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INFR08022 Computer Programming: Skills and Concepts (INF-1-CP)
and MUSI09001 Computer Programming for Music Technology.

People

Lecturers are Mary Cryan and Julian Bradfield.
The official Course Organiser is Ewan Klein.
The Class Rep is Simrin Wahal (s1040857).

Course Results for 2011/12

If you want to know your result for the course, check your MyEd record.

Past CP1 Papers

As CP is running for the first time, there are no past papers for the programming exam. However, as mentioned in class, many of the written problems on the exams for the previous course can provide material to practise on. The past exams for CP1 can be found here (DICE login required). Two warnings:

• Some questions may use material we didn't teach in this course.
• The solutions are not guaranteed error-free, as they were often copied to the web from draft versions instead of the final copy. If you suspect a solution is wrong, feel free to email us to have a look at it.

Tutorial solutions (Wed 14th Dec)

I have got round to putting up most of the tutorial solutions on a subpage. Click here. There are a couple more to go up, we will take care of that as soon as possible.

Mock Exam Results (Sunday 20 Nov)

Your submissions and feedback from the mock exam are now available, together with the question paper and solutions. Click here.

Sample Exam Questions (Thursday 10 Nov)

A couple of sample exam questions are available.

News (Friday 21 Oct)

• COURSEWORK OUT NOW!!! specification and files needed. due at 4pm, Friday 11th November
• C Compiler for Windows: Programming at home

Administration

• In case of illness or other Special Circumstances during the semester, please contact the Course Organiser Ewan Klein
• For any other administrative issues or questions, please email Mary Cryan (mcryan AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk).
• For feedback on the course, contact our Class Rep Simrin (or, if you prefer, one of the lecturers).

Timetable

CP/CPMT is taught in semester 1. It is taught as a combination of Lectures (2 every week), Compulsory Labs (2 hours/week from week 2 onwards), and Tutorials (1 hour/week from week 3 onwards). The first meeting is a lecture at 2pm on Monday, 19th September, meeting in Appleton Tower 2.14.

Lectures

Lectures for Autumn 2011 take place in semester 1 as follows:

• Monday 2pm-2:50pm: Appleton Tower 2.14
• Tuesday 11:10am-12: Appleton Tower 2.12

Labs

You will be assigned to one of the following labs for weeks 2-11 of semester 1:

• Monday 3pm-4:50pm: Appleton Tower lab 4.12 OR
• Thursday 10am-11:50am: Appleton Tower lab 4.12

The allocation of students to labs appears here.

Tutorials

Tutorials take place in weeks 3-10 of semester 1 (start during 4th-6th October).

The assignment of students to tutorial groups is available here on the ITO database.
The time/place for Tutorial 1 did not transfer from the database when the web page was generated: Tutorial 1 place in 3.05 AT on Wednesdays at 11.10.

Descartes Package

Some of the practical work involves a very simple graphics package we call descartes. You will need to download the following files to your practical directory:

• The header file descartes.h
• The compiled object file descartes.o

You can also download a short test program square.c, which you can compile with the command gcc -Wall square.c descartes.o -lSDL

Note: If you are doing the practicals on a home machine, you will probably need a 32-bit version of descartes.o. Download descartes-32bit.o and rename it to descartes.o.

