About this course

A course taught in the Dept. of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara.

This site is maintained in this github repo: https://github.com/ucsb-cs32/ucsb-cs32.github.io. If you are a CS department faculty member or TA that should have access to this page, contact Phill Conrad to request permission.

• Catalog Description including pre-requisites

Previous iterations of this course

• Fall 2015 (Conrad, at foo wiki)
• Spring 2015 (Conrad, at foo wiki)
• Fall 2018 (R.K. Wang)

Textbooks

• Problem Solving with C++, 9th Edition—Required C++ textbook
• Data Structures and Other Objects Using C++, 4th Edition—Required C++ textbook

Topics

• antipatterns—Things to avoid in your code
• bash—Unix command line shell, and a programming language
• compilers—programs that translate C++ to machine code (g++, clang)
• C++—Various C++ Topics
• CSIL: disk quota and file quota issues—How to diagnose and fix
• CSIL: git configuration—Configuring your CSIL account to use git
• Data Structures: Hash Tables—Open and Closed Hashing, etc.
• Eclipse—One of several choices for a Java IDE
• emacs—general purpose text editor with programmer-friendly features
• emacs: customization—making changes that happen every time you run emacs
• git/github: overview—An introduction. git vs. github.com vs. github.ucsb.edu, repos, etc.
• git: basic workflow—The basics: git add..., git commit..., git push ...
• git: cloning your first repo—A guide for those new to git
• github.com: creating private repos under an organization—for closed source class assignments
• github: using ssh keys—generating public/private key pair, uploading public key to github
• IDEs for C++—Integrated Development Environments for C++ (CLion, Eclipse, Netbeans, etc.)
• libraries—C/C++ libraries for various purposes
• libraries: cairo—library for producing graphics in a device independent way, with C/C++ bindings
• libraries: curlpp—C++ library for fetching web pages
• libraries: jsoncpp—C++ library for decoding JSON
• libraries: pango—library for a library for laying out and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization
• Test Driven Development (TDD)—General information about best practices
• tools—Tools for software development
• tools: gdb—GNU debugger
• tools: valgrind—Tool for checking run time behavior of C/C++ programs, including memory leaks
• Unix: Misc tools—Various useful command line tools you may not know about
• vim—a widely used text editor among Unix users
• vim: customization—customizing vim for your purposes
• X11—Dealing with X11 DISPLAY issues

Resources

• C++: References—Online references for C++
• C++: Tutorials—Online resources for learning C++
• sample exams—Exams from previous offerings of CS32