Session Details

Week 1, Session 1 — Mon Dec 1

Preparation

1. Read the Syllabus
2. Bookmark this schedule page.
3. Email your instructor if you forgot your SVN password
4. Review Weiss Ch. 1–6 this week: many pages, mostly review. Carefully read the new stuff and skim the rest: this document may help guide you).
5. Install software for the course:
   • Java 8,
   • Eclipse (current version - I use Java SE), and
   • Subclipse (Update from Eclipse > Help > Install, URL = http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.8.x

Due

1. Nothing today
2. Always look at the Major Programs column, too, for the programming assignment of the week.

Topics

1. Course introduction
2. Growable Array analysis

3. Week 1: On your own: Skim/read review from the book and get back up-to-speed on programming by doing the WarmUpAndStretching assignment In class: Algorithm analysis

Outline

1. [10 min] Roll Call, Introductions
2. [15 min] Getting started, finding course material on the web, schedule
3. [20 min] Review some math we’ll need
4. [5 min] Break
5. [45 min] Growable Array (due at end of class)

Resources

1. Slides
2. Course materials on the web.
3. An overview of the review material from Weiss chapters 1-7.

HW Assigned

1. See Preparation, Due, and Major Programs columns on the main schedule page