Schedule

Meeting	Day	Date	Who	Where	Title	Slides & Handouts	Code
Week 1
1.	Monday	19 Sept	Mary/Julian	AT2.14	Introduction to CP1	sl1, sl1x4
2.	Tuesday	20 Sept	Mary	AT2.12	Imperative programming and C	sl2, sl2x4
Week 2
Lab	Mon 26 or Thurs 29		Julian+/Mary+	AT4.12	Intro to the DICE Environment	lab1.pdf, unix.pdf, emacs.pdf
3.	Monday	26 Sept	Mary	AT2.14	Variables and ints	sl3, sl3x4
4.	Tuesday	27 Sept	Mary	AT2.12	Arithmetic operations, int, float, double	sl4, sl4x4	quadratic.c
Week 3
Tutorial	Wed 5 or Thurs 6		Tutor		week 3 sheet	tutwk3.pdf
Lab	Mon 3 or Thurs 6		Julian+/Mary+	AT4.12	Simple arithmetic problems	lab2.pdf
5.	Monday	3 Oct	Julian	AT2.14	arithmetic, if-statement (cont.)	sl5, sl5x4
6.	Tuesday	4 Oct	Julian	AT2.12	iteration: for and while	sl6, sl6x4	lect6code.tar
Week 4
Tutorial	Wed 12 or Thurs 13		Tutor		week 4 sheet	tutwk4.pdf
Lab	Mon 10 or Thurs 13		Julian+/Mary+	AT4.12	Programming with iteration	lab3.pdf
7.	Monday	10 Oct	Mary	AT2.14	Functions	sl7, sl7x4
8.	Tuesday	11 Oct	Mary	AT2.12	Functions 2	sl8, sl8x4, pics: 1, 2, 3, 4
Week 5
Tutorial	Wed 19 or Thurs 20		Tutor		week 5 sheet	tutwk5.pdf
Lab	Mon 17 or Thurs 20		Julian+/Mary+	AT4.12	Simple Graphics with descartes	lab4.pdf, lab4sl.pdf	lab4.tar
9.	Monday	17 Oct	Julian	AT2.14	Practical Programming	sl9, sl9x4
10.	Tuesday	18 Oct	Julian	AT2.12	scanf in detail; char type	sl10, sl10x4
Week 6
Tutorial	Wed 26 or Thurs 27		Tutor		week 6 sheet	tutwk6.pdf
Lab	Mon 24 or Thurs 27		Julian+/Mary+	AT4.12	Functions and some pointers	lab5.pdf
11.	Monday	24 Oct	Mary	AT2.14	Arrays	sl11, sl11x4
12.	Tuesday	25 Oct	Mary	AT2.12	Strings	sl12, sl12x4
Week 7
Tutorial	Wed 2 or Thurs 3		Tutor		week 7 sheet	tutwk7.pdf	bubblesort.c, tutw7a.c
Lab	Mon 31 or Thurs 3		Julian+/Mary+	AT4.12	Programming with arrays	lab6.pdf
13.	Monday	31 Oct	Julian	AT2.14	Strings, cont. (sl12); Structured Data	sl13, sl13x4
14.	Tuesday	1 Nov	Julian	AT2.12	Structured Data, cont.; enums; switch (sl13)
Week 8
Tutorial	Wed 9 or Thurs 10		Tutor		week 8 sheet	tutwk8.pdf
Lab	Mon 7 or Thurs 10		Julian+/Mary+	AT4.12	Strings and structured types	lab7.pdf
15.	Monday	7 Nov	Mary	AT2.14	Searching and sorting	sl14, sl14x4
16.	Tuesday	8 Nov	Mary	AT2.12	Recursion (including mergesort)	sl15, sl15x4	mergerec.c
Week 9
Tutorial	Wed 16 or Thurs 17		Tutor		week 9 sheet	tutwk9.pdf	bubblesort.c, mergerec.c
Lab	Mon 14 or Thurs 17		Julian+/Mary+	AT4.12	mock exam
17.	Monday	14 Nov	Julian	AT2.14	Libraries and Separate Compilation	sl16, sl16x4
18.	Tuesday	15 Nov	Julian	AT2.12	Files in C	sl17, sl17x4
Week 10
Lab	Mon 21 or Thurs 24		Julian+/Mary+	AT4.12	Recursion and some File work	lab8.pdf
Tutorial	Wed 23 or Thurs 24		Tutor		Mock exam Qs; Files and Arguments	tutwk10.pdf
19.	Monday	21 Nov	Julian	AT2.14	Program Arguments; Mock exam feedback	sl18, sl18x4	arg.c
20.	Tuesday	22 Nov	Mary	AT2.12	Some past exam Questions.

Assessment

Your grade for CP will depend on two components. The first part will be a single electronically-submitted piece of coursework which will be worth 10% of your overall grade. The second is the final exam, carried out as a computer-based programming test held in the computer labs, taking place at the the end of semester 1. This final exam is worth 90% of your overall grade.

Course Text

"A Book on C: Programming in C", 4th edition; by Al Kelley and Ira Pohl.

Tutorials