The calendar below provides information on the lecture and assignment topics for the course. All assignments are due the next class day after they are assigned.
| DAY # | TOPICS | ASSIGNMENTS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Object Oriented Programming JavaTM Program Structure; Primitives Control Flow Arrays Objects |
Lab 1: JavaTM Basics, problems 1-4 |
| 2 | Classes vs. Objects/Instances Method Overloading Inheritance Abstract Superclasses Interfaces Polymorphism Method Overriding |
Lab 1 (cont.): Balls and Boxes, problem 7 |
| 3 | Hashing Data Structures Collections, Advanced Control Flow |
Lab 2: Madlibs |
| 4 | Advantages, Disadvantages of Writing Interfaces, Abstract Classes True Subtyping, Composite Throwing and Catching Exceptions Nested Classes Floating Point Precision Defensive Programming Writing a Graph and Depth-First Search Algorithm |
Lab 3: Comparators and Ordering |
| 5 | Review, Question and Answer, Writing an Address Book Program that Loads and Stores Files to Disk |
Optional Homework 1 Catch up on API reading for Collection, List, Map, Set, Comparator, Comparable, String, Object, Iterator, Iterable and any other class you are interested in Optional Homework 2 Do optional 6.170 labs: JavaTM Basics; JUnit and JavaTM Libraries; Eclipse Debugger; Constructing GUIs with Swing |