Syllabus

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• Lecture 0
  • Object size, alignment, declarations, scope, narrowing, lifetime of an object.
  • Pointers, arrays, pointer arithmetic, and const.
• Lecture 1
  • Debugging in C++.
  • Proxy design patterns.

• Exercise 0 due Tuesday at 4:30 P.M. P.S.T.
• Lecture 2
  • Pointers and ownership, references, l/rvalue references, and examples with templates.
  • Lambda expressions and function objects.
• Lecture 3
  • Pre/post conditions, consistent/minimal specifications, templates.
  • Development tools (Make and possibly doxygen).
• HW0 due Friday at 4:30 P.M. P.S.T.

• Lecture 4
  • Iterators, Function adaptors
  • Layout of structs, unions, examples of operator overloading via Array class.
• Lecture 5
  • Abstraction functions and Representation Invariants;
  • Loop invariants

• EX1 due Tuesday in class at 4:30 P.M. P.S.T.
• Lecture 6
  • Free Store memory allocation, RAII, Allocators.
  • Exception Handling part 1 (exceptions as control flow, how to define exceptions).
• Lecture 7: Inheritance and Polymorphism
• HW1 due Friday at 4:30 P.M. P.S.T.

• Lecture 8
  • Exception Handling part 2 (enforcing invariants);
  • construction, cleanup, and copy initialization.
• Lecture 9
  • Graph Remove_*; inline functions and typedefs.

• EX2 due Tuesday at 4:30 P.M. P.S.T.
• Lecture 10 (2019-02-12)
  • Defining copy and move semantics, delegating constructors, entanglement, slicing.
• Lecture 11 (2019-02-14)
  • Floating point, Under/overflow, relative error, machine tolerance
• HW2 due Friday at 4:30 P.M. P.S.T.

• Lecture 12
  • Template programming part 1 (two phase translation, function and class templates, template paramaters as return types, parameter deduction)
• Lecture 13 (2019-02-21)
  • Software Testing

• EX3 due Tuesday at 4:30 P.M. P.S.T.
• Lecture 14
  • Template Programming part 2 (non-type template parameters, variadic template parameters, template template parameters).
• Lecture 15
  • Compiler Optimizations
  • Memory and Performance
  • Cachegrind
• HW3 due Friday at 4:30 P.M. P.S.T.

• Lecture 16
  • Perfect forwarding, Metafunctions, compile-time programming.
• Lecture 17 (2019-03-07)
  • Introduction to Parallel Computing
  • Thrust, thrust::transform_iterator
  • RAJA and the future of parallel computing.

• EX4 due Tuesday at 4:30 P.M. P.S.T.
• Lecture 18
  • Regular Expressions
• Lecture 19
  • Parallel reduction
  • More on RAJA
  • Review
• HW4 due Friday at 4:30 P.M. P.S.T.