UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ
                 Department of Computer Science
                                
             CMPS 12A: Introduction to C Programming
                           Winter 1998
                                
Instructor:     Jehan-François Pâris
E-mail          paris@cse.ucsc.edu (best way to reach me fast)
Address:
Office:         AS 153A
Telephone:      459-4913
Office Hours:   TTh  10:00-10:45 a.m. & T 12:00-12:30  p.m.
                (no office hours on 2/3 & 2/17)
WWW Home Page:  http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~paris
Teaching        Brian Mealy (bmealy@cats.ucsc.edu)
Assistants:       TTh 10:00-11:50 a.m., 12:00-1:50 p.m. & 5:00-
                  5:50 p.m.(all in Ming Ong)
                Sezer Goren (goren@cats.ucsc.edu)
                  MW 9:00-10:50 a.m. (Social Sciences I)
                  MW 2:00-3:50 a.m. & 4:00-5:50 p.m. ( both in
                  Ming Ong)
Tutors/Graders  Amy Presswood (amy@cats.ucsc.edu)
:

REQUIRED TEXT

A.  Kelley  and  I  Pohl, C by Dissection: The  Essentials  of  C
Programming, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley.

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE
Week   Topics                                     Optional
                                                  Readings
1      Introduction. Writing simple programs.     Ch. 1
2-3    Lexical  elements of C.  Quiz on  January  Ch. 2
       22.
4      Flow of control                            Ch. 3
5-6    Quiz   on  February  5.   Functions   and  Ch. 4
       structured programming.
7      Quiz   on   February  19.    Data   types  Ch. 5 and 6
       revisited.
8      Pointers and Arrays                        Ch. 9
9      Quiz on March 5.  Pointers and strings.    Ch. 10
10     Pointers and structures                    Ch. 11
       Last office hours on  March 20 4:00-5:30 p.m. and    
       March 23 2:00-3:30 p.m.
       Final on Monday March 23 at 4:00 p.m.

GRADING

There will be four quizzes (50% of your grade), one final  (25%)
and five to eight assignments (25%).  Late assignments  will  be
assessed a penalty of 5 points per day unless announced
otherwise.

All  tests will be closed book.  You will be allowed one 8.5"×11"
two-sided sheet of notes for each test.

IMPORTANT

(1)  All programming assignments will be on Unix.

(2)  Please contact me if you have any special need.  We  will
     work together around them.

(3)  One or at most two lectures might have to be rescheduled due
     to scheduling conflicts.

(4)  Do not forget to read from time to time the class newsgroup,
     ucsc.class.cmps012a.

(5)  No cheating will be tolerated on any graded assignment:  You
     can discuss your assignments with your classmates and help
     each other finding your programming mistakes but what you
     turn in must be your own work.  All instances of suspected
     cheating will be reported to the Provost of the perpetrator’s
     college.  All cheaters will fail the class.

(6)  People failing the assignments OR the exams will fail the
     course.