CS 111 - Introduction to Computer Science I Syllabus

This syllabus is not a contract. We reserve the right to spend more time than scheduled on certain topics, less time on others and may, as a result, omit others. In short, the syllabus is a guide that represents our best thinking about the course at the time it was constructed.

Overview of CS-111

• Useful Web Pages
• Help Documents and Tutorials

Introduction to Computers, the Internet and the World Wide Web (Chapter 1)

• Machine, Assembly, and High-Level Languages
• Compilation and Interpretation
• Java Development and Application Execution

Introduction to Java Applications (Chapter 2)

• Strings and Printing Strings
• Integers, Variables, Assignment, and Integer Operations
• Decisions with Equality and Relational Operators

Introduction to Classes and Objects (Chapter 3)

• Classes, Objects, Methods and Instance Variables
• Constructors, Methods, Parameters
• Instance Variables, get and set Methods
• Primitive Types vs. Reference Types
• Floating-Point Numbers and Type double

Control Statements: Part 1 (Chapter 4)

• Algorithms and Pseudocode
• Selection Statements: if and if-else
• Repetition Statement: while
• Loop Counters and Sentinels
• Nested Loops
• Compound Assignment
• Increment and Decrement Operators
• Primitive Types

Control Statements: Part 2 (Chapter 5)

• Repetition Statements: for, do-while
• switch Multiple-Selection Statement
• break and continue Statements
• Logical Operators

Methods: A Deeper Look (Chapter 6)

• static Methods, static Fields and Class Math
• Methods with Multiple Parameters
• Call Stack
• Argument Promotion and Casting
• Java API Packages
• Random-Number Generation
• Enumerations
• Scope of Declarations
• Method Overloading

Arrays (Chapter 7)

• Declaring, Creating, and Using Arrays
• Enhanced for Statement
• Multidimensional Arrays
• Variable-Length Argument Lists
• Command-Line Arguments

Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look (Chapter 8)

• Access Control
• this Reference
• Overloaded and Default Constructors
• get and set Methods
• Composition
• Enumerations
• Garbage Collection and Method finalize
• static Class Members
• static Import
• final Instance Variables

Simple GUI and Graphics concepts presented throughout chapters