Previous Weeks in the CSci 161 class

This file will contain the week-to-week reading and lecture schedules as they actually happened.  At the end of the week the "this week" page will be modified to reflect what actually happened and will be appended to this file.

Week 1: Monday, September 1

Week 2: Monday, Sept. 8

• Topics:
• More on classes and an introduction to Java code.
• Reading
• 2.1 - 2.7

Monday:

• Lab day in Thompson 409.  Please bring your textbooks.  We will work through the exercises in chapter 1.  Assignment #1 should be available by the weekend.

Tuesday:

• Classes and Objects
• Fields, constructors, and methods (2.3)
• Parameters (2.4)

Thursday:

• More discussion on Classes and operators
• Accessor and Mutator methods (2.6 - 2.7)

Friday:

• No class - instructor ill

Other Notes:

• Office Hours begin this week.
• Monday, September 15 (next Monday), is the last day to drop without record
• A note on the readings:  Please read all sections of the assigned reading, including those sections not directly covered in lectures.

Week 3: Monday, Sept. 15

• Topics:
• More on classes and an introduction to Java code.
• Reading
• 2.7 - 2.18

Monday:

• Assignment statements and calculations (2.5)
• No office hours today (Departmental obligations)

Tuesday:

• An introduction to software design
• Demonstration:  Writing a class definition from scratch
• Variables:  local, class, and parameters (2.13 - 2.14)
• No office hours today (Departmental obligations)

Thursday:

• An introduction to control structures and to conditional statements (2.11 - 2.12)
• Application to the Student class (demo)
• An introduction to software design
• Writing a class definition from scratch. (3.5 - 3.8)

Friday:

• Compound conditionals
• A discussion on design:  When to print? (to be continued)

Other Notes:

• Monday, September 15, is the last day to drop without record
• Hour Exam #1 will be next week.
• A note on the readings:  Please read all sections of the assigned reading, including those sections not directly covered in lectures.

Week 4: Monday, Sept. 22

• Topics:
• More on classes and an introduction to Java code.
• Reading
• Chapter 3

Monday:

• Scope of variables (2.13 - 2.14)
• Multiple constructors (3.10)

Tuesday:

• Software Engineering Considerations (3.1 - 3.6)
• Modularization
• A quick look at the textbook clock example (3.8)

Thursday:

• A further look at the textbook clock example - the NumberDisplay class (3.8)
• Review for first hour exam

Friday:

• Hour Exam #1

Other Notes:

• The first hour exam is this Friday.

Week 5: Monday, Sept. 29

• Topics:
• More on classes and an introduction to Java code.
• Reading
• Chapter 3.9 - 3.15
• Chapter 4.1 - 4.7

Monday:

• Creating objects from objects (3.9)
• Completing the discussion on the ClockDisplay (demo - 3.8)

Tuesday:

• More on constructors, method calls (3.9 - 3.11)
• Over-riding the toString method.

Thursday:

• More on the new command:  accessing methods in other objects
• Exam returned and discussed

Friday:

• An introduction to collections (4.1 - 4.7)
• ArrayList
• Java packages and the import statement

Other Notes:

• The next hour exam will be Friday, October 24.

Week 6: Monday, Oct. 6

• Topics:
• Collections and arrays.
• Reading
• Chapter 4.7 - 4.13

Monday:

• Iterating through a collection and the repetition control structure (4.8 and appendix C)
• The Java UnitTest mechanism (appendix H)
• Anonymous objects (4.10 - 4.11)

Tuesday:

• Iterating through an ArrayList using the first form of the for statement.

Thursday:

• Demonstration using ArrayList

Friday:

• Use of an Iterator (demo with some problems to be cleared up Monday)

Other Notes:

• Next Monday, October 13, is the last day to withdraw with an automatic "W".  Please review the University's add/drop policy in the Academic Handbook (the Logger)
• Start reading chapter 5 for next week.
• The next hour exam will be Friday, October 24.

Week 7: Monday, Oct. 13

• Topics:
• Arrays:  sorting and searching.
• Reading
• Chapter 5, Appendix K
• Appendices G and I if we have not gotten to them yet.

