CS 231 - Spring Term 1998 Hompage

CS 231-01 Intro to Programming..................MTThF 10:20-11:20
CS 231-02 Intro to Programming..................MTThF 12:30-13:30

This semester CS231 will concentrate on learning how to program in JAVA. There will be two sections of the course, each following the same timeline and each having the same assignments.

No paper, with the exception of tests, will be passed out for this class. All assignments, readings, the syllabus, etc.. will be placed on this homepage. There is no reason that you NEED ever print this material out, as it will remain available throughout the term, however if you find it useful to have a hard copy of any of the information on this page, it is your responsiblity to generate this material.

Instructor : Brian T. Davis

bdavis@willamette.edu

CS 231 General Information

• The course syllabus for EECS 231.
  

• Exam # 1 : Monday 2/23/98, registered Class time
  Covers Through Chapters 1 thru 3, plus sections 4.1, 4.2, 5.4
  SAMPLE EXAM : CS130 Fall '97 Exam # 2 NOTE : The content will be different but the format will be the same.
  The Lecture Notes covering the material on this exam.

• Exam # 2 : Monday 4/6/98, registered Class time
  Covers Chapters : 1 thru 6, plus 8 as well as material covered in class, but not in the text
  The Lecture Notes covering the material on this exam.

• Exam # 3 (Early Offering) : Thursday 5/7/98, 9:30am-12:30am
  Exam # 3 (SECTION 1) : Friday 5/8/98, 8am-11am
  Exam # 3 (SECTION 2) : Friday 5/8/98, 2pm-5pm
  The Lecture Notes covering the material on this exam.

• The official course textbook is Java Software Solutions - Foundations of Program Design by: John Lewis, William Loftus. This textbook is a good and fairly complete text. This will be the only text that a student in CS231 will be required to purchase, however it may be supplimented by websites listed on this page.

  The Reference texts given below are not required, but information may be drawn from them, and they are considered excellent books for self study of the JAVA programming language

• Teach yourself JAVA in CAFE in 21 days, Joshi, Lemay & Perkins. This text is a good reference on the CAFE environment, and can frequently be found packaged with the CAFE software for those who want to be able to work on thier assignments at home.

• Java in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, David Flanagan, O'Reilly Press. At ORA.COM

• The Java Programming Language, 2nd Edition, Arnold & Gosling, Addison Wesley. At AMAZON.COM

CS 231 Laboratory / Programming Assignments

• All Lab Reports should follow the Laboratory Guidelines to be used for all lab and programming assignments.

• Lab1 will be due on 2/2/98 at 5pm.

• Lab2 will be due on 2/9/98 at 5pm.

• Lab3 will be due on 2/16/98 at 5pm.

• Lab4 will be due on 3/2/98 at 5pm.

• Lab5 will be due on 3/9/98 at 5pm.

• Lab6 will be due on 3/16/98 at 5pm.

• Lab7 will be due on 4/13/98 at 5pm.

• Lab8 will be due on 4/20/98 at 5pm.

• Lab9 will be due on 4/27/98 at 5pm.

• Lab10 will be due on 5/4/98 at 5pm.

CS 231 Source Code Archive

Source code for various lab-related programs can be found in the testbed archive . Some of these directories are student accessable, some are not. If the directory is student accessable the .JAVA (source) files contained within should also be accessable. If you have any problems accessing the files please contact the instructor and ask for the permissions to be changed.

CS 231 Homework Assignments

Homework assignments will not be collected in this course. However it is quite possible that some of the homework problems will appear on future test or quizzes.
• Read Chapter 1 "Computer Systems" of Lewis & Loftus by 1/26/98

• Read Chapter 2 "Software Concepts" of Lewis & Loftus by 2/6/98

• Read Chapter 3 "Program Elements" of Lewis & Loftus by 2/16/98
  INCLUDING : Section 5.4, Page 194-198 (stop at BREAK syntax)
  1. Answer all self review questions.
  2. Answer the following exercises: 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15

• Read Chapter 4 "Objects and Classes" of Lewis & Loftus by 2/27/98
  1. Answer all self review questions.
  2. Answer the following exercises: 4.10, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.16

• Read Chapter 6 "Objects for Organizing Data" by 3/13/98
  1. Answer all self review questions.
  2. Answer the following exercises: 6.11, 6.13, 6.15, 6.16, 6.18

• Read Chapter 5 "More programming Constructs" by 3/31 (Section 1) or 4/2 (Section 2)
  1. Answer all self review questions
  2. Answer the following exercises: 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 5.13, 5.15, 5.17, 5.18, 5.19, 5.20, 5.21

• Read Chapter 8 "Inheritance" by 4/9/98
  1. Answer all self review questions
  2. Answer the following exercises: 8.8, 8.11

• Read Chapter 13 "Sorting and Searching" by 4/17
  1. Answer all self review questions
  2. Answer the following exercises: 13.6, 13.7, 13.10, 13.11, 13.12, 13.13

• Read Chapter 12 "Recursion" by 4/23
  1. Answer all self review questions
  2. Answer the following exercises: 12.7, 12.9, 12.13, 12.14, 12.15

• Read Chapter 14 "Advanced Flow of Control" by 5/1
  1. Answer all self review questions
  2. Answer the following exercises: 14.10, 14.11, 14.12, 14.13, 14.14

• Read Chapter 9 "Enhanced Class Design" time permitting

Web pages of Interest
(i.e. Reading Assignments for course)

• A tutorial on JAVA placed on the web and hosted by SUN microsystems.

• Sun's Java Page
• Java Packages and Class List
• Demo Applets
• Intel Presents Overview Of Java Basics
• Java Beans Resources
• The homepage for the Unicode Standards Organization which contains information on the Unicode character set available in JAVA.

• A Brief History of Computer Science Written by a professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

• A HTML-text on An Overview Of Computational Science Written by the Computational Science Education Project.

• A Graph of the growth of Internet Hosts

• A mapping tool showwing the Internet Backbones which are the primary data carriers of the internet.

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