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CS 111 - Introduction to Computer Science I Readings |
| Class | Month | Day | Topic | Readings (parenthesized reading are optional) |
| 1 | August | 31 | Course overview, introduction to computing environment | |
| 2 | September | 2 | Introduction to computing environment (cont.), bash, gedit, compiling and editing Java programs | Deitel & Deitel Chapter 1 |
| 3 | 4 | "Hello, World."; strings and printing strings, Eclipse | 2.1-2.4 | |
| 4 | 7 | Integers, integer input, variables, assignment | 2.5-2.6 | |
| 5 | 9 | Scanner class (cont.), integer operations | rest of Ch. 2 | |
| 6 | 11 | Floating point numbers, doubles, conversion of doubles to integers | ||
| 7 | 14 | Integer operations, equality and relational operators, decisions with if | ||
| 8 | 16 | Classes, objects, and methods | 3.1-3.4 | |
| 9 | 18 | Instance variables, get/set methods, access specifiers, primitive/reference types | 3.5-3.6 | |
| 10 | 21 | Constructors, floating-point numbers, double | 3.7-3.8 | |
| 11 | 23 | Dialog boxes | rest of Ch. 3 | |
| 12 | 25 | Algorithms, pseudocode, control structures, selection and repetition statements, if, if...else, conditional operator, nested if...else, dangling else | 4.1-4.6 | |
| 13 | 28 | if, if...else (cont.) | ||
| 14 | 30 | While repetition | 4.7 | |
| 15 | October | 2 | Counter- and sentinel-controlled repetition | 4.8-4.9 |
| 16 | 5 | Formulating algorithms, nested control structures | 4.10 | |
| 17 | 7 | Compound assignment, increment and decrement, primitive types, random number generation | 4.11-4.13, 6.9 | |
| 18 | 9 | Simple GUI drawings | Rest of Ch. 4 | |
| 19 | 14 | For repetition | 5.1-5.4 | |
| 20 | 16 | Do...while repetition, switch multiple selection | 5.5-5.6 | |
| 21 | 19 | Break, continue, logical operators, control structure summary | 5.7-5.9 | |
| 22 | 21 | (in-class midterm exam) | Rest of Ch. 5 | |
| 23 | 23 | Program modules, static methods and fields, main methods, methods with multiple parameters, method calls, (non)static context | 6.1-6.4 | |
| 24 | 26 | Call stacks, stack frames/activation records, argument promotion and casting, API packages, random number generation | 6.5-6.9(review) | |
| 25 | 28 | Enumerations, Variable scope | 6.10-6.11 | |
| 26 | 30 | Method overloading, drawing with colors and filled shapes | Rest of Ch. 6 | |
| 27 | November | 2 | Array declaration, creation, and use | 7.1-7.4 |
| 28 | 4 | Card shuffling example | 7.5 | |
| 29 | 6 | Enhanced for statement, passing arrays to methods | 7.6-7.8 | |
| 30 | 9 | Multidimensional arrays | 7.9-7.10 | |
| 31 | 11 | Variable length argument lists, command-line arguments | 7.11-7.12 | |
| 32 | 13 | Arrays, collections, ArrayList | 7.13-7.14 | |
| 33 | 16 | Drawing arcs, object collaboration | Rest of Ch. 7 | |
| 34 | 18 | Examples: access specifiers, this keyword | 8.1-8.4 | |
| 35 | 20 | Overloaded constructors, default/no-argument constructors | 8.5-8.6 | |
| 36 | 23 | Set and get methods, composition | 8.7-8.8 | |
| 37 | 30 | Enumerations, garbage collection | 8.9-8.10 | |
| 38 | December | 2 | Static class members, static import, final instance variables | 8.11-8.13 |
| 39 | 4 | Creating packages | 8.14 | |
| 40 | 7 | Package access, object-oriented graphics examples | Rest of Ch. 8 | |
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| 42 | 11 |