• Direct link to our Distance Learning Page on www.summercore.com
• Direct link to our NAIS presentation Friday, March 2, 2001 (2:30-3:30; Ellie Newman and Steve Bergen)

• How to get video streaming for free

  Introductions and Chapter 1 on Computer History

• Steve Bergen ... "Hello everyone"
• Noblesnet and our chapter 1 c++ game ... Ellie Newman
• Andrew Lamb ... "Hello everyone"
• Steve Bergen .. Leibnitz and Pascal
• Steve Bergen .. Pythagoras .. Pythagorus ... "Numbers Rule the Universe" ... this one is UNDER 60 seconds!
• Jeff Lee .. converts a hexadecimal number (AA) to decimal
• Ellie Newman talks about Babbage and Augusta from chapter 1
• Tips for the Chapter 1 Test if on a modem or slow connection Steve Bergen
• Tips for the Chapter 1 Test if on a fast connection Steve Bergen

  Chapter 2 on Simple Commands

• Ellie Newman chapter 2 of our textbook ..
• Steve Bergen lesson ... intro to programming (fast connection)
• Steve Bergen lesson ... intro to programming (slow connection)
• Same Lesson on basics (if no video streaming)

  Chapter 3 on Programming Concepts

• Belt Around the Earth ... not much more than 33 seconds
• Happy Birthday Ellie 11/20/2000
• Chapter 3 Programming Concepts ... modem version (Ellie Newman)
• Chapter 3 Programming Concepts ... fast connection version (Ellie Newman)

  ** above lesson covers types of variables, constants, dreaded identifier message and more **
  

  Chapter 4 on Loops (assigned 12/6/2000, day before Larry Bird's birthday)

• Chapter 4 Overview by Ellie Newman (video streamed for fast connection; over 5 minutes long)
• Chapter 4 Overview by Ellie Newman (video streamed for slow connection; over 5 minutes long)
• Steve Bergen here we go "loop de loop" (video streamed for fast connection; over 10 minutes long)
• Steve Bergen here we go "loop de loop" (video streamed for slow connection; over 10 minutes long)
  same lesson on loops (if no video streaming)

• It's a boy ..it's a girl .. it's twins (intro to twin primes; 46 seconds)
• How many snaps? one of the 33 best problems that exist! (63 seconds)
• Short videos tips before taking the chapter test (1/12/01 to 1/16/01)
  • larry looks at the actual test ... steve .. 1 minute
  • important symbols you need to know .. ends with happy new year ... one of ellie's pets has seen a few of the special symbols ... 45 seconds
  • how many programs do you need to write and what topics ... 14 seconds (larger size) ... steve with guitar
  • new year's eve concert ..18 seconds ....ends abruptly (rude, rude, rude) with a break ... ellie on piano (larger size)
  • larry and hulk ... time for a drum roll ...60 seconds ... larry and hulk each share one tip ... steve
  • importance of 2,3 and 4 ... ellie ... starts with her shoes .. 52 seconds
  • second part of ellie's comments on 2,3, 4 ... 47 seconds ... relevant to one very tough multiple choice question

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  Mid-semester Break

  Poetry Contest? Which of these poems is the real one? Read the actual article by a former student Francois Lang from 1975 after you make your guess! Check out these 8 poems below, identified by the letters A to H. One of them was written by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694). The others were written by an HP 2000C computer in 1975 with a programming algorithm that I shared with my students in that course. As a result, Francois published this article!

  • A) Between moonlit waves ...Oceans of candles arise ...Next to the wild sky
  • B) Beyond paper walls ... Voices of geishas whisper ... About the bright moon
  • C) Beside immense seas ... Valleys of absence wander ... Next to the true hills
  • D) Out of immense snow ... Voices of valleys are hushed ... Next to the deep moon
  • E) Profound depths before ... Forests of meadows reside ... Beyond the still seas
  • F) Vacant trees below ... Rivers of music are hushed ... Beyond the dark moons
  • G) Beyond ghostly moons ... Faces of silence whisper ... Within the cold storm
  • H) Next to misty seas ... Forest of visions unfold ... Next to the white fields

  
  (click on picture above
  for answer and actual article from 1975)

  Wonderful web sites with c++ tutorials and lessons at the bottom of this web page. Here are two of our favorites:

  1. cprogramming.com... has a tutorial page with clear lessons on many c++ topics
  2. Online C++ Tutorial covers basic syntax of Variables, Types, and Operators, Control Statements, Functions, Objects and Memory, Arrays and several advanced topics.There is also a glossary and a search feature,
  3. Online C++ Glossary .... Just found a good C++ glossary... was looking for a nice simple definition for overloaded function (which ended up being the same simple definition that I already knew...Ellie

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  Chapter 5 on Functions: One More Hill until the "Mountain"

  Functions 101 by Ellie Newman (basic concepts and prototypes)
  3 minutes and 26 seconds
• modem users
• network or DSL modem or cable modem users
  Functions 102 by Ellie Newman
  (return statement, VOID, parameters, reference parameters with &, overloaded functions) 4 minutes and 20 seconds
• modem users
• network or DSL modem or cable modem users
  

  ... click on either picture above for close up of someone we might have to leave behind ... heading for the thin air of chapters 5 and 6 ... as we hit functions and classes, "sleep became elusive, a common symptom for all of us .. most nights I'd wake up three or four times gasping for breath, feeling like I was suffocating ... my appetite vanished ... some of my teammates fared even worse than I ... two were plagued by severe headaches ... "
  

