Teaching Staff

Instructor: Chris Murphy (cmurphy@cs.columbia.edu) Office hours: 608 CEPSR, TR 3:30-4:30 TA: Hila Becker, (hila@cs.columbia.edu) Office hours: 6LE1 CEPSR, MW 4:00-5:00

Syllabus (Tentative)

Date Topics Covered Reading Notes Assignments Jul 3 Course introduction Review of Java basics   slides Employee.java CuteRatPopulation.java Quiz.java / Student.java   Jul 5 Designing classes NetBeans IDE 8.1 - 8.9 slides NetBeans tutorial in-class assignment   Jul 10 Interfaces and Polymorphism Inheritance 9.1 - 9.5 10.1 - 10.8   Jul 12 Basic Graphics 2.11 - 2.13, 3.9 GraphicsTest.java Circle.java CircleViewer.java Assignment #1 due Jul 17 Event Handling Threads 9.6 - 9.10 20.1 - 20.2 slides MouseMove.java PainterThread.java RandomCircles.java   Jul 19 More Graphics Software Testing 2.8, 3.6, 5.5, 7.8 slides Square.java SquareViewer.java Assignment #2 due Jul 24 Graphical User Interfaces 18.1 - 18.4     Jul 26 Networked applications 21.1 - 21.5 slides MathServer.java MathClient.java MathClientUI.java Assignment #3 due Jul 31 Exceptions Thread synchronization Data structures 11.1 - 11.6 20.3 - 20.5 15.1 - 15.3 slides MathServer.java (revised) MathClient.java (revised MathClientTest.java LinkedList.java   Aug 2 More data structures Advanced topics 15.4, 16.1 - 16.7 slides   Aug 7 Final Project presentations Final Exam review   slides practice question (solution)   Aug 9 Final Exam     Final Project due

All readings are from Big Java by Cay Horstmann, Third Edition.

Class Policies

Exams There will be an in-class final exam on the last day of classes. No makeup exams will be given.   Grading Grades will be assigned using the following guidelines: Homeworks 35% Final Exam 40% Final Project 25%   Late Policy Because of the tight schedule, it is important that assignments be submitted on time. Late homeworks will not be accepted without previous permission from the instructor.   Academic Honesty Please familiarize yourself with the Computer Science Department's academic honesty policy.