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Effective Programming in C and C++
Art: not stated, Fletcher's Combined Block Telegraph Apparatus and Bell, 1889 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Andre Kessler
- Term
- January IAP 2014
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 8 solutions · 1 lecture note · 34 other files · 5 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 6.S096 Effective Programming in C and C++, January IAP 2014, Andre Kessler — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
17 files
- Lecture 1 Examples: diagnostic, hello, loop1, loop2, pointer, prime, printstr Download
- Lecture 2 Examples: align, alloc, badsize, limited, sizeof, struct, tree Download
- Lecture 4 Examples: vector Download
- Lecture 5 Examples: badswitch, isa, shape, stlqueue, stlvector, vector Download
- Lecture 6 Examples: composite, ptrs, shared_resources, strategy, vector, vector_unique Download
- Lecture 1: Introduction to C Download
- Lecture 2: Subtleties of C Download
- Lecture 3: Assembly Download
- Lecture 3: Secure Programming in C Download
- Lecture 4: Style and Structure Download
- Lecture 5: Object-Oriented C++ Download
- Lecture 6: Design Patterns Download
- Lecture 7: Introduction to Projects Download
- Lecture 8: Project Environments Download
- Lecture 9: Visualization Download
- Lecture 10: Course Recap, Interviews, Advanced Topics Download
- Vector Math Header (H) Download
Assignments
16 files
- Assignment 1, Problem 1: Floating Point Download
- Assignment 1, Problem 2: Matrix Manipulation Download
- Assignment 1, Problem 3: Matrix Manipulation 2 Download
- Assignment 1, Problem 4: Transposition Cipher Download
- Assignment 2, Problem 1: Linked List Library Download
- Assignment 2, Problem 2: Minimum Spanning Tree Download
- Assignment 2, Problem 3: Rational Number Library Download
- Assignment 3, Problem 1: C++ Linked List Library Download
- Solution code and test data: list Download
- Test data: matrix.data Download
- Solution code and test data: mst Download
- Starting environment: nbody Download
- Solution and test data: rational Download
- Test data: floating.data Download
- Test data: loop.data Download
- Solution and test data: cpplist Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Subtleties of C: Data Structures and Floating-Point Arithmetic
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Lecture 3: Guest Lectures: Assembly; Secure Programming in C
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Lecture 4: Style and Structure: Transition from C to C++
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Lecture 5: Object-Oriented C++: Abstraction, Inheritance, STL
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Lecture 6: Design Patterns: Higher-Level Program Design
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Lecture 7: Introduction to Projects: Unit Testing, Third-Party Libraries, Code Review
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Lecture 8: Project Environments: Iterators, N-Body Problem, Setup
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Lecture 9: Visualization: OpenGL, Makefiles, Large Projects
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Lecture 10: Course Recap, Interviews, Advanced Topics: Grab Bag & Perspective
MIT OpenCourseWare, Andre Kessler, 6.S096 Effective Programming in C and C++, January IAP 2014.
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