Tentative Schedule

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Week 1
1/25

01 Intro

course intro; modern program development

intro to CVS and Eclipse; hardware; internal representation of data

software overview; history of programming languages; "What is Object Oriented programming?"

Week 2
2/1

02 Java Intro

intro to Java basics:  output, string literals, comments, variables, expressions, statements, main method, System.out.print, local variables, Strings and concatenation

primitive types; literals; escape sequences; Scanner; arithmetic operators; comparison operators; basic String operators

Day Lost Due to Snow

Week 3
2/8

Week Lost Due to Snow

Week 4
2/15

03 Control Structures

if-statements; logical operators

nesting if-statements; identifier names; camel case

symbolic constants; Java Code Conventions;  "else-if" style;

while loops; do-while loops; for loops; nesting loops;

04Operators

calling static methods;

Week 5
2/22

passing parameters; commenting of methods and proper style for project #2

increment/decrement operators; side effects; various assignment operators;

Precedence; Short circuiting,

narrowing/widening conversions; implicit casting;

05 Classes Intro

overview of software design; pseudocode; Objects; accessing members (static/instance)

Classes vs objects; instantiating objects; using "new";heap vs stack;

Week 6
3/1

primitive types vs. references; memory diagrams

garbage collection; aliasing; == vs. "equals"

 Constructors, toStirng() method

Week 7
3/8

JUNIT

06 Encapsulation

This, public vs private members, getters and setters, API, javadoc,

floating point calculations (epsilon);

3/15

     Spring Break   

Week 8
3/22

libraries; overview of packages; Math class; String class

Math class; String class,

07 Exceptions and Mutability

Break and Continue for Loops

exception handling

aliasing, mutability and String Buffer

Week 9
3/29

08 Debugger

Eclipse debugger; corner cases

 Finish Debugger connecting to tracing overloaded methods and with junit

calling instance method from instance method; "this"

default constructor; copy constructor; using "this" in constructors;

Week 10
4/5

09 Arrays Intro

arrays of primitives

arrays of references; privacy leaks; copying arrays (reference/shallow/deep)

Array examples

For Each Loop

10 Multi Dimensional Arrays

2-dimensional arrays

Week 11
4/12

12 Interfaces and Wrappers

Java interfaces; polymorphism

wrappers; polymorphic arrays

11 Switch etc

method overloading; ?: ternary operator

Week 12
4/19

More switch examples;

And review for exam

15 Collections

Java "generics"; Stack class; ArrayList class; for-each loops;

 Complete Collections with examples

Week 13
4/26

15 Packages

package visibility; more about packages

16 Inheritance

overview of inheritance; inheritance example (CrazyList)

 over-riding methods; "super"; early vs. late binding;

Week 14
5/3

Object class; overloading vs overriding;

class vs. type; getClass; instanceof; casting; equals reconsidered

"Why not multiple inheritance?"; other topics TBA

Week 15
5/10

Review for Final Exam        

No Class

Final Exam May 14, 4:00-6:00 pm