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Lab Schedule




Lab #		 Week Nature of the lab Description/Remarks
Lab 0
 27/07/2016, 28/07/2016, 29/07/2016
 Ungraded
 Writing, saving, submitting lab assignments on the Prutor platform
Lab 1
 03/08/2016, 04/08/2016, 05/08/2016
 Ungraded
 Turtle Programming and basic Loops (via repeat)
Lab 2
 10/08/2016, 11/08/2016, 12/08/2016
 Graded
 Turtle Programming and basic Loops (via repeat)
Lab 3
 17/08/2016, 18/08/2016, 19/08/2016
 Ungraded
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Lab 4
 24/08/2016, 25/08/2016, 26/08/2016
 Graded
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Lab 5
 31/08/2016, 01/09/2016, 02/09/2016
 Graded
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Mid Sem Week
Lab 6
 14/09/2016, 15/09/2016, 16/09/2016
 Ungraded
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Lab 7
 21/09/2016, 22/09/2016, 23/09/2016
 Graded
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Lab 8
 28/09/2016, 29/09/2016, 30/09/2016
 Ungraded
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Lab 9
 05/10/2016, 06/10/2016, 07/10/2016
 Graded
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Lab 10
 17/10/2016, 13/10/2016, 14/10/2016
 Ungraded
 Lab 10 to be conducted on 12/10/2016 is postponed to 17/10/2016.
Lab 11
 19/10/2016, 20/10/2016, 21/10/2016
 Graded
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Lab 12
 26/10/2016, 27/10/2016, 28/10/2016
 Ungraded
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The help sessions will be conducted on Mondays.



Help Sessions


We plan to hold help sessions on Mondays. For each help session, we will float a form which you need to fill up to attend the help session. You are the best judge to decide whether you need to attend a help session or not but some of the reasons why you may want to attend the help session are:
  • You want to do more practice of programming with our help. Note that this should be restricted to the programs we have given you for this week.
  • You are not so comfortable with your programming experience this week. The numbers given below may change from week to week.
By way of example, for the first week, we have given 8 questions. If you have been able to 6 or more questions and have checked that you are getting the correct images, you are doing well and perhaps do not need to attend the help session. If you have done only 3 or less than 3 questions then I strongly encourage you to come for help session.
  • You have some doubt about the concepts covered in the lecture so far.
Our experience of help session shows that many students fill up the form casually but do not come for the help session. Since we need to schedule human resource in the form of TAs, this wastes the time of the TAs. Hence if you fill up the form, you MUST ATTEND the help session. If you fill the form but do not attend the help session, there will be some kind of penalty (say marking you absent for the week in the lab etc.) If we find too many instances of such a behaviour the quantum of the penalty will be suitably enhanced.


Informal Course View


This course provides students with an entry-level foundation in computer programming. The goals of the course are to develop the programming ability in students, and to improve their proficiency in applying the computing fundamentals to their field of study. Topics include overview of high-level languages, introduction to C/C++ Library, basic data types, function definitions and declarations, conditional and iteration statement, array and string manipulation, recursive programming, introduction to searching and sorting and introduction to structures and pointers. In summary, the basic aim is to teach the student to program in C/C++ at a level where they are able to eventually write programs to help solve their everyday engineering, science and technology related problems.

Formal Course View

This course provides an introduction to problem solving with computers using a modern language such as Java or C/C++. Topics covered will include :
  • Utilization : Developer fundamentals such as editor, integrated programming environment, Unix shell, modules, libraries.
  • Programming features :Ability to translate from the informal description of an algorithm learned in the mathematics classroom into the constructs provided by the programming language.
  • Applications : Sample problems in engineering, science, text processing, and numerical methods.

Textbooks

  • An Introduction to Programming through C++, McGraw Hill Education, 2014, by Abhiram Ranade