Professor:

Charles S. Tritt, Ph.D.

Office:

S-355C

Phone:

277-7421 (office), 262/512-9158 (home), 277-7465 (fax)

Hours:

M 11, Tu 10, W 1, Th 11 and F 10 by appointment

Lecture:

10:00-10:50 M & Th in CC-53

Lab:

10:00-11:50 W in CC-53

Textbook:

A First Book of Visual C++, Gary J. Bronson, Brooks/Cole-Thomson Learning 2000, ISBN 0-534-95313-1

Web page:

http://www.msoe.edu/~tritt/cs150

Week

Session

Topic

1

1

Introduction to Computers and Programming (Chap 1)

Lab

Laptop setup and network operation.

2

Introduction to C++ (Chap. 2)

2

1

Introduction to C++, continued (Chap. 3)

Lab

Creating, compiling and running your first program.

2

Introduction to C++, continued (Handouts). Quiz 1.

3

1

Program Development including problem definition, algorithm development and program documentation (Handouts).

Lab

Program Development, continued.

2

Selection Structures (Chap 4). Quiz 2.

4

1

Selection Structures, continued.

Lab

Creating algorithms and using selection.

2

Repetition Structures (Chap. 5). Quiz 3.

5

1

Repetition Structures, continued.

Lab

Using repetition.

2

Functions (Chap. 6). Quiz 4.

6

1

Functions, continued.

Lab

Using functions.

2

Visual Programming (Chap. 7). Quiz 5.

7

1

Visual Programming, continued.

Lab

Creating a Visual Program

2

File I/O (Chap. 8). Quiz 6.

8

1

File I/O, continued.

Lab

Using File I/O.

2

Arrays and Vectors (Chap. 12). Quiz 7.

9

1

Arrays and Vectors, continued.

Lab

Using Arrays and Vectors

2

More about Strings (Chap. 14?). Quiz 8.

10

1

More about Strings, continued.

Lab

Open Lab

2

Miscellaneous Topics (string streams, random access files and the enum type as time permits) and Review.

Quizzes

40% (about 5% each)

Programs

30% (about 6% each)

Final

30%