CS510: An Introduction to Programming Using C

Announcements

• 07 Oct 2004: The course submission page is now functional - the link is provided below.
• 01 Oct 2004: The files for the assignment exercises are now available; just follow the link below.
  The demonstrator timetable for week 2 is available, see below.
• 16 Sept 2004: The first lecture is on the Wednesday afternoon, September 22nd, of the induction week at 13:30 in lecture room 2.15.

Module description

Information about the aims and learning outcomes of the module, reading material, assessment, and the syllabus.

Locations and times

Teaching period

• 22th of September, 13:30 - 17:30.
• 27th September - 01 October: daily 09:15 - 17:30.

Venue for lectures: 2.15.

Venue for lab exercises in teaching period: 2.25a.

Venues for coursework assignments: 2.25a.

Principally you can do your assignments on any machine in any student lab in the Department, provided this does not cause interference with officially scheduled classes. You can of course do the assignments outside the Department, as long as you ensure your programs compile and run on the Department's Linux machines. The benefit of doing the assignments in the Department is that demonstrators are available to help.

Demonstrator timetable for post-coursework

Distributed Handouts

• Course notes
• Lab notes, including instructions of how to use the debugger, timetable, exercises to be completed in teaching period
• Assignments, to be distributed on 01 October.

Solutions and files for coursework

The CS510 directory on the Department's Linux PCs is
/opt/info/courses/CS510/

Files needed for the coursework exercises (will become available on 01 October)

The file ex3 is an executable which will only work on a Linux PC.

Coursework

For this course unit you are required to hand in your work electronically via the

• Coursework submission webpage.

For full time students the deadline for submitting the coursework is Monday, the 25th of October 2004, at 12:00 noon.
Unless the are extenuating circumstamces late work will be penalised as set out in the Programme Handbook (see the Section on Assessment and examinations).

For part-time students the deadline for submitting the coursework is Tuesday, 11th of January 2005. If this is a problem please let me know.

Resources

Past exam papers

C links