| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 27 (Th) | About the course (Notes) | 1 | |
| September 1 (T) | Objects and classes; a little about Java basics (Notes) | 2 | |
| September 3 (Th) | Java basics, continued (Notes) | 3.1-3.7 | |
| September 8 (T) | Inheritance in Java (Notes) | 3.8-3.9 | |
| September 10 (Th) | No class | ||
| September 15 (T) | Inner classes; generics; enumerations (Notes) | 3.10-3.12 | Homework 1 (design) |
| September 17 (Th) | Exceptions (Notes) | 3.13-3.16 | |
| September 22 (T) | Strings and arrays (Notes) | 4-5 | Quiz 1; Homework 1 (code) |
| September 24 (Th) | Sorting, searching, and manipulating arrays (Notes) | 6 | Homework 2 (design) |
| September 29 (T) | No class | ||
| October 1 (Th) | No class | ||
| October 6 (T) | Sorting and searching, continued (Notes) | Quiz 2; Homework 2 (code) | |
| October 8 (Th) | Array-based stacks and queues (Notes) | 9 | |
| October 13 (T) | Linked lists (Notes) | 10 | Homework 3 (design) |
| October 15 (Th) | Midterm exam (Review in HTML, PDF) | ||
| October 20 (T) | Iterators (Notes) | 11 | Homework 3 (code) |
| October 22 (Th) | List-based stacks and queues; priority queues (Notes) | 13-14 | Homework 4 (design) |
| October 27 (T) | GUIs in Java (Notes) | 7 | Quiz 3; Homework 4 (code) |
| October 29 (Th) | Multithreading (Notes) | 8 | Homework 5 (design) |
| November 3 (T) | No class | ||
| November 5 (Th) | More about GUIs (Notes) | Quiz 4; Homework 5 (code) | |
| November 10 (T) | Graphics in Java (Jotes) | 12 | Homework 6 (design) |
| November 12 (Th) | Recursion (Notes) | 16 | |
| November 17 (T) | No class | ||
| November 19 (Th) | Trees; binary search trees; heaps (Notes) | 17, 18, 23; also the Wikipedia articles on binary search trees and heaps | Homework 6 (code) |
| November 24 (T) | Tree-based data structures, continued; command-line arguments (Notes) | Quiz 5 | |
| November 26 (Th) | Holiday | ||
| December 1 (T) | Files and I/O (Notes) | 20 | Homework 7 (design) |
| December 3 (Th) | Networking and sockets in Java; RMI (Notes) | 21 | Quiz 6 |
| December 8 (T) | Course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | Homework 7 (code) | |
| December 16 (W), 8:30am | Final exam (Review in HTML, PDF) | Homework 8 (design and code) |