CS4414: Recitations (Labs)

 

CS4414 has a required weekly recitation focused on practical C++ and Linux skills and the homework assignments.
The recitation is in-person at Uris G01, Friday 2:55 - 4:10PM. Alicia and Shouxu lead the recitations.
The demos used in recitations are available on a github repository
To make recitations more interactive, we use pollev https://pollev.com/cs4414c552 (The responses will not be used for attendance or grading)

   Date Topic Slides Summary
   1. Aug 29 Introduction to recitations, C++ Primitive types, C++ standard library slides-pdf Overview of the recitation
C++ primitive types: C-style pointers, C-style arrays, references
C++ standard library: I/O, containers
   2. Sep 05 C++ function and memory management slides-pdf Core C++ function concepts: parameter passing (by value, pointer, and reference), return mechanisms
Memory management in C++, with focus on stack and heap segments, RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization) principle
Modern smart pointers: std::unique_ptr, std::shared_ptr, std::weak_ptr
   3. Sep 12 C++ class and template slides-pdf C++ class: introduce constructor, destructor, copy constructor, move constructor, and connecting to C++ containers
C++ template: template function, template class, variadic template
   4. Sep 19 C++ template continue and multithreading1 slides-pdf C++ template continue: variadic template function and class
C++ multithreading1: concurrency introduction, thread launching and finishing
   5. Sep 26 C++ multithreading2 slides-pdf Continue with introducing multithreading
std::thread creation and finish; thread synchronization, mutexes, and RAII locks
   6. Oct 03 C++ multithreading3 slides-pdf Continue with RAII locks and condition variables;
Introducing HW2