| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 26 (Th) | About the course (Notes) | |||
| August 31 (T) | Objects and classes; a little about Java basics (Notes) | 1, 2 | ||
| September 2 (Th) | Java basics, continued (Notes) | 3.1-3.7 | ||
| September 7 (T) | Java basics, continued; inheritance in Java (Notes) | 3.8-3.9 | ||
| September 9 (Th) | Strings and arrays in Java (Notes) | 4-5 | ||
| September 14 (T) | Inner classes; generics; enumerations (Notes) | 3.10-3.12 | ||
| September 16 (Th) | Inheritance in Java, continued (Notes) | Quiz 1 | ||
| September 21 (T) | No class | Homework 1 (design) | ||
| September 23 (Th) | No class | |||
| September 28 (T) | Exceptions (Notes) | 3.13-3.16 | Homework 1 (code) | |
| September 30 (Th) | Miscellaneous review (o-o concepts, strings, arrays) (Notes) | Quiz 2 | ||
| October 5 (T) | Sorting and searching (Notes) | 6 | Homework 2 (design) | |
| October 7 (Th) | Sorting and searching, continued (Notes) | Homework 2 (code) | ||
| October 12 (T) | No class | |||
| October 14 (Th) | Array-based stacks and queues (Notes) | 9 | Quiz 3; Homework 3 (design) | |
| October 19 (T) | Linked lists and iterators (Notes) | 10, 11 | Homework 3 (code) | |
| October 21 (Th) | Midterm exam (Review in HTML, PDF) | |||
| October 26 (T) | Linked lists and iterators, continued (Notes) | Homework 4 (design) | ||
| October 28 (Th) | List-based stacks and queues; priority queues (Notes) | 13,14 | Homework 4 (code) | |
| November 2 (T) | No class | |||
| November 4 (Th) | GUIs in Java (Notes) | 7 | Homework 5 (design) | |
| November 9 (T) | Graphics in Java (Notes) | 12 | Quiz 4; Homework 5 (code) | |
| November 11 (Th) | Multithreading (Notes) | 8 | ||
| November 16 (T) | Recursion (Notes) | 16 | Homework 6 (design) | |
| November 18 (Th) | Trees; binary search trees (Notes) | 17, 18; also the Wikipedia article on binary search trees | Quiz 5; Homework 6 (code) | |
| November 23 (T) | Heaps (Notes) | 23; also the Wikipedia article on heaps | ||
| November 25 (Th) | Holiday | |||
| November 30 (T) | No class | |||
| December 2 (Th) | Files and I/O; a little about networking and sockets in Java (Notes) | 20, 21 | Quiz 6; Homework 7 (design) | |
| December 7 (T) | More about networking and RMI in Java; course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | Homework 7 (code) | ||
| December 15 (W), 8:30am | Final exam (Review in HTML, PDF) | Homework 8 (design and code) |