Instructors: Roded
Sharan and Yehuda Afek
Office hours: by appointment.
Teaching Assistants: Dana Silverbush and Yuval Rochman
Course web site at Moodle TAU
The course consists of two parts. The first part focuses on learning the C programming language; the second part will be devoted for describing the project and advanced topics in C and UNIX.
There will be 3 exercises and a project. Submission of all is mandatory.
The grade will be determined as follows: exercises (5% ex1; 5% ex2; 10% ex3), project (50%) and final exam (30%).
The main textbook used in the course: ‘A Book on C’, 4th Edition by Kelley and Pohl. Example programs from the book
Following is a tentative outline of the course, which will be updated according to what is actually studied in class:
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Week |
Date |
Lecture &
handouts |
Read more |
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1 |
27/8 Feb |
Introduction to C (Chapter 1) |
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2 |
6/7 Mar |
The working
environment & Ex. 1 |
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3 |
13/4 Mar |
Lexical elements and fundamental data types
(Chapters 2-3); Flow of control (Chapter
4) |
Floating point representation; Binary representation (bases) |
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4 |
3/4
Apr |
Functions (Chapter 5); Runtime environment |
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5 |
10/1 Apr |
Input & Output; Bitwise operators (Chapter 7); Make (Chapter 11) & Ex2 |
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6 |
17/8 Apr |
Arrays
and pointers (Chapter 6) |
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7 |
24/5 Apr |
Secure programming |
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8 |
1/2 May |
Concurrent
programming |
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9 |
8/9 May |
More on pointers & Ex3 |
(Chapter 12.6) |
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10 |
22/16 May |
Structures
and Linked lists (Chapters 9-10); Preprocessor
(Chapter 8) |
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11 |
29/30 May |
Project description (I) |
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12 |
5/6 Jun |
Project description
(II) |
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13 |
12/3 Jun |
Files (Chapter 11, till 11.9) |
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14 |
19/20 Jun |
Rehearsal |
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Bibliography and Notes