This is a first programming course for Computer Science majors with a focus on object-oriented programming. The goal of the course is to develop skills such as program design and testing as well as the implementation of programs using a graphical IDE. All programming will be done in Java.

Course Coordinator: Fawzi Emad

Recommended Text:
There is no required book for this course. There are many excellent introductory books on programming in Java. One that I can recommend is Java Foundations Older editions of this book are nearly identical to the latest edition, and you can find them sold cheaply online.

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• Intro to Computer Systems
• Programming Basics:  Variables, Operators, Expressions, Statements, Methods
• Java Text Input/Output
• Conditionals
• Loops
• Principles of Object Oriented Programming
• Basics of Program Design
• Testing and Debugging
• Java Memory Map
• Arrays and Java ArrayLists
• Java interfaces
• Polymorphism
• Recursion

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There will be eight programming projects and other assignments to be completed during the lab sessions.  Some are considered "closed" assignments which you must complete by yourself and others are considered "open" assignments where collaboration is permitted. (More information about the open policy will be provided in class and can be found in the Policy Regarding Open/Closed Projects.) There will also be two midterms, a final exam, and occasional quizzes.

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All assignments can be done on the machines of your choice. You are welcome to do the work on a home computer if you have one. There should not be any machine-specific dependencies in your code. If we are not able to run your program because there is a difference between your and our computer environments, you must work with us to get your program to work in our environment.  You are expected to use the Eclipse IDE for all programming assignments.

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All assignments must be submitted before 11pm on the day they are due. They are to be submitted electronically according to instructions given with the assignments. Late assignments will be strictly penalized. Exceptional circumstances will be considered only if discussed with the instructor before the assignment is due. Late assignments will have points deducted as follows:

• 20 points are subtracted from your total if submitted within 24 hours.
• No late assignments will be accepted after 24 hours.

Final grades will be computed according the following weights. (These weights are tentative and subject to future adjustment.)

40% Projects (8)       [The weights of the individual projects are: 1%, 3%, 5%, 5%, 6%, 6%, 7%, 7%] 15% Lab assignments (quizzes & exercises to be completed during your discussion sessions) 11% Midterm #1 11% Midterm #2 23% Final Exam

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Note that academic dishonesty includes not only cheating, fabrication, and plagiarism, but also includes helping other students commit acts of academic dishonesty by allowing them to obtain copies of your work. You are allowed to use the Web for reference purposes, but you may not copy code from any website or any other source. In short, all submitted work must be your own.

Cases of academic dishonesty will be pursued to the fullest extent possible as stipulated by the Office of Student Conduct. Without exception every case of suspec\ ted academic dishonesty will be referred to the Office. If the student is found to be responsible of academic dishonesty, the typical sanction results in a special grade "XF", indicating that the course was failed due to academic dishonesty. More serious instances can result in expulsion from the university. If you have any doubt as to whether an act of yours might constitute academic dishonesty, please contact your TA or the course coordinator.

The University of Maryland, College Park has a nationally recognized Code of Academic Integrity, administered by the Student Honor Council.B This code sets standards for academic integrity at Maryland for all undergraduate and graduate students. As a student you are responsible for upholding these standards for this course. It is very important for you to be aware of the consequences of cheating, fabrication, facilitation, and plagiarism. For more information on the Code of Academic Integrity or the Student Honor Council, please visit http://www.shc.umd.edu

To further exhibit your commitment to academic integrity, remember to sign the Honor Pledge on all examinations and assignments: "I pledge on my honor that I have not given or received any unauthorized assistance on this examination (assignment)."

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1. Any student who needs to be excused for an absence from a single class session , due to a medically necessitated absence shall:
   • Make a reasonable attempt to inform the instructor of his/her illness prior to the class. If you are going to miss an in-class assignment then we expect to hear from you (either email or telephone message) before the class session begins.
   • Upon returning to the class, present their instructor with a self-signed note attesting to the date of their illness. The note must contain an acknowledgment by the student that the information provided is true and correct. Providing false information to University officials is prohibited under Part 9(h) of the Code of Student Conduct (V-1.00(B) University of Maryland Code of Student Conduct) and may result in disciplinary action.
   • This self-documentation may not be used for the Major Scheduled Grading Events as defined below and it may only be used for one class meeting during the semester.


