c-programming

Course materials from Penn Engineering ESE116, 2007-2009

This repository contains the notes, lectures, and exercises used by Luciano Cheng for the C programming course at Penn from 2007 to 2009.

Lectures

1. Getting Started
2. C Compared to Java
3. Number Representations
4. Intro To Memory
5. Intro To Arrays
6. Malloc And Free
7. C Preprocessor
8. Pointers
9. Strings
10. Structs
11. Struct Pointers
12. Bitwise operators

Quix Study Notes

Each quiz had a "study guide" webpage that covered most of the material.

1. Quiz 1 Review: Unix basics
2. Quiz 2 Review: C functions, types, stack, and compilers
3. Quiz 3 Review: C pointers, arrays, strings
4. Quiz 4 Review: C structs, bitwise operators

Homeworks

Homeworks include provided code, solution, and programmatic tester template.

1. HW 1: Hal, the calculator
2. HW 2: Skynet
3. HW 3v1: Packet Routing
4. HW 3v2: Strings
5. HW 4: Pointers
6. HW 5: Tokenizer
7. HW 6: Weather DB
8. HW 7: Malloc

Labs

Labs include provided code and solution.

1. Lab 0: Example C Program
   • Github Source Directory
   • Original Problem Code
   • Solution
2. Lab 1, Intro to C
   • Part 1: Unix Basics
     • Lab Instructions
   • Part 2: Bowling Database
     • Lab Instructions
     • Solution
   • Part 3: Strings
     • Lab Instructions
3. Lab 2: Pointers
   • Lab Instructions
4. Lab 3: Lego Mindstorms
   • Lab Instructions

C Tester

The C Tester is a program used to test C homework solutions. It compiles the homework assignment, creates a fork, then monitors the fork's output.

TODO

• Convert the Flash Pointers SWF to a GIF or a more portable format
• Break out C tester into it's own repository.
• Fix links in the lab / homework descriptions
• Find strings.c for Lab 1 String Exercise
• Find instructions for the Weather Database assignment (Part 2)
• Link to homework solutions in github.