Daily Schedule

CSC 143
Computer Programming for Engineers and Scientists

Class Schedule

The calendar is updated as we move through the quarter (Don't trust what is written beyond the current week).

Week	Monday	Tuesday (in class)	Wednesday	Thursday (in class)
1 Back to top	Sep 29 Read module "Class organization" on Canvas	Sep 30 Welcome: what to expect in this class? Extra credit #1 assignment Inheritance: example Person, Student, PersonStudentTest	Oct 1 CodeStepByStep example Unit testing: example	Oct 2 Homework 1 help: code + object diagram Tetris, EventController, Direction, Game, LShape, Square, Grid, TetrisUnitTest Object diagram
2 Back to top	Oct 6 Lab 1: Interfaces, abstract classes, unit testing. Extra credit #1 due	Oct 7 Interfaces Critter, Cow, Buffalo, Bovine, Poodle, Trainable, TestCritter Quiz 1 practice, solution	Oct 8 Equals (slides: ppt, pdf) Equals: Car, CarTest, FancyCar	Oct 9 Equals: Car, CarTest, FancyCar HW#1 due
3 Back to top	Oct 13 Clone: deep copy vs shallow copy Car, CarTestWithDeepAndShallowCopy Video recommended by a student	Oct 14 Lab 2: Swing, generics, events generics tutorial Quiz #1: Notes	Oct 15 Swing, generics, events Swing: FirstSwingApplication	Oct 16 Introduction to recursion, towers of Hanoi, a first example of algorithm analysis slides
4 Back to top	Oct 20 recursion RecursionExamples	Oct 21 recursion practice (see CodeStepByStep and Codingbat)	Oct 22 Recursive backtracking: Queens problem Queens.java, Board.java, solution:Queens.java HW#2 due Hw2 test rotation: TetrisTestRotate	Oct 23 Lab 3: Recursive data structure: Box, BoxViewer Extra credit assignment #2
5 Back to top	Oct 27 Exceptions	Oct 28 No in-class meeting (see Canvas) Exceptions UsingExceptions, UsingCheckedExceptions, BadInputException, ExampleWithFinally See assertions on the Oracle web site	Oct 29 Exceptions exercises	Oct 30 No in-class meeting (see Canvas) Lab 4: Streams UsingFiles, DownloadFile, FileCopy, FileCopy2 StreamsAndRecursion Extra credit #2 due
6 Back to top	Nov 3 Collections: IntroToCollections, MapExample Collections: CodeStepByStep. Extra credit assignment #3	Nov 4 Introduction to the teaching machine. Data driven programs Lab 5: Teaching Machine Quiz #2: Notes, solution	Nov 5 Lab 5: Teaching Machine JavaReview.txt, TMQuestion, TMCourse, TMMain	Nov 6 Lab 5: Teaching Machine JavaReview.txt, TMQuestion, TMCourse, TMMain HW#3 due
7 Back to top	Nov 10 Lab 6: Collections: ArrayList, LinkedList	Nov 11 No class: Veterans day ArrayList Extra credit #3 due	Nov 12 Linked lists MyArrayList, MyLinkedList, MyList, TestMyList	Nov 13 Exam 1: Notes
8 Back to top	Nov 17 Complexity (notes)	Nov 18 Searching BinarySearch	Nov 19 Lab 8: sorting Sorting: neat animations	Nov 20 Sorting (see an optimized version of quick sort)
9 Back to top	Nov 24 BigO examples: examples, solution	Nov 25 Recursive backtracking: exercise Quiz #3 Notes	Nov 26 Lab 9: trees	Nov 27 No class: Thanksgiving day
10 Back to top	Dec 1 Binary search trees BSTree	Dec 2 Lab 9: Stacks	Dec 3 Trees applications	Dec 4 Trees applications Tree question, solution Heap Hw4 help: Adventure, AdvRoom, AdvObject, AdvCommand HW#4 due
11 Back to top	Dec 8 Stacks, applications: postfix, infix, prefix Stack, EmptyStackException, PostfixInfixCalculator, ExpressionFormatException	Dec 9 Lab 10: Hash set Hash set (why a prime number?)	Dec 10 Review: sample, solution	Dec 11 Exam 2 (10:30 - 11:35 am)
12 Back to top	Happy Break to All !!!