CPSC 233: Fall 2015

Index

• Lecture_and_important_administrative_course_information

• Tutorial & Lab information

• Course topics, lecture notes and assignment descriptions, exam information

Lecture and important administrative course information

Tutorial and lab Information

Tutorials (commence the week of Sept 13 - 19):

• Tutorials are a mandatory component of the courses. Time will be spent on the following: TA's teaching new skills, discussion of assignment requirements, completion of graded quizzes, and if possible some question and answer time.
• Schedule of activities for the tutorials: [Teaching teaching schedule] (Example programs that I provide the TA's can be found on this link)

Tutorial No.	Date/Time	Location	Instructor	Email
T01	MW: 3:00 - 3:50 PM	MS 176	Justin Kelly	kellyjj@ucalgary.ca
T02	TR: 9:00 - 9:50 AM	MS 160	Ruting Zhou	rzho@ucalgary.ca
T03	MW 11:00 - 11:50 AM	MS 252	Hao Men	mhao@ucalgary.ca
T04	TR 12:00 - 12:50 PM	MS 176	Md Reza Rabbani	mdreza.rabbani@ucalgary.ca

Lab (Continuous tutorials or CT for short): CT commencement for CPSC 233 is TBA

• In addition to my office hours and your time in lab there will be time set aside for you to ask questions. These sessions will typically be staffed by the tutorial instructors but they are not mandatory for students and are provided so that you can get help while you are in the computer lab.
• The CT is located in the first floor Math Sciences computer lab (there will be signs near the cubical desks).
• Continuous tutorial schedule: [CPSC 233 fall 2015 CT]

Course topics, lecture notes and assignment descriptions, exam information

Approximate time each topic will be covered in lecture	Topic list (links to programs that I cover in lecture can be found in this table "Example programs",  examples for tutorials can be found on the link for the [Tutorial teaching schedule]).	Relevant textbook chapters:  "Absolute Java" (6th Edition) Walter Savitch, (Pearson) Other sources of help includes the (free) online library website: [Safari]	Suggested practice questions "Self-Test Exercises"	Graded component occurring during the week
Topic 'zero'	Getting started in Computer Science (computer labs, sources of help, working from home etc.). A portion will be covered in tutorial during the second week of term, other resources are available for your reference: [Orientation link]	Not applicable
Sept 6 - 12	Course introduction and administrative information [Notes: PDF] [Notes: PowerPoint] Introduction to Java programming [Notes: PDF] [Notes: PowerPoint] [Examples]	Chapter 1, 2 (File IO won't be stressed until later however), 3, Section 6.1	Chapter 1: 3,4,5,7,8,9,10, 13-25,27-29,32-35 Chapter 2: 1-4,9-15, (Optional material): 5-7
Sept 13 - 19	Introduction to Java programming (Continued)	Chapter 1, 2 (File IO won't be stressed until later however), 3, Section 6.1	Chapter 3: 1-21,28-42,44-45 Section 6.1 1-6	Mini-A1 due Friday September 18 at 4 PM
Sept 20 - 26	Introduction to Object-Oriented programming [Notes: PDF] [Notes: PowerPoint] [Examples]	Chapter 4	Chapter 4: 1-10,13-15,19 (don't worry about the private method though),24-26	Mini-A2 due Friday September 25 at 4 PM
Sept 27 - Oct 3	Introduction to Object-Oriented programming (continued)   Advanced Java [Notes: PDF] [Notes: PowerPoint] [Examples]	Chapter 4		A1 due Friday October 2 at 4 PM
Oct 4 - 10	Advanced Java (continued)	Chapter 5, Section 6.2		A2 due Friday October 9 at 4 PM
Oct 11 - 17	Advanced Java	Chapter 5, Section 6.2		Mini-A3 due Friday October 16 at 4 PM
Oct 18 - 24	Advanced Java (continued)   Exam review, in class midterm	Chapter 5, Section 6.2		Midterm: In class on Friday October 23: [Exam information]
Oct 25 - 31	Hierarchies [Notes: PDF] [Notes: PowerPoint] [Examples]	Chapter 7, 8, 13		A3 due on Monday October 26Tuesday October 27 at 4 PM Mini-A4 due Nov 2 at 4 PM
Nov 1 - 7	Hierarchies (continued)   Introduction to graphical user interfaces [Notes: PDF] [Notes: PowerPoint] [Examples]	Chapter 7, 8, 13   Chapter 17, 18
Nov 8 - 14	Introduction to graphical user interfaces (continued)	Chapter 17, 18		A4 due on Monday Nov 9 Tuesday Nov 10 at 4 PM
Nov 15 - 21	Introduction to graphical user interfaces (continued)	Chapter 17, 18		Mini-A5 due on Monday November 16 at 4 PM
Nov 22 - 28	Exceptions and files [Notes: PDF] [Notes: PowerPoint] [Examples] Linked lists [Notes: PDF] [Notes: PowerPoint] [Examples]	Chapter 9, Section 10.1 - 10.2 Section 15.1 (lists), Chapter 11 (recursion)		A5 due on Friday November 27 at 4 PM
Nov29 - Dec 5	Linked lists (continued)   Design patterns (if there is time) [Notes: PDF] [Notes: PowerPoint] [Examples] Java history (if there is time) [Notes: PDF] [Notes: PowerPoint]	Section 15.1, Chapter 11 (recursion)   Chapter 12 (patterns), Section 1.1 (history)		Mini-A6 due on Wed December 2 at 4 PM
Dec 6 - 12	Packages (if there is time) [Notes: PDF] [Notes: PowerPoint] [Examples]	Section 5.4		A6 due on Tuesday December 8 at 4 PM   Bonus assignment (worth 3%) Khan Academy research assignment due on Tuesday December 8 at 4 PM: There is some Java (not JavaScript) programs on this site. If you're having trouble finding them then you can also expand your report to include JavaScript tutorials as well as Java.
	The final exam will to be scheduled by university admin staff and not your course instructor: [See the exam schedule in PeopleSoft when the Office of the Registrar has scheduled it]. [Exam information link]