Previous Announcements

November 30:

• Information about the final exam has been posted to the exam page.
• Notes on implementing heaps using arrays have been posted to the miscellaneous notes page.
• The solution to assignment 7 has been posted to the assignment page.

November 29:

• Test data for assignment 8 has been posted to the assignment page.
• There is a typo in the first problem of Assignment 8. It should read:

  ... Argue that she is correct by showing the following:

  log2(n) = O(log3(n))

  log3(n) = O(log2(n))

  The notation log2(n) stands for logarithm of n to base 2 etc.

November 23:

Assignment 8 is due on December 2nd.  The original due date of Dec. 4th was erroneous. 

November 22:

• Prelim 2: mean = 57.66, standard deviation = 21.7
• A correct version of the assignment 5 FPE parser has been posted.
• Code for the binary search tree has been added to the lecture notes page.

November 18:

Assignment 8 has been posted.  It is due December 2nd.

The solution to prelim exam 2 has been posted to the exam page.

November 12:

The file SymbolTable.java has been posted to the assignment page. You may use it for assignment 7 if your compiler does not support the Java 2 collection classes (Map, HashMap).

The solution to assignment 6 has been posted to the assignment page.

A message from Professor Pingali: 

Dear class,

My email file runneth over with requests for an extension for the current assignment that is due on November 18th. If you promise to learn data structures and amaze my colleagues with your knowledge of Java when you take their courses, I'll move the due date to November 23rd. So call me a sucker for a sob-story (or more precisely, about 43 sob-stories as of this minute...).

Prof Pingali

PS: Please stop sobbing into my email now. I'm working on a big proposal to the NSF with a number of my colleagues, and their email is getting drowned. Java nice day.

November 11:

Assignment 7 has been posted to the assignment page.  It is due on November 23th.

The solution to assignment 5 has been posted there as well.

A sample second prelim has been posted to the exam page.

November 8:

In problem 1, if your Java version does not support java.util.ArrayList than you can use the java.util.Vector class.

November 5:

Assignment 6 has been posted to the assignment page.

November 2:

e.g. 3 - 4 (Result = -1)

e.g. 3 - -4 (Result = 7)

4 -4 (Because the scanner reads this as two numbers without an operator).

October 27:

Assignment 5 has been posted to the assignment page.

October 25:

More errata and notes for Assignment 4 have been posted to the Assignments page.

Another version of the RunTime.java class, RunTime3.java has been posted as well.  This fixes a bug in the previous version.

October 19:

Important errata and notes for Assignment 4 have been posted to the Assignments page.

A new version of the RunTime.java class, RunTime2.java has been posted as well.

October 18:

The due date for Assignment 4 has been moved to October 28th.

Andrew Lee's office hours for this week have been moved to Thurs, 12:15 - 1:15/

October 13:

The solution to assignment 3 has been posted to the the Assignments page.

Prelim Topics:

 October 12:

 October 8 :

Assignment 4 has been posted.

Andrew Lee has cancelled his office hours for this afternoon. They will be rescheduled next week.

October 7 :

Students will be demonstrating their solutions to assignment 3 to the consultants.  There is a schedule posted on the door of the consultant office where students can sign up for a demo.

October 6 :

• Change in schedule concerning topic for lecture on Thursday, Oct. 7:

Lecture topic will be Recursion.

Lectures notes on Recursion are posted on the course web pages.

(Exceptions will be covered in recitations at a later date.)

• Information regarding cs211 Prelim on Oct. 14., 7:30 - 9:00 pm

The following rooms have been reserved in Olin: 155, 165, 255.

Students will be allocated rooms alphabetically.

This schedule will be coming up soon.

Those who would like to do a makeup MUST send e-mail to Professor Pingali.

They will be notified about the makeup schedule.

A sample prelim had been posted on the web page.

October 5 :

   Generating javadoc Documentation in Code Warrior.

• In the Project window, click the Target Settings button to open the Java Application Settings window.
• Expand Target, select Target Settings.
• Set Pre-linker Option to: JavaDoc Pre-linker.
• Save and close the Java Application Settings window.
• Compile your program, and view the html-documentation created in your source code folder using your web browser.

September 30 :

    Exceptions will be discussed in lecture next week (beginning Oct. 5).  The relevant lecture notes have been posted to the Lecture Notes page.

