Time and Location

Lectures: Monday, Wednesday at 14:30-15:40 (SNA A21)
Labs: Friday at 08:00-09:40 (Lab A), 10:00-11:40 (Lab B (SNA B242=)
Office Hours Wednesday at 09:00-10:00 (Aykut)

Reference Books

• Randal E. Bryant and David R. O’Hallaron, Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective, Third Edition, Pearson, 2016
• The C Programming Language, Kernighan and Ritchie
• Nick Parlante, Essential C, Stanford CS Library, 2003
• Nick Parlante, Julie Zelenski and others, Unix Programming Tools, Stanford CS Library, 2001
• Anish Athalye, Jon Gjengset and Jose Javier Gonzalez Ortiz, The Missing Semester of Your CS Education, MIT, 2020

Policies: All work on assignments must be done individually unless stated otherwise. You are encouraged to discuss with your classmates about the given assignments, but these discussions should be carried out in an abstract way. That is, discussions related to a particular solution to a specific problem (either in actual code or in the pseudocode) will not be tolerated.

In short, turning in someone else’s work, in whole or in part, as your own will be considered as a violation of academic integrity. Please note that the former condition also holds for the material found on the web as everything on the web has been written by someone else.

Communication

The course webpage will be updated regularly throughout the semester with lecture notes, presentations, assignments and important deadlines. All other course related communications will be carried out through Blackboard.

Pre-requisites

COMP201 is open to second-year undergraduate students. Non-COMP students should ask the course instructor for approval before the add/drop period. The prerequisites for this course is COMP 132 - Advanced Programming.

Course Requirements and Grading

Grading will be based on

• 10 9 labs (your lowest 2 scores dropped, no make-up) (28%),
• 6 programming assignments (32%) (Assignment0 2%, the others 6% each),
• Midterm exam (20%), and
• Final exam (20%)