Instructor: James R. Glenn, Ph.D.
Office: AKW 013
Office Phone: TBD
Office Hours: Mon 5:30-6:30pm and Tue 4:00-6:00pm, or by appointment, or drop by and see if I'm in
e-mail: [first name][dot][last name]@yale.edu

TF and ULA Hours: See Piazza

• Marko Mitrovic
• Bonnie Rhee
• Shanelle Roman
• Dawn Chen
• Addie Elwood
• Daniel Ernst
• David Liu
• Julia Lu
• Jasmine Stone
• Kat Tan

Course Home Page:
Piazza Page: https://piazza.com/yale/fall2017/cpsc223/home

Class Meeting: Lecture Mon, Wed 11:35am – 12:50pm in DL 220

Prerequisites: CPSC 201 or equivalent

Recommended Texts:

• C in a Nutshell (2nd edition) by Prinz and Crawford ISBN 978-1491904756 (retail price $59.99)
• Learning the Unix Operating System (5th edition) by Peek, Todina, and Strang ISBN 978-0596002619 (retail price $29.99)
• Unix in a Nutshell (4th edition) by Arnold Robbins ISBN 978-0596100292 (retail price $34.95)
• Data Structures Using C by A.K. Sharma ISBN 978-8131755662 (ebook price $3.28)

Other Resources:

• The C Programming Language (2nd edition) by Kernighan and Ritchie ISBN 978-0133086249
• Notes on Data Structures and Programming Techniques from Prof. Aspnes (also as a pdf)

Catalog Description:
Topics include programming in C; data structures (arrays, stacks, queues, lists, trees, heaps, graphs); sorting and searching; storage allocation and management; data abstraction; programming style; testing and debugging; writing efficient programs.

Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to

• use, implement, and adapt standard data structures to design efficient solutions to problems in C on Unix systems

Academic Dishonesty:
Please see Yale College's Undergraduate Regulations and Definitions of Plagiarism, Cheating, and Documentation of Sources.

The implications for this course:

• Programming Assignments: The code you submit must be the result of your understanding of the problem. You may discuss concepts and approaches with other students, but you may not take any written or electronic records from such discussions (this includes discussions on Piazza; such discussions are electronic records so you may not post code there). Furthermore, you must engage in a full hour of mind-numbing activity (such as watching back-to-back episodes of Gilligan's Island) before resuming work. This no-record/"Gilligan's Island" rule applies to code found in online or other published sources as well (aside the class notes, which can be used without attribution and without triggering the "Gilligan's Island" rule). Under no circumstances may you examine a copy of another student's code nor may you provide a copy of your code to another student. You may consult course staff for help writing and debugging without attribution and doing so does not trigger the Gilligan's Island rule. (The Gilligan's Island rule originated with Stanley Eisenstat and I obtained it through Stephen Slade.)
• Exams: each student must work individually.

Grading:

• Programming Assignments: 70%
• In-Class Exams: 15% each (Oct. 11 and Dec. 6)

Schedule (subject to change):

In-class Exams:

• Wednesday October 11th 11:35am-12:50pm in SCL 110
• Wednesday December 6th 11:35am-12:50pm, in SCL 110

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