This schedule is tentative and subject to change. Reading is in the textbook specified in the syllabus.
| Week | Date | Topic |
Reading |
| 1 | January 14 | Syllabus review, course requirements, terminology. | Ch. 1 |
| January 16 | Introduction to C++; Binary arithmetic review | Ch. 2 | |
| 2 | January 21 |
Martin Luther King Day -- No class |
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| January 23 | Using Visual Studio, the Memory Window, and the Debugger | In-class demo | |
| 3 | January 28 | Expressions and Interactivity; Making Decisions | Ch. 3, 4 |
| January 30 |
Loops and Files; Functions |
Ch. 5,6 | |
| 4 | February 4 | Arrays | Ch. 7 |
| February 6 | Arrays; Searching and Sorting Arrays | Ch. 8 | |
| 5 | February 11 |
Pointers |
Ch. 9 |
| February 13 | Pointers, continued | ||
| 6 | February 18 | Exam 1 Review (Chapters 1-9) | |
| February 20 | Exam 1 (Chapters 1-9) | ||
| 7 | February 25 | Characters, C-Strings, and the String class | Ch. 10 |
| February 27 | Structured Data | Ch. 11.1-11.10 | |
| 8 | March 4 | Structured Data, continued | |
| March 6 |
Introduction to Classes |
Ch. 13 | |
| 9 | March 11 | Introduction to Classes, continued | |
| March 13 | More About Classes | Ch. 14 | |
| 10 | March 18 | Spring Break | |
| March 20 | Spring Break | ||
| 11 | March 25 | Exam Review (Chapters 10, 11, 13, 14) | |
| March 27 | Exam 2 (Chapters 10, 11, 13, 14) In the Classroom |
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| 12 | April 1 | Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Pure Virtual Functions | Ch. 15 |
| April 3 | Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Pure Virtual Functions | ||
| 13 | April 8 | Recursion | Ch. 19 |
| April 10 | Recursion | ||
| 14 | April 15 | The Standard Template Library; Error Handling | Ch. 16 |
| April 17 | Advanced File I/O |
Ch. 12 | |
| 15 | April 22 | Advanced File I/O | |
| April 24 | Data Structures: Linked Lists | Ch. 17 | |
| 16 | April 29 | Data Structures: Stacks and Queues | Ch. 18 |
| May 1 | Exam Review | Chapters 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 | |
| May 6 | Final Exam from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM |