Fall 2003 Course Schedule - 16-Week Semester

The purpose of this schedule is to help you pace yourself during the semester. My Late Policy for programming assignments (all sections) and tests (open campus sections only) is included in the course syllabus. Absolute deadlines are also listed in this schedule. Note: weeks with an asterisk ("*") in the Week of column are subject to change (due dates and assignments may be adjusted). The asterisk will be removed when the week's schedule is finalized.

Week of

 Reading Assignment/Activity

8/25
1

 Chapter 1 - Overview of Computers and Programming Languages
Chapter 2 - Basic Elements of C++
Chapter 3 - Input/Output

9/1
2

 *** Labor Day - ACC closed Monday, 9/1 ***
Chapter 3 - Input/Output (continued)
Chapter 4 - Control Structures I (Selection)
Complete Program 1 - Due 9/7

9/8
3

 Chapter 4 - Control Structures I (Selection) (continued)
Chapter 5 - Control Structures II (Repetition)

9/15
4

 Chapter 6 - Functions I
Complete Program 2 - Due 9/21

9/22
5

 Chapter 7 - Functions II

9/29
6

 Chapter 8 - User-Defined Simple Data Types, Namespaces, & string Type
Complete Program 3 - Due 10/5
Exam 1 - Chapters 1-7. Due 10/5

10/6
7

 Chapter 9 - Arrays and Strings

10/13
8

 Chapter 10 - Arrays II

10/20
9

Chapter 11 - Recursion
Complete Program 4 - Due 10/26

10/27
10

 Chapter 12 - Records (Structs)
Exam 2 - Chapters 8 - 11. Due 11/02

11/03
11

 Chapter 13 - Classes
Complete Program 5 - Due 11/09

11/10
12

 Chapter 14 - Inheritance and Composition (selected topics)
pages 636 - 637 Overview of Inheritance
pages 654 - 655 C++ Stream Classes
pages 660 - 665 Composition
pages 666 - 667 Overview of OOP

11/17
13

 Chapter 15 - Pointers
Last day to withdraw is Thursday, Nov 20.

11/24
14

 Chapter 17 - Linked Lists
Complete Program 6 - Due 11/30
*** Thanksgiving - ACC closed Thurs 11/27 - Sun 11/30 ***

12/1
15

 Complete programming assignments/review for final exam.
Programs 1 - 5 will not be accepted after Sunday, Dec 7.
Exams 1 & 2 will not be accepted after Sunday, Dec 7.

12/8
16

 Program 6 & 7 will not be accepted after Friday, Dec 12.
Exam 3 will be available at all Testing Centers through Wednesday, Dec 10. Exam 3 will be available at the RVS Testing Center through Friday, Dec 12.

 

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