CSC220A - Syllabus - Fall 2005

Nadeem Abdul Hamid - Berry College

Topic and Lecture Notes Reading Assignments Due
Mon Aug 22: Introduction, Java review [lec01 (PDF)]
Wed Aug 24: Java review Appendix sections A.1 - A.5
Fri Aug 26: Java review Sec A.6 - A.10

 

Mon Aug 29: Software design Sec 1.1 - 1.3
Wed Aug 31: ADTs, interfaces, pre/postconditions Sec 1.4 - 1.5
Fri Sep 2: Case study
Sec 1.6 - 1.8

 

Mon Sep 5: Error types, exceptions [lec02 (PDF)] Sec 2.1 - 2.4
Wed Sep 7: Testing and debugging Sec 2.5 - 2.6
Fri Sep 9: Reasoning about programs, efficiency Sec 2.7 - 2.8

 

Mon Sep 12: Catch-up day
Wed Sep 14: Inheritance [lec03 (PDF)] Sec 3.1 - 3.3
Fri Sep 16: Inheritance (cont.) Sec 3.4 - 3.6

 

Mon Sep 19: Case study: shapes Sec 3.7
Wed Sep 21: Event-oriented GUI programming Sec C.1 - C.2
Fri Sep 23: Layouts and components Sec C.3 - C.5

 

Mon Sep 26: Events and case study Sec C.6 - C.7
Wed Sep 28: List and ArrayList Sec 4.1 - 4.2
Fri Sep 30: Implementing lists, iterators Sec 4.3 - 4.5

 

Mon Oct 3: Doubly-linked/ordered lists Sec 4.6 - 4.7
Wed Oct 5: Review/catch-up Sec 4.8
Fri Oct 7: MIDTERM EXAM ***

 

Mon Oct 10: NO CLASS
Wed Oct 12: Stacks Sec 5.1 - 5.2
Fri Oct 14: Implementing stacks Sec 5.3

 

Mon Oct 17: Stack applications Sec 5.4
Wed Oct 19: Queues
Source code: ArrayQueue
Sec 6.1 - 6.2
Fri Oct 21: Implementing queues Sec 6.3

 

Mon Oct 24: Simulations and queues Sec 6.4
Wed Oct 26: Recursion Sec 7.1 - 7.3
Fri Oct 28: Recursive data structures Sec 7.4 - 7.5

 

Mon Oct 31: Backtracking Sec 7.6
Wed Nov 2: Trees Sec 8.1 - 8.2
Fri Nov 4: Binary trees Sec 8.3 - 8.4

 

Mon Nov 7: Heaps and priority queues Sec 8.5
Wed Nov 9: Huffman trees, catch-up Sec 8.6
Fri Nov 11: Sorting Sec 10.1 - 10.3

 

Mon Nov 14: More sorting Sec 10.4 - 10.6
Wed Nov 16: Merge sort, heap sort, quicksort Sec 10.7 - 10.9
Fri Nov 18: Sets, maps Sec

 

Mon Nov 21: Hash tables Sec
Wed Nov 23: NO CLASS
Fri Nov 25: NO CLASS

 

Mon Nov 28: Graphs, implementation Sec
Wed Nov 30: Graph traversals, applications Sec
Fri Dec 2: Review

 

Thu Dec 8: Final Exam (8 - 10 AM)

 



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