Week Number |
General Topics | Book Chapters (from the Alphonce/Decker text) | Special Announcements |
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1 Aug 25 - 29 | Syllabus, Computing Environment on Campus | None | No recitations meet this week |
2 Sep 1 - 5 | Layers of a Computer, Using software to write software | Chapter 1 |
9/1/08 - No classes meet 9/5/08 - Last day to drop/add Fall 2008 classes |
3 Sep 8 - 12 | Introduction to programming, modeling, using DrJava interactions pane | Chapter 1 | Exam 1: Friday, September 12 |
4 Sep 15 - 19 | UML, class definitions, constructors | Chapter 2 | |
5 Sep 22 - 26 | Dependency relationship - instantiation and local variable; introduction to graphics programming using Java Swing | Chapter 2 & 3 | Exam 2: Friday, September 26 |
6 Sep 29 - Oct 3 | Beginning Swing graphics (components and layout), methods, parameters, instance variables | Chapter 3 & 4 | 9/29/08 6:00pm - 9/30/08 6:00pm - Classes Cancelled |
7 Oct 6 - 10 | Event handling basics, interfaces | Chapter 4 & 5 | 10/8/08 6:00pm - 10/9/08 6:00pm - Classes Cancelled |
8 Oct 13 - 17 | Graphics and drawing shapes, putting all the graphics knowledge together, Inheritance | Chapter 5 & 6 | |
9 Oct 20 - 24 | Primitive data and introduction to Strings, Lab 7 discussion | Exam 3: October 20 | |
10 Oct 27 - 31 | Inheritance and Polymorphism | Chapter 6 & 7 | |
11 Nov 3 - 7 | Collections, iterators, selection | Chapter 8 |
11/7/08 - Resign Deadline Exam 4: November 7 |
12 Nov 10 - 14 | Selection, building a more complicated method | Chapter 8 | |
13 Nov 17 - 21 | More polymorphism | Chapter 8 | Exam 5: November 21 |
14 Nov 24 - 28 | Bringing all the ideas together into a larger program | 11/26 - 11/28 - Fall Recess - No Classes Meet | |
15 Dec 1 - 5 | Bringing all the ideas together into a larger program | 12/5/08 - Last Day of Classes | |
December 9th 8:00 - 11:00 | Final Exam - Hochstetter 114 | Please note - this information about the final exam is accurate as of 11/21/08 - double check MyUB for any changes. |
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