This course schedule gives lecture topics and associated readings, the suggested times by which to start lab assignments, the dates of the various exams and when partner evaluations are due.
We’ll stick to this schedule as closely as is reasonable, and announce any changes circumstances warrant.
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Lab Activities & Notes |
Readings |
Times for Assignments |
| Sept 24 | Introduction to the course; compiling, linking and executing Java programs | Chap. 1 | Orientation to Lab |
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| Sept 28 | ICS 21 Help Center opens Hours: M & W, 8 am - 10pm, ICS183; closed University holidays |
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| Sept 29 | A simple Java program: data abstraction; classes & fields; objects; defining & calling methods; public vs. private; parameter passing; return values; accessors and mutators; local variables; scope; constants; importing; assignment statements | scan Secs. 2.1-2.7; 2.9-2.10; 3.1-3.5; 3.7, 3.8; Chap. 4 | |
| Sept 30 | Lab 1 (Smiley Faces) | ||
| Oct 1 | A simple Java program, continued | read topics in Chaps. 2-4 discussed in lecture | |
| Oct 2 | |||
| Oct 5 | Last date to register programming pair; send email with the pair's name to 21-questions@ics.uci.edu | ||
| Oct 6 | A simple Java program, completed | read topics in Chaps. 2-4 discussed in lecture | |
| Oct 7 | |||
| Oct 8 | Testing programs; print statements | Secs. 2.8, 3.6 | |
| Oct 9 | |||
| Oct 12 | Lab Exam #1 | Lab 2 (Animated Smiley) | |
| Oct 13 | Java basics in detail | complete detailed reading of Chaps. 2, 3, 4 | |
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| Oct 15 | Decision statements | Chap. 5 | |
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| Oct 19 | |||
| Oct 20 | Loops and simple loop algorithms; nested statements | Secs. 6.1-6.4 | |
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| Oct 22 | The List ADT; ArrayLists: basics, classic algorithms, using generics | Secs. 7.2, 7.3, 7.5 | |
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| Oct 26 | Lab Exam #2 | Lab 3 (Smileys at the Races) | |
| Oct 27 | More on ArrayLists: as parameter and return types, clone(), shallow vs. deep copying, enhanced for loop | Sec. 7.4, 7.6, 7.7 | |
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| Oct 29 | Midterm exam | ||
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| Nov 3 | Nested data structures, particularly involving ArrayLists; Intro. to fixed-size arrays | Sec. 7.1 | |
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| Nov 5 | Some theoretical results | ||
| Nov 6 | Last day to drop without Dean's signature | ||
| Nov 9 | Lab Exam #3
Last date to register new programming pair; send email with the pair's name to 21-questions@ics.uci.edu |
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| Nov 10 | Exception handling: basic concepts and approaches
Partner Evaluation due by 11:59 pm |
Secs. 11.2-11.6 | |
| Nov 11 | Veterans Day Holiday
Help Center closed ICS183, 189, 193 closed; ICS364 on holiday schedule |
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| Nov 12 | File handling: basic concepts and approaches; text files | Secs. 11.1 | |
| Nov 13 | |||
| Nov 16 | Lab 4 (A Donation to the Music Archive) | ||
| Nov 17 | File handling: character encodings and end-of-line issues; .format(); Scanner; a note about Console | ||
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| Nov 19 | Reference and value parameters; Introduction to recursion | Chap. 8; Secs. 13.1-13.4 | |
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| Nov 23 | Lab Exam #4 | Lab 5 (Revising the Music Archive Program) | |
| Nov 24 | Introduction to inheritance | Secs. 10.1-10.5 | |
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| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving Day Holiday
ICS183, 189, 193 closed; ICS364 on holiday schedule |
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| Nov 27 | Thanksgiving Day Holiday
ICS183, 189, 193 closed; ICS364 on holiday schedule |
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| Nov 30 | Lab Exam #5 | ||
| Dec 1 | Polymorphism; Access control; Interfaces | Secs. 9.1-9.3, 10.6-10.8 | |
| Dec 2 | Help Center opens for retakes; separate retake sessions end | ||
| Dec 3 | Introduction to Graphics Programming: applets, GUIs, event handling | Secs. 2.11-2.13; 9.6; Advanced Topic 2.2 (on Web) | |
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| Dec 7 | Help Center on Finals Week schedule; times TBA | ||
| Dec 8 | Final Exam, 4:00-6:00 pm
Partner Evaluation due by 11:59 pm |
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| Dec 9 | Last day of Help Center (open for retakes only); times TBA |