Instructor: Marc Cartright[url=](irmarc AT cs DOT umass PERIOD edu)
Graders:

• Nicolas Ioannou
• Jie Bing
  

Lecture Hours: 3:35 - 5:00 p.m. on Wednesdays in CMPSCI 142. This course will span eight lectures starting September 7, 2011. Please make sure that you attend this first lecture.

Office Hours: Thursdays, 10am-12pm, currently in room 366.

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Online Resources:[/url]

• Mark Corner's (and edited by Emery Berger) intro to C++ for Java programmers.
• C++ FAQ (this is a really great document)
• Stroustrup's page on C++
• A great C++ reference - even covers C++11
• An online C++ reference that has loads of examples for the STL
• GDB Documentation
• Emacs Reference Card (PDF)
• Vim Reference Card (PDF)
• U. of Minnesota Unix Quick Reference Card (PDF) (looks like a good intro)
• GNU's Make Manual
  

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Textbooks:No textbook is required for the course. Computer Science textbooks get expensive quickly, and I believe about 90% of the most common details can be learned from online resources. However far be it for me to deny someone a book recommendation if they eagerly want one. Below are a few books I recommend. While I do not think you need a book to learn C++, having one as a reference is very convenient.

Recommended Books:"C++ for Java Programmers"by Mark Allen Weiss, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004."Practical C++"by Robert W. McGregor"C++ Primer"by Stanley B. Lippman (I have this one. It's a hefty thing, but I really like it)


Note : The template and a lot of material for this course page (including lectures and some homeworks) is borrowed from the course pages of Mark Smucker, Ed Walters and Nilanjan Banerjee.