2. Any student who needs to be excused for more than one absence, or for a "Major Scheduled Grading Event", must provide written documentation of the illness from the Health Center or from an outside health care provider. This documentation must verify dates of treatment and indicate the timeframe that the student was unable to meet academic responsibilities. The documentation should be given to the instructor, not the TA. We will not accept a "self-signed" note for "major scheduled grading events", as defined below. The note must be signed by a health care professional.
   
   The Major Scheduled Grading Events for this course include:
   • Midterm #1
   • Midterm #2
   • Final Exam
   • Programming projects

It is also the student's responsibility to inform the instructor of any intended absences from exams for religious observances in advance. Notice should be provided as soon as possible but no later than one week prior to the exam.

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Any student eligible for and requesting reasonable academic accommodations due to a disability is requested to provide, to the instructor in office hours, a letter of accommodation from the Office of Disability Support Services (DSS) within the first two weeks of the semester.

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The Department of Computer Science takes the student course evaluations very seriously. Evaluations will usually be open during the last few weeks of the course. Students can go to  www.courseevalum.umd.edu to complete their evaluations. 

• Midterm #1: Wednesday 03/02 (in discussion section)
• Midterm #2: Wednesday 04/13 (in discussion section)
• Final Exam: Friday 05/13 from 4:00PM to 6:00PM. Location TBA

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	Monday	Wednesday	Friday
Week 1 01/25		Introduction to course; Course tools	Demo of Eclipse IDE; Computer systems overview; Hardware; Memory
Week 2 02/01	Operating systems; Software languages; What is Object Oriented Programming?	Why Java? Simple coding examples; Text output; Variables and assignment	Last day for schedule adjustment Primitive types; Strings; Arithmetic operators; Comparison operators
Week 3 02/08	Input via the Scanner; If and if/else statements; Logical operators	More details on if and if/else statements; Rules for Java identifiers	Camel case convention; Symbolic constants; while loops; do-while loops
Week 4 02/15	For-loops; Blocks; Nesting of loops	Writing static methods; Increment/decrement; Other assignment operators	Rules of precedence; Short-circuiting; Widening/narrowing conversions; Intro to design
Week 5 02/22	Intro to objects and classes; Instance members	Java memory model (call stack and heap); Garbage collection; equals method; Begin example of detailed Java class ("Student")	Continue "Student" example; Constructors; toString; equals
Week 6 02/29	Review for Midterm	Midterm #1 in Lab More about static members vs. instance members	Variable initialization; JUnit testing
Week 7 03/07	Commenting; Call stack (frames, etc.); Java keyword "this"	Visibility; Encapsulation; "API"	Fun day -- topics TBA
Week 8 03/14	Spring break	Spring break	Spring break
Week 9 03/21	Round-off errors; Intro to Java packages; Java libraries	Details of String class; Math class; break; continue	Exception handling (throw, try/catch)
Week 10 03/28	More exception handling (finally); Begin review example: "Password" class	Continue "Password" example; Mutability; StringBuffer	Eclipse debugger
Week 11 04/04	Arrays	More details on arrays; Arrays of references	Privacy leaks; Copying arrays (reference/shallow/deep copies); Two-dimensional arrays (ragged)
Week 12 04/11	Last day to drop with a 'W' Review for Midtern	Midterm #2 in Lab Rectangular two-dimensional arrays; Java interfaces; Polymorphism	Wrappers; Examples using Java interfaces
Week 13 04/18	Complexity (Big-O)	Project design; Method overloading	Continue method overloading; Ternary conditional operator
Week 14 04/25	Switch statements; Command-line Java; Javadoc	Data structures; Syntax for using Java generic collections; Stack; ArrayList	For-each loops; Java packages; package visibility
Week 15 05/02	Recursion	Recursion	Recursion
Week 16 05/09	Review for final exam

Fawzi Emad
Email:
Office: 1201 A.V. Williams
Office Hours: M 11:30-12:30, W 11:30-12:30, F 4:00-5:00

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	Email	Responsibilities	Office Hours
Karthik Sankararaman		Discussions 0101 and 0304	(See table below)
Alejandro Flores		Discussions 0102 and 0203	(See table below)
Mingfei Gao		Discussions 0204 and 0301	(See table below)
Pallabi Ghosh		Discussions 0202 and 0103	(See table below)
Tak Yeon Lee		Discussions 0104 and 0302	(See table below)
Janani Gururam		Discussion 0201	(See table below)
David Sekora		Discussion 0303	(See table below)
Ahmed Ghoneim		Grader	(See table below)
Shuo Li		Grader	(See table below)
Han-Chin Shing		Grader	(See table below)
Rotem Katzir		Grader	(See table below)

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Students in sections 010X/020X/030X may visit any TA on this list.

