Programming in C
Exam
20.10.2011
16.00
A111
Harjoitukset alkavat jo ensimmäisellä luentoviikolla. Harjoitusryhmät pidetään pajassa, jossa tehtävät ratkotaan yhdessä muiden opiskelijoiden sekä ohjaajien kanssa. Ohjaajien läsnäoloajat ilmoitetaan piakkoin.
Exercises begin on the first lecture week. The schedule for exercises will be published soon.
Information for international students
The oral lectures are in Finnish, but all the course material is in English. Exercises are done in the programming workshop (ohjelmointipaja in finnish) and there instructions are given individually, and in English, if necessary.
General
The goal is to learn C so that it is possible to start to program bigger projects. The emphasis is on exercises, there are lectures only once a week (except the first week). It is assumed that everybody can program in Java language and that Data Structure course has been passed.
Completing the course
The results of the course exam have appeared. See this page. You can come to see the evaluations and to make comments on Thursday, November 17, 12-13 p.m. in room D227.
The course is passed by making exercises, programming a larger task and taking part in the exam. The maximum amount of points is 60. The programming task produces at most 10 points, exam at most 25 and exercises at most 25 points. In order to pass the course you must get at least half of the points in the exam and altogether 30 points. Exercises are of two types: ordinary exercises which are checked in the exercise sessions, and exercises which are returned by email to be checked and evaluated. The latter type of exercises produce more points than ordinary exercises.
The exercises are done in the programming workshop (paja). The main paja room is B221. If it is full, you can go to the room B121 and, if it is also full, to CK110. Inform the instructors in B221 about the situation so that they know to visit the other rooms, too.
You can make the exercises at home, but it is necessary to come to show that the solutions are really working. You can also make the exercises in the workshop and ask advice from the tutors or other students. The C tutors are present in the paja at the following times: Tue 12-15, Wed 14-19, Thu 12-18. At other times, you may get advice from other students or Java instructors. You must show the solutions of the week not later on Thursday.
Literature and material
The course is based on MIT OpenCourseWare 6.087 Practical Programming in C and on the book Tomasz Muldner: C for java programmers. The lectures follow mainly the MIT course, but examples are taken from the book. We do not necessarily follow the MIT chapters in the original order.
The other classical source is Kernigham and Ritchie: The C Programming Language. It is assumed that everybody has some kind of a good C book in his or her use.
For those who want to read Finnish slides, there are Päivi Kuuppelomäki's slides; check the course page of the last year.