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METU Department of Computer Engineering CENG 140 C Programming Sections 1 & 2 Spring 2021 (Covid Online Semester) Syllabus

This document outlines the syllabus for the CENG 140 C Programming course offered in the spring 2021 semester. It provides information on the instructor, teaching assistants, lecture times, textbook, course outline, assignments including lab practices, lab exams and take-home exams, grading breakdown, course policies, and updates for the online format of the semester due to Covid-19. Students will complete 8 lab practices, 3 lab exams, 3 take-home exams, and a final exam. The course covers introductory programming concepts in C over 14 weeks.

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METU Department of Computer Engineering CENG 140 C Programming Sections 1 & 2 Spring 2021 (Covid Online Semester) Syllabus

This document outlines the syllabus for the CENG 140 C Programming course offered in the spring 2021 semester. It provides information on the instructor, teaching assistants, lecture times, textbook, course outline, assignments including lab practices, lab exams and take-home exams, grading breakdown, course policies, and updates for the online format of the semester due to Covid-19. Students will complete 8 lab practices, 3 lab exams, 3 take-home exams, and a final exam. The course covers introductory programming concepts in C over 14 weeks.

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METU Department of Computer Engineering

CENG 140 C Programming


Sections 1 & 2
Spring 2021 (Covid Online Semester) Syllabus

Instructor:
İ. Sengör Altıngövde Tel: 210 5580 Office: A203 [email protected]

Lecture Hours:
Section 1: Monday 12:40 (Online) Tuesday: 13:40, 14:40 (Online)
Section 2: Monday 13:40 (Online) Friday: 13:40, 14:40 (Online)

Teaching Assistants:
Yusuf M. Çetinkaya Tel: Office: [email protected]
Arif Görkem Özer Tel: Office: [email protected]
Ataberk Dönmez Tel: Office: [email protected]
Can D. Ünaldı Tel: Office: [email protected]
Ezgi Ekiz Tel: Office: [email protected]
Furkan Murat Tel: Office: [email protected]

Catalog Description
Advanced programming with C: storage and control structures, recursion and programming with dynamic data
structures. Homeworks are required to run on Unix environment.

Textbook
Programming in ANSI C, Kumar & Agrawal, WEST Publishing Co., 1992. ISBN: 0-314-89563-9
(http://ramkumar.agrawal-family.org/ansic.htm)

Course web page


http://cengclass.ceng.metu.edu.tr

Course Outline (tentative)


Week 1 General Overview of Programming
Week 2 Sequential Structure, Statements, Type Conversion
Week 3 Selective Structure, Nested Selective Structures
Week 4 Repetitive Structure, Nested Loops
Week 5 Functions, Activation Records
Week 6 Recursion
Week 7 Arrays and Pointers
Week 8 Arrays and Pointers
Week 9 Strings
Week 10 Dynamic Memory Management
Week 11 Structures & Unions
Week 12 Structures & Unions
Week 13 Operations on Bits
Week 14 File Processing

Course conduct
- Weekly lectures
- Lab practices (8 of them, graded, textbook allowed)
- Lab exams (3 of them, graded, exam style)
- Take-home exams (3 of them)
- In-class exams

Grading (tentative)
- Lab practices (8 practices) 4%
- Lab exams (3 exams) 21%
(two or more zero grades mean FAILING the course directly and you will be graded as “NA”)
- Take-home exams (3 of them) 45%
- Final 30%
(missing the final exam without a legal excuse means FAILING the course directly and you will be graded
as “NA”)
COURSE POLICIES (please read carefully)
1) Lab-practices: There will be 8 lab practices throughout the semester. In each of these practices, the teaching
assistants (TAs) will shortly cover a subject that is related to what you have learnt in the lectures in that week,
and then give you simple programming question(s). Here, through a web based interface you will write your
solution and submit it (your program will get automatically evaluated at the spot). You may use the textbook
and your lecture notes. You may interact with the TAs (but not your friends).

Update for the online semester: You can provide the answer to the recitation quiz till 23:59 of the day question
is assigned at the latest.

2) Lab exams: Three times you will receive programming assignments prior to the weekend. The following
week, you will have to attend a lab session which will run for 2 hours: An in-lab-exam. Again, through a web
based interface you will write your assignment and submit it (your program will get automatically evaluated at
the spot). However, in the lab exams, you cannot have any help from a person (i.e., TAs) or a
written/electronic document (including textbook, lecture notes, whatever), since this is an “exam”.
The assignment you will be programming during the lab session will slightly differ then the one you will
receive prior to the weekend. Though the difference will be minor, it will assure the uselessness of a blind
memorization. The level of the assignment will carefully be trimmed so that for a first comer to C it will not be
possible to program it on the spot without having done a preliminary study/implementation at home. Grading is
based on automatic evaluation (blackbox testing by a software) with a similar yet different input than the one
given during the lab; and in certain cases, TAs may check your code manually to see if it obeys all the
requirements of the lab assignment.

Update for the online semester: Lab exams will be online.

REMARK: If a student gets two (or more) zero grades from the lab exams, s/he fails the course
automatically.

3) Take-Home Exams (THEs): There are 3 Take-Home Exams. All of the Take-Home Exams are C
programming tasks and will be graded automatically (by means of a testing program). Though the input/output
testing of a Take-Home Exams is a “blackbox test”, your source code will be investigated for neatness and
plagiarism. Furthermore, for each THE, the TAs may invite a randomly-selected subset of students to
discuss/explain their solutions; failing during these discussion sessions will reduce your grade for that THE.

Usually you will have 2-3 weeks of time to turn your take-home exams in. This time shall be used properly. The
level of the take-home exams are so that a “hard work on the last 2-3 days” will not suffice. You are strongly
advised to start concentrating on it right after you received it.

REMARK: For all Take Home Exam submissions, late submission is not allowed. The deadline is the last
second where the day of submission changes to the day after.

REMARK: As the name THE implies, this work is considered as an examination and it should be your own
work. Any plagiarism will be considered as cheating in an exam and will initiate a disciplinary action.

4) Final exam: The online exam will include test style questions. You may miss an exam only if you have a
legal excuse (e.g., approved medical report or formal permission; in the latter case, you should inform the
instructor in advance). There will be a make-up exam right after the week following the end of the legal excuse.
In case of missing the final exam without a legal excuse, the student fails the course automatically.

Update for the online semester: Online lab exams and final will require turning the cameras on and recording
the session.

5) Following the course:


- Recitation and lab exam materials will be made available at cengclass.ceng.metu.edu.tr
- Online lecture materials (videos and presentations) will be made available at odtuclass.metu.edu.tr
- The announcements will be given on the COW.

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