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When	Lecture	Due this Week	Reading
Week 1 Aug 23–27, 2021	Syllabus Discuss HW0 How to flunk Introduction How I compile Basic syntax Java/C++ traps Order of evaluation Pet peeves Not fully specified behavior Variable scope Bit manipulation	Quiz 01 due 10:00:00ᴘᴍ MT Saturday 24-hour late period with penalty Commands Lab due 10:00:00ᴘᴍ MT Saturday 24-hour late period with penalty	All reading is from Weiss Ch. 0: Introduction Ch. 1: Basic Types & Control Structures Do the optional reading before class for the week.
Week 2 Aug 30 – Sep 3, 2021	Assignments build Discuss HW1 Intro to I/O streams Vector Strings const & constexpr using namespace std; Header files Functions Casting Delivery Memory segments	Quiz 02 due 10:00:00ᴘᴍ MT Saturday 24-hour late period with penalty HW0 due 10:00:00ᴘᴍ MT Saturday 24-hour late period with penalty Bash Lab due 10:00:00ᴘᴍ MT Saturday 24-hour late period with penalty	Ch. 2: Functions, Arrays, Strings, Param. Passing
Week 3 Sep 6–10, 2021	No class on Monday, Labor Day Dynamic memory Pointers & references pointers/references and addresses Memory leaks Container sizes Heckendorn’s Law Local static variables Limits	Quiz 03 HW1 STL Lab	Ch. 3: Pointers, References, new & delete Section 11.5: Cmd-Line Arguments
Week 4 Sep 13–17, 2021	Discuss HW2 struct and class Complex class example Inlining Constructors Attributes	Quiz 04 Make Lab	Ch. 4: Classes
Week 5 Sep 20–24, 2021	Keep it DRY Operator functions (example) C++ is extensible, not mutable Arguments * No lecture Friday—take the midterm	Quiz 05 First midterm Friday HW2 Linked list Lab	Ch. 5: Operator Overloading
Week 6 Sep 27 – Oct 1, 2021	Discuss HW3 Inheritance vs composition Access Default methods (example) (example) Slicing Stringstreams Increment/decrement methods (example) Virtual functions (example) Divide and conquer Polymorphism (example) Factory method example dynamic_cast (example) Include guards Separate compilation Namespace pollution	Quiz 06 Debugging Lab	Ch. 6: Inheritance
Week 7 Oct 4–8, 2021	Unicode Multiple inheritance Reflection Programming paradigms (examples)	Quiz 07 HW3 Valgrind Lab
Week 8 Oct 11–15, 2021	Discuss HW4 Old-fashioned error handling Exceptions Smart pointers Namespaces Symbol ambiguity	Quiz 08 Coverage Lab	Ch. 8: Abnormal Control Flow
Week 9 Oct 18–22, 2021	I/O I/O manipulators (example) ios state flags Implicit inclusion	Quiz 09 HW4 new Lab	Ch. 9: Input & Output
Week 10 Oct 25–29, 2021	Discuss HW5 Rule of three (example) Self-assignment Interpreting syntax errors RAII (example) Mixins (example) * No lecture Friday—take the midterm	Quiz 10 Second midterm Friday I/O Lab
Week 11 Nov 1–5, 2021	Templates Duck typing STL containers Iterators	Quiz 11 HW5 Template Lab	Ch. 7: Templates
Week 12 Nov 8–12, 2021	Discuss HW6 Template implementation pair and tuple Lambda functions Functors Algorithms	Quiz 12 Iterator Lab
Week 13 Nov 15–19, 2021	Using a functor Threads Helper classes Conditional compilation Case study: `die` Typename Iterator interface (example)	Quiz 13 HW6 Algorithm Lab
Week 13½ Nov 22–26, 2021	Thanksgiving Break
Week 14 Nov 29 – Dec 3, 2021	Discuss HW7 Hashing ⏰ Proxy objects Initializer lists Assertions Regular expressions	Quiz 14 Hash Lab
Week 15 Dec 6–10, 2021	CheapVector: container/iterator relationship Filesystem Copy elision Fixed width integers Random numbers Case study: flexi	Quiz 15 HW7 Regular expressions Lab
Week 16 Thu Dec 16, 2021	Final exam Thursday 8:00ᴀᴍ–11:59ᴘᴍ MT

CS253: Software Development with C++

Fall 2021

Schedule