CS 0401 Daily Syllabus

Lecture #	Date	Concept	References
1	Aug. 30	Intro. Material; Course Policies Course Prerequisites and Goals Getting Started with Java	Handout Notes Gaddis Ch. 1
2	Sep. 1	Intro. to Java and compiling / running programs Keywords, Identifiers and Literals Assessment Quiz	ex1.java Gaddis Ch. 2
3	Sep. 6	Variables, data and expressions; primitive types vs. reference types; operators, precedence and associativity	ex2.java ex3.java Gaddis Ch. 2
4	Sep. 8	Using the Scanner class for input Intro. to control statements; boolean expressions (relational operators, boolean operators, truth tables)	ex4.java Gaddis Ch. 2 Gaddis Sec. 3.1 Gaddis Sec. 3.5
5	Sep. 13	Finish Boolean expressions Java if statement (syntax and use, special cases; dangling else) Syntax errors vs. Run-time errors vs. Logic errors Java while statement (syntax and use, variations)	Gaddis Ch. 3 ex5a.java ex5b.java Gaddis Ch. 4
6	Sep. 15	Java for statement (syntax and use, variations) Java switch statement (syntax and use, special cases and cautions)	Gaddis Ch. 4 forexamples.java ex5c.java ex5d.java Gaddis Sec. 3.9 ex6.java
7	Sep. 20	Intro. to Java methods, method calls and functional abstraction; static method syntax and use; passing arguments to a method by value	Gaddis Ch. 5
8	Sep. 22	Local variables and scope References and reference types in Java and their implications	ex7.java ex8.java
9	Sep. 27	Intro. to Java classes and objects, data abstraction and encapsulation, data hiding and private variables	Gaddis Ch. 6 ex9.java
10	Sep. 29	Creating Java classes (syntax and examples), constructors, accessors and mutators	ex10.java IntCircle.java
11	Oct. 4	Intro. to Java arrays (motivation; idea; syntax; simple use) Intro. to simple Java text files	Gaddis Ch. 8 ex11.java ex11.txt
12	Oct. 6	More on Java arrays (arrays as objects, array parameters, modifying an array, searching an array)	ex12a.java
13	Oct. 13	Arrays of reference types; arrays as instance data; shared data vs. separate copies; resizing an array; private methods	ex12b.java Scores.java
14	Oct. 18	Exam One Material for exam up through and including Lecture 13
15	Oct. 20	Two-dimensional arrays ArrayLists and their uses Intro to sorting (idea, simple sorting algorithms [SelectionSort, InsertionSort])	ex13.java ArrayL.java ex14.java SortInt.java
16	Oct. 25	Binary search: intro, discussion and trace; comparison with sequential search	Gaddis 8.11 BinarySearchDemo.java
17	Oct. 27	Miscellaneous OO topics / issues	Gaddis Ch. 9
18	Nov. 1	Intro. to using Graphical Components in Java (idea, background, simple example, using a JButton, event-driven programming)	Gaddis Ch. 7 ex15a.java ex15b.java
19	Nov. 3	More graphical components (layout managers, JPanels to subdivide windows)	ex15c.java ex15d.java Counters.java Counters2.java
20	Nov. 8	Extending JPanel to encapsulate data Intro to Java interfaces; Assignment 4 discussion	Counters2.java ex16.java Laughable.java Booable.java
21	Nov. 10	Java wrapper classes; parsing integer input; using the Character class	Gaddis Ch. 10 ex17.java MyInteger.java ex18.java
22	Nov. 15	Intro. to Java inheritance; superclasses vs. subclasses; protected variables; inheritance vs. composition	Gaddis Ch. 11 ex19.java SuperClass.java SubClass.java Subby.java ex20.java RationalNumber.java MixedNumber.java MixedNumber2.java
23	Nov. 17	Ad-hoc polymorphism (operator overloading)	ex21.java
24	Nov. 22	Subclassing (true) polymorphism; overriding methods and late binding; accessing super versions of methods; accessing collections of data in a polymorphic way Abstract classes; abstract methods; using an abstract class within a hierarchy	ex22.java ex23.java
25	Nov. 29	Interfaces, polymorphic access and generics Using parameterized generic types and methods in Java	Gaddis Sec. 11.9 ex24.java SortAll.java ex24T.java SortAllT.java
26	Dec. 1	Intro. to Java Exceptions (idea; generation of exceptions (throwing); handling of exceptions (catching); rules and quirks)	Gaddis Ch. 12 ex25.java
27	Dec. 6	Text vs. binary files and their differences; Serializable objects; writing objects to and reading objects from files	ex26.java ex27a.java ex27b.java CDSerial.java SongSerial.java
28	Dec. 8	Intro. to recursion (idea; simple recursive equations; recursive case and base case; implementing recursion)	Gaddis Ch. 15 recursion.java
N/A	Dec. 12	Exam Two 8:00AM-9:50AM, 343 Alumni Hall