If you are in sections 040X then you must see a TA who has been assigned to your sections -- see your class webpage or talk with your instructor.

All TA office hours take place in room 1112 A.V. Williams. Please note that a TA may need to leave 5 minutes before the end of the hour in order to go to his/her class. Please be understanding of their schedules.

	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI
9:00	Shuo	Shuo and Mingfei	Janani and Karthik	Shuo	Rotem
10:00	Shuo	Ahmed and Mingfei	Mingfei and Karthik	Ahmed and Mingfei	Rotem
11:00	Pallabi	Pallabi	Alejandro		Alejandro
12:00	Pallabi	Pallabi and Karthik	Ahmed		Alejandro and Janani
1:00	Tak	Mingfei	Ahmed and Alejandro	Han	Han
2:00	Tak	Tak	Alejandro	Han	Han
3:00	David	Tak	Karthik		Rotem
4:00	David	Pallabi and Tak	Karthik		Rotem

• Grades Server. This is where you go to see grades on assignments and to get your class account informtion.
• Submission Server. This is where you go to view your project submissions and to get limited feedback about how your project is performing on our automated tests.
• Eclipse Tutorial. Eclipse is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that helps us to write software efficiently. You will use Eclipse to implement the class projects this semester. See the section at the bottom of this page for specific information about setting up Eclipse.

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The following web pages provide detailed references to information about Java.

• Oracle's "Code Conventions". Guide for proper style when programming in Java.
• Oracle's Java Homepage. This is the place to come when you really need the latest technical specs and downloads.
• Oracle's Java Tutorial. This page has a number of links to books and web pages about Java, which you may find of interest.
• Java SDK 6.0 General Documentation. This page contains technical documentation for the Java Software Development Kit (JDK), which includes the Java compiler and the associated libraries.
• Java 6.0 API Specs. This page contains (javadoc) documentation for the Java libraries. It is an excellent reference and you should bookmark it on your browser.

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In order to complete the projects for this course you must install Eclipse following the instructions in the Eclipse Tutorial. Note that if you install Eclipse from some other source then you will not be able to submit your projects easily! After you get Eclipse installed, you will need to connect Eclipse to your class account. To the right is a screenshot of the information you will need to enter into the CVS connection dialog box during this process. You can cut and paste the following lines into the dialog box: Host: linux.grace.umd.edu Repository Path: /afs/glue/class/spring2016/cmsc/131/0101/student/***** (Replace "*****" with your login ID.) Be sure to change the connection type to "extssh", as shown.

Below are collections of questions and practice problems that are designed to help you to learn the course material. These exercises are not being collected or graded. Answers are provided, but please try your best to solve each problem before looking at the solution! The list will be updated as the semester progresses.

Disclaimer: Your primary resource for studying should be the notes that you have taken during lectures! There will be questions on quizzes and exams that are not in any way represented in this study list. There will be questions on this study list that are not in any way represented on quizzes or exams. Please be aware that exam questions tend to combine more elements into a single question and many of the questions on the list are simpler than questions you will see on your exams. You may discuss these questions openly with anyone, including your classmates. If you are unsure about how the answer to any particular question is obtained, please drop by office hours for help. That's why we're here!

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To submit a project, go to the "Java" perspective in Eclipse. Right click on the project folder (e.g., p1) and select "Submit Project" from the pull-down menu. If you do not see the "Submit Project" option then your copy of Eclipse does not contain the class plug-ins. In this case, please see the Eclipse installations instructions on the Resources page, or drop by TA office hours for help.

You may submit many times (we grade only the last submission). You can check the status of your submissions by visiting the Submit Server Home Page and entering your University Directory ID and password.

Important: Your grade for each project will be based on the greater value of two scores: (1) The score on the very last submission prior to the deadline; (2) The score minus 20% on the very last submission prior to the late deadline (up to 24 hours late).

Click the name of a project below to see the project specification.

Project Name	Due Date
Hello World!	Tuesday 02/09, 11:00PM
Orioles Baseball	Sunday 02/21, 11:00PM
Flags of the World	Monday 02/29, 11:00PM
Medieval Soldiers	Wednesday 03/23, 11:00PM
Mandelbrot Set	Thursday 3/31, 11:00PM
Poker Simulator	Sunday 04/10, 11:00PM
Cafe 131	Tuesday 04/26, 11:00PM
Fish Club	Tuesday 05/10, 11:00PM