  • Ellie on overloaded functions ... 55 seconds
  • Steve on reference functions ... 49 seconds
  
  

  Chapter 6 on Classes: Into the Thin Air of Classes (a real challenge)

• Towers of Hanoi ... Steve ... 63 seconds
• Towers of Hanoi ... Ellie ... 43 seconds
• Intro to Chapter 6 ... with help from Greg, Karen and Sumita who are now climbing the chapter 10 mountain .. 12 minutes (but the last 2-3 minutes is the dead silence of a chilly night on the mountain)

  Chapter 7 on Recursion

• Musical intro (modem connnection)
• Musical intro (high speed connection)
• Recursion (modem connection)
• Recursion (high speed connection)

  Time for a break!

• Larry Bird vs Hulk Hogan (summercore 2000)
• HTML Basics by Ellie Newman ... if on modem
• HTML Basics by Ellie Newman ... if on fast connection
• Excerpt from OCD My Lord ... performed in Belgium

• Fran Trees from Westfield High School, NJ has an excellent collection of content-rich powerpoint presentations on c++ on her web site

• Lawrenceville Press our textbook and Lawrenceville Press files by Tim Corica, Beth Brown and Bruce Presley

• cprogramming.com... has a tutorial page with clear lessons on many c++ topics as you see below .. web site has a mailing list that you can join as well (week#1)

  
  lesson1.html The basics of C++ 
  lesson2.html If statements, and some boolean information 
  lesson3.html All you want to know about Loops 
  lesson4.html Functions...all about them, making and using the critters 
  lesson5.html About the switch case structure 
  lesson6.html Pointers...access memory locations 
  lesson7.html Structures, all about 'em, and how to use 'em 
  lesson8.html All about arrays 
  lesson9.html About character arrays (strings) 
  lesson10.html About file i/o
  lesson11.html Typecasting: making variables look like another data-type. 
  lesson12.html An introduction to classes(the heart of C++) 
  lesson13.html More information on functions(non-prototyed and inline)
  lesson14.html How to accept command line arguments (AND checking file existence)
  lesson15.html The basics of singly linked lists 
  lesson16.html Recursion--a function calling itself
  

• College Board AP Web Site ... this section devoted to C++ (week#2)

• Fractals (related to recursion in chapter 7)
  • Rice University Tutorial
  • Yahoo Portal into the World of Fractals
  • From the Network Manager of Data Analysis Austrailia
  • From a professor at Swarthmore College
  • Fractals by Wizzle (a commercial venture)
  • From a professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Austrailia
  • From a professor at Charles Sturt University in Austrailia
  • Math Archives at University of Tennessee in Knoxvilee
  • ThinkQuest on Fractals
  • The Fractory: An Interactive ThinkQuest on Fractals
  • Geometry Center at University of Minnesota
  • Using fractint, Brad Johnson in California shares the steps for making fractals

• Lessons from Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, Third Edition by Jesse Liberty

Other Web Sites

1. C/C++ programming links ... The Association of Computing Machinery has worked on a model comp science curriculum (from ISED listserv)
2. thinkquest on c++ .. found by Maria from California
3. C/C++ programming links ... Park Tudor School in Indianapolis, IN is offering an on-line course in C++; a brochure describing the course can be downloaded. If you have any questions, please contact Ryan Ritz at Park Tudor School. (e-mail: rritz@parktudor.pvt.k12.in.us)
4. C/C++ programming links.. personal collection of c++ links ... site found by Ray Lam
5. BeginnersThis page contains information concerning a draft version of a book "A Beginners' C++"; this book isintended for "CS1, CS2" introductory Computer Science courses that use C++ as an implementation language. Professor Neil Gray, University of Wollongon, Dept of Computer Science ...site found by Rachel Shorey
6. A beginners C++(TH/MN)
7. Association of C and C++ users (there is a weekend tutorial under construction) (TH/MN)
8. Neil's c++ stuff
9. IFTECH site includes tutorial lessons on C++. According to the authors, "These tutorials help you to gain an understanding of the fundamental concepts driving C++ in a quick and painless way. They let you begin thinking in an object oriented way. Once you understand the fundamentals, the rest of the language is relatively straightforward because you will have a framework on which to attach other details as you need them." (site found by Terry Horrigan and Mary Nickerson)
10. Online C++ Tutorial covers basic syntax of Variables, Types, and Operators, Control Statements, Functions, Objects and Memory, Arrays and several advanced topics.There is also a glossary and a search feature,
11. C++ Tutorial Links is a mega-index page with links to many online C++ tutorials. http://library.thinkquest.org/C008294/
12. Thinkquest Digital Reference was designed by students at Boston Latin to introduce basic C++ concepts. There is a Flash enhanced or HTML version. This site is C++ from a student's perspective. The HTML version provides a slightly easier to read interface of the step by step tutorial. There is also a message board that so far has mimimal traffic and a mailing list.

Some quotes -- used with permission -- from some of the participants (we have not done mid-semester evaluations yet):

• I want to give the three of you a "heads up" on the course so far. I can only imagine the work that you are putting into the preparation of the materials, not alone the strategizing and discussion. I'm really excited so far so good. I especially enjoy the morning e-mails from Steve, the video streaming, and Ellie's directions for installing the software and grading test one.