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1.1 Schedule and due dates

The schedule and due dates will be updated as we progress through the semester (on Canvas).
Please check back regularly for changes.

1.2 Projects

Project 1: Content/project-1.pdf
Project 2: Content/project-2.pdf

1.3 Topic outline

Slides will usually be posted before class.
The outline will be filled in with slides, readings, code, and assignments as the semester moves forward
The topic schedule may change slightly as the semester progresses.
mycode.tar.gz is a zip-like archive file.
- In Linux/Unix/Mac
  - Just click on it in your file browser of choice, and it should open an “archive manager” which can unzip it
  - At the command line, you can unpack it by executing in the directory with the file: $tar -xf mycode.tar.gz
- In Windows
  - you can open it with http://7-zip.org/

Introduction and setup
- What is this class?
- Resources, book, website
- SSH/Putty/X-forwarding (old, don’t bother)
- How to submit assignments
  - log into https://git-classes.mst.edu/
- VirtualBox pre-setup
Virtual machines
- Reading:
  - Content/VirtualMachines.html
- Assignment:
  - Pre-lab in the book
  - Post-lab 00 activity due 24 hours after the start of lab
  - From within your new virtual machine, add the answers to the following questions to a text file in your repository for the day (using the Gitlab web interface).
    - Without using a GUI:
      - What command do you type to update your software?
      - What command do you type to search for software to install?
      - What command do you type to install that software?
      - What are the version numbers of GCC, Code::Blocks, Qt-creator, Kdevelop, Kdbg, GDB, and Valgrind?
Bash basics
- Reading: Content/LinuxBash.html (first part.html)
- Assignment (download and submit using the Gitlab web interface):
  - Pre-lab 02 (from the book) due right before class starts
  - Post-lab 02 due 24 hours after the start of class:
Bash scripting
- Reading: Content/LinuxBash.html (second part.html)
- Assignment (download and submit using the Gitlab web interface):
  - Pre-lab 04 (from the book) due right before class starts
  - Post-lab 04 due 24 hours after the start of class:
Version Control
- Slides: Content/VersionControl.html
- Assignment (clone and submit using the command line Git interface only!):
  - Pre-lab 03 (from the book) due right before class starts
  - Post-lab 03 due 24 hours after the start of class:
Unix philosophy and text editors
- Reading:
  - Content/tools-for-computer-scientists.pdf Chapter 1, 9, Appendix E
  - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_text_editors#Programming_features
  - Vim
    - http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html
    - https://danielmiessler.com/study/vim/
    - https://thevaluable.dev/vim-commands-beginner/
      - Several good tutorials
    - https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchPeopleVim
    - http://vimcasts.org/
    - https://devhints.io/vim
    - https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/vim/
    - https://openvim.com/
    - https://www.vim.so/
    - https://vimmer.io/
    - https://vimtricks.com/p/category/tips-and-tricks/
    - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqoJQft5R2E
      - (echo "set -o vi" >>~/.bashrc)
  - Vis (Vim-like modal editing, but with multiple cursors, and better structural regular expressions):
    - https://github.com/martanne/vis
  - Kakoune (Vim-like modal editing, but with reversed verb-object order, and simplified normal/visual mode):
    - https://kakoune.org/
  - Helix (Vim/Vis/Kakoune inspired modal editing, with reversed verb-object order):
    - https://helix-editor.com/
- Slides: Content/01_Text_IDE.pdf
- Assignment:
  - Pre-lab 01 and 09 (from the book) due before class starts. This is the short worksheet at the end of each chapter.
  - Post-lab 01 and 09 due 24 hours after the start of class:
    - Post-lab 01 is at the end of the chapter (answer the questions in a text file and place it in the repository).
    - Post-lab 09 is in the repository and here: Content/09_IDE-assignment.pdf
    - Play several levels of https://vim-adventures.com/ and include a screenshot in your repository
    - Play https://www.shortcutfoo.com/ for vim
Build systems (GNU Make)
- Slides: Content/05-build_systems.pdf
- Reading:
  - Content/tools-for-computer-scientists.pdf Chapter 5
  - https://makefiletutorial.com/ First block of examples
  - https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/make/
  - https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html Chapter 1 and 2
  - https://swcarpentry.github.io/make-novice/
- Assignment:
  - Pre-lab 05 (from the book) due right before class starts
  - Post-lab 05 due 24 hours after the start of class:
Debuggers
- Reading:
  - Content/tools-for-computer-scientists.pdf Chapter 6, 9
- Slides: Content/06-debugging.pdf
  - Notes: this prints an array, where len is a number like 6:
    - p *array@len
  - Another frond-end to add to the list:
    - https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard/
    - https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Nemiver
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemiver
- Assignment:
  - Pre-lab 06 (from the book) due right before class starts
  - Post-lab 06 due 24 hours after the start of class:
Code checking
- Reading:
  - Content/tools-for-computer-scientists.pdf Chapter 7
- Slides: Content/07-code_checking.pdf
- Assignment:
  - Pre-lab 07 (from the book) due right before class starts
  - Post-lab 07 due 24 hours after the start of class:
Unit testing
- Reading:
  - Content/tools-for-computer-scientists.pdf Chapter 8
- Slides: Content/08-unit_testing.pdf
- Assignment:
  - Pre-lab 08 (from the book) due right before class starts
  - Post-lab 08 due 24 hours after the start of class:
Profiling
- Reading:
  - Content/tools-for-computer-scientists.pdf Chapter 10
  - https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot
- Slides: Content/10-code_profiling.pdf
- Assignment:
  - Pre-lab 10 (from the book) due right before class starts
  - Post-lab 10 due 24 hours after the start of class:
Regular expressions
- Reading:
  - Content/tools-for-computer-scientists.pdf Chapter 8
  - http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/regex
  - http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/regex/
  - http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html
  - http://www.rexegg.com/regex-quickstart.html
  - https://regex101.com/
  - https://regexcrossword.com/
  - https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html
  - https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html
  - https://www.regexone.com/ (this one is good, I suggest completing the activity)
  - https://www.regular-expressions.info/
- Slides: Content/11-regular_expressions.pdf
- Assignment:
  - Pre-lab (from the book) due right before class starts
  - Post-lab due 24 hours after the start of class:
GUI programming - Qt
- Reading:
- Slides: Content/12-GUI_programming.pdf
- Assignment:
  - Pre-lab (from the book) due right before class starts
  - Post-lab due 24 hours after the start of class:
LaTeX
- Reading:
  - Content/tools-for-computer-scientists.pdf Chapter 13
  - https://www.latex-tutorial.com/
- Slides: Content/13-latex.pdf
- Assignment:
  - Pre-lab (from the book) due right before class starts
  - Post-lab due 24 hours after the start of class:
Modern C++
- Reading:
  - Content/tools-for-computer-scientists.pdf Chapter 14
- Slides:
- Assignment:
  - Pre-lab (from the book) due right before class starts
  - Post-lab due 24 hours after the start of class: