Animal Farm is a series of labs intended to teach the basics of C and C++. It's also intended to introduce good Software Engineering practices. Students are expected to "Live" in this project as the code evolves over a series of requirements.
The project's home page (hosted by GitHub) is here
The source code documentation (hosted by UH) is here
| Assignment | Description |
|---|---|
| Animal Farm 0 | Instantiate the Farm in CLion & GitHub. Write config.h w/ PROGRAM_NAME. Hello World in main(). |
| Animal Farm 1 | Bring Doxygen to the Farm |
| Animal Farm 2 | Write our first utility function: Trim. Introduce Boost Tests. |
| Animal Farm 3 | Write our second utility function: Name. Get into exceptions. Start CONTRIBUTE.md |
| Animal Farm 4 | An array-based database of cats, where each attribute is an array. |
| Animal Farm 5 | An array-based database of cats, where each a cat's attributes are collected in a struct. |
| Cat Lives 1 | Basic Color & Gender |
| Animal Farm 6 | A basic cat object |
| Animal Farm 7 | A better cat object that uses Trim & Name |
| Animal Farm 8 | An array-based cat (object) database |
| Cat Pride 1 | Separate the data from the algorithm. Node & Cat separation using Array-based storage |
| Animal Farm 9 | Random & Cat Factory |
| Cat Lives 2 | Color & Gender w/ << override |
| FatCat | Weight |
| Animal Farm 10 | Cat comparators & swap |
| Cat Pride 2 | n2 sorts |
| Animal Farm 11 | Refactor Node & Linked List |
| Cat Navy | Cats & Nodes & Linked Lists |
| Animal Farm 12 | Mammal & Animal classes |
| Animal Farm 13 | Dogs & Birds & Finches & Chickens |
| Animal Farm 14 | Animal Generators |
| Animal Farm 15 | Doubly Linked Lists |
| Cat Wrangler 1 | Doubly Linked List collections w/ Cats |
| Cat Wrangler 2 | Cat (and Node) comparisons |
| Cats Waiting Patiently In Line | Queues |
| Cat Wrangler 3 | Swap |
| Cat Wrangler 4 | Port n2 sorts |
| Cat Wrangler 5 | n ln(n) sorts |
| Animal Farm 16 | Trees |
| Cat Empire! 1 | Make a Cat-specific Binary Search Tree |
| Cat Empire! 2 | Do several traversals of CatEmpire! |
| Cat Empire! 3 | Implement a delete() method on a Binary Search Tree |
| Optimus Cat | Performance analysis of add, remove, n2 sorts and n ln(n) sorts on Arrays, Lists & Trees. |
This project is the product of a tremendous amount of R&D and would not be possible without the following world-class tools:
| Tool | Website | Logo |
|---|---|---|
| gcc | https://gcc.gnu.org |  |
| llvm/clang | https://clang.llvm.org |  |
| CLion | https://jetbrains.com/clion |  |
| CMake | https://cmake.org |  |
| Doxygen | https://doxygen.nl |  |
| DOT | https://graphviz.org |  |
| Boost | https://boost.org |  |
| Git | https://git-scm.com |  |
| GitHub | https://github.com |  |
| Linux | https://kernel.org |  |
| ArchLinux | https://archlinux.org |  |
| VirtualBox | https://www.virtualbox.org |  |