ALL ASSIGNMENTS ARE ONE PERSON PROJECTS

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Getting occasional suggestions or explanations from others is encouraged.

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Working together with anyone on any part of any assignment is PROHIBITED and will result in a score of 0 for the entire assignment.

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Submitting work that is not exclusively your own or that you have shared with others is PROHIBITED and will result in a score of 0 for the entire assignment.

Topic Coverage and Assignment Schedule
Grading policies and regaining points lost on assignments 2-4...
 

ASSIGNMENT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS 

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What is a "C Program"?          What is a "C++ Program" ?

Most exercises say to, "write a C program" or, "write a C++ program".  Virtually all ANSI/ISO/IEC C functions and constructs will compile and execute properly in a C++ environment, but because C++ was designed to be "a better C", alternatives to many of those deemed "unsafe" have been implemented in C++.  Only the C++ alternatives should be used in a C++ program.  On the other hand, no C++ forms may be used in a C program.  For the C++ concepts covered in this course use the following guidelines when writing your programs:

Some characteristics of  a "C++ Program"

Source code files typically have  .c  extensions while header files typically have  .h  extensions.

Source code files never have  .c  extensions but instead typically have extensions of  .cpp, .cxx, .C, etc.  Header files typically have no extension.

void pointers and functions that use them or have a variable number of arguments are fine.

void pointers or functions that use them or have a variable number of arguments are not normally used.

Use the stdio family of functions for stream I/O, for example scanf, printf, getchar, putchar, fgets, fputs, fread, fwrite, etc. .

Use the iostream and ...fstream family of objects/methods/operators for stream I/O, for example cin, cout, cerr, get, getline, put, write, etc.

Use  malloc, calloc, realloc, and free for dynamic memory operations.

Use new, new[], delete, and delete[] for dynamic memory operations.

Use // for comments.