Prof. F.S.Hill,Jr. (Sandy Hill) , and Prof. Aura Ganz
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts

This page started 3/7/96, last revised 2/29/2000.


The ECE122 FTP site will contain some handouts and utility files you may find helpful during the course.


This Spring's Assignments:
Project -1: to be announced shortly


Syllabus for ECE122 - C++ Programming for engineers

Class Meets: Tu.Thurs 11:15 - 12:30 in two different rooms:
Starting off: (Thurs. 3/3/00)
Sandy in Marston Hall 132
Aura in ELAB 303

Instructors:
1). Prof. F.S.Hill, Jr
e-mail: hill@ecs.umass.edu
Knowles Engineering Bldg 309b
Office hours: MWF 3:00 - 4:00 pm, Eastern time, KEB 309b

2). Prof. Aura Ganz
email: ganz@.ecs.umass.edu
Knowles Engineering Bldg 309


Teaching Assistants:
Erica Asai:          easai@pop.ecs.umass.edu      Friday 2:30-4:30, ELAB 307
Jeffrey Peden:    jpeden@student.umass.edu     Monday 11:15-1:15 am
Ilhwan Kim:        ikim@zonker.ecs.umass.edu   Wed. 8:00-9:00 am, and Wed. 10:00-11:00 am, ELAB 307.

Course Prerequisites: No previous programming experience is required. Some familiarity with using a personal computer, such as a PC or a Mac, and experience using a keyboard, mouse, and a text editor, will be helpful.

Course Goals: The course will introduce programming concepts in the context of solving real engineering problems, and students will write and exercise a number of programs that generate interesting and useful results.

At the end of the course students will be familiar with a substantial fraction of the C++ language, and will be able to create their own C++ programs in future work.

The module will use the powerful CodeWarrior C++ environment. (CodeWarrior C++ is currently on all of the PC's in ELAB, and can be purchased reasonably -see below- for those students having their own PC's.)

Outline:

Textbook(s):
C PRogrammer's Starter Kit: CD-ROM : available in the textbook annex. This CD-ROM has both the software to compile and run C++ programs, and documentation.

There is a required text now for the course: Hubbards Fundamentals of Computing with C++, a Schaums' Outline, $15.95, available at the textbook annex. (If you already have another book that introduces C++ programming you can use it instead.)

Course Requirements:


Project Assignments from last year's incarnation:
Project -1: "Getting Going"
Project+1: Counting the Days
Project 2: Character Capers.
Project 3: File Follies - (get getty.txt file on the ECE122 FTP site)
Project 0: Searching for your Roots,Project 3:  File Follies.
Sample Test #1, with Solutions

Prior Project assignments for the course (used in previous years) can be found here.

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