CS 2022 Introduction to C Spring 2010

A brief introduction to the C programming language and standard libraries. Unix accounts will be made available for students wishing to use that system for projects, but familiarity with Unix is not required. (Projects may be done using any modern implementation of C). CS 2024 (C++ Programming) includes much of the material covered in 2022. Students planning to take CS 2024 normally do not need to take 2022.

This is a one-credit S/U-only course.

Instructor

Robert Burgess

<burgess at systems.cs.cornell.edu>

Lecture

Hollister 306

12:20pm–1:10pm

Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays

January 25–February 19, 2010

Office Hours

Upson 328

11:00am–12:00pm

Fridays

Prerequisites

One programming course or equivalent programming experience. Credit is granted for both COM S 2022 and 2024 only if 2022 is taken first.

Projects

Computing Fibonacci numbers, due ~~February 1~~ February 5.
Word histograms, due ~~February 12~~ February 15.
Fetching URLs, due February 19.

Lectures

January	25	Quick start with C, `gcc`, and `gdb`
	27	Functions and projects
	29	Flow control
February	1	Syntax (K&R Appendix A)
	3	Memory
	5	Structures (K&R Chapter 6)
	8	Linked lists
	10	Preprocessor (K&R Chapter 4.11)
	12	Input and output (K&R Chaper 7)
	15	Files and sockets
	17	Threads
	19	Threaded networking

Resources

Newsgroup

cornell.class.cs2022

CSUG Lab

All students will have CSUG accounts and thus access to the CSUG machines. You might want to review Using Linux in the CS Undergraduate Lab, since we will be working in that environment.

The Web

A lot of resources and information is available on the web, and you are encouraged to use everything at your disposal.

Debugging with GDB

Please do also look around for yourself, and let me know if there is a good resource I can add.

Book

The C Programming Language (colloquially, The C Bible)
by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
Second edition for ANSI C