ProgIntro

Programming Fundamentals

Course Code : CMC 601

Credit Hours : 4 (3,1)

Course Content

• Introduction to problem solving
• a brief review of Von-Neumann architecture
• Introduction to programming
• role of compiler and linker
• introduction to algorithms
• basic data types and variables
• input/output constructs
• arithmetic, comparison and logical operators
• conditional statements and execution flow for conditional statements
• repetitive statements and execution flow for repetitive statements
• lists and their memory organization
• multi-dimensional lists
• introduction to modular programming
• function definition and calling
• stack rolling and unrolling
• string and string operations
• pointers/references
• static and dynamic memory allocation
• File I/O operations

Reference Material

• Starting out with Python, 4th Edition, Tony Gaddis.
• Starting out with Programming Logic & Designs, 4th Edition, Tony Gaddis
• The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie
• Object Oriented Programming in C++ by Robert Lafore
• Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python: With Application to Understanding Data, 2nd Edition by Guttag, John
• Practice of Computing Using Python, 3rd Edition by William Punch & Richard Enbody
• C How to Program, 7th Edition by Paul Deitel & Harvey Deitel
• Problem Solving and Program Design in C, 7th Edition by Jeri R. Hanly & Elliot B. Koffman

Useful Online Resources

• HackerRank c language
• Stack Overflow
• Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python
• SourceForge Download link Code blocks IDE for windows