ENEE 140 :: Spring 2026 :: Course Syllabus

Textbooks

Required:

B. Kernighan and D. Ritchie, The C Programming Language, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall 1988.
The best book about C, and a great reference for programming in general, but a bit challenging for students who are new to programming. Also known as K&R.
S. Summit, C Programming Notes. (available online)
Excellent notes to supplement K&R with more detailed explanations.

Recommended:

B. Kernighan and R. Pike, The Practice of Programming
A great book on programming principles, with practical advice and examples in several programming languages (including C).

Online resources

Stack Overflow
The C FAQ
The CLion Integrated Development Environment:

Google is also your friend

Syllabus

enee140_s26_syllabus.pdf

Prerequisites

Permission from the Electrical & Computer Engineering department.
Restriction: Must be in the Electrical Engineering.

Grading

Your final grade for the course will be based on the following weights:

10% Quizzes: ~10 short quizzes on the reading assignments, due on Monday before class
20% Homeworks: 10-13 weekly recitation assignments, due every Friday.
35% Projects: 2 programming assignments.
35% Exams: one mid-term exam (10%) and one final exam (25%)
5% Bonus points (e.g. for answering your classmates' questions on Piazza)

Homeworks are due at 11:59 PM every Friday.

Quizzes are due at 11:59 PM on Sunday before class.

Projects are due at 11:59 PM on Fridays.

Tentative Schedule

Also available as an ical file that you can subscribe to.

	Date	Topics	Assignments	Readings for next week
1	Tue 01/27	Programming concepts [pdf] [Video 1]	Lab materials: Lab 01 No homework due this week.	K&R Introduction and Chapters 1.1, 1.2, 1.4. Weekly challenge: temperature_conversion.c [solution]
2	Tue 02/03	Basic program structure [pdf] [Video 1]	Lab materials: Lab 02 Syllabus Quiz (due on 02/06)	K&R Chapters 1.3, 1.5, 2.1, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2. Weekly challenge: word_per_line.c [solution]
3	Tue 02/10	Character I/O [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 03 Quiz 2 (due on Sunday)	K&R Chapters 1.7, 1.8, 7.2, 7.4, B4. Weekly challenge: temperature_conversion_function.c [solution]
4	Tue 02/17	Functions [pdf]	Lab materials: Lab 04 Quiz 3 (due on Sunday)	K&R Chapters 2.5, 2.7, 2.8, 2.10, B2, B11. Weekly challenge: read_divide_ints.c [solution]
5	Tue 02/24	Integer & floating point arithmetic [pdf] [Video 1]	Lab materials: Lab 05 No quiz this week	K&R Chapters 2.2, 2.9, 3.3, 6.1, B5, B6. Weekly challenge: dec2bin.c [solution]
6	Tue 03/03	Data types & type conversion [pdf] [Video 1]	Project 1 out. No homework this week. No quiz this week	Review the material for the mid-term exam.
	Tue 03/10	Mid-term exam [Video 1]	Project 1: partial implementation due (on 3/13) Lab materials: Lab 06 No quiz this week	K&R Chapters 1.6, 1.9, 2.3, 2.4, 4.1, 4.2, B3. Weekly challenge: strncpy.c [solution]
	Tue 03/17	Spring Break (no lecture)
7	Tue 03/24	Arrays and strings [pdf] [Video 1]	Lab materials: Lab 07 Quiz 4 (due on Sunday)	K&R Chapters 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8, 4.9, 4.11. Weekly challenge: trim_strings.c [solution]
8	Tue 03/31	Complex programs [pdf]	Project 1: complete implementation due (on 04/03) Lab materials: Lab 08 Quiz 5 (due on Sunday)	K&R Chapters 2.11, 2.12, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 5.10, 6.2, 6.3, 6.7. Weekly challenge: check_password_rules.c
9	Tue 04/07	Control flow	Project 2 out. Quiz 6 (due on Sunday)	K&R Chapters 7.1, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, B1. Re-read chapters 7.2, 7.4.
10	Tue 04/14	File I/O (buffered)	Project 2: partial implementation due	K&R Chapters 6.8, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4.
11	Tue 04/21	File I/O (unbuffered)		K&R Chapter 5.11 (read about how to use qsort). Re-read chapters B11, 3.5.
12	Tue 04/28	Sorting	Project 2: complete implementation due	Review the material for the final exam.
13	Tue 05/05	Final exam review
	Mon 05/18	Final exam (date TBD)