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| Syllabus (Syllabus is subject to change.) | Date | Topics | Relevant Readings
in Moll's
E-Book | Assignments
due in OWL 9am | Tuesday , Jan. 27,
in Morrill 2 131
| Course Introduction
Computers in the world, programs and languages, course outline and logistics. Lecture slides. | | Problems for Chapter 1 and OWL survey assigned. Both are due Thursday, Jan. 29
(Install DrJava on your computer.) |
Tuesday, February 3
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Typing expressions, println
Declarations, Assignments, Modify HelloWorld, how to hand in assignments in OWL. Lecture slides. |
E-Book Chapters 0 and 1 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, February 5
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Introduction to objects and classes
Objects, classes, methods, attributes, and all about how to use objects!Lecture slides. |
E-Book Chapter 2 |
See OWL.
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Tuesday, February 10
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Object and classes...continued
Objects, classes, methods, attributes, and all about how to use objects!Lecture slides. |
E-Book Chapter 3 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, February 12
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Strings, Primitives Types, Scanners, APIs, and Import
String class, Primitive Types, Using the Scanner class, Using import,Lecture slides. |
E-Book Chapter 3 |
See OWL.
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Tuesday, February 17
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Operators, Conditionals, For Loops
Mod(Percent) operator, boolean expressions, if...else statements, for loopsLecture slides. |
E-Book Chapter 4 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, February 19
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Boolean Connectives, Char Processing, Math.random
static methods, more for loops, if...else statementsLecture slides. |
E-Book Chapter 4 |
See OWL.
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Tuesday, February 24
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Methods
more on methods, practice with loops, random, graphics, and tracing codeLecture slides. |
E-Book Chapter 5 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, February 26
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Values and References
Understand the difference between values (primitive types) and references (for object). Lecture slides. |
E-Book Chapter 5 |
See OWL.
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Tuesday, March 3
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While Loops, Wrapper classes, and Graphical I.O.
While loops, wrapper classes, conversion between types, JOptionPanes, static methods. Lecture slides. |
E-Book Chapter 6 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, March 5
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Problem Solving: A worked example.
How to use multiple classes together to solve a problem. You'll find below three java files: Window.java, Room.java, and Builder.java. These are the 3 class files we developed in class.Window.java, Room.java, Builder.java. |
E-Book Chapter 6 |
See OWL.
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Tuesday, March 10
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Review for mid-term and Start on Chapter 7.
I'll review for the midterm, and start chapter
7. You will not be responsible for Chapter 7 on the midterm. Midterm Review slides Last year's midterm |
E-Book Chapter 7 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, March 12
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FIRST MIDTERM EXAM.
Midterm will occur in the normal lecture time and place. No "aids", such as books, notes, calculators, iPhones, or anything else are allowed. |
E-Book Chapters 1-6 |
See OWL.
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Tuesday, March 24
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Arrays
Arrays. Lecture slides |
E-Book Chapter 7 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, March 26
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Arrays and Sorting
How to use arrays to sort a list of numbers using the Bubble Sort Algorithm. Lecture slides Java sorting program |
E-Book Chapter 7 |
See OWL.
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Tuesday, March 31
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Big Programs
Word Counting program, More on object references, and two references pointing to the same object. Lecture slides |
E-Book Chapter 8 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, April 2
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Snake 1: Solutions in detail. Also, more on
how the snake program works, including "listeners" and
"timerTasks". More on the word counting program from Chapter
8.
Lecture slides |
E-Book Chapter 7 |
See OWL.
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Tuesday, April 7
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Inheritance
How to derive subclasses from super-classes. Inheritance, polymorphism, etc.Lecture slides |
E-Book Chapter 9 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, April 9
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Special Lecture: Computer Vision How to perform certain visual tasks, like object recognition, with a computer. Image representation in a computer, recognition algorithms, complexity of the problem.
Lecture slides |
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See OWL.
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Tuesday, April 14
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File Input/Output and Exception Handling
How to read from a file on disk and write to a file on disk. Introduction to error (or exception) handling in Java.Lecture slides |
E-Book Chapter 10 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, April 16
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Exceptions continued. Also, aliasing
"try" and "catch" constructs. Catching errors,
throwing errors, the "throw" statement. Catch or specify
requirement. Checked and unchecked errors.Lecture slides |
E-Book Chapters 10, See auxiliary reading on Exceptions at Sun's Java sight. |
See OWL.
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Tuesday, April 21
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NO CLASS: MONDAY SCHEDULE
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See OWL.
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Thursday, April 23
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SECOND MIDTERM EXAM.
Midterm will occur in the normal lecture time and place. No "aids", such as books, notes, calculators, iPhones, or anything else are allowed. |
E-Book Chapters 1-10 |
See OWL.
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Tuesday, April 28
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Interfaces
Interfaces. The implements and interface keywords. Classes for holding methods. Implementing interfaces. Defining interfaces. Lecture slides |
E-Book Chapter 11 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, April 30
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Interfaces continued
Casting between different object types. More examples of interfaces using these java files: Drawable.java,Triangle.java,Circle.java,DrawingMethods.java. Dynamic dispatching. Lecture slides |
E-Book Chapter 11. |
See OWL.
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Tuesday, May 5
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The Comparable Interface, Object Casting, and Abstract Classes
Continue discussion of interfaces with
the Comparable interface. Need for type casting to "Object" type with
Comparable interface. Abstract classes.Lecture slides |
E-Book Chapter 11 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, May 7
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Graphics.
JPanels. Event models. Events. Callbacks.
Lecture slides |
E-Book Chapter 12. |
See OWL.
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Tuesday, May 12
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Graphics, MouseListeners, and Modifications
Modifying graphics programs. MouseListeners.Lecture slides |
E-Book Chapter 13 |
See OWL.
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Thursday, May 14, 10:30 AM
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Final Exam
in Mahar Auditorium 108 |
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