Syllabus

Week 1

1/08:

Lecture 1: Data Definitions in Java Designing Data: Simple classes, classes with containment

1/10:

Lecture 2: Data Definitions: Unions Designing unions of classes; self-reference

1/11:

Lecture 3: Methods for simple classes Methods for simple classes and classes with containment

Lab:

Lab 1 Data definitions in Java; Eclipse IDE; Handins homework server

Week 2

1/15:

No class: MLK Day

1/17:

Lecture 4: Methods for unions Methods for unions of classes and classes with self-reference

1/18:

Lecture 5: Methods for self-referential lists Designing methods for complex class hierarchies

Lab:

Lab 2 Designing methods in Java: classes, containment, unions, self-reference

Week 3

1/22:

Lecture 6: Accumulator methods More complicated methods for self-referential data

1/24:

Lecture 7: Accumulator methods, continued (continued) Methods with accumulators

1/25:

Lecture 8: Practice Design Recap: designing methods and wish lists for a larger problem

Lab:

Lab 3 Designing methods for self-referential data

Week 4

1/29:

Lecture 9: Abstract classes and inheritance Abstract classes and inheritance

1/31:

Lecture 10: Customizing constructors for correctness and convenience Customizing constructors for correctness and convenience

2/01:

Lecture 11: Defining sameness for complex data, part 1 Sameness of data values

Lab:

Lab 4 Practice with abstract classes and constructors

Week 5

2/05:

Lecture 12: Defining sameness for complex data, part 2 More of the same

2/07:

Lecture 13: Abstracting over behavior Overview of world programming; Function objects

2/08:

Lecture 14: Abstractions over more than one argument More function objects

Lab:

Lab 5 Functional world games

Week 6

2/12:

Lecture 15: Abstracting over types Generics

2/14:

Lecture 16: Visitors Visitors

2/15:

Practice

Lab:

Lab 6 Working with function objects

Midterm 1: 6:00--9:00PM
TBD

Week 7

2/19:

No class: Presidents’ Day

2/21:

Lecture 17: Mutation Creating cyclic data, mutation

2/22:

Lecture 18: Mutation inside structures Testing mutation methods, indirect cycles

Lab:

Lab 7 Generics and Visitors

Week 8

2/26:

Lecture 19: Mutation, aliasing and testing Aliasing and equality, revisited

2/28:

Lecture 20: Mutable data structures Removing items from lists, mutable lists

3/01:

Lecture 21: ArrayLists Direct-access data structures: ArrayList; swapping two items, mapping over ArrayLists, for-each loops

Lab:

Lab 8 Working with mutable and cyclic data

Week 9

3/05:

No class: Spring break

3/07:

No class: Spring break

3/08:

No class: Spring break

Week 10

3/12:

Lecture 22: ArrayLists ArrayLists and binary search; for-each loops; working with indices

3/14:

Lecture 23: For-each loops and Counted-for loops For-each loops and counted-for loops

3/15:

Lecture 24: While loops While-loops

Lab:

No lab this week: snow day

Week 11

3/19:

Lecture 25: Iterator and Iterable Iterators and Iterables

3/21:

More practice with iterators

3/22:

Lecture 26: Hashing and Equality HashMap, equals

Lab:

Lab 10 Practice implementing iterators

Week 12

3/26:

Lecture 27: Introduction to Big-O Analysis Big Oh: searching and sorting; insertion sort and selection sort

3/28:

Lecture 28: Quicksort and Mergesort Big Oh: searching and sorting; quicksort and merge sort

3/29:

Lecture 29: Priority Queues and Heapsort Big Oh: searching and sorting; HeapSort -- Priority Queue

Lab:

Lab 9 Loyd's 15 puzzle: working with ArrayLists, loops and imperative worlds

Midterm 2: 6:00--9:00PM
RI200, ISEC102, SN168, SN108

Week 13

4/02:

Practice with Iterators

4/04:

Lecture 30: Breadth-first search and Depth-first search on graphs Graph algorithms: breadth-first search, depth-first search

4/05:

Exam review

Lab:

Lab 11 Heapsort, stress tests

Week 14

4/09:

Lecture 31: Dijkstra’s Algorithm for single-source shortest paths Graph algorithms: Dijkstra's algorithm, and comparison with BFS/DFS

4/11:

Lecture 32 Minimum spanning trees: Prim's and Kruskal's algorithms

4/12:

Lecture 33 Design choices in object-oriented languages: JavaScript

Lab:

Lab 12 TBD

Week 15

4/16:

No class: Patriots’ Day

4/18:

Lecture 34: Implementing Objects Implementing Objects

Lab:

No lab this week