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CS 112 is organized by week, with each week structured as follows:
- Classroom sessions are Monday-Wednesday-Friday.
- The lab sessions are on Tuesdays.
- Your lab submission is due Thursday at 23:59.
- Your project submission is due the next Monday at 23:59 (the night before your next lab).
- Tutoring Assistants are available in SB337 on Mondays and Thursdays, from 7 - 9 pm.
The SLOs (Student Learning Objectives), labs, and projects for each week are given in the links below. The readings are from C++ for Python Programmers Book.
Week | Topics | Laboratories | Projects | Tests, Video Links, etc. |
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0 | Intro to C++, compilation, Data Types (including pointers), const, binary and hexadecimal, arrays, using cout/cin. Week’s page |
Lab 0 | Proj 0 | |
1 | Control Structures, Functions, Parameter Passing modes. Week’s page |
Lab 1 | Proj 1 | |
2 | File Input/Output, Exception Handling, Two-dimensional Arrays. Week’s page |
Lab 2 | Proj 2 | |
3 | Classes, Operator Overloading, etc. Week’s page |
Lab 3 | Proj 3 | Test 1, Weeks 0 - 2, Friday. |
4 | Vectors – dynamic arrays Week’s page |
Lab 4 | Proj 4 | |
5 | Generic Containers Week’s page |
Lab 5 | Proj 5 | |
6 | Linked Lists [code from class] Dynamic Array or Linked List | Lab 6 | No project | Test 2, Weeks 0 - 5 (Friday) |
7 | Algorithm Analysis and Big-Oh [Slides] [Videos] [SLOs] | Lab 7 | Proj 7 | |
8 | Stacks and Queues Week’s page |
Lab 8 | Proj 8 | |
9 | Recursion Week’s page |
Lab 9 | Proj 9 | Test 3, weeks 0 - 8 (Friday) |
10 | BSTs Week’s page |
Lab 10 | Proj 10 | |
11 | AVL Trees Week’s page |
No lab | No project | |
12 | STL set and map containers Week’s page |
Lab 12 | No project | Test 4: weeks 0 - 11 (Wednesday, Dec. 4) |
13 | Hash Tables, Sorting Algorithms Week’s page |
Lab 13 | ||
Final | Search calvin.edu for “Exam Schedule” to find the time of the exam (and all exams you have, this semester, and all future semesters). | Test 5 Cumulative, during exam time (You may take it in either class’s exam time. Classes met at 11am MWF and 12:15 MWF.) |