CS257 Tentative Schedule

We will try to cover the material according to the following schedule. The first few weeks of the course are a review and deepening of the concepts introduced in CS I. I expect that you will read the sections in the text before we cover them in class. The numbers shown in the Reading Assignments column are chapter.section.subsection numbers in the textbook.

Date	Topic	Reading Assignments
W e e k 1
Mon	Overview, Syllabus, Java Resources, JGrasp, Classes, Instance Variables, Methods, Assignment,	Chapter 1 – review
Wed	Types, Literals, println, String concatenation	2.2 – subroutine is same as method 2.3 – function is same as method
Th	Lab Day - Get familiar with JGrasp and submitting a lab.	http://cs.sou.edu/~nordquip/ag/ag.html (autograder) Start lab 1
Fri	Variable scope, Method parameters and return values	3.1.1, 4.7.3 (Scope) 4.3.1-2 (parameters) 4.4.0-2 (return values)
W e e k 2
Mon	Operator precedence, Type conversion, String concatenation revisited, basic if statements.	2.5 (operators, precedence, conversion) 3.1.3 (basic if)
Wed	primitive types vs. object types (pointers), string equality, constructors, new objects.	5.1.2 (pointers aka references) 5.2.1-2 (instance variables, constructors)
Th	Start Lab 2
Fri	More if statements String and Math classes
W e e k 3
Mon	Exam 1	Review above sections for exam 1. ./notes/Exam1ReviewTopics.htm
Wed
Th	Start Lab 3
Fri	debugger, using the API, while loops	3.5
W e e k 4
Mon	nested loops , wrapper classes, comparing floats, chars, and object values,
Wed	Iterators, for loops, loop comparison
Th	Start Lab 4
Fri	wrapper classes comparing floats
W e e k 5
Mon	for vs while loops nested loops reading from a file Arrays of primitive values,
Wed	Exam 2	notes/Exam3ReviewTopics.htm
Th	Start Lab 5
Fri	initalizer lists, arrays of objects, javadoc, static
W e e k 6
Mon	method main() running on command line
Wed	Applets Introduction
Th	Start lab 6
Fri	Intro to Inheritance (isa, super)
W e e k 7
Mon	Inheritance, Working with polymorphic variables, Casting
Wed	Method Overriding, Dynamic Binding
Th	Start lab 7
Fri	Exam 3	notes/Exam3ReviewTopics.htm
W e e k 8
Mon	Visibility,
Wed	Class objects
Th	Start lab 8
Fri	Shadowed variables, Constructors and Inheritance
W e e k 9
Mon	Holiday

Wed	GUI Layouts

Thurs

Start lab 9

Fri	Event Handling

W e e k 1 0
Mon	Exam 4	notes/Exam4ReviewTopics.htm Exam 4 will not cover Shadowed variables or Constructors and inheritance
Wed	Interfaces?
Thurs	Finish labs
Fri	Review

Finals schedule