Introduction to Computers (II)

Instructor:

殷堂凱, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
Office hours: Thursday 3-4
Office: 理工二 300-3
Phone: 07-5919515
Email: tkyin@nuk.edu.tw

TA:

Time:

Lectures: Thursday 5-7

Location:

Lectures: 第一綜合教室 108 (Thursday 5, 6) 

Labs: 第一綜合教室 206 (Thursday 7) (Changed)

Objectives:

1. Understanding how the computers operate and writing programs to solve problems.

2. Learning C language in structured program developments

3. Exercising debugging and testing in developing programs

Lecture content:

1. Basic Concepts: hardware, OS, evolution of computer systems, multitasking, multithreads, multiple CPUs, running environments, computer networks

2. C programming language: variable names, scopes, control procedure, data types, subroutines

Lecture syllabus:  

　

Lecture	Date	Subject	C Programming	Note
1	2/17		C Pointers
2	2/24	Internet	C Pointers	HW1 given, Project 1 given
3	3/3		C Pointers
4	3/10		C Characters and Strings	HW2 given (changed)
5	3/17		C Characters and Strings	HW3 given (changed)
6	3/24		C Formatted Input/Output	HW4 given (changed)
7	3/31		C Formatted Input/Output	HW5 given (changed)
8	4/7		Spring break
9	4/14		C Structures, Unions, Bit Manipulations and Enumerations	Project 1 due
10	4/21	Midterm exam
11	4/28		C File Processing	HW6 given, Project 2 given
12	5/5		C File Processing	HW7 given
13	5/12		C Data Structures	HW8 given
14	5/19		C Data Structures	HW9 given
15	5/26		C Data Structures	HW10 given
16	6/2		C Preprocessor	HW11 given
17	6/9		Other C Topics	HW12 given, Project 2 due
18	6/16
19	6/23	Final exam

Grade:

• Midterm (25%)
• Final (25%)
• 2 Projects (25%)
• 14 Homework assignments (25%)
• Class attendance (-5% ~ +5%)

Textbook:

C How To Program, Fourth Edition, by H. M. Deitel and P. J. Deitel, Pearson, 2004. 全華代理

References:

Computers, Information Technology in Perspective, Twelfth Edition, by Larry Long and Nancy Long, Pearson, 2005.