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Welcome to ACC’s Distance Learning Advanced C++ course
orientation. I hope you have a profitable and enjoyable learning
experience during the semester. To
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If you have any questions
about the course, first check Dr. Bass' website at http://www.austincc.edu/RonBass
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doesn't answer your questions, then send Dr. Bass a detailed e-mail message
at: rbass@austincc.edu . |
If you do not
have access to a computer with a C++ compiler installed, you may use the
Computer Studies (COIS) Department Computer Labs at any of the major
campuses. You may use any other computer
system which has an
You may use the
COIS computer labs at any of the ACC campuses - CYP,
The COIS
computer lab at the RGC campus is in room 115. This lab is available
during the following times.
Monday to
Friday -
Saturday – 8:00
AM to 2:00 PM
Labs
on other campuses will have different hours of operation. Check at each campus for the lab schedules.
Course
Policies
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Course Withdrawal
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If you withdraw from the
course and complete the appropriate withdrawal form, then you will receive a
"W" grade. However, DO NOT rely
on Dr. Bass to withdraw you from the course. It is your responsibility
to administratively withdraw from the course to receive a "W"
grade. You will receive a "W" grade, if you initiate a
withdrawal through the Admissions and Records Office prior to the withdrawal
deadline date. After this date, you may NOT withdraw and you will
receive a grade of A, B, C, D, or F depending on your level of
achievement. If you miss the withdraw deadline, your instructor will
NOT request a waiver of the College policy and will NOT request a retroactive
withdrawal. Dr. Bass reserves the right, but not the duty, to withdraw
you from the course for missed exams, or lack of progress. |
Missed Exam Deadline
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If you do not take an exam by
the scheduled deadline and have not made prior arrangements with your
instructor, your grade for the exam will be penalized by 20% when you do take
it. Even if completing an exam late
and accepting the penalty, you must complete exam 1 before the initial due
date for exam 2. And, you must
complete exam 2 prior to taking the final exam. The final exam cannot be taken late under
any circumstance. There will be no retests or make-up exams in this
course. |
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In order to waive the 20% score reduction for taking a late
exam, you will need to meet the following conditions. |
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Missed Final Exam Deadline
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If you fail to submit the last exam of the semester, you will
receive a zero (0%) grade for the exam. |
Academic Dishonesty
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Exams
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Cheating on an exam results
in a zero (0%) grade for the exam. The Director of Student Services
will be informed of the incident and disciplinary action taken. |
Projects
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You must complete all work required for this course without
inappropriate assistance. All lab projects, exercise sets, and
quizzes are preparation for exams and it will not benefit you to have others
complete them for you. If you are not
certain what kind of assistance is permissible then ask Dr. Bass for his
opinion before accepting any assistance. |
Retesting & Extra Credit
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Dr. Bass does not allow retesting nor extra credit work to raise
your grade. |
Incomplete Grades
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Department Guidelines for
Incomplete Grades - You may receive a temporary grade of "I"
(Incomplete) at the end of the semester only if you meet the following
conditions: |
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Students with Disabilities
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If you are a student with disabilities, and you want any
instructional adjustments or accommodations, then you must meet with a
counselor at the Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD). The OSD
will complete the Approved Accommodations & Academic Adjustments
form. You must present this completed form to the instructor so
he knows what accommodations and adjustments to make to accommodate your
disabilities. You must do this at the beginning of the
semester. You should expect a reasonable amount of time to elapse
before the required changes to the course to accommodate you. |
Internet
Policies
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My instructor
has informed me of the following information:
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This course is study of the
advanced features of the C++ programming language. It covers topics including: classes and
objects, inheritance, polymorphism, class templates, recursion, operator
overloading, friend functions, and the |
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You may use your own computer, if you have the following
resources: |
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Programming Assignments – 9 programming problems are to be completed during the course. Send copies of the source code files and
files containing sample/test output for the program to the instructor for
grading.
The first three of the following programming
assignments are from the Dietel and Dietel Textbook
Program 1 – Exercise 8.17 Page 463-464 (Due: 9/8/08) Note: You are required to use pointer
syntax and functions in the solution to this problem.
Program 2 – Exercise 9.15 Page 522 (Due: 9/15/08) Note: You must include options: 1)
for the program to generate the moves of one of the players; and: 2) for two
people to play each other.
Program 3 – Exercise 10.10 Page 570 (Due: 9/22/08) Note: You must delete the private data members:
hour, minute, and second; and add a new private data member: secs_since_MN. Although, you must modify the details of the
member functions, the public member functions calls (the programmer’s interface
or API) must remain unchanged so that client programs will not have to be
modified.
Program 4
– (Due: 9/29/08) Modify the time class
you rewrote in assignment 3 (above) by adding overloading for the following operators:
1. << which
will allow the output of time in standard format (remove the printStandard function from the class). Leave the printUniversal
function unmodified.
2. + which
will allow the addition of a time object parameter to the current object.
3. - which
will allow the subtraction of a time object parameter from the current object.
4. ++ (preincrement) which will increment the time
by one second. Do not allow the minutes
or seconds to be larger than 59.
5. –- (predecrement) which will decrement the
time by one second. Do not allow the
minutes or secons to be less than 0.
