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Welcome: what to expect in this class?

What is a computer? (Canvas video)

Java objects: what is an object?

Writing a Java program (Eclipse IDE)

HelloWorld

Lab 1:

Writing a Java program: using the Eclipse IDE (Canvas video)

Java objects: writing a class - a first example

Person, PersonUser

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Object based programming: class design (class diagram and object diagram - Canvas video)

Java objects: more about writing a class.

Vocabulary list

using String: notes

Jan 14

Using graphics: notes, FirstGraphicsApp

(Canvas video)

Lab2: Class design: using methods (in class and also as Canvas video)

FaceScene, SmilingFace

Exercises #1 (due 1/16)

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Jan 19

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Jan 20

Class diagram, object diagram, swapping variables, etc. - an illustration (Canvas video)

Programming project 1, quiz 1: explanations

LibraryMember example: A first view of conditionals (Canvas video)

Book, LibraryMember, LibaryMemberTest

Practice submitting a programming assignment (see Canvas)

Instance Methods: defining a method

Quiz 1

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Instance methods: control flow, local variable vs instance field (Canvas video)

Instance Methods: calling a method, CodeStepByStep examples (ex1, ex2, ex3)

Written homework #2 explanations

Using the debugger in Eclipse (Canvas video)

Hw1 help: MountainScene, SnowMan

Programming project #1 due

Lab3: Using several classes, the String class

SmilingFace, PineTree, FunnyPicture

Exercises #2 (due 1/30)

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Primtive types (Canvas videos: part 1 + examples)

Feb 3

Class exercise

Dog, DogUser

Feb 4

Primtive types (Canvas video: part 2)

Feb 5

No class (college-wide professional development day)

Programming project #2 due 2/7

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Conditionals (Canvas videos: conditionals, examples of conditionals expressions)

Feb 10

Primtive types: examples

Lab4: Arithmetic

Feb 11

Conditionals (Canvas videos: Writing a method that returns a boolean: some examples, Examples of code with conditionals)

Feb 12

Parameter practice

References and primitives: ReferenceVsPrimitive

InputExample

Lab 5: Call by value, conditionals, standard I/O

Quiz 2

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Iterations (see Canvas video: Loops)

Presidents' Day

Feb 17

Conditionals: CodeStepByStep 4.1, 4.2, 4.5, 4.7, 4.9, 4.19, 4.21

Iterations examples: ex1, ex2 (see Canvas video: for, while, do-while examples with PracticeIt (now CodeStepByStep))

Feb 19

Exam 1

sample1, sample2

Exercises #3 (due 2/20)

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Iterations: MandelbrotSet (see Canvas videos: Mandelbrot set - parts 1 and 2)

Feb 24

Lab 6: Iterations, ArrayList

ArrayListFirstExample

ArrayListExample,

ArrayLists (see Canvas videos: ArrayList - an introduction, ArrayList examples)

Illustrations of the Mandelbrot set: Mandelbrot, MandelbrotWithIteration

Arrays (1D)

Lab 7: 1D arrays, mouse events

Quiz 3

Programming project #3 due 2/28

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1D - 2D arrays (see Canvas video: 1D-2D arrays examples)

RandomArray

Mar 3

Lab 8: 2D arrays, designing several classes

TwoDimensionalArray

Mar 4

Overloading, static keyword, scope, packages
(see Canvas videos: Methods revisited)

Mar 5

Inheritance: what is inherited

Quiz 4
(See videos on Canvas to prepare for the quiz)

Exercises #4 (due 3/6)

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Mar 9

Inheritance (see Canvas video: Inheritance: an introduction)

Mar 10

Lab 9: Overloading, inheritance

Person, Student, PersonStudentTest

Talk by a former student (see Canvas video)

inheritance: overriding

Programming project #4 due 3/14

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inheritance: abstract classes, interfaces (see Canvas video)

Inheritance exercise

Critter, Poodle, Bovine, Cow, Buffalo, TestCritter, Trainable, Sellable

Exercises #5 due

Exam 2 review

Practice questions, solution

sample exam, solution

sample exam, solution

Mar 19

Exam 2