CS 120 - Computer Science I / Introduction to C++

Summer 2024

Syllabus

• CS 120 Syllabus (updated June 11, 2024)

Reference Material and Information

• CS 112 Notes (PDF) (~550 kb).
  Please do not print them on lab printers (your account is charged).

Grading

• See syllabus.

Lab/Programming Assignment Information

• CS 120 Labs
• Program Requirements
• Source File organization
• Some general coding information
• Programming assignments Assignments, data files, etc.

Sample Programs

Click on label to see some sample programs. June 21, 2011

Other CS 120 sections at UI

• CS 120

What comes after CS 120?

• Bruce Bolden's CS 121 class

Introductory Programming Classes at Other Institutions

Many of these links need to be updated!
• Introduction to Computing The George Washington University. Course uses Ada.

Other

• Bug of the month Problems with C++ compilers---Windows Developer's Journal.
• Problems with double/float. One of the reasons why I don't use float. No longer on line?

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C++ Books and such

• Deitel & Associates, Inc. The authors of How to Program C++. This is a great book for people with little or no programming background.
• Bjarne Stroustrup The original designer and implementor of C++. Links to his books and work.
• C++ Program Design: An Introduction to Programming and Object-Oriented Design James P. Cohoon and Jack W. Davidson. Another good introductory text with Windows.
• C++ Report A nearly monthly publication on C++.
• Bjarne Stroustrup The C++ Programming Language (3rd edition). Addison Wesley Longman, Reading, MA 1997, ISBN 0-201-88954-4.
• Tom Cargill C++ Programming Style, Addison Wesley Longman, Reading, MA 1992, ISBN 0-201-56365-7.
• Scott Meyers Effective C++ (2nd edition). Addison Wesley Longman, Reading, MA 1998, ISBN 0-201-92488-9.
• Steve Teale C++ IOStreams Handbook, Addison Wesley Longman, Reading, MA 1993, ISBN 0-201-59641-5.
• Timothy A. Budd Classic Data Structures in C++. Addison Wesley Longman, Reading, MA 1994, ISBN 0-201-50889-3.
• Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, C Programming Language, 2/e Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ 1989, ISBN 0-13-110362-8.

Useful Links

• pico tutorial for OS X Ignore the OS X portion as necessary.
• Additional information on CS 102 page.

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