Fall 2005 Course Schedule - 16-Week Semester

The purpose of this schedule is to help you pace yourself during the semester. Be sure to review my Late Policy for programming assignments and exams in the course syllabus. Absolute deadlines are also listed in this schedule.

Week of

Reading Assignment/Activity

8/29
1

Chapter 1 - Software Development

9/5
2

*** Labor Day Holiday - ACC closed Monday 9/5 ***
Chapter 2 - ADT's and C++ Classes

9/12
3

Chapter 3 - Container Classes
Complete Program 1 - Quadratic Expressions Due 9/18

9/19
4

Chapter 4 - Pointers

9/26
5

Review for Exam 1

10/03
6

Chapter 5 - Linked Lists
Complete Program 2 - Sequence Class with a Dynamic Array Due 10/09
Exam 1 - Chapters 1-4. Due 10/9

10/10
7

Chapter 6 - Templates

10/17
8

Chapter 7 - Stacks
Complete Program 3 Random Sentences- Due 10/23

10/24
9

Chapter 8 - Queues

10/31
10

Review and Exam 2
Complete Program 4 - Translating Infix to Postfix Notation Due 11/06

11/07
11

Chapter 9 - Recursion

11/14
12

Chapter 10 - Trees
Chapter 11 - Tree Projects (Heaps - pages 534 - 541 only)
Exam 2 - Chapters 5 - 8. Due 11/20

11/21
13

Chapter 12 - Searching
*** Thanksgiving Holiday- ACC closed November 24 - 27 ***

11/28
14

Last day to withdraw is Monday, November 28, 2005.
Chapter 13 - Sorting

12/5
15

Chapter 14 - Inheritance (selected pages only)
Programs 1 - 4 will not be accepted after Sunday, December 11.
Exams 1 & 2 will not be accepted after Sunday, December 11.

12/12
16

Complete Program 5 - Expression Trees
Complete Program 6 - Chained Hashing (optional)
No grace period for Programs 5 and 6 - will not be accepted after Friday, December 16.
Exam 3 - Chapters 9-14. No grace period for Exam 3. Deadlines: Exam 3 will be available at all Testing Centers through Wednesday, December 14. Exam 3 will be available at the RVS Testing Center through Friday, December 16.

 


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