GRADUATE LABORATORY II

(a.k.a PROGRAMMING SEMINAR/OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING IN C++)

Course Description

Meeting Times

It is expected that you will participate during this class in-person as described by the RIT Attendance Policy (RIT Governance Policy D4.0, Section I.B). In the event that you become ill, or can't attend this class in-person for another reason, I will be using Zoom to make this class available both synchronously and as a recorded lecture. While it is my intention to record each lecture, I can't guarentee that the recording technology will work every time or that the lectures will remain archived in cloud storage for extended periods of time.

The Zoom information to connect to the synchronous lecture is

Meeting URL: https://rit.zoom.us/j/95314637108?pwd=Tm1wZ3E3czU1ak5LVkhQeWlvclVrZz09
Meeting ID: 953 1463 7108
Passcode: 485007

Office Hours

Professor

Teaching Assistants

Policies

Attendance

Honesty/Ethics in Academic Work

Slack

RIT IMGS-610 Slack Workspace

* If this link does not bring you directly to the Slack workspace, search for "RIT IMGS-610" and make a request to join

Course Materials

Deitel, Paul J., and Harvey M. Deitel. C++ / How to Program (10th Edition). Pearson Education, 2016.

Deitel, Paul J., and Harvey M. Deitel. C++20 for Programmers. Pearson Education, 2021.

Notes

Using the C++ std::vector class

Passing by value vs. reference

Using the C++ Eigen library

Tutorials

Setting up your CIS environment for C++

IMGS cmake build environment

GitHub

Moving your code to the build environment

MobaXterm - An X11 server/client for Windows

XQuartz - An X11 server/client for macOS

Advanced vi Tutorial

Quick Reference for vi

Unix Commands Reference Card

Build Environment Options

Use the CIS-provided Linux machines with the ready-to-go environment that you set up above
Use your Mac with a locally-configured Homebrew environment
Use your Mac running a Fedora Docker Container
Use your PC with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) enabled running an Ubuntu terminal
Use your PC with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) enabled running a Fedora Docker Container

Installing/configuring X11 server for host operating system

Course Mechanics

Projects

IMPORTANT NOTES: All assignments must be submitted by 11:59PM (Eastern) and code reviews conducted on the dates listed; Assignments submitted after the due date will not be accepted

Project Submission

Favorite Quotes

"The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time." - Tom Cargill

"A hacker to me is someone creative who does wonderful things" - Tim Berners-Lee

"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time" - Leonard Bernstein

"Confusion and clutter are the failure of design, not the attributes of information" - Edward Tufte

"I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand" - Ada Lovelace

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" - Leonardo da Vinci

"Perfect is the enemy of good" - Voltaire

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle" - Steve Jobs

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" but "That's funny..."" - Isaac Asimov

"It's only "work" if you'd rather be doing something else" - Dean Kamen

"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering" - Freeman Dyson

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" - Grace Hopper

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success" - Nikola Tesla