Weekly Schedule 20111 - OOP344

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OOP344 -- Weekly Schedule 2011/1 (Winter Semester)

Week 1 - Jan 9

This Week

• Introduction to Open Source development.
• Collaboration Tools:
  • Wiki
  • Blog
  • IRC
  • Code Repository

    SVN rules for semester

To Do

Due date: January 15th , 23:59 (11:59pm)

Form a team of 3 to 5 students and select a name for your team. (members can be from both sections of oop344)

1. Create an account on this wiki, (please use your seneca email id for your wiki id)
2. Join the IRC by registering your nickname on freenode server and joining the #seneca-oop344 channel for 344 related dialog
   Additional channels of interest: #seneca to interact with all Seneca students participating in opensource projects, and #seneca-social for Social (off-topic) dialog.
3. Create a blog (if you don't already have one)
4. Add your name to the OOP344 Student List
5. Download SVN and check out the OOP344 repo(svn://zenit.senecac.on.ca/oop344) to get the notes done in class (userid: "oop344", no password)
6. Create you team page using provided template

Resources

• TortoiseSVN download page for windows
• A quick tutorial for SVN: Source Control in Ten Minutes
• create console application projects in Visual Studio
• IRC account and login (in Windows)
• RabbitVCS - Linux alternative to TortoiseSVN
• Compare IRC clients
• How To edit Wiki pages
• How To edit Wiki Cheatsheet
• Free Xchat for windows
• Colloquy an IRC Client for Mac
• RapidSVN a SVN Client for Mac

Week 2 - Jan 16

This Week

• Finalizing team members
• 144/244 review and more
  • Basic Data Types
  • Addresses and Pointers
• Preprocessor Directives
• Console IO
  • ncurses (Linux)
  • curses (Mac/AIX)
  • conio/windows.h (Windows)
  • conio.h (Borland?)
• Prj 0.1 startup

  IO lib (BIO)

To Do

Due date: January 24nd , 23:59 (11:59pm)

• Finalize your teams and indicate it on the team page.
• Verify and Correct your team name in the Teams' List page, following the format indicated.

Resources

• Practical Programming Techniques Using C++

  Preprocessor Directives page 3

  Basic Data Types Page 21

  Addresses and Pointers Page 28

  Direct Terminal IO page 12

Week 3 - Jan 23

This Week

• C review
• BIO (continued)
• Using SVN Repository

To Do

• 0.1 Release is due on Wed Feb 2nd , 23:59

  Development and submission steps using SVN - OOP344 20111

• write this function and blog about it:

  void Int2Str(char* num, int number);

  Solution by user:aali83

  SOLUTION by user:wliang11

  Alternate Solution by user:ajbruno

  Different Approach by Bhrugesh

  Int2Str by User:sahill1

• Another challenge for OOP344 Students, code the definition of this function in one line and blog about it:

  void bio_display(const char* str, int row, int col, unsigned int len);

  bio_display by user:lbozianu

• • Start Date: Saturday, January 29th, 2011

    Due Date  : Friday, February 4th, 2011

• "Watch" all the important pages.

1. Make sure you verified your email account already.
2. Click on "my preferences" on top of the screen.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "E-mail me when a page on my watchlist is changed".
4. Save your changes and go to the pages that you wish to watch and click on "watch" on the top of the screen.
5. Strongly suggest to watch: the current page, Project 20111 - OOP344, and OOP344 Student Resources

Resources

• Practical Programming Techniques Using C++

  page 17, Direct IO stuff!!!

  CC Linux Platform Virtual Key Code

  CC MAC Platform Virtual Key Code (external site) Just get out Windows Calculator in programmer mode to do the Hex to Dec conversions.

  Virtual Key Code for Mac, Linux and Windows

Week 4 - Jan 30

This Week

• Pointers, Arithmetic
• Arrays, (Multi-dimensional)
• BIO complex functions (continued)
• Generic pointers (void pointers)

To Do

• complete R0.1 if not done already
• re-evaluate your team (see who is in and who is not)
• complex bio function due on Thu Feb 17th 23:59

Resources

• Practical programming techniques in C++

  Multi-Dim Arrays 26

  Addresses and pointer 28

  Pointer arithmetic 29

• Helper image for bio_edit

Week 5 - Feb 6

This Week

• Pointers to functions
• typedef
• struct, enum, union
• variable argument list
• real syntax of main

To Do

• complex bio function due on Thu Feb 17th 23:59

Resources

• Practical Programming Techniques Using C++

  pointer to functions page 35

  Creating custom datatype names (typedef) page 41

  struct, union, enum page 37

  real syntax of main 58

  variable argument list 61

Week 6 - Feb 13

This Week

• Friday class will be on IRC, freenode.net server, #seneca-oop344 Channel from 9:30 to 11:30
• declaration modifiers

  static, const, register....

• control flow,
• recursive algorithms
• moving to cpp
  • default parameters
  • namespaces

To Do

• complex bio function due on Thu Feb 17th 23:59

Resources

• File Copy Function by user:asotoude

Week 7 - Feb 20

This Week

• Dynamic memory allocation review
• forward declaration
• linked lists
• R0.7 will be out

To Do

• Reorganize your teams

  re-group if needed

  layoff those who are inactive

• Add buffering to bio basic function from Fardad's code

Week 8 - Feb 27 (Study break)

This Week

• R0.4 due end of the week

  mock-up (hollow) classes and more

To Do

• Reorganize your teams

  re-group if needed

  layoff those who are inactive

Week 9 - Mar 6

This Week

• Project review
• Midterm test on Fri, March 11th

Week 10 - Mar 13

This week

• Streams
• binary operations

To Do

• R0.3 and R0.35 due
• Team Regrouping Email
• Write this function and blog about it

void SetBitPattern(unsigned int& V, const char* pattern, int startBitIndex);
SetBitPattern(I, "01101111", 4);
// Startingf from bit 4 it will set the bits of I to the incoming pattern

Resources

• Binary pattern replacement by Bhrugesh