Spring Semester 2005 A201 Web-Based Message Board

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
Jan 9	Jan 10 Summer 2004 First Cup Java J2SE1.4	Jan 11 Lecture One	Jan 12 Homework Zero	Jan 13 Lecture Two	Jan 14 Lab One	Jan 15
Jan 16	Jan 17 Homework One Solutions	Jan 18 Lecture Three	Jan 19	Jan 20 Lecture Four	Jan 21 Lab Two	Jan 22
Jan 23	Jan 24 Homework Two Solutions	Jan 25 Lecture Five	Jan 26	Jan 27 Lecture Six	Jan 28 Lab Three	Jan 29
Jan 30	Jan 31 Help with HW2	Feb 1 Lecture Seven Minute Paper	Feb 2	Feb 3 Lecture Eight	Feb 4 Lab Four	Feb 5
Feb 6	Feb 7	Feb 8 Lecture Nine	Feb 9 Homework Three Solutions Bonus Problems Solutions	Feb 10 Lecture Ten	Feb 11 Lab Five	Feb 12
Feb 13	Feb 14 Sample Midterm 1 Sample Midterm 2 Midterm Review	Feb 15 Lecture Eleven	Feb 16 Midterm One Solutions (7-9pm, Rawles 100)	Feb 17 Soliloquy (p. 161) Soliloquy (p. 199) Homework Four	Feb 18 Soliloquy (p. 207)	Feb 19
Feb 20	Feb 21 Homework Five (HW5 Solutions)	Feb 22 Lecture Thirteen Soliloquy (p. 223)	Feb 23	Feb 24 Lecture Fourteen	Feb 25 Lab Seven	Feb 26
Feb 27	Feb 28 Homework Six Solutions	Mar 1 Lecture Fifteen	Mar 2	Mar 3 Lecture Sixteen	Mar 4 Lab Eight	Mar 5
Mar 6	Mar 7	Mar 8 Lecture Seventeen Soliloquy (p. 113) Soliloquy (p. 175)	Mar 9	Mar 10 Lecture Eighteen Soliloquy (p. 143) The Exercises	Mar 11 Lab Optional Soliloquy (p. 153) The Kanamit(s)	Mar 12 Spring Break
Mar 13 Spring Break	Mar 14 Spring Break	Mar 15 Spring Break	Mar 16 Spring Break	Mar 17 Spring Break	Mar 18 Spring Break	Mar 19 Spring Break
Mar 20 Spring Break	Mar 21 Homework Seven Solutions	Mar 22 Lecture Nineteen	Mar 23 Soliloquy (p. 261)	Mar 24 Lecture Twenty Soliloquy (p. 295)	Mar 25 Lab Nine (I)	Mar 26
Mar 27	Mar 28 Homework Eight (Simple arrays)	Mar 29 Lecture Twenty-One Soliloquy (p. 313)	Mar 30 Bonus 4-5-6 (TBS Prep)	Mar 31 Lecture Twenty-Two	Apr 1 TBS Lab Nine (II)	Apr 2
Apr 3	Apr 4	Apr 5 Lecture Twenty-Three Soliloquy (p. 335)	Apr 6 Midterm Two (7-9pm, Rawles 100)	Apr 7 Lecture Twenty-Four Soliloquy (p. 369)	Apr 8 Lab Ten Lab 10 Help (Sol. pp. 345-353).	Apr 9
Apr 10	Apr 11	Apr 12 Lecture Twenty-Five Soliloquy (p. 393)	Apr 13 Homework Nine (Review One)	Apr 14 Lecture Twenty-Six Practical Notes	Apr 15 Practical Exam (Sorting)	Apr 16
Apr 17	Apr 18	Apr 19 Lecture Twenty-Seven The Face (An Old Assgt.)	Apr 20 Umpires Soliloquy (p. 417)	Apr 21 Lecture Twenty-Eight Homework Ten (Review Two)	Apr 22 Lab Eleven	Apr 23
Apr 24	Apr 25	Apr 26 Lecture Twenty-Nine	Apr 27	Apr 28 Lecture Thirty	Apr 29 TBS (Repeat)	Apr 30 Final Exam Days
May 1 Final Exam Days We are here.	May 2 Final Exam Days	May 3 Final Exam Days	May 4 Final Exam Days	May 5 Final Exam (7:15-9:15 pm, Rawles 100)	May 6 Final Exam Days	May 7 Final Exam Days

Office Hours/Instructors
ferdinc, AI	dgaunt, UI,	aalkasim, AI	jtengle, AI	pmendygr, AI	zdwiel, UI	bjaffe, UI	satmarti, UI	dbulwink, UI	dgerman, Lecturer
Fulya Erdinc Thu 1-3pm (LH401A)	Dave Gaunt Tue 2-4pm (LH201D)	Alia Al Kasimi W 2:15-4:15pm (LH330I)	Jeremy Engle MW 10-11am (LH401A)	Paul Mendygral Tue 11am-1pm (LH310)	Zach Dwiel R (12:45-2:45pm) (LH201D)	Bryan Jaffe Fri 11am-1pm (LH201D)	Sara Martin MR 6-7pm (LH112)	Dan Bulwinkle MW 11-noon (LH201D)	Adrian German MTWR 9-10am (LH201D)

