CSSE221 – Fundamentals of Software Development Honors

Fall 2007-2008

Schedule Overview

Schedule last updated Mon Oct 29.

Week	Session	Topics	Reading	Summary	Slides	Homework	Projects
0	1 Thu Aug 30 Details	Version control: a fun warm-up exercise Eclipse exercise: HelloWorld ../Projects/JavaEyes.htm">Eclipse exercise: JavaEyes	Chapters 1, 2, 3		Slides	Homework 1	JavaEyes
1	2 Mon Sep 3 Details	Introduce capsule format Using APIs: Sun's and user-defined ones Implementing interfaces: a tool to writing to a specification	4.4 - 4.5		Slides	Homework 2	BigRational
1	3 Tue Sep 4 Details	Unit testing using JUnit Introduction to analysis: big-Oh analysis	5.1 - 5.2		Slides	Homework 2	BigRational
1	4 Thu Sep 6 Details	Throwing exceptions: example of capsule deliverables	Review 2.5	Summary	Slides	Homework 2	BigRational
2	5 Mon Sep 10 Details	UML as a communication tool Writing methods you don't call This	Review 3.5		Slides	Homework 3	BallWorlds
2	6 Tue Sep 11 Details	Inheritance and abstract classes (capsule) Polymorphism and dynamic binding (capsule)	4.1 - 4.5	Inheritance (sec2) Polymorphism (sec1) Polymorphism (sec2)	Slides	Homework 3	BallWorlds
2	7 Thu Sep 13 Details	1D and 2D Arrays and ArrayLists (capsule)	Review 2.4	Arrays (sec1) Arrays (sec2)	Slides	Homework 3	BallWorlds
3	8 Mon Sep 17 Details	GUI design using Swing (capsule)	Appendix B	Summary (sec1) Summary (sec2)	Slides	Homework 4	Fifteen
3	9 Tue Sep 18 Details	Event-driven programming using listeners (capsule)	Appendix B	Summary (sec1) Summary (sec2)	Slides	Homework 4	Fifteen
3	10 Thu Sep 20 Details	Anonymous classes (capsule) Function objects and comparators (capsule) Debugging in Eclipse	4.8	Summary (sec1) Summary (sec2) Summary (sec2)	Slides	Homework 4	Fifteen
4	11 Mon Sep 24 Details	Project workday	None			Homework 5	Fifteen
4	12 Tue Sep 25 Details	Generics (capsule) Iterators (capsule)	4.6 - 4.7 (4.6 is background for important stuff in 4.7) 6.1 - 6.4 (focus on 6.2; rest is intro to Collections)			Homework 5	CarsTrucksTrains
4	13 Thu Sep 27 Details	Lists (capsule)	6.5 (lists)			Homework 5	CarsTrucksTrains
5	14 Mon Oct 1 Details	Stacks and queues (capsule) Sets, maps, and priority queues (capsule)	6.6 (stacks and queues) 6.9 (others)			Homework 5	CarsTrucksTrains
5	15 Tue Oct 2 Details	Choosing data structures based on efficiency Intro Markov				Homework 6	Markov
5	16 Thu Oct 4 Details	Exam	7.1, 7.3			Homework 6	Markov
6	17 Mon Oct 8 Details	Recursion (capsule) Recursion exercise				Homework 6	Markov
6	18 Tue Oct 9 Details	Tail recursion Project time				Homework 7	Markov
7	19 Mon Oct 15 Details	Begin simulation project	6.7 - 6.8 if you haven't			Homework 7	SimulationProject
7	20 Tue Oct 16 Details	Intro to searching algorithms and their efficiency (capsule) Threads (capsule)	5.6			Homework 7	SimulationProject
7	21 Thu Oct 18 Details	Animation (Capsule) Advanced GUIs (capsule)	None			Homework 7	SimulationProject
8	22 Mon Oct 22 Details	File I/O Intro to sorting algorithms: selection and insertion	8.1 - 8.3, review 2.6, 4.5.3			Homework 8	SimulationProject
8	23 Tue Oct 23 Details	Mergesort (capsule) Efficiency of sorting algorithms	8.5			Homework 8	SimulationProject
8	24 Thu Oct 25 Details	Programming mini-exam	None			Homework 8	SimulationProject
9	25 Mon Oct 29 Details	Project workday	None			Homework 9	SimulationProject
9	26 Tue Oct 30 Details	Introduction to C	None			Homework 9	CProjects
9	27 Thu Nov 1 Details	Pointers and memory allocation	None			Homework 9	CProjects
10	28 Mon Nov 5 Details	Strings and string functions (capsule)	Begin review for final exam			Homework 10	CProjects
10	29 Tue Nov 6 Details	Implementation of linked lists	Begin review for final exam			Homework 10	CProjects
10	30 Thu Nov 8 Details	More linked lists and C Time to review for exam Course evaluations	Review for exam			Homework 10	CProjects
11	31 Mon Nov 12 Details	Final Exam: Monday 6-10 pm in Olin 169 (our classroom)