Week No.

Days

Topics to be covered

1

• No tutorials this week

2

• Discussion of A1
• Editing, compiling and executing C programs on the Computer Science network
• Input and output
• Variables and named constants
• Branching/decision making
• Keyboard commands for Emacs (if there is time)
• Working at home using SSH (if there is time)

3

• Review: binary (conversions, complements, bitwise operations)
• Loops
• Arrays and strings

4

• String functions
• Discussion of A2
• Pointers, pointers vs. arrays
• Command line arguments
• Functions: definition vs. call, scope (local variables), function return values, parameter passing (value vs. reference), passing composite types to functions (arrays and struct)
• File input and output

5

• First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday): open tutorial, the TA will be available to answer questions and to help with your assignment but no new material will covered during this time.

• Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday): Introduction to creating Java programs, a very quick overview of Java basics, Java arrays, introduction to Java classes (attributes and methods, information hiding).

6

• First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday): method overloading, method signatures. Plus there will be some in lab exercises to help you get comfortable working with classes and objects in Java.

• Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday): open tutorial, the TA will be available to answer questions and to help with your assignment but no new material will covered during this time.

• Relationships between classes
• Design exercises
• References
• Static methods and attributes

• First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday): open tutorial, the TA will be available to answer questions and to help with your assignment but no new material will covered during this time.

• Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday): Inheritance, access permissions, scope, multiple inheritance, interfaces and abstract classes.

• First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday): open tutorial, the TA will be available to answer questions and to help with Assignment 4 but no new material will covered during this time.

• Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday): Exceptions (handling exceptions and writing new exception subclasses).

• First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday): going over the implementation of select methods from Assignment 4.

• Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday): Introduction to the event-driven model and some Java GUI classes and Interfaces: Frame, Label, WindowAdaptor, Button and the layout manager classes.

• More on Java GUI's
• File input and output
• Multi-threading in Java

• First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday): open tutorial, the TA will be available to answer questions and to help with your assignment but no new material will covered during this time.

• Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday): additional gui classes, packages, collections (ArrayList, LinkedList, Vector)

• Open tutorials this week, the TA will be available to answer questions and to help with your assignment but no new material will covered during this time.