About this course

A course taught in the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara.

This site is maintained in this github repo: https://github.com/ucsb-cmptgcs-1a/ucsb-cmptgcs-1a.github.io.

• Older materials from Conrad’s cs1a wiki site.
• Older materials from Conrad’s personal website

Past offerings of CMPTGCS 1A

• Fall 2016, Phill Conrad

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
• CSIL: disk quota and file quota issues—How to diagnose and fix
• CSIL: git configuration—Configuring your CSIL account to use git
• CSIL: Via MacOS—Accessing CSIL from your MacOS system
• emacs—general purpose text editor with programmer-friendly features
• emacs: customization—making changes that happen every time you run emacs
• git/github—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: using ssh keys—generating public/private key pair, uploading public key to github
• Number Conversions—Binary, Decimal, Octal and Hexadecimal
• shebang—About that first line of some python files that looks like this: #!/usr/bin/env python
• submit.cs—An automatic grading feedback program used at UCSB
• Test Driven Development (TDD)—General information about best practices
• 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

Tutorials