CS 115 outline by week

This is a preliminary outline that is subject to change. It will be updated during the semester as necessary.

Lab and homework assignments will be given in lab.

(week of) 16 Jan

(classes start Wednesday) Elementary hardware architecture and system software architecture.

Chapter 1.

23 Jan

Java primitive data types and operations; input dialogs, formatted output. (chapt 2)

30 Jan

Control structure, loops and invariants. (ch 3)

6 Feb

Programming with loops.

13 Feb

Methods, parameter passing, variable scope. (ch 4)

20 Feb

no class Mon; Tues is Mon schedule Arrays, elementary searching and sorting. (ch 5)

26 Feb

Objects and classes: references, constructors, visibility modifiers and encapsulation, self. (ch 6)

6 Mar

More on objects and classes, Java libraries, etc (ch 6 and 7)

13 Mar

spring break

20 Mar

Inheritance and polymorphism. (ch 8)

26 Mar

More on inheritance; abstract classes and interfaces (ch 9)

3 Apr

Object-oriented modeling and design (ch 10) (Depending on student progress, we may skip this to allow time for GUIs and event-driven programming.)

10 Apr

(no class Fri) Elementary GUIs. (ch 11)

17 Apr

Event-driven programming (ch 12)

24 Apr

More on event-driven programming (ch 12)

1 May

(last day of class is Wed, with Fri schedule) Wrap-up.