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Programming Fundamentals

Date Topic Reading Assignment
Tue, Sep 3, 2024 Lecture 1
Course Introduction
Terminal, Compiling [slides]
Chapter 1: Computer Programming
Lab00 - CS Lab Machines 101: Command Line
HW00 - Hello World, Compile Errors (Due Mon, Sep 9, 2024)
Thu, Sep 5, 2024 Lecture 2
Data Types (Ints, doubles, strings)
Lecture Cancelled (sick)
Chapter 2: Variables & Operators
Tue, Sep 10, 2024 Lecture 2
Data Types (ints, doubles, Strings)
Simple I/O (input/output) [slides]
Chapter 3: Input & Output
Lab01 - Data Types & Expressions
HW01 - Variables & I/O (Due Mon, Sep 16, 2024)
Thu, Sep 12, 2024 Lecture 3
Methods I [slides]
Chapter 4: Methods & Testing
Tue, Sep 17, 2024 Lecture 5 4
Methods II [slides]
Chapter 4: Methods & Testing
Lab02 - I/O & Methods
HW02 - I/O & Methods (Due Mon, Sep 23, 2024)
Thu, Sep 19, 2024 Lecture 5
Booleans & Conditionals [slides]
Chapter 5: Conditionals & Logic
Tue, Sep 24, 2024 Lecture 6
Booleans & Conditionals
Recursion [slides]
Chapter 6: Recursive Methods
Lab03 - Conditionals & String Methods
HW03 - Conditionals, Methods, & Strings (Due Mon, Sep 30, 2024)
Thu, Sep 26, 2024 Lecture 7
Recursion [slides]
Chapter 7: Objects: Strings
Tue, Oct 1, 2024 Lecture 8
Recursion
Strings as Objects
Arrays I [slides]
Chapter 8: Arrays and References
Chapter 10.5: Command Line Arguments
Lab04 - Recursion & Arrays
HW04 - Recursion (Due Mon, Oct 7, 2024)
Thu, Oct 3, 2024 ROSH HASHANA
NO CLASS
Lecture 10
Arrays II

Chapter 8: Arrays and References
Tue, Oct 8, 2024 Lecture 9
Strings as Objects
Arrays II [slides]
Chapter 8: Arrays and References
Lab05 - Recursive Array Methods
HW05 - Recursion w/ Arrays (Due Tue, Oct 22, 2024)
Thu, Oct 10, 2024 Lecture 10
Loops [slides]
Chapter 9: Loops
Tue, Oct 15, 2024 FALL BREAK
HW06 - BlackJack (optional) (Due Mon, Oct 28, 2024)
Thu, Oct 17, 2024 FALL BREAK
Tue, Oct 22, 2024 Lecture 11
Midterm Review [slides]
Thu, Oct 24, 2024 Lecture 12
Midterm

Object Oriented Programming

Date Topic Reading Assignment
Tue, Oct 29, 2024 Lecture 13 Arrays of Arrays [slides]
Chapter 10: Immutable Objects
Chapter 11: Mutable Objects
Lab06 - Loops and 2D arrays
HW07 - Loops (Due Mon, Nov 4, 2024)
Thu, Oct 31, 2024 Lecture 14
Class Design [slides]
Chapter 12: Designing Classes
Tue, Nov 5, 2024 Lecture 15
Arrays of Objects [slides]
Chapter 13: Arrays of Ojbects (everything up to 13.7)
Lab07 - Files and exceptions
HW08 - Board Game (Due Mon, Nov 11, 2024)
Thu, Nov 7, 2024 Lecture 16
Relationships! (Inheritance) [slides]
Chapter 15: Extending Classes
Tue, Nov 12, 2024 Lecture 17
Class Actions (Interfaces) [slides]
Chapter 18.7: Interfaces
Lab08 - Class Design
HW09 - Class design (Due Mon, Nov 18, 2024)
Thu, Nov 14, 2024 Lecture 18
Catch up [slides]
Chapter 13.8: Binary Search
Tue, Nov 19, 2024 Lecture 19
Binary Search [slides]
Chapter 13.8: Binary Search
Lab09 - Interfaces
HW10 - OOP (Due Wed, Nov 27, 2024)
Thu, Nov 21, 2024 Lecture 20
Sorting I [slides]
Chapter 14: Objects of Arrays
Tue, Nov 26, 2024 Lecture 21
Sorting II [slides]
Lab10: Sorting
Thu, Nov 28, 2024 THANKSGIVING
NO CLASS
Tue, Dec 3, 2024 Lecture 23
Midterm Review [slides]

Search & Sorting

Date Topic Reading Assignment
Thu, Dec 5, 2024 Lecture 24
Midterm [slides]
Tue, Dec 10, 2024
HW11 - SuperDuper Array (Due Tue, May 7, 2024)
Lab11 - Runtime
Thu, Dec 12, 2024 Lecture 26
Final Review [slides]