ESC101 Introduction to Programming, Spring 2020

Re-exam instructions (updated 1st Oct 2020)

1. Please make sure you are able to log into prutor. If you can't, please contact nitinks@cse.iitk.ac.in immediately.
2. The syllabus is the entire ESC101 syllabus.
3. The format of the exam will be familiar to you. I have eschewed adding any innovations.
4. If your network gives you trouble during the course of the exam, you will have the option to withdraw from the exam. But you will have to let me know this before the exam ends.
5. I will be accessible on Zoom throughout the exam in case people have any questions. Link
6. The exam will be open book, open notes, open internet.
7. I will grade everyone's exam personally.

Re-exam instructions (updated 18th Sept 2020)

1. The re-exam will be conducted on prutor. Details will be communicated to you shortly after the 21st.
2. The syllabus will be the entire ESC101 syllabus.
3. We will run a short practice test on 27th Sept to familiarize people with the interface and question formats
4. The re-exam will count for 42% of your grade, viz. it will replace the weight assigned to your lab end-sem and theory end-sem. The weightage for the theory mid-sem and lab mid-sem exams will return to their original values as a consequence of this change.
5. Grading policy for the course will be the same as the grading policy of the course under normal circumstances.
6. Since it is not currently possible to communicate with you as a group, and I don't want to selectively release information to some people and not to others, please monitor the course website for further updates.

Lecture date	Topics covered	Materials
6th Jan	Talking to a Turing Machine	Slides: pptx, pdf
7th Jan	Basic structure of C programs	Slides: pptx, pdf
8th Jan	Printing outputs	Slides: pptx, pdf
13th Jan	Taking inputs	Slides: pptx, pdf
14th Jan	Data types	Slides: pptx, pdf
15th Jan	More on types	Slides: pptx, pdf
20th Jan	Operators, precedence and associativity	Slides: pptx, pdf
21st Jan	If-else	Slides: pptx, pdf
22nd Jan	switch-case	Slides: pptx, pdf
27th Jan	Loops: for	Slides: pptx, pdf
28th Jan	Loops: while/do while	Slides: pptx, pdf
29th Jan	Major Quiz 1	-
3rd Feb	Functions (basics)	Slides: pptx, pdf
4th Feb	Functions (usage)	Slides: pptx, pdf
5th Feb	Functions (scope, macros)	Slides: pptx, pdf
10th Feb	Intro to arrays	Slides: pptx, pdf
11th Feb	Arrays (contd.)	Slides: pptx, pdf
12th Feb	Arrays and functions	Slides: pptx, pdf
24th Feb	Strings	Slides: pptx, pdf
25th Feb	More about strings	Slides: pptx, pdf
29th Feb	Multidimensional arrays	Slides: pptx, pdf
2nd Mar	Intro to pointers	Slides: pptx, pdf
3rd Mar	More pointers, malloc	Slides: pptx, pdf
4th Mar	More about memory allocation	Slides: pptx, pdf
16th Mar	Recap	Slides: pptx, pdf, Practice problems , Solutions
17th Mar	Pointers and arrays	Slides: pptx, pdf
18th Mar	Pointers and arrays (contd.)	Slides: pptx, pdf
23rd Mar	Major Quiz 2	cancelled
24th Mar	Recursion	Slides: pptx, pdf, Practice problems , Solutions
25th Mar	Intro to structures	Slides: pptx, pdf
30th Mar	Structures (contd.)	Slides: pptx, pdf
31st Mar	Linked lists	Slides: pptx, pdf
1st Apr	Using linked lists	Slides: pptx, pdf, Practice problems
6th Apr	Stacks, queues and DP	Slides: pptx, pdf
7th Apr	Searching	Slides: pptx, pdf
8th Apr	Sorting algorithms	Slides: pptx, pdf
14th Apr	Sorting algorithms (contd.)	Slides: pptx, pdf, Practice problems
15th Apr	File I/O	Slides: pptx, pdf
16th Apr	Future directions, et finis	Slides: pptx, pdf

Resources

Zoom hangout link

Course schedule

Find your section in this list. (Revised, 13th Jan 2020)

Read a basic introduction to the prutor system here.

Gottfried's book.

Sign up for extra lessons here.

Sign up for srivalab experiments here (extra-curricular).