Monday:

• The Java debugger (appendices G and I)
• A digression on arrays (4.12)

Tuesday:

• More on arrays (4.12)
• Random behavior (5.4)

Thursday:

• Javadoc and documentation requirements (appendix I)
• Fibonacci numbers and arrays (see Array01 for more details).  (4.12)

Friday:

• Searching  in an array (4.12)

Other Notes:

• Monday, October 13, is the last day to withdraw with an automatic "W".  Please review the University's add/drop policy in the Academic Handbook (the Logger)
• Start reading chapter 6 for next week.
• The next hour exam will be Friday, October 24 (next Friday)

Week 8: Monday, Oct. 20

• Topics:
• Arrays.
• Reading
• Chapter 4
• Course notes

Monday:

• Fall Break Day:  No classes or office hours

Tuesday:

• Fall Break Day:  No classes or office hours

Thursday:

• Finish discussion on searching in an array - binary search and String.compareTo
• Review for second hour exam

Friday:

• Hour Exam #2

Other Notes:

• Read chapter 5 for next week.  Some of the material in the first part of Chapter 5 (Random numbers) has already been covered.
• The next hour exam will be this Friday, October 24.

Week 9: Monday, Oct. 27

• Topics:
• Searching
• Class variables and constants
• Reading
• Chapter 5
• Appendix K

Monday:

• Sorting in an array (4.12)

Tuesday:

• Bubblesort
• Scanners

Thursday:

• Lab session

Friday:

• Exam #2 returned - notes

Other Notes:

• Start reading chapter 6 for next week.
• The next hour exam will be Friday, November 21.

Week 10: Monday, November 3

• Topics:
• Testing
• Software engineering issues
• Reading
• Chapters 5, 6
• Appendix K

Monday:

• Discussion of current assignment
• Packages (Appendix K, 5.5)

Tuesday:

• public static void main
• Information hiding

Thursday:

• Lab day - meet in Thompson 409

Friday:

• Maps and sets (5.6, 5.7)

Other Notes:

• The next hour exam will be Friday, November 21.

Week 11: Monday, November 10

• Topics:
• Software Engineering Issues
• Inheritance
• Reading
• Chapters 5, 6

Monday:

• Maps and sets (5.6, 5.7)

Tuesday:

• More on public/private (5.11)
• Class variables and constants (5.13)

Thursday:

• Lab day - meet in Thompson 409

Friday:

• A brief history of software engineering
• A discussion on testing (6.1 - 6.4)

Other Notes:

• The next hour exam will be next Friday, November 21.

Week 12: Monday, November 17

• Topics:
• Software Engineering Issues
• Inheritance
• Reading
• Chapters 6 - 8

Monday:

• More on testing (6.5 - 6.12)

Tuesday:

• Coupling and cohesion:   (7.1 - 7.12)
• Review for Exam #3

Thursday:

• Lab day - meet in Thompson 409 (Lab on inheritance)

Friday:

• Exam #3

Other Notes:

• The next hour exam will be this Friday, November 21.
• Next week is Thanksgiving! (we meet Monday and Tuesday only)

Week 13: Monday, November 24

• Topics:
• Inheritance
• Reading
• Chapters 7 - 8

Monday:

• Cohesion
• Refactoring (7.12 - 7.13)
• An introduction to inheritance in object-oriented languages (8.1 - 8.4)

Tuesday:

• Exam #3 returned - notes

Thursday:

• Thanksgiving Break! (no classes or office hours)

Friday:

• Thanksgiving Break! (no classes or office hours)

Other Notes:

• The final exam for this class will be on Friday, December 19, 12:00 noon - 2:00 PM

Week 14: Monday, December 1

• Topics:
• Further abstraction
• Graphical User Interfaces
• Reading
• Chapters 10-11

Monday:

• More on inheritance (8.5 - 8.11)

Tuesday:

• Discussion of current assignment
• A command based front end to a program

Thursday:

• Final Laboratory Session (Graphical User Interfaces)

Friday:

• Graphical User Interfaces (Chapter 11)

Other Notes:

• The last day of class for this class will be Tuesday, December 9.
• No course material can be accepted past 5:00 Wednesday, December 10.
• The final exam for this class will be on Friday, December 19, 12:00 noon - 2:00

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