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Unit 5: Brief Introduction to the UNIX operating system and useful shell commands. Quick review of elementary C++ control structures, including recursion. Scope and lifetime of variables and identifiers. Introduction to structs, classes, member functions (including constructors and destructors), and data abstraction.
Unit 6: Pointers and multi-dimensional arrays. Strings and the string manipulation library functions. Continuation of data abstraction themes. The use of stack and queue data types for writing simulations.
Unit 7: Bit manipulation and bit fields. Binary files and a simple record management system. Sets as an abstract data type. Introduction to recursive backtracking techniques. Unions and non-sequential files.
Unit 8: Computer architecture. Instructions and addressing using the MIPS RISC assembly language. Internal representation of data structures. Stacks, subroutines and stack frames to explain how higher-level languages work.
Unit 9: Bringing it all together: how high-level programming languages work: a C++ program that implements an interpreter and a compiler for a high-level language.

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