Course pages 2018–19

Programming in C and C++

Assessed Exercise

The submission deadline is Monday, 21 January 2019, and the viva is Thursday 24 January 2019 and Friday 25 January 2019.

Tick Exercise Materials

• Starter Pack
• Programming Exercise Guide

Installing a Virtual Machine Image

If you do not have gcc or llvm installed on your laptop, then:

1. Download a

   virtual machine image for Ubuntu Linux with gcc and llvm installed.

2. Go to the the VirtualBox website to find out how to install the VirtualBox software on your machine.

Lecture Materials

Lecture 1: Types, Variables, Expressions and Statements

• Slides

Lecture 2: Functions and the Preprocessor

• Video
• Slides
• Lab notes (PDF)
• Lab package (.tar.gz format))

Lecture 3: Pointers and Structures

• Video
• Slides
• Lab notes (PDF)
• Lab package (.tar.gz format))

Lecture 4: Tips, Tricks and the Tick

NOTE: This video contains discussion of the C tick

• Video
• Slides
• Lab notes (PDF)
• Lab package (.tar.gz format))

Lecture 5: Tooling

• Video
• Slides
• Lab notes (PDF)
• Lab package (.tar.gz format))

Lecture 6: Aliasing, Graphs, and Deallocation

• Video
• Slides
• Lab notes (PDF)
• Lab package (.tar.gz format))

Lecture 7: Reference Counting and Garbage Collection

• Video
• Slides
• Lab notes (PDF)
• Lab package (.tar.gz format))

Lecture 8: The Memory Hierarchy and Cache Optimization

• Video
• Slides
• Lab notes (PDF)
• Lab package (.tar.gz format))

Lecture 9: Debugging

• Video
• Slides
• Lab notes (PDF)
• Lab package (.tar.gz format))

Lecture 10: Undefined Behaviour

• Video
• Slides
• Lab notes (PDF)
• Lab package (.tar.gz format))

Lectures 11 and 12: C++

• Slides (alternatively 4-up or 8-up)
• Errata: slide 9: `int &pi' should be `int *pi';
  slide 24: `not this C++ initialiser syntax' should be `note ...'.