CS2141: Software Development Using C/C++

Assignments

Program 1 is now available. One possible implementation is available here.

Program 2 is now available. One implementation is available here.

(Take Home) Quiz 2 is now available

Program 3 is now available. One implementation is available here.

The Term Project is now available.

Program 4 is now available.

Course Materials

• Course Information
• Schedule (Includes course notes and examples)
• Coding Style

Other Resources

• 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.)
• C++ Reference - A guide to everything in the language
• C/C++ Programming - A website with tutorials for C/C++
• C++ FAQ - Guidance and instruction for advanced C++ work

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

• Subversion - a Quick Tutorial - Brief blog post covering getting started with Subversion.
• Subversion Quick Reference Card - A PDF of a 2-page Subversion quick reference card.
• Version Control with Subversion - Official manual of all things Subversion.

• Offical Qt Reference Documentation - Everything you might want to know about Qt.
• Trolltech's Qt Tutorial - Has many nice examples.
• Qt Class List - List of every class in Qt
• Qt Examples - Examples of many of Qt's features and functions
• The Independent Qt Tutorial - May be a touch dated

• Allegro library homepage - The central location for Allegro source code, documentation, etc. Provides links to all sorts of samples, tutorials, and the like.
• Allegro manual - Complete reference manual for Allegro. Available from the Allegro homepage (above), linked here for convenience
• Allegro Newbie Tutorial - Very nice, recent Allegro tutorial. Covers just about everything you need to know to put together a simple game.
• Allegro Vivace - Reasonably accesible Allegro tutorial. Rather dated (last update appears to be in '99), but still a good starting point. Note that the tutorial covers an older version of Allegro (4.0, rather than 4.4), and coverage of hardware-related issues is limited to '99-class machines.

• SQLite In 5 Minutes Or Less - A Quickstart guide to SQLite. Plays rather fast and loose with the details, but gives a starting point.
• Intro To The SQLite C/C++ Interface - More information on how SQLite works, with a focus on broad concepts rather than details of function calls.
• C/C++ API Reference - Detailed reference data on the nuts and bolts of SQLite
• Manual page for the sqlite3 command line utility - including everything you need to know to run the program. Technically specific to Mac OS 10.6, but should be correct for the lab machines.
• W3C Introduction to SQL - A reasonable tutorial on the SQL language. Somewhat focused on web-related applications, but should be generally accessible.
• Step-by-step guides to using databases - The section on database design from scratch is handy, and provided the basis for the database design example in class.
• SQL Tutorial - Another SQL tutorial. Provides many examples to help clarify how SQL works.
• QtSql Module Documentation - Official documentation for Qt's SQL module. Includes basically everything you need to set up a link between SQL and Qt, though it is set up as an API reference
• Information about the Qt SQL examples - Qt includes a bunch of demos with its development files. This page gives information about the ones related to the SQL interface. Note that some of the examples are well explained and others are rather spotty.

• NCURSES Programming HOWTO - A good introduction to the use of the NCURSES library
• NCURSES manual page - A copy of the authoritative, if not sample rich, manual on NCURSES

• Uml resouce page
• UML Programs
  • dia - Just type 'dia' on command line, or in KDE go to KMenu->Office->Dia Diagrams
  • Umbrello - Type 'umbrello' on the command line, or in KDE go to KMenu->Programming->Umbrello

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

• Serial Programming Guide for POSIX Operating System - Guide to accessing serial ports from C/C++
• Linux Tutorial: POSIX Threads - Overview of multithreading on Linux using C
• 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 an understanding function pointers. Note that things the author refers to as 'C++' deal with classes. The C syntax will work fine in C++, too.