This repository contains the recitation notes for Columbia's Advanced Programming class, COMSW3157, as taught by Jae Woo Lee. For more information about the class, visit the course homepage.
These recitations are held weekly by the various TAs, generally using these notes as the basis for their sections. Issues, patches, and comments, especially by current and former students, are welcome.
Contents:
- Recitation Note A: Introduction to UNIX, compile your first C program. Be sure to have a CLIC account from CRF before the recitation.
- Recitation Note B: Makefiles.
- You may find the sample-Makefile a useful reference.
- Recitation Note C: Configuring and using Git for version control and file tracking.
- Recitation Note D: C Basics: data types, bitwise, complex expressions and statements.
- Recitation Note E: Parts of memory, pointers, and arrays.
(i.e. malloc).
- See also the very useful code directory,
especially
pointerfun.cand its outputpointerfun-outputfor some interesting experiments with pointers and memory addresses.
- See also the very useful code directory,
especially
- Recitation Note F: Function pointers. Basic File input/output.
- Recitation Note G: Structs, Unions, Const, C strings.
- Recitation Note H: Linked lists and similar data structures.
- Recitation Note I Using GDB and valgrind for debugging.
- Recitation Note J: The UNIX stack. Users, permissions, file
attributes. Processes, forking, and signals. TCP/IP and netcat basics.
- See also
jsh, the Jae shell, in the code directory for a fun example of forking.
- See also
- Recitation Note K:
size_t. File IO, including reading, writing, and seeking in files. - Recitation Note L: TCP/IP stack information.
- Recitation Note M: C++ intro. Classes and structs. Stack vs heap allocation in C++. The basic 4. Implicit conversion and operator overloading.
- Recitation Note N: C++ generics, templates, containers, metaprogramming.
- Recitation Note O: Smart pointer explanation.
Additionally you can read the Midterm Review to prepare for the midterm.