Spring 2005 Semester
Course Schedule: CSCI101A
Introduction to Computer
Programming Using C++
This
document is current at: Wednesday
30th March 2005, 7:17 PT
Schedule subject to change (please check this schedule regularly)
Tuesdays
and Thursdays, 10:05 am - 12:05 pm, Room 1
Instructor: Dr Anne H. Dawson: adawson@coquitlamcollege.com
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Date
Activities
Spring 2005 Semester
Lectures
Reading
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AP
= Assignment Presentation HW = Homework Textbook
SR = Status Report
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Week 1 Jan 4 No class
Ref Textbook Lessons 1 and 7
Jan 6 Course Details Lecture: "Introduction
to C++ Programming"
Ref History Chapter 1
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Week 2 Jan 11 Lectures: "Introduction
to C++ Programming" & "C++ Basics"
Chapter 2
Jan 13
Lab
Assignment 1
"C++ Basics" Chapter 2
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Week 3 Jan 18 Q1 & 2 (on Ch1&2)
HW1
issued AP
Lect: "Procedural
Abstraction and Functions" Chap3
Jan 20 Lab
Assignment 2
"Procedural
Abstraction and Functions" Chapter 3
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Week 4
Jan 25
Quiz 3 (on Chaps 1&2&3) AP
SR
Lecture: "Functions" Chapter 4
Jan 27 HW1 due
Lab
Assignment 3
"Functions" Chapter
4
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Week 5 Feb 1 Quiz 4 (on Chap 4) AP Lecture: "Objects and
Classes - I/O Streams" Chapter 5
Feb 3 Lab
Assignment 4 HW2 issued "Objects and
Classes - I/O Streams" Chapter 5
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Week 6 Feb 8 Quiz 5 (on
Chap 5) AP Lecture:
"Defining
Classes and ADTs" Chapter
6
Feb 10 Lab
Assignment 5 "Defining
Classes and ADTs" Chapter 6
Fri 11th Feb
- Midterm break - College
closed
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Mon 14th Feb - Midterm break - College closed
Week 7 Feb 15 HW2 due
Quiz 6 (on Chap
6) AP Lecture: "More Flow of
Control" Chapter 7
Feb 17
Lab
Assignment 6
"More Flow of
Control" Chapter 7
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Week 8 Feb 22 The Midterm Exam (30% -on the topics of Chapter 1
to 7)
Feb 24 Exam
Results / Lab reviews SR Final
Assignment issued
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Week 9 Mar 1 Quiz 7 (on Chap 7)
AP SR Course Evaluation Lecture: "Arrays" Chapter
[10||9]
Mar 3 Lab
Assignment 7 / HW3 issued "Arrays" Chapter
[10||9]
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Week 10
Mar 8 Lab
Assignment 7 / HW3 due Quiz 8 (on Arrays) AP
Lecture: "Strings"
Chapter [11||10]
Mar 10 Lab
Assignment 8 "Strings"
Chapter [11||10]
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Week 11
Mar
15 Quiz 9 (on Strings) AP Lecture: "Pointers" Chapter
[12||11]
Mar 17 Lecture:
"Pointers" "Linked
Lists" Chapter
[12||11]
Friday 18th March 2005 - Course Drop Deadline
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Week 12
Mar
22 Quiz 10 (on Pointers) Lab Assignment 9
"Linked
Lists" Chapter [12||11]
Mar 24 Lab Assignment 10 "Linked
Lists" Chapter [12||11]
Good Friday - College closed
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Week 13 Easter Monday - College closed
Mar 29 Final Assignment Review and Lab
Reviews SR
Course Evaluation
Mar 31 Final Assignment Presentations (10%) Course Evaluation
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Week 14
The Final Exam (40% - on all of the above topics)
April 2nd - 9th Date of
Final Exam: Tuesday 5th
April, 8:30 – 11:30 am, Gym
Check Administration Office notice board for any updates.
Report exam conflicts (within this college) ASAP.
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(Final 40%, Mid-term 30%
Quizzes 10%, Labs and Homeworks 10%, Final Assignment 10%)
Thursday April 14th: final marks
mailed to students
Monday
25th April 2005 - Summer 2005 Semester Classes Begin
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