Weekly Schedule 20111 - OOP344
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
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)
- Create an account on this wiki, (please use your seneca email id for your wiki id)
- 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. - Create a blog (if you don't already have one)
- Add your name to the OOP344 Student List
- 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)
- 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
- write this function and blog about it:
- void Int2Str(char* num, int number);
- 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);
- Start Date: Saturday, January 29th, 2011
- Due Date : Friday, February 4th, 2011
- "Watch" all the important pages.
- Make sure you verified your email account already.
- Click on "my preferences" on top of the screen.
- Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "E-mail me when a page on my watchlist is changed".
- Save your changes and go to the pages that you wish to watch and click on "watch" on the top of the screen.
- 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
To Do
- complex bio function due on Thu Feb 17th 23:59