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CPSC 219: Winter 2011 Tutorial Schedule

You can find the source code for the programming examples to be covered in tutorial in UNIX in the directory: /home/231/tutorials

Week No.

Days

Topics to be covered

1

 Jan 9 – 15
  • No tutorials this week

2

 Jan 16 – 22 First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday):
  • Discussion of A1
  • Creating, compiling and running a simple program
  • Format specifiers
  • Escape sequences
  • Formatting output
  • Getting input
  • Branching
  • Loops
Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday):
  • (First half): using Emacs, working on assignments at home.
  • (Second half): write Quiz #1

3

 Jan 23 - 29 First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday):
  • 1D array (int, float) and strings (char) operations
  • Structs: declaration, creating an instance, accessing and changing fields
  • Conversions: decimal to/from binary
Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday):
  • (First half): Negative numbers representing using twos compliment, bitwise operations
  • (Second half): write Quiz #2

4

 Jan 30 – Feb 5 First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday):
  • Pointers
  • Functions (defining and calling functions, parameter passing mechanisms (value vs. reference), function return values
  • File input and output (if there is time)

 
Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday):
  • (First half): File input and output
  • (Second half): write Quiz #3

5

 Feb 6 - 12 First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday):
  • Open tutorial: TA will be available for help but no new material will be taught.
Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday):
  • Discussion of A1: common pitfalls
  • Discussion of requirements for A2
  • Creating Java programs
  • Input and output
  • Branching and loops as necessary

6

 Feb 13 – 19
  • Discussion of requirements for A3
  • Setting up a program using multiple class: Driver class and another class
  • Classes vs. references vs. objects
  • Parameter passing
  • Accessor and mutator methods
  • UML class diagrams
7 Feb 20 - 26
READING WEEK: NO CLASSES
8 Feb 27 – Mar 5
  • Converting non-Object-Oriented programs into an equivalent Object-Oriented version.
  • Testing
  • Information hiding
  • Method overloading
  • Local variables vs. attributes
  • The 'this' reference
  • Multiplicity/relationships between classes, UML representations of relationship
9 Mar 6 - 12
  • Discussion of requirements for A4
  • Arrays of references to objects
  • Coverage of utility programs associated with A4: String comparisons, debug mode.
10 Mar 13 – 19
First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday):
  • Object-Oriented design exercise
Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday)
  • Open tutorial: TA will be available for help but no new material will be taught.
11 Mar 20 – 26
First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday):
  • Object-Oriented exercise (Redux): incorporating inheritance
Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday)
  • Open tutorial: TA will be available for help but no new material will be taught.
12 Mar 27 – April 2
  • Recursive example: finding the exit from a maze
  • Displaying a numbered grid
  • Hierarchies: inheritance, super, interfaces, overriding/polymorphism, casting instanceof operator
13 April 3 – April 9
  • Discussion of A7
  • Creating graphical user interfaces
14 April 10 – 16
First tutorial (Monday or Tuesday)
  • Packages
Second tutorial (Wednesday or Thursday)
  • Open tutorial: TA will be available for help but no new material will be taught.