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C

Java

C++

Current Enrollment (Sep 5)

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Current Announcements NEW I have posted the audio track of my third makeup class on the syllabus. NEW I have placed the teaching evaluation forms in your mailboxes in Harrelson 243. Please return the completed forms to Jack Perry by December 7, 17h00. Jack will then place the forms in the boxes provided by the department. The cgi server for testing has been changed. Please replace http://www.math.ncsu.edu/cgi-test/ by http://webbench.ncsu.edu/math-bin/

Old Announcements

• Students with disabilities should schedule an appointment with me to discuss academic accommodations.
• This course is intended for graduate students in mathematics. Programming languages that are useful to mathematicians are introduced. The course will cover the three computing languages C, Java, and C++, each of which will be allocated one third of the semester. As homeworks, small programs will be written by the students to practice the learned concepts. (There are no examinations, and the programs are the sole parameter used to determine the course grade.) Modern program development techniques will be explained. An emphasis is put on program reuse (from existing libraries, for example) and on creating "glue" between existing applications like web browsers and math systems.
  
  In Fall 1998 and Fall 1999, a similar course was given. This time, I intend to make the course a bit less advanced, so that students with limited programming experience can benefit from it. The topics are listed in last year's syllabus.
• Solicited testimonial by Grace Cho about last semester's course.
• I will have office hours tomorrow, Friday Sep 22, from 15h00-16h30.
• I have revised the abstract stack interface so that push, pop, is_empty get a pointer to a stack, not a void*. The new code is in CExamples/OO_pgm_in_C_new.
• Wallis's factorization of pi (link courtesy Jordan Massad).
• public vs. nothing in account.java: The class account is declared public, meaning that it is visible everywhere. Remember that class names and file names have to agree. If the class account were a non-public class you may have it in a package (which corresponds to a directory name) so that other classes in other files but in the same package could us it (see directory Account for this usage). The method deposit has no visibility modifier which implies package visibility: visible only to methods inside account and to classes within the given package. Now account belongs to the default package, as does test_acc, so the method can be used in main. By the same argument, the class itself did not need to be declared public.
     This is bad as the first example. All methods should have been declared public, and balance private.
• I will be away on Oct 19, Nov 28, 30, and Dec 5, 7. These 5 classes will be made up before Thanksgiving. Please send me email when a good time during the week for make-up classes is for you.
• I will hold additional office hours on Wed, Oct 11, from 16h00-17h00.
• The second C project has been extended and is now due on Fri, Oct 20, at 23h59.
• No class on Thursday, Oct 19, 2000 (I am at a cryptography workshop in Berkeley).
• The makeup class is meeting today, Mon Oct 23, from 16h00-18h00 in Harrelson 201.
• C project 2 is posted. See README.html first.
• The second makeup class is meeting today, Mon Oct 30, from 16h00-18h00 in Harrelson 201.
• Before Tuesday's (Nov 7) class please review the 2 makeup classes. The scanned-in transparencies and the audiotrack for the second makeup class are now accessible from the syllabus.
• There will be no makeup class on Mon, Nov 6. The last makeup class is scheduled on Mon, Nov 13, 16h00-18h00.
• The Java project link is working now. It points to the description from last year.
• Makeup class today, Mon, Nov 13, 16h-18h, HA 201.
• The Java project deadline is extended until Sunday, Nov 12, 23h59.
• Due to late posting, the makeup class was too sparsely attended and therefore postponed to next Monday, Nov 20, 16h-18h00, HA 201.
• The makeup classes will be scheduled either Mondays or Fridays, 16h00-18h00. Please let me know if one of those days is bad for you. The first makeup class is Mon, Oct 23, 16h00-18h00.