|
Week # |
Dates |
Event / Topics |
|
Week
#1 |
Mon 25-Aug to
Fri 29-Aug |
Getting
Started
Data and
Expressions
Writing Static Methods
Homework #1 -
Practice
Homework #1 (due Mon 1-Sep at 11:59pm) |
|
Week
#2 |
Mon 1-Sep to
Fri 5-Sep |
Conditionals
Loops (An Introduction)
Quiz 1 (on Fri 5-Sep)
Homework #2 - Practice
Homework #2 (due Mon 8-Sep at 11:59pm) |
|
Week
#3 |
Mon 8-Sep to
Fri 12-Sep |
Scanner
Methods and Console UI
Quiz 2 (on Fri 12-Sep)
Homework #3 - Practice
Homework #3 (due Mon 15-Sep at 11:59pm) |
Week
#4 |
Mon 15-Sep to
Fri 19-Sep |
String
and Character Methods
Math and Random
Methods
Getting
Started with Graphics
Code Tracing
Bonus Lecture
#1: Circuits and Assembly
Homework #4 (due Thu 25-Sep at 11:59pm) |
Week
#5 |
Mon 22-Sep to
Fri 26-Sep |
Graphics, Color, and Polygon Methods
Getting
Started with Events
Quiz 3 (on Tue 23-Sep)
Homework #5 (due Thu 2-Oct at 11:59pm) |
Week
#6 |
Mon 29-Sep to
Fri 3-Oct |
One-Dimensional
Arrays
--- end of midterm #1 material ---
Two-Dimensional
Arrays
Bonus Lecture #2: Matrices and Mazes
Quiz 4 (on Tue 30-Sep)
Homework #6 (Connect4) (due
Fri 10-Oct at
7:59pm) |
Week
#7 |
Mon 6-Oct to
Fri 10-Oct |
Searching and Sorting
Midterm #1:
Programming Portion (on Fri 10-Oct)
Homework #7 (Snake) (due Thu 16-Oct at 11:59pm) |
Week
#8 |
Mon 13-Oct to
Fri 17-Oct |
Midterm #1:
Written Portion (on Tue 14-Oct)
Bonus Lecture #3: Sub-quadratic sorts (mergesort, quicksort,
heapsort, radixsort)
Bonus Homework #7b (optionally due Thu 23-Oct at 11:59pm) |
|
|
|
Mid-semester break |
Week
#9 |
Mon 20-Oct to
Fri 24-Oct |
SCALES (Strings, Conditionals, Arrays, Loops, Expressions, and Syntax)
review
Getting Started with Writing Classes
Bonus Lecture #4: A (simple) interpreter and (an even simpler)
spreadsheet (1 of 2)
Quiz 5 (on Tue 21-Oct)
Homework #8 (due Fri
31-Oct at 4:59pm) |
Week
#10 |
Mon 27-Oct to
Fri 31-Oct |
SCALES review + Ch 1 Reading
Writing Classes
Bonus Lecture #5: A (simple) interpreter and (an even simpler)
spreadsheet (2 of 2)
Homework #9 (Tetris, part 1 of 2) (due Thu 6-Nov at 11:59pm) |
Week
#11 |
Mon 3-Nov to
Fri 7-Nov |
SCALES review + Ch 2-3 Reading
More Data and Expressions
Getting
Started with the Java Collection Framework
Quiz 7-8 Handout
Quiz 6 (on Tue 4-Nov)
Homework #10 (Tetris, part 2 of 2) (due
Thu 13-Nov at 11:59pm) |
Week
#12 |
Mon 10-Nov to
Fri 14-Nov |
SCALES review + Ch 4-5 Reading
More Conditionals and Loops
Style + Code Conventions
Interfaces
Bonus Lecture #6: AI
(1 of 2): Solving 16-Puzzles with Breadth-First + A* Search
Quiz 7 (on Tue 11-Nov)
Homework #11 (due Thu 20-Nov at
11:59pm)
--- end of midterm #2 material --- |
Week
#13 |
Mon 17-Nov to
Fri 21-Nov |
SCALES review + Ch 6-7 Reading
Inheritance
and Polymorphism
Bonus Lecture #7: AI (2 of 2): Playing Othello with Minimax Search
Quiz 8 (on Tue 18-Nov)
Homework #12 (Set) (due
Thu 4-Dec at 9:59pm) |
Week
#14 |
Mon 24-Nov to
Tue 25-Nov |
SCALES review + Optional Ch 8-9 Reading
Case Study: Writing intArrayAsList by Extending AbstractList
Bonus Lecture #8: Compression and Encryption + Combinatorial Iterators
Quiz 9 (on Tue 25-Nov) |
|
|
|
Thanksgiving Break (No Classes on Wed 26-Nov thru Fri 28-Nov) |
Week
#15 |
Mon 1-Dec to
Fri 5-Dec |
SCALES review + Optional Ch 10-12 Reading
Getting Started with Exceptions
Getting Started with Recursion
Getting Started with Swing + Deployment
Changes to Course Notes (Additions, Deletions, and Errata)
Bonus Lecture #9: A
Multiplayer Servlet-based Game + (briefly)
Text Adventures
Midterm #2 (on Fri 5-Dec) |
|
--- |
Mon 8-Dec |
Final Exam Information
Sheet
Final Exam (on Mon 08-Dec from 8:30am to 11:30am), UC McConomy |
