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CP 107 Lecture 1
The purpose of lecture notes is to outline what the instructor intends to teach. It also gives the student any reading assignments and pre lab exercises that they have to do in preparation for the lab. The material covered in the lecture and assignments given in lecture notes should help to prepare the student for the lab assignment.
For students who intend to use NHTI computers for the labs, all software will be installed and computers will be ready to use for the labs.
For students who wish to work on assignments using their own Personal Computer, a copy of Microsoft Visual C++ compiler is included with the text. The compiler must be installed before you can do the lab assignment.
If wish, you can download the Microsoft VC++ .NET 2005 Express Edition compiler (free for one year) from
Lecture 1
We will cover chapter 1 "Introduction to Computers and C++ Programming".
Objectives
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History of computers. |
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Understand what we mean by computer hardware and computer software. |
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Understand what is a computer program. |
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An introduction to C++ programming language. |
| To understand C++ language's basic built in data types |
| To understand constants and variables |
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Able to use Microsoft Visual C++ 6 compiler. |
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Verify that your working environment works for you. |
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To be able to write a very simple computer program in C++. |
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To be able to use simple input and output statements. |
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To become familiar with fundamental data types. |
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Understand Variables and Constants. |
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Use computer to do simple math problems. |
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Try out compiler's debugging tools |
Course Material
Lecture 1 Slide The slides were made using a different textbook, but I still plan to use them for this class.
Assignments for next week
Read Chapter 2, sections
2.1 & 2.2.
My slides on Numbering Systems,
Appendix 3 (Page 899 of Savitch text) "The ASCII Character Set"
Lab assignment 1 is due the next week
Lab Objectives
Able to use Microsoft Visual C++ 6, set up your programming environment
Compile and run a few sample programs
Edit source code, recompile and test
Learn how to use Microsoft Visual C++ 6 debugging tools
The source code for the examples in the textbook can be downloaded. Instructions are in the textbook.
You can investigate on the web a tool called Winzip by doing a web search and reading some of the info on it. It is the student's responsibility to read and adhere to the licensing agreement(s) whatever they may be. Winzip will "unzip" and "zip" collections of files in order to save space. If a file is downloaded from the web and it is zipped, (has .ZIP as the file extension), using winzip will extract the compressed files into files that can be normally accessed.
On systems with Windows XP, you can do without winzip utility.