September 28 :

• There will be a special help session this Saturday for students having difficulty with basic object-oriented programming concepts such as constructors, references and inheritance. If you got below 60 in Assignment 2, you are strongly advised to show up.

  Date: October 2 
  Time: 10 AM - 5 PM 
  Place: Olin 255

  This is not the place to get help for the current assignment; rather it is intended to shore up your knowledge of the basics of Java.

   

• The solution to assignment 2 has been posted to the Assignments page.

• Regarding Assignment 3

  Read the assignment carefully. Follow any explicit instructions that are given for designing the solution. If anything is unclear, give your own interpretation and provide the details in your solution.

  You can hook up your solution for the GUI in Assignment 3 to ANY non-GUI solution of the game Life and its variation from Assignment 2. Feel free to use the solution for Assignment 2 that is posted on the course web pages.

  You should hand in a Cover Sheet with your solution of the assignment, that *just* has the following information:

  • The name of the course: CS211
  • The assignment number
  • The assignment due date
  • Your name, identification number and e-mail address
  • Your partner's name, identification number and e-mail address (if you have a partner)

  Failure to do so will be penalized by at least 5 points.

  You will need to demo your code for assignment 3. The practical details of how this will be done will be posted later.

September 22 :

Assignment 3 has been posted to the Assignments Page

Assignment 2 notes:

• Clarification on submitting examples

  Choose 2 unique initial generations. Preferably 40x40 grid recommendation that was posted or the two described in the assignment. Run them both for Conway's Life and the variation.

  For each run, capture 3 generations. That is a total of 12 computed generations to hand in. Try and save some trees.

• Clarification on marking cells: '+' or 'X'

  To begin with, all cells that are on in the *initial* generation are shown as '+' . From then on, in the future generations: A cell that is on in the current generation and will remain on in the next one is shown as 'X' . A cell that is not on in the current generation but will be on in the next one is shown as '+' .

September 20 :  

• Tomorrow's lecture (9/21) will be using the GUI notes available on the Lecture Notes page. 
• This weeks lectures (9/21, 9/23) will cover the following topics:
• From OBP lecture notes, covered very briefly:
• Accessibility (class, interfaces, members)
• Abstract classes and methods
• Final classes, members and parameters.
• Example of program design - SaM Machine (lecture notes and source code on the web).
• GUI:
• Containers and Component
• Component Hierarchy: Component layout using layout managers
• Event driven programming: events, listeners and sources 
• Implementing listeners using: Adapter Classes, Anonymous Classes 
• Example of GUI design - SaM GUI (lecture notes not yet ready, but source code is on the web)

September 19 :  

• You should not hand in the documentation generated by javadoc - that documentation can be read from your *code*. However you should hand in other documentation (UML diagrams, etc.) which explain the *design* of your program.
• More UML links have been added to the Useful Links page.
• Information on setting command line parameters in J++ has been added to the Miscellaneous Links page.

September 15 :  

Lecture Topics for Thursday 9/16 :

September 14:

• Graded assignments will be returned in the Consulting office during regular consulting hours.

• Today's lecture notes on the SaM stack machine have been added to the Lecture Notes page.  Source code and examples for SaM can also be found there.

September 10: 

• Assignment 2 has been posted to the Assignments page.

• Information on passing command line parameters in Code Warrior has been added to the Miscellaneous Notes page.

• Information on printing screen shots has been added to the Miscellaneous Notes page.

• A link to the UML resource site has been added to the Useful Links page.

September 8:

Professor Mughal has posted a brief explanation of packages to the Miscellaneous Notes page.

September 7:

Students who do not have all the handouts need to print the Postscript versions of these notes. 

Extra copies of the earlier handouts, once there are gone from 303 Upson, will not be made.

September 6:

Professor Mughal will run a Java help session this Tuesday and Wednesday in Olin 155 from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM.

The help session is intended for students whose reach exceeds their grasp of Java. Attendance is not mandatory.

Regular consulting hours have started, and you can find the consultants in Upson 305 during the consulting hours posted there. Consultants can help you with small problems in your code. Do not expect them to teach you Java.

September 2:

For those wishing to view Postscript (.ps) files on their home machines, a link to Aladdin Ghostscript has been added to the Useful Links page.

Assignment 1 has been posted to the Assignments page.

August 31:

The CS211 input and output classes have been added to the Java Files page.

August 26:

Links to guides for those wanting to install and use Code Warrior have been added to the Useful Links page.