Week

Topics covered: The example programs can be found in UNIX by looking under: /home/219/tutorials or via the following [weblink]

Jan 11 - 17

Jan 18 - 24

• Review: basic UNIX command line commands
• Review: using a simple UNIX text editor
• Submitting assignments using D2L: [UC-IT help link]
• Creating, compiling, executing a simple Java program
• Variables
• Formatting output

Jan 25 - 31

• Debugging examples
• Requirements for mini-Assignment2
• Classes and objects: defining classes with attributes and methods
• Working from home using SSH: [Windows] [MAC]

Feb 1 - 7

• Requirements for Assignment1
• (The rest of the tutorial will be an 'open' tutorial: TA will be available for help in the tutorial room but no new material will be taught).

Feb 8 - 14

• More debugging tips
• 'Dice example': random numbers, implementing a user interface class
• Discussion of requirements for Assignment 2

Feb 15 - 21

READING WEEK: NO LECTURES, TUTORIALS OR LABS (CT)

Feb 22 - 28

• Design exercise: determining candidate classes from a software requirements document.
• References vs. objects: parameter passing mechanisms, wrapper classes, arrays of references to objects

Mar 1 - 7

• Open tutorial: TA's will be available for help but no new material will be taught

Mar 8 - 14

• Discussion of A3 requirements
• Coverage of select Midterm #1 questions
• (Related example: common shadowing mistakes)
• Design exercise: attributes and methods

Mar 15 - 21

• Method overriding example
• Mixing and matching different types within an inheritance hiearchy and otherwise
• Casting within an inheritance hierarchy and using the instanceof operator
• Implementing a program that employs inheritance
• Inheritance design exercise

Mar 22 - 28

• Open tutorial: TA's will be available for help but no new material will be taught

Mar 29 - April 4

• Discussion of requirements for A4
• GUI examples: JFrame, JPanel, JButton, JLabel
• Listeners: ActionListener interface (creating a separate listener class and making the container JFrame the listener)
• Layout managers: GridBagLayout, GridBagConstraints
• Using graphic ImageIcons to enhance GUI components
• ASCII codes, casting (int) to (char) review
• Tutorial exercise: debugging GUI code

April 5 - 11

• Discussion of requirements for A5
• Detecting empty string input
• Linked lists
• Recursion

April 12 - 15

• Open tutorial: TA's will be available for help but no new material will be taught unless material was missed from next week