Schedule

This page will be updated with the schedule for the course, including lecture topics, readings, and assignment due dates.

Note

The schedule below is tentative and subject to change.

Week	Date	Topic	Handouts and Practice Sets	Assignments (Released / Due)
1	Mon 06/15	Introduction, Software Setup, Hello World, C Basics (Types, Control Structures, printf) Notes	Hello World Handout Practice Set 1
1	Wed 06/17	Loops (for/while/do-while), switch, Functions, Multi-file Code & Makefiles Video Notes	In-Class Exercises Practice Set 2
2	Mon 06/22	C Operators, Binary & Hex, Bit-Level Manipulation Notes	In-Class Exercises Solutions
2	Wed 06/24	Arrays and Strings (HW1 prep) Notes	In-Class Exercises Solutions Sample Quiz 1	HW1 Released
3	Mon 06/29	Pointers, Pointer Arithmetic, Pointers as Function Arguments, Scope and Lifetime Quiz 1 Notes	In-Class Exercises Solutions
3	Wed 07/01	The Call Stack, Stack vs Heap, Heap Allocation (malloc/free) Notes	In-Class Exercises Solutions Practice Set 4	HW1 Due HW2 Released
4	Mon 07/06	Structs: Definitions, Members, typedef, Nested Structs, Arrays of Structs Notes	In-Class Exercises Solutions
4	Wed 07/08	Pointers to Structs, Heap-Owned Strings, Enumerations, and Unions Notes	In-Class Exercises Solutions Practice Set 5	HW2 Due (Friday)
5	Mon 07/13	Linked Lists: Self-Referential Structs, Traversal, Insertion and Deletion Quiz 2 Notes	In-Class Exercises Solutions
5	Wed 07/15	Hash Tables: Hashing, Collision Resolution, Building a Hash Table Notes	In-Class Exercises Solutions Practice Set 6	HW3 Released
6	Mon 07/20	Function Pointers, Concurrency and pthreads: Thread Creation and Joining
6	Wed 07/22	Race Conditions, Mutexes and Locks, Synchronization		HW3 Due
7	Mon 07/27	Binary Trees: Binary Search Trees, Traversals, Recursion on Trees Quiz 3
7	Wed 07/29	Tree Operations, Balancing, and Applications
8	Mon 08/03	Sorting Algorithms and Graphs; Final Exam Review
8	Wed 08/05	In-Class Final Exam