INSY-422    Object Oriented Design (C & C++ Programming)

Lecturer: Cameron Hayne
            email:      hayne@sympatico.ca
            web site:   http://hayne.net/McGill_C

Marker: Kevork Abadjian
            office:     McGill Continuing Studies
                        room 1083
                        688 Sherbrooke West
            telephone:  398-8218
            email:      kevork.abadjian@mcgill.ca

Course Objectives:
    This course will introduce students to the wide variety of programming
    languages available but will cover only a few of these languages. The main
    emphasis of the course will be on giving the students a working knowledge
    of the C and C++ languages. We will cover all of C and the basics of C++.
    Note: this course is more or less the same course that used to be
    offered as "Programming Languages". The title "Object Oriented Design"
    is rather misleading since the course is not about OO design at all.

Recommended Text:
    Deitel & Deitel, "C++: How to Program", 2rd edition or later

Evaluation:
    Assignments   25 %
    Midterm exam  25 %
    Final exam    50 %

    Note that there will be no makeup exam, restructuring of the evaluation
    scheme, nor any extra work given out if you miss an exam. There will be
    3 programming assignments, each of which might take 8-15 hours or more
    of work. The course schedule below lists the official due dates for the
    assignments (the day of the lecture) but they can be handed in c/o the
    marker at the Cont Ed office up until 5pm on the Friday of that week.
    Note also that this course involves a lot of work - many students find
    that they need to spend 15-20 hours on each of the 2nd & 3rd assignments.

Course Content:
    The first part of the course (approximately 8 weeks) will concentrate
    on the C language and the non-object-oriented parts of C++.  The following
    aspects of the languages will be covered in depth:
            Data types, Variables, Operators & Assignments,
            Flow of Control, Input & Output, Memory Allocation,
            Structures, Functions, Preprocessor.
    The second part of the course (approximately 5 weeks) will consist of
    an introduction to "Object-oriented programming" (with an examination
    of the main features of the object-oriented features of the C++ language)

Course Schedule:
1)  Jan  4         first lecture
2)  Jan 11         give out assignment # 1, style guide
3)  Jan 18         
4)  Jan 25         assignment # 1 due, give out assignment # 2
5)  Feb  1         
6)  Feb  8         
7)  Feb 15         midterm exam
8)  Feb 22         study week - no class
9)  Mar  1         assignment # 2 due, give out assignment # 3
10) Mar  8         
11) Mar 15         
12) Mar 22         assignment # 3 due
13) Mar 29         
14) Apr  5         last class