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Week
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Day
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Topic
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Reading
Due
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Exercises
HW Due
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1
8/28
to
9/1
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M
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Introduction and Course Overview |
Syllabus
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T
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Practicum on Mac Lab and DrJava IDE |
Chapter 1 |
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W
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Java Intro, Applications, and Basic Output |
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F
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Recap + Variables, types, expressions, and user input |
Chapter 3 |
Turingscraft 1 |
2
9/4
to
9/8
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M
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Types, User input |
Chapter 2 |
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T
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Expressions and User Input |
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Ex. 1.2, 1.8, 3.1, 3.5 |
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W
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Using Objects, Introduction to the Picture Class |
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F
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Test 1 |
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Turingscraft 2 |
3
9/11
to
9/15
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M
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Review Test 1 |
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T
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No Class |
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W
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Using Objects |
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F
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Class vs Object and Value vs Void methods |
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4
9/18
to
9/22
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M
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Boolean Expressions |
Chapter 4 |
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T
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Conditionals |
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W
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Conditionals II |
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Program 2 |
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F
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Nested conditionals and Switch statements |
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Turingscraft 3 |
5
9/25
to
9/29
|
M
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Review for test |
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E.C. for Ex. 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 by midnight |
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T
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Test 2 |
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Ex. 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 by midnight |
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W
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Test Review; Object/Class method usage |
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F
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While loops |
Chapter 5 |
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6
10/2
to
10/6
|
M
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Loop practice |
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T
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Class canceled |
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W
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For loops |
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Turingscraft 4 |
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F
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Using loops in Pictures |
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7
10/9
to
10/13
|
M
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Picture loops continued |
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Loop Gymnastics |
|
T
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Loop Gymnastics lessons |
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W
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Strings and Loops over Strings |
Chapter 6 |
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F
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String Gymnastics Practicum |
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8
10/16
to
10/20
|
M
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Review and Greyscale exercise |
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T
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Test 3 |
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W
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Basic Method Definition |
Chapter 8 |
String Gymnastics |
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F
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Method invocation semantics; cont. method defintion |
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9
10/23
to
10/27
|
M
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Object method definition start |
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T
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Turingscraft practicum |
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Turingscraft 5; Strings & Methods |
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W
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Picture/MyPicture methods |
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|
F
|
Begin arrays |
Chapter 7 |
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10
10/30
to
11/3
|
M
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Continue arrays |
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T
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Arrays |
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W
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Arrays and methods |
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F
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Test 4 |
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11
11/6
to
11/10
|
M
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OSDI Conference: Work on Picture Project and on Arrays assignments |
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T
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W
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Picture Project 1 |
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F
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Picture Object Methods: Questions and Answers |
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Arrays assignment and
Turingscraft Arrays
|
12
11/13
to
11/17
|
M
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T
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W
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Binary Search |
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F
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Binary Search Practicum |
|
|
| Thanksgiving Break 11/18 to 11/26 |
13
11/27
to
12/1
|
M
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Sorting: Overview; Describe Bubble, Insertion, Selection |
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T
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Sorting: Selection Implementation |
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W
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Review |
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F
|
Test 5 |
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14
12/4
to
12/8
|
M
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T
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W
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F
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Program 8: User Choice |
