• Topics:
• Introduction  
• Reading
• Chapter 1

Monday:

• Introduction to the course
• Iterative development, iterative learning

Wednesday:

• An introduction to objects (1.1 - 1.4)

Thursday:

• BlueJ demo (1.5 - 1.10)

Friday:

• Lab day (details to be announced)

Other Notes:

• Next Monday is Labor Day (no classes or office hours)

• Topics:
• More on classes and an introduction to Java code.
• Reading
• 2.1 - 2.11

Monday:

• Labor Day (no classes or office hours)

Wednesday:

• Design  (2.1 - 2.3)
• Assignment #1 assigned

Thursday:

• Assignment operators (2.4 - 2.8)
• Data types
• The general form of a constructor
• Overloading
• JavaDoc - a first look

Friday:

• The (structural) form of methods
• An introduction to conditional statements
• Assignment #1 due

Other Notes:

• Monday is Labor Day:  No classes or office hours

• Topics:
• Local variables
• Object interaction
• Reading
• Chapter 2

Monday:

• Local variables (2.11)

Wednesday:

• Design:  abstraction and modularization:  From Fortran COMMON to objects. (we didn't actually get to the discussion "from Fortran to objects", but we'll do that a bit later.

Thursday:

• Demonstration: building the NumberDisplay and ClockDisplay classes

Friday:

• Continued discussion on NumberDisplay and ClockDisplay

Other Notes:

• Monday, September 11, is the last day to drop without record.  Please review the revised policy on course withdrawals in the Student Handbook
• The first hour exam will be next Friday
• Please note: My office will change to Temporary Building E10 on Oct. 1 or shortly thereafter.

• Topics:
• Simple collections and library classes
• Iteration
• Reading
• Finish chapter 3
• Chapter 4 (4.1 - 4.9)

Monday:

• Over-riding the toString method
• The keyword this
• The debugger (an introduction)

Wednesday:

• Collections
• ArrayList
• The NoteBook class (specifying methods for it)

Thursday:

• Developing the NoteBook class
• Review for exam #1

Friday:

• Hour Exam #1

Other Notes:

• The first hour exam will be this Friday
• Please note: My office will change to Temporary Building E10 on Oct. 1 or shortly thereafter.

• Topics:
• More tools
• Reading
• Finish chapter 4
• Start Chapter 5

Monday:

• Iterating through an ArrayList
• for (first form)
• while

Wednesday:

• Iterators
• Exam #1 returned and discussed

Thursday:

• Anonymous objects
• Arrays
• for loops revisited

Friday:

Other Notes:

• Please note: My office will change to Temporary Building E10 on Oct. 1 or shortly thereafter.

• Topics:
• More collections
• JavaDoc
• Reading
• Chapter 5 to 5.7

Monday:

• Final comments on for loops
• Data types
• Basic terminal input using the Scanner class

Wednesday:

• Some String methods
• Pseudo-random numbers (5.4)
• The import statement and java.lang (5.5)
• Maps and Sets (more collections) (5.6)

Thursday:

• Review:  the ClassRoom project

Friday:

Other Notes:

• Please note: My office will change to Temporary Building E10 some time this week.  I may not be able to meet all office hours.  (we actually did not move this week after all - the move is now scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 10)

• Topics:
• Hash/Tree; Map/Set
• Scanners
• Reading
• Chapter 5

Monday:

• More on maps and sets

Wednesday:

• No class or office hours today (I'm giving a history talk at PLU)

Thursday:

• Information hiding (5.11)
• Class methods and variables (5.12 - 5.14)
• Scanners and Strings

Friday:

• Topics:
• Testing and debugging
• Reading
• Finish Chapter 5
• Start Chapter 6

Monday:

• Fall Break Day:  No classes or office hours

Wednesday:

• Review of Scanner methods
• First discussion on search

Thursday:

• Constants
• JavaDoc
• Assignment #3 due (change in due date)
• Review for Exam #2

Friday:

• Topics:
• Basic array exercises
• Reading
• Discussions on array techniques and file issues will be notes only.

Monday:

• Some array basics

Wednesday:

• Exam #2 returned and discussed

Thursday:

• Some more array basics (find the smallest, count occurrences)

Friday:

• Topics:
• Testing and debugging
• Software Engineering issues
• Reading
• Chapters 6, 7

Monday:

• Exercise #5 (an exercise in arrays) assigned
• Basic text files (notes only)
• Test automation (6.4)
• Quality Assurance

Wednesday:

• Programming style (6.5 - 6.7)
• Manual walk-throughs (6.8)
• Other testing issues (6.9 - 6.13)

Thursday:

• Java on Unix
• Encapsulation, coupling, and coherence
• Inheritance

Friday:

• Topics:
• Inheritance and polymorphism, abstract classes and interfaces
• Reading
• Finish chapter 9, briefly cover chapter 10, start chapter 11

Monday:

• Further discussion on inheritance and polymorphism
• Abstract classes and interfaces

Wednesday:

• More on arrays
• Discussion of homework problem

Thursday:

• An introduction to graphical user interfaces
• Dialog boxes
• Swing
• Review for exam #3

Friday:

• Topics:
• Graphical User Interfaces
• Reading
• Chapter 10

Monday:

• Graphical interface basics (11.1 - 11.4)

Wednesday:

• Travel day (no classes or office hours)

Thursday:

• Thanksgiving Break (no classes or office hours)

Friday:

• Topics:
• Graphical User Interfaces
• Handling errors
• Reading
• Chapter 11, start chapter 12

Monday:

• Graphical interface basics (11.4 - 11.7))

Wednesday:

• Graphical interfaces: additional material

Thursday:

• Graphical interfaces: additional material

Friday:

• Topics:
• Graphical interfaces
• Reading
• As needed

Monday:

• Final comments (I hope) on graphical interfaces

Wednesday:

• Review for final exam

Thursday:

• Reading period (no classes)

Friday: