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 23 Read module "Class organization" on Canvas	Sep 24 Welcome: what to expect in this class? Extra credit #1 assignment Inheritance: example Person, Student, PersonStudentTest	Sep 25 Practice-It example: BayPondOceanLake Unit testing: example	Sep 26 Homework 1 help: code + object diagram Tetris, EventController, Direction, Game, LShape, Square, Grid, TetrisUnitTest Object diagram
2 Back to top	Sep 30 Lab 1: Interfaces, abstract classes, unit testing. Extra credit #1 due	Oct 1 Interfaces Critter, Cow, Buffalo, Bovine, Poodle, Trainable, TestCritter Quiz 1 practice, solution	Oct 2 Equals (slides: ppt, pdf) Equals: Car, CarTest, FancyCar	Oct 3 Equals: Car, CarTest, FancyCar HW#1 due 10/5
3 Back to top	Oct 7 Clone: deep copy vs shallow copy Car, CarTestWithDeepAndShallowCopy Video recommended by a student	Oct 8 Lab 2: Swing, generics, events generics tutorial Quiz #1: Notes	Oct 9 Swing, generics, events Swing: FirstSwingApplication	Oct 10 Introduction to recursion, towers of Hanoi, a first example of algorithm analysis slides
4 Back to top	Oct 14 recursion RecursionExamples	Oct 15 recursion practice (see PracticeIt and Codingbat)	Oct 16 Recursive backtracking: Queens problem Queens.java, Board.java, solution:Queens.java HW#2 due Hw2 test rotation: TetrisTestRotate	Oct 17 Lab 3: Recursive data structure: Box, BoxViewer Extra credit assignment #2
5 Back to top	Oct 21 Exceptions	Oct 22 Exceptions UsingExceptions, UsingCheckedExceptions, BadInputException, ExampleWithFinally See assertions on the Oracle web site	Oct 23 Exceptions exercises	Oct 24 Lab 4: Streams UsingFiles, DownloadFile, FileCopy, FileCopy2 StreamsAndRecursion Quiz #2: Notes, solution Extra credit #2 due
6 Back to top	Oct 28 No office hour (college-wide professional development day) Collections: IntroToCollections, MapExample Collections: practice-it. Extra credit assignment #3	Oct 29 Introduction to the teaching machine. Data driven programs Lab 5: Teaching Machine	Oct 30 Lab 5: Teaching Machine JavaReview.txt, TMQuestion, TMCourse, TMMain	Oct 31 Lab 5: Teaching Machine JavaReview.txt, TMQuestion, TMCourse, TMMain HW#3 due 11/2
7 Back to top	Nov 4 Lab 6: Collections: ArrayList, LinkedList	Nov 5 ArrayList Extra credit #3 due	Nov 6 Linked lists MyArrayList, MyLinkedList, MyList, TestMyList	Nov 7 Exam 1: Notes Sample, solution
8 Back to top	Nov 11 No office hour: Veterans day Complexity (notes)	Nov 12 Searching BinarySearch	Nov 13 Lab 8: sorting Sorting: neat animations	Nov 14 Sorting (see an optimized version of quick sort)
9 Back to top	Nov 18 BigO examples: examples, solution	Nov 19 Recursive backtracking: exercise Quiz #3 Notes	Nov 20 Lab 9: trees	Nov 21 Binary search trees Hw4 help: Adventure, AdvRoom, AdvObject, AdvCommand HW#4 due
10 Back to top	Nov 25 Binary search trees BSTree	Nov 26 Lab 9: Stacks	Nov 27 Trees applications Tree question, solution Heap	Nov 28 No class: Thanksgiving day
11 Back to top	Dec 2 Stacks, applications: postfix, infix, prefix Stack, EmptyStackException, PostfixInfixCalculator, ExpressionFormatException	Dec 3 Lab 10: Hash set Hash set (why a prime number?)	Dec 4 Review: sample, solution	Dec 5 Exam 2 (10:30 - 11:35 am) HW#5 (+ extra credit) due 12/7
12 Back to top	Happy Break to All !!!