| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 13 (Th) | No class | ||
| January 18 (T) | About the course (Notes) | ||
| January 20 (Th) | Objects and classes; a little about Java basics (Notes) | 1, 2 | |
| January 25 (T) | Java basics, continued (Notes) | 3.1-3.7 | |
| January 27 (Th) | Strings and arrays in Java (Notes) | 4-5 | |
| February 1 (T) | No class | ||
| February 3 (Th) | No class | ||
| February 8 (T) | Inheritance in Java (Notes) | 3.8-3.9 | |
| February 10 (Th) | Inner classes; generics; enumerations (Notes) | 3.10-3.12 | |
| February 15 (T) | Exceptions (Notes) | 3.13-3.16 | Quiz 1; Homework 1 (design) |
| February 17 (Th) | Review/recap of o-o concepts, miscellaneous Java features (Notes) | Homework 1 (code) | |
| February 22 (T) | No class | ||
| February 24 (Th) | Sorting and searching (Notes) | 6 | Quiz 2; Homework 2 (design) |
| March 1 (T) | No class | ||
| March 3 (Th) | Sorting and searching, continued | (Notes)Homework 2 (code) | |
| March 8 (T) | Array-based stacks and queues (Notes) | 9 | Homework 3 (design) |
| March 10 (Th) | Linked lists and iterators (Notes) | 10, 11 | Quiz 3 |
| March 15 (T) | Spring break | ||
| March 17 (Th) | Spring break | ||
| March 22 (T) | Midterm exam (Review in HTML, PDF) | Homework 3 (code) | |
| March 24 (Th) | Linked lists and iterators, continued (Notes) | Homework 4 (design) | |
| March 29 (T) | List-based stacks and queues; priority queues (Notes) | 13,14 | Homework 4 (code) |
| March 31 (Th) | No class | ||
| April 5 (T) | GUIs in Java (Notes) | 7 | Quiz 4; Homework 5 (design) |
| April 7 (Th) | GUIs in Java, continued; graphics in Java (Notes) | 12 | Homework 5 (code) |
| April 12 (T) | No class | ||
| April 14 (Th) | Graphics, continued; multithreading (Notes) | 8 | Homework 6 (design) |
| April 19 (T) | Recursion; trees; binary search trees (Notes) | 16, 17, 18; also the Wikipedia article on binary search trees | Quiz 5; Homework 6 (code) |
| April 21 (Th) | Heaps (Notes) | 23; also the Wikipedia article on heaps | |
| April 26 (T) | Files and I/O; a little about networking and sockets in Java (Notes) | 20, 21 | Quiz 6; Homework 7 (design) |
| April 28 (Th) | A little more about networking; course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | Homework 7 (code) | |
| May 9 (M), 8:30am | Final exam (Review in HTML, PDF) | Homework 8 (design and code) |