static variables
  • Lecture notes 04: Storage classes

Assignments

• HW0 Part A due Tue 9/2
• HW0 Part B due Thu 9/4
• Lab1 due Sun 9/21

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Last updated: 2025-09-13