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CS 110 Fundamentals of Computer Programming

This document provides an introduction and overview for a CS110 Fundamentals of Computer Programming course that uses the C programming language. It outlines administrative details like the instructor, class/lab times, communication methods, and honor code. It also describes the assessments, assignments, quizzes, projects, and grading breakdown. Tips are provided for success like attending lectures, utilizing resources, and asking questions. The reasons for studying C and an example of a simple "Hello World" program are also included to introduce programming concepts.

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CS 110 Fundamentals of Computer Programming

This document provides an introduction and overview for a CS110 Fundamentals of Computer Programming course that uses the C programming language. It outlines administrative details like the instructor, class/lab times, communication methods, and honor code. It also describes the assessments, assignments, quizzes, projects, and grading breakdown. Tips are provided for success like attending lectures, utilizing resources, and asking questions. The reasons for studying C and an example of a simple "Hello World" program are also included to introduce programming concepts.

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Introduction

CS 110 Fundamentals of Computer Programming

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Administrative

Instructor: Sana Khalique

Office
Room 205-A Faculty Block

Class meets.
Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays

Labs
Wednesdays
Communication

All lecture notes on

lms.nust.edu.pk

Email:
[email protected]

Office hours:
Tuesday 12:00pm or by appointment
Assignments

There will be 3-4 assignments

Related to the topics being studied in course

Carry decent weight. (10 % of your total grade)


Deadlines

C-based computer assignments


soft copy only upload to LMS (we will run your program)

NO credit on LATE submission of any deliverable.

Sorry! No Exceptions
Quiz

Announced
Unannounced

No best-of quizzes
All quizzes are counted towards the final result
Lab Work
Involves implementation of topics covered in class

Each lab will comprise of a lab exercise to be submitted during


the same lab time (3 Hrs.)

Lab assignments will be graded and submitted individually


Project: C Language

Grading will be done based upon


Demo
Viva

Group of 3 to 4 students

Original and creative


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General information

Assessment.
1 Theory (75%).
3-4 Assignments (10%).
5-6 Quizzes (15%).
2 OHTs (30%).
ESE (45%).

2 Practical (25%).
12-13 Lab assignments (70%).
Semester project (30%).

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Honor Code

Dishonesty will NOT be tolerated.


Plagiarism.
If our system found your code is plagiarized, then you are at
risk: Zero in all assignments.
Referral to the disciplinarycommittee.
Feel free to discuss assignments with each other, but coding
must be done individually, or within group.
Introduction

We will be studying a programming language called C.

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Source Material

No required textbook. A few of the many good ones:


1 Paul J . Deitel and Harvey M. Deitel, C: How to Program,
Prentice Hall, 2010.
2 Code Complete (2nd Ed.) by Steve McConnell, 2004.
3 The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) by Donald E.
Knuth, 1968.
4 The C Programming Language (2nd Ed.) by Kernighan and
Ritchie, 1988
5 Web is the best and greenest “textbook”

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Skills You’ll Learn

1 Become a better programmer


2 Sharpen your mathematical and analytical skills
3 Start “thinking algorithmically”
4 Ace your technical interviews

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Fields of computer science

Some examples.
Graphics
Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Machine Learning
Data Mining
Data Analytics
Natural Language Processing
User Interfaces
...

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Take this course if you...

like solving tricky problems


like building things
are curious about how Facebook, Google, etc work
have never written a computer program before

CS110 is a good predictor of who will enjoy and succeed in CS

think "computers and robots are going to take over the world. I
want to befriend them so that my life will be spared."

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Tips for success

Come to lecture!
Visit course website on LMS.
Utilize the resources we provide you.
Come visit me in Office Hours!
Remember: assignments must be your own work!
Keep up with the assignments

"The wayto learn to program is b y programming"


Nat ha n Myhrvold

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Socrastic thinking!

If you don’t understand something, ask questions (especially “WHY?”).


There’s no such thing a s a dumb question.
Computers are neither magical nor mysterious. Everything can be
explained!

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Source Material

No specific development environment required.


IDEs.
MS Visual Studio (Windows), Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers
(Windows/Linux), gGrasp Editing.
Notepad++ (Windows), gedit (Linux)
Cygwinwith Notepad++.

Preferred tool used for lab assignments is MS Visual


Studio, other tools for home assignments are also
acceptable.

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Why C?

General-purpose programming language designed by Dennis Ritchie


between 1969 and 1973 at AT&T Bell Labs.
imperative (procedural) language

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, developers of the C programming


language. (wikipedia)

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What is programming?

Some definitions.

Program. A set of instructions to be carried out by a computer.

Programming language. A systematic set of rules used to


describe computations in a format that is editable by humans.
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Why C?

C is designed,
to be compiled using a relatively straightforward compiler,
to provide low-level access to memory,
to encourage cross-platformprogramming
relatively simple
facilitates structured programming
platform independent (Linux, Mac, Windows. . . )
widely used

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Running a program

Steps.
1 Write it.
code or source code. The set of instructions in a program.
2 Compile it.
compile. Translate a program from one lan gu age to another.
3 Run (execute) it.
output. The messages printed to the user by a program.

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Your first Cprogram!

1 #include <stdio.h>
2
3 i n t main()
4 {
5 p r int f(" H ello world ! \n" ) ;
6 return 0;
7 }
8

Q. What does this code output (print to the user) when you run
(execute) it?

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