ShockSoc Programming Support Sessions Home-Page

Authored and Managed by Oliver Dixon, ShockSoc Technical Officer.

This home-page is intended for those interested in the ShockSoc Programming Support Sessions in P/T/401, taking place from 2pm to 5pm on Wednesdays; note that although these are the "official" timings, P/T/401 is usually open with a ShockSoc committee member from midday on Wednesdays. The purpose of these support sessions are to complement (and not replace) the ELE00029C "Introduction to Programming" module, which is currently delivered in the first year by Adar Pelah in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of York. In particular, these sessions have an almost-absolute focus on C programming, which is typically taught during the Spring term.

On this page, you will find a PDF lab script for each week, as they are released, along with any supplementary material. As always, relevant remarks are always encouraged and welcomed, especially ones concerning suggestions and/or corrections to the scripts, and should be directed to od641@york.ac.uk. Approximately a week prior to a script's official release, an inspection copy will be placed on this page for comments by particularly avid readers. All inspection copies will be clearly marked as such, and should not be presented to the majority of the cohort.

To build the scripts yourself, download and extract the source archives. A standard TeX Live distribution should suffice in most cases, along with a working Biber and BibLaTeX setup. In the interest of avoiding the many unpleasantries of pdflatex and Biber, I suggest using John Collins' fantastic latexmk tool to handle the multi-pass compilation process. If you would like the compilation date and platform to appear on the title page, you must pass -shell-escape to latexmk. All PSS scripts are wholly dedicated to "M. Q.".
Aside: for the 'official' Introduction to Programming module, I have written a short guide describing the build and client-linking processes for Allegro on UNIX-like systems. It can be found here, with the source file available here.