CS4 Course Schedule

Notes:

• The "week" begins on Monday.
• Labs are due at the end of the day, two days before the next lab meets. For example, Monday labs are due at the end of the day on Saturday of the following week.
• Students are strongly encouraged to read the chapter(s) in their chosen book corresponding to each topic in the schedule prior to the lecture.
  

RIT institute calendar

Week	Lab	Reading	Lecture Topic	Special Events (Note: these dates may change)
1	Lab 1 Makefiles and Compilation	Eckel: Vol 1, Ch 1-2	C++ Basics
2	Lab 2 Simple C++ Functions	Eckel: Vol 1, Ch 3, 4, 8	Structs Unions Functions Arrays Pointers References	Last day drop/add - Sun Project distributed
3	Lab 3 C++ Class Implementation	Eckel: Vol 1, Ch 5-7, 10-11	C++ Classes Constructors Destructors Conversion Arrays of Objects
4	Lab 4 More C++ Classes	Eckel: Vol 1, Ch 16 Vol 2, Ch 5-7	Generic Programming Function Templates Class Templates Template Libraries Standard Template Library (STL)	Exam 1
5	Lab 5 STL Exercise	Eckel: Vol 1, Ch 14-15	Inheritance Standard C Library Standard C++ Library	Project1-1 due
6	Lab 6 Working with Pointers and Inheritance	Eckel: Vol 1, Ch 12-13 Vol 2, Ch 2	Friends Memory Management Operator Overloading
7	Lab 7 Debugging - Working with Assertions, const and Constructors	Eckel: Vol 2, Ch 4	C++ I/O Formatting Streams stringstream File I/O	Project1-2 due
8	Lab 8 Memory Management	Eckel: Vol 2, Ch 1, 9	Exception Handling Multiple Inheritance	Exam 2 Last day to withdraw - Fri
9	Lab 9 C Strings and Exceptions	Notes	Testing	Project1-3 due
10	Lab 10 System Testing Exercise	Notes	Ethics / Review	Project1-4 due
11			Final Exams	Final Exam - TBA