CS1141: C for Java Programmers

Assignments

Note: All assignments should be turned in via Canvas

Course Information

• Course Syllabus
• Topics and Supplemental Reading
• Lecture Schedule (Includes course notes and examples)
• (Suggested) Coding Style

Other Resources

• Linux Most linux distros either install GCC by default (eg Ubuntu) or provide it in their package manager (eg Debian). Installation (if needed) should be straight-forward.
• Mac OS X Mac users will need to install XCode if they want to use GCC. It's available free from Apple, either via the Mac Developer's Center for persons on [Snow] Leopard, or from the App Store on Lion. If you're using the App Store version, make sure to install the Command Line Tools from the preferences.
• Windows It's technically possible to run GCC on Windows, but you're on your own setting it up. It's almost certainly easier to deploy a virtual machine with a Linux installation.

• Komodo Edit - This is the text editor being used in lecture. It's free and reasonably full-featured, but you're free to use something else if you like.
• Notepad++ - Another fantastic text editor. A bit speedier than Komodo Edit, but it's Windows-only.

• Binky at Stanford - Hailed by many as "the best 3 minute video on pointers---Ever." It may help, it may not, but it's available. (There is also lots of other stuff from Stanford's CS program at the same place.)

• CK's Make Notes - An introduction to make
• GNU make page - Everything you could possibly want to know about make

• Basic commands in GDB
• Valgrind Quick Start Guide - aka "How do I start this thing, and what does it tell me?"

• Writing CPP Macros - A nicely readable introduction to C/C++ macros. Includes a good discussion of pitfalls of macros. Pay special attention to the 'decalog of a prudent macro writer' at the end of the page.
• The Function Pointer Tutorials - An introduction to using and understanding function pointers. Note that things the author refers to as 'C++' deal with classes. The C syntax will work fine in C++, too.