Syllabus
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| Wk |
Date | Event |
Topic | Reading | Tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
0 |
25 Aug | Lec 00 |
Introduction. Expressions | Sec. 1.1 | |
1 |
30 Aug | Lec 01 |
Expressions, casting between them | Sec. 1.1 | |
Lab 01 |
Evaluate expressions in DrJava | handout lab 01 | |||
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01 Sep | Lec 02 |
Creating objects and calling their methods. |
Secs. 1.2, 1.3 | |
2 |
06 Sep | Lec 03 |
Customizing a class. Javadoc |
Sec. 1.4 | |
Lab 02 |
Creating objects, calling their methods, writing subclasses | Sec. 1.4 | |||
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08 Sep | Lec 04 |
Fields, getter/setter methods, testing |
Secs. 1.5, 1.6 | |
3 |
13 Sep | Lec 05 |
Class hierarchy, static variables, testing |
Secs. 1.5, 1.6 | |
Lab 03 |
Testing and static variables |
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15 Sep | Lec 06 |
Methods |
Secs. 2.1, 2.2, 2.3 | |
4 |
20 Sep | Lec 07 |
Inside-out, super-this, and stepwise refinement |
Secs. 3.1.2–3 and 2.5 | |
Lab 04 |
Writing functions |
Secs. 2.3–5 | |||
| 22 Sep | Lec 08 |
Odds-and-ends on classes, stepwise refinement |
Sec. 3.1.3, 4.1.3 | ||
| 5 | 27 Sep | Lec 09 |
Wrapper classes, stepwise refinement |
Secs. 5.1, 2.5 | |
Lab 05 |
Class Vector | Sec. 5.3 | |||
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29 Sep | Lec 10 |
Recursion |
15.1–3 | |
| 6 | 04 Oct | Lec 11 |
Recursion |
15.1–3 | |
Lab 06 |
Recursion | ||||
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06 Oct | Lec 12 |
Casting about |
Sec. 4.2 | Prelim 1, 7:30–9:30 |
| 7 | 11 Oct | FALL BREAK | |||
| FALL BREAK | |||||
| 13 Oct | Lec 13 |
Turtles and loops | Sec. 2.38 | ||
| 8 | 18 Oct | Lec 14 |
Loops | Chap. 7 | |
Lab 07 |
for-loops and assertions | ||||
| 20 Oct | Lec 15 |
Loops | Chap. 7 | ||
| 9 | 25 Oct | Lec 16 |
Arrays | Secs. 8.1–3 | |
Lab 08 |
Reading files | Sec. 5.9 | |||
| 27 Oct | Lec 17 |
Testing | Chap. 14 | ||
| 10 | 01 Nov | Lec 18 |
Important algorithms | Secs. 8.3–5 | |
Lab 09 |
Exercises with loops | ||||
| 03 Nov | Lec 19 |
Important algorithms | Secs. 8.3–5 | ||
| 11 | 08 Nov | Lec 20 |
Important algorithms | Secs. 8.5, 15.4 | Prelim 2, 7:30–9:00 |
Lab 10 |
Abstract classes and methods | Sec. 4.7 | |||
| 10 Nov | Lec 21 |
Exceptions | Chap. 10 | ||
| 12 | 15 Nov | Lec 22 |
Placing components in GUIs | Secs. 17.1–3 | |
Lab 11 |
Exception handling | Chap. 10 | |||
| 17 Nov | Lec 23 |
Listening to GUIs | Sec. 17.4 | ||
| 13 | 22 Nov | Lec 24 |
Applications and applets | Chap. 16 | |
| NO LAB | |||||
| 24 Nov | THANKSGIVING BREAK | ||||
| 14 | 29 Nov | Lec 25 |
Interfaces | Secs. 12.1–2 | |
Lab 12 |
Timing execution | ||||
| 01 Dec | Lec 26 |
Conclusion | |||
| 05 Dec | Review |
Optional review sessions 1-4 | |||
| 06 Dec | Review |
Optional Review sessions 1-4 | |||
| 07 Dec | Review |
Optional Review sessions 1-4 | |||
| 09 Dec | Final, 9–11:30AM |
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