Programs 1-4 may be submitted late with a 20% penalty until 10/01/2008. After that date they will not be accepted.
Exam 1 – 10/1/08
The first two of the following programming
assignments are from the Dietel and Dietel Textbook.
Note the additions and modifications required in the specifications
below.
Program 5 – Exercise 12.10 Pages 684-685 (Due: 10/13/08) Note: Provide friend functions to overload the
operator << (display the balance) for all three classes (Account, SavingsAccount, and CheckingAccount).
Program 6 – Exercise 13.12 Page
747 (Due: 10/22/08)
Program 7 – (Due:
11/3/08) Create a class template which will allow the processing of a
list (this may be an array). The list
may be of type int, float, string, char, or a user
declared ordinal type. The class should
provide member functions to:
1. load the list from a file;
2. write the list to a file;
3. sort the list;
4. search the list for a user specified value;
5. add a new element to the list;
6. delete a value
specified by value.
Test your class template by writing a driver
program. Use at least two different data
types, for example, string and int.
Programs 5-7 may be submitted late with a 20% penalty until 11/05/2008.
After that date they will not be accepted.
Exam 2 – 11/5/08
The following programming assignment is from the Dietel and Dietel Textbook. Note the additions and modifications required
in the specifications below.
Program 8 – Exercise 21.15 Page 1040 (Due:
11/19/08) Note: Use the queue shown in
Figure 21.16 on Page 1022 which in turn uses the linked list shown in Figures
21.3 and 21.4 on Pages 1003-1007 of the textbook. The files for the queue and the linked list
are available on the textbook CD. Don’t
retype them. If you don’t have the
textbook CD, I will send the files to you by email on request.
Program 9 – (Due:
12/8/08) Write a spell checker program.
The program should read a text file and output a corrected text
file. Have the program prompt you for
the name of the file. The program should
prompt the user to correct or leave as words that the program thinks are
misspelled. Words in the list which the
program thinks are spelled correctly should be moved to the new text file with out changing their spelling. Each word in the text file should be compared
to a master list of correctly spelled words.
The master list of correctly spelled words is to be created using the
Programs 8-9 may be submitted late with a 20% penalty until
12/10/2008. After that date they will
not be accepted.
Exam 3 – 12/10/08
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To be successful in the Advanced C++ course you must have
successfully completed the following courses: |
COSC
1315 - Fundamentals of Programming
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COSC
1320 – C++ Programming
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Or a suitable equivalent course from another college. |
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In these courses you should have learned the following
prerequisite skills:
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If you have not completed the COSC 1315 and COSC 1320, or
suitable equivalents, then you should withdraw from the course. |
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Your final course grade is the average of the following grades: |
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All Exams are essay style. All exams have a time limit of
2 hours. All exams are closed-book exams but you will be allowed to use
3 pages of notes. |
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See the Course Schedule for the exam dates. |
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Textbook |
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Deitel and Deitel, "C++ How to Program", 5th
edition. Prentice Hall Addison
Publishers, 2005. |
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Software |
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If you want to use your own computer, then you will need the
following software on your computer:
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C++ Compilers |
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C++ compilers may be
downloaded free of charge from Borland or the Free Software Foundation. Neither your instructor nor ACC lab
technicians will assist you in making any installation of C++ on your own
computer. |
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Other Compilers |
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If you want to use a version
of C++ that has not been discussed here.
Be sure that it is |
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Internet Access to ACC
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None of the lab computers or
servers or accessible via the internet.
However, ACC has set up a Linux Server that may be accessed from your
home PC with telnet. Telnet is a
utility available on most Windows computers.
Using this server, you will be able to connect it directly from your
home PC without the necessity of installing any additional software on your
system. The linux
server uses the GNU Free Software Foundation version of C++. If you are interested in using this
computer, contact your instructor for an account. |
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Management: This
course will be managed using ACC's online instructional support system:
Blackboard (Bb). Under the Bb system all course materials are available
online through an Internet connection and the World Wide Web. As a result,
each student must have access to the Internet through a private Internet
service provider. ACC does not provide |
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Exams 1 and 2 |
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Exams contain questions
similar to those of the reviews.
The final exam may involve the writing a program which is covers the
course material in a comprehensive manner.
You may take the Exams at any of the following |
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You will need to bring your
ACC ID card with you to the testing center. If you did not receive your
ACC student ID and need to take the test, then: |
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YOU MUST
COMPLETE EXAMS BY THE DEADLINE DATE AS SHOWN IN THE COURSE SCHEDULE. |
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If you take
either Exam 1 or Exam 2 after the deadline, then Dr. Bass will deduct 20% of
your grade from the each exam grade as appropriate. |
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Exam 3 |
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Exam 3's format has not yet
been determined but may involve writing a program which is comprehensive of
the course material. |
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YOU MUST COMPLETE EXAM 3 BY
THE DEADLINE DATE. |
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If you do not complete Exam 3
on this date, then Dr. Bass will assign a grade of zero (0%). There are
no makeup exams. |
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Exam Property |
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The exams you take in this
course are the property of Dr. Bass. He uses the exams to evaluate
your performance. After you complete each exam, the Testing Center will
grade the exam and tell you your grade. Dr. Bass will keep your
exam on file. If you would like to view the exam, then you may come to
his office during his office hours and view it. |