This course syllabus provides a general plan for the course;
deviations may be necessary.

Instructor: Dr. Michael Weeks
Computer Science Department
Office: 25 Park Place, room 754
Office Hours: Office Hours: by appointment. I am usually in the office from 1-2 Mondays and Wednesdays.
Department Phone: (404) 413-5700 (does not do texts)

Put the course number (3320) in the subject line to make sure
that your e-mail does not get classified as spam. Do not expect an answer.
If it is important and/or urgent, come see me duing office hours.
Web page: http://hallertau.cs.gsu.edu/~mweeks/csc3320/

Teaching Assistants:

Name	e-mail	Office hours
Tyree McCloud (all sections)	tmccloud6 @ student.gsu.edu	MW 10-12, webex
Yaswanth Suram (all sections)	ssuram3 @ gsu.edu	Mondays and Wednesdays 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, webex
Keerthi Kalluri (Labs)	kkalluri1 @ student.gsu.edu	Mondays : 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, and Tuesdays : 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM, webex

Pre-requisites

Catalog Description

Course Objectives

Topics

• The terminal window, vi editor, man pages, and using gcc/g++
• Introducing C
• C Fundamentals (variables, comments, simple program)
• Formatted Input/Output (printf, scanf) plus security issues with these
• Expressions (arithmetic, assignment, inc/dec)
• Selection Statements (if, switch)
• Loops (while, do, for, break, continue)
• Basic Types (int, float, char, conversions)
• Arrays
• Functions
• Program Organization (local, external variables, scope)
• Pointers
• Pointers and Arrays
• Strings
• The Preprocessor
• The Standard Library
• Input/Output
• Systems Programming
• Low-level I/O

Texts

Final Exam

Grading

• 3320 Students
• Tests (2) will constitute 30% of the course grade.
• Any pop-quizzes will be factored into the above.
• Assignments (about 4 or 5) will constitute 15% of the course grade.
• Labs (about 14) will constitute 25% of the course grade.
• Participation will constitute 10% of the course grade. This may include assignments such as the TA checking your notes, answering in-class polls/questions, leaving feedback for others, and attendance.
• The final exam will constitute 20% of the course grade.

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate knowledge of ssh and sftp to connect and transfer files
• use a Unix/Linux computer, especially shell commands
• apply C programming to solve problems
• demonstrate knowledge about pipe, fork, exec, and other process mechanisms such as wait and exit
• apply structs to access directory contents and/or process data, especially "struct dirent", "struct stat", and "struct task_struct" (Linux) / "struct proc" (BSD, Linux)