Labs/Instructors (labs are weekly)

Thursday		Friday
3418 (6:50-8:45pm) LH023, 18/0 Jeremy and Zach	3419 (6:50-8:45pm) BH308, 33/2 Bryan, Alia and Paul	3420 (8:00-9:55am) BH308 (31/27) Alia
		3421, 3422 (10:10am-12:05pm) SB221, 31/9 Fulya, Jeremy
		3423 (11:15am-1:10pm) BH108, 21/1 Dave, Okcha, Adrian
		3424, 3425 (12:20pm-2:15pm) SB221, 31/18 Dan, Fulya
		3426, 3427 (2:30am-4:25pm) BH308, 33/13 Paul, Sara, Adrian

Grading

Course grades will be (posted in OnCourse and will be) determined as follows:

Component	Weight
10 (Ten) Homework Assignments	35%
11 (Eleven) Lab Assignments	20%
Midterm Exam One	10%
Midterm Exam Two	10%
Practical Exam	10%
Final Exam	10%
Lecture Minute Papers	5%
TOTAL	100%

Test of Basic Skills will be given three times:

• Midterm One acts as a Test of Basic Skills
• A Test of Basic Skills will be administered in Lab (03/31-04/01)
• Another Test of Basic Skills (a repeat) will be offered in the last lab.

The overall cutoff scale is as follows:

0-54.99	55-65.99	66-67.99	68-69.99	70-75.99	76-77.99	78-79.99	80-85.99	86-87.99	88-89.99	90-95.99	96-up
F	D	D+	C-	C	C+	B-	B	B+	A-	A	A+

Syllabus/Reading Assignments

Here's the weekly schedule of topics in this class:

Week		Date(s)	Topics	Reading Assignments
Week	1	01/11-01/14	The edit-compile-run loop. Primitive values, simple expressions. What is a variable? The assignment statement.	Soliloquy pp. 9-17 (Prelude) and 19-22 (Problems and Pain). Pages 11-13 and 20-21 are very important. Pages 23-26 (Getting Started) is essentially your Lab Assignment One. Pages 27-39 (Your First Java Program) need not be understood, just skimmed.
Week	2	01/18-01/21	Reading input from the keyboard. Types associated with an expression and variables.	Soliloquy pp. 41-46 (Algorithms), 47-55 (Simple Programs), 57-68 (Types and I/O). The investment problem is important but purely theoretical for now. Rectangles are Penguins. Strings are Penguins too. ConsoleReader is on page 56. (ConsoleReaders are Penguins as well). Pages 69-76 look very much like your Lab Assignment Two, to be posted during the week.
Week	3	01/25-01/28	Evaluating conditionals and making decisions.	Soliloquy pp. 77-86 (Syntax), 99-112 (Predicates) We first need to become clear on the structure of main (pp. 77-86). Then we can understand booleans and their use in if statements (pp.99-112).
Week	4	02/01-02/04	The basics of simple user-defined types. Loops.	Soliloquy pp. 199-206 (Loops), 207-222 (Two Dimensional Patterns) Soliloquy pp. 161-172 (Decisions), pp. 173-175 (A Simple Robot) The Patterns section combines booleans with loops. Online Quizzes will be posted before the exam (in OnCourse) for practice. We will also skim the following: pp. 113-120 (Classes).
Week	5	02/08-02/11	Midterm Review	Soliloquy pp. 223-240 (More Loops), 241-249 (Computer Games) The first of the two assignments is preparing you for text processing. The StringTokenizer type is introduced and used in several programs. A few more typical examples are covered (see for example p. 240). The Game of Nim section (242-246) makes use of De Morgan's law.
Week	6	02/15-02/18	MIDTERM EXAM ONE (7-9pm, Rawles 100).	More specific information will be posted as we get closer to it. A set of pages to be reviewed in Soliloquy. A review of the important notes posted on-line. A set of practice problems (to focus your preparation).
Week	7	02/22-02/25	Reading input from a file. String processing.
Week	8	03/01-03/04	Methods
Week	9	03/08-03/11	Unidimensional arrays.
Week	10	03/15-03/18	SPRING BREAK
Week	11	03/22-03/25	Applets and simple graphics. What is event-driven programming? Test of Basic Skills in labs.
Week	12	03/29-04/01	Midterm Review
Week	13	04/05-04/08	MIDTERM EXAM TWO (7-9pm, Rawles 100).
Week	14	04/12-04/15	Two-dimensional arrays. PRACTICAL EXAM in labs.
Week	15	04/19-04/22	ConsoleReader revealed. File I/O explained.
Week	16	04/26-04/29	Final Exam review. Test of Basic Skills in labs (Repeat).
Week	17	05/03-05/06	FINAL EXAM (May 5, Rawles 100, 7:15-9:15pm)

Class Resources and Materials

The text for this class is

Lecture and lab notes will be posted above.

In addition to this you can also refer to:

• The Summer 2004 version of this class.

• Sun's Java Tutorial: First Cup Java

• The Java API documentation: J2SE1.4