• The lecture will start on October 17 and end on December 7, 2017.
• The exercises will start October 20 (Please note that the exercises are four hours)

Programming language for the programming exercises is C++ and it must compile on one of the Linux machines at the institute. More details at the first session. If you are not familiar with Linux and/or C++, look into it ASAP!

Schedule:

General notes regarding the exercises:

• to pass the course, you need to pass the exam in the end, and you need to pass the exercises (formal requirement "Aktive Teilnahme")
• to pass the exercises you need to pass the theoretical assignments, the programming assignments and the reviews
• both types of assignments will be available from the assignment field on the left
• if you successfully passed the exercises in a previous semester, i.e. all the requirements, you do not need to take the exercises again (although it is highly recommended)
• however partial results from previous semesters cannot be taken into account, e.g. if you only passed programming but not the review, you need to take programming again, as well.

Theoretical assignments:

• there are six assignment sheets with 3-4 tasks each, every week one sheet is due
• I will ask at least two students (not groups) in advance to prepare each task and then explain it during the exercise
• every student will be asked at least once, but most will be asked twice
• failure to present a task more than once  means failing the exercises (it's ok if the solution is not perfect, that's why I ask two students, but it should be close)
• assignment sheets are not collected/graded, presentation is the "test"
• and the reviews will test the theory, as well, see below

Programming assignments:

• there are three programming assignments, one is due every two weeks
• you get to work on them in groups of three, please sign up to a group ASAP ("Section info" on the left)
• every two weeks I will pick 4-5 groups at the beginning of the exercise whose code I will review with them and who have to present their programming solution to the other students
• failure to present a fully working solution more than once means failing the exercises
• programming assignments are not collected/graded, presentation/code-review is the "test"
• programs need to build with g++ (version 4.9 or newer) on a Linux system and the following flags:

• g++ -std=c++14 -Werror -Wall -Wextra -DNDEBUG -O3 -pedantic YOURFILE.cpp

Reviews:

• there are two reviews (smaller exams)
• they are graded and you need to reach at least 50% of the combined points to pass the exercises

C++ Resources:

• A good introduction : http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/ (read at least the Basics until the first exercise)
• detailed documentation on C++ and the standard library: http://en.cppreference.com/
• Some good links and book recommendations: https://isocpp.org/get-started