Lectures
CS2110 has twice-weekly lectures. Attendance is required.
Lecture notes are usually posted the day/evening before the lecture. Please download the lecture notes the evening before a lecture, peruse them to get a sense of what the lecture is about, and have the lecture notes handy during the lecture (either on paper or on your laptop/tablet/phone). During the lecture, we use not only the ppt slides but also Eclipse, DrJava, and the web, and when we are not using the ppt slides it will be useful for you to have them to look at.
Recitations
It is important to attend a weekly recitation, which are considered to be part of the required classwork for the course. We often present material in recitation that is required but not covered in the main lectures. You can switch from recitation to recitation but we like to know which one you are in, in case the University needs to contact you. We added some recitations at a late date; please switch to them if you can to balance out the number of students in each recitation. Use add/drop if you switch sections.
Weekly recitation notes will be posted below as we finalize them.
CS2111
This 1-credit S/U optional enrichment class is offered for people who are concerned that CS2110 might move too quickly and would like a bit of additional help understanding the key ideas. Students taking CS2111 must ALSO attend the main lectures and a recitation section. You must be enrolled in ENGRD/CS2110 in oder to take CS2111.
Weekly PDF files for the materials covered in CS2111 are posted on the course CS2111 website ---get to it from a link on the Links page.
Course text
You don't have to buy a book! We have produced online materials for most of the course: JavaHyperText and Data Structures. Part of this "book" consists of over 50 short (2-6 minute) tutorial/videos, which you will look at at the appropriate time.
Lecture schedule
Below is a tentative list of lecture topics, times for handing out assignments, deadlines for submitting assignments, and times for the prelims and prelim review sessions. The order and content of lectures may be changed as the course progresses.
LECTURE / Day |
TOPICS | NOTES | READING / ASSIGNMENTS | |
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1 | 08/23 | Course
policies/procedures. Java strong typing. |
Lecture
notes (pptx)
(pdf)
(pdf-6up) Why software is so bad First day handout Eclipse tutorial |
Hand out A0 |
2 | 08/28 |
OO: Objects and classes |
Lecture notes (ppt) (pdf) (pdf-6up) C.java | Hand out HW1 |
Recitation 01: Packages, API Specs, String: tutorial to watch beforehand | ||||
3 | 08/30 |
OO: Fields and their conse- quences. JUnit testing |
Lecture Notes
(ppt)
(pdf)
(pdf-6up) demoTime.zip |
A0 due Hand out A1 |
4 | 09/04 |
OO: The class hierarchy Static components |
Lecture notes (ppt) (pdf) (pdf-6up) | Hand out A2 |
Recitation 02: Exception handling. Watch tutorial beforehand. Problem set: E.java | ||||
5 | 09/06 |
OO: Inside-out / bottom-up, local vars, constructors |
Lecture Notes
(ppt)
(pdf)
(pdf-6up) demos.zip |
A1 due |
6 | 09/11 |
OO: Types and their conse- quences. function equals |
Lecture notes
(pptx)
(pdf)
(pdf-6up)
(pdf-6up) demoLecture6.zip pollslide.pdf |
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Recitation 03: Testing (pdf-6up) Rectangle.java TODO.txt | ||||
7 | 09/13 | Interfaces and abstract classes |
Watch tutorial before lecture. Lecture notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) TimeSet.zip |
A2 due |
8 | 09/18 |
Recursion 1 |
Lecture notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) recursionDemo.zip | Hand out A3 |
Recitation 04: Loop invariants. Watch tutorial beforehand loop invariants problem-set (docx) (pdf) (solutions) |
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9 | 09/20 |
Recursion 2 |
Lecture notes
(pptx)
(pdf )
(pdf-6up) recursionDemo.zip Iterative palindrome (ppt) (pdf) |
|
Review for Prelim 1, Sunday 09/23, 1-3PM | ||||
10 | 09/25 |
Complexity | Lecture Notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) | |
Recitation 05: Review for prelim 1 (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) | ||||
11 | 09/27 |
Sorting |
Lecture notes (pptx)
(pdf)
(pdf-6up) searchSortAlgorithms.zip |
PRELIM 1, 5:30 7:30 |
12 | 10/02 |
Trees | Lectures notes (pptx)
(pdf)
(pdf-6up) TreeDemo.zip |
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Recitation 06. Enums and Java Collections classes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) | ||||
13 | 10/04 |
Priority queues / heaps | Lecture notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) | Hand out A4 A3 due |
10/09 | Fall Break |
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Fall Break | ||||
14 | 10/11 |
Grammars, syntax trees |
Lecture notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) (The slides on parsing are out of scope of 2110. demoExpressionTrees.zip |
|
15 | 10/16 |
GUIs: Placing components | Lecture notes
(pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) demoGui.zip |
Hand out A5 Swing Tutorial |
Recitation 07: Iterator, Iterable.
Watch tutorial beforehand iterableProblemSet.pdf DLTest.java |
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16 | 10/18 | GUIs: handling events | Lecture notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) demoGui.zip |
A4 due |
17 | 10/23 |
Graphs I: Topological sort, Coloring, Planar graphs, Bipartite graphs |
Lecture Notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) | |
Recitation 08. I/O (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) iodemo.zip IOProblems.java | ||||
18 | 10/25 | Graphs II: DFS and BFS | Lecture Notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up)
dfsBfsDemo.zip |
A5 due |
19 | 10/30 | Graphs III: Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm |
Watch tutorial before lecture. Lecture notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) Do this before the lecture: tutorial on shortest path |
Hand out A6 |
Recitation 09: Analysis of Algorithms (pptx) |
20 | 11/01 | Graphs IV. Spanning trees | Lecture notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) | |
21 | 11/06 | Hashing |
Lecture notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) | A6 due |
Recitation 10. Anonymous functions (pptx) | ||||
22 | 11/08 |
Generics | Lecture notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) | |
Review for Prelim 2, Sunday 11/11, 1-3PM | ||||
23 | 11/13 | Concurrency |
Lecture notes
(pptx)
(pdf)
(pdf-6up) |
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Recitation 11. Prelim Review | ||||
24 | 11/15 |
Concurrency | Lecture notes
(pptx)
(pdf)
(pdf-6up) boundedBuffer.zip ConcurrentLinkedQueue.java |
PRELIM 2, 5:30 7:30 |
25 | 11/20 | Debugging | Lecture notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) | |
Recitation 12: Choose your own adventure | ||||
11/22 | Thanksgiving Break | |||
26 | 11/27 | The Science of Computers | Lecture notes | |
Recitation 13: A7 Help | ||||
27 | 11/29 | Fibonnacci | Lecture notes (pptx) (pdf) (pdf-6up) | |
27 | 12/04 | Conclusions! | Lecture notes | |
No Reciations this week | ||||
Optional Final: Mon, 10 Dec, 9:00-11:30AM. Place: Barton East |