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

7. Oct 09	Prelim1 review	Review slides from lecture notes and prelim questions	Review the course concepts that covered in prelim1 and address questions; HW2 workshop

8. Oct 17	C++ Compilation and Gprof	slides-pdf	Introducing C++ compilation and linking, and understanding Cmake mechanism; C++ performance optimization tools, focusing on Gprof

9. Oct 24	C++ Linking and Compiling open-sourced codebase	slides-pdf	Reviewing C++ compilation, linking, and Cmake; Demo working with an open-sourced C++ codebase llama.cpp.