COMS W4995 C++ Deep Dive for C Programmers

Fall 2026

COMS 4995-011: Tuesday & Thursday 5:40-6:55pm, 428 Pupin Laboratories
Two synchronous and in-person exams:
- Exam 1: Tuesday October 27, 5:40p - 6:55p
- Exam 2: Tuesday December 22, 7:00p - 10:00p (to be confirmed)
There are no make-up or alternate exams. If you cannot make any of those exams, please take the course next time.
Instructor: Hans J. Montero
Office hours:
- Hans & TA office hours
Anonymous feedback form

Course essentials

OVERVIEW AND LOGISTICS
REQUIRED READING: ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICIES
Linux Programming Environment – same as COMS 3157
Jae’s Git Tutorial – same as COMS 3157
Lab Workflow
Helpful Guides

Important Dates

Date	Assignment
F 9/11	HW0 due
F 9/25	Lab 1 due

Course Schedule

Lecture 1: T 9/8

Course overview and logistics

OVERVIEW AND LOGISTICS
- 00-overview
Assignments:
1. Subscribe to c2cpp@lists.cs.columbia.edu – see L00 above
2. Read the following two documents:
  - http://www.cs.columbia.edu/education/honesty
  - http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jae/honesty.html
3. HW0 due Fri 9/11, 11:59pm
  
  Send an email to Hans and Jae containing:
  - To: hans@cs.columbia.edu, jae@cs.columbia.edu
  - Subject: “[c2cpp] hw0-UNI” – without quotes, sole space before hw0, UNI replaced with your actual UNI in lowercase
  - Your name, major & school program, year – e.g., Hans Montero, Computer Science, Columbia Engineering, class of 2021
  - Your pledge – see http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~jae/honesty.html
  - CS classes taken and/or other programming background
  - Optionally anything else you want to let us know
  - Optionally attach a picture of you, but please reduce image file size to about 100KB

C to C++

Lecture: 01-c2cpp
- Compiling & linking C/C++ code with Makefile
- Introduction to string, iostream, namespace
Source code:
- Makefile, hello.cpp

Lecture 2: R 9/10

Basic-4 in C++

Lecture: 02-basic4
- Member functions
- Constructors and destructors
- Stack allocations and heap allocations
Source code: Makefile, basic4.cpp

Last updated: 2026-09-09