CompSci 6 : Fall 2007

Date		Topic	Reading due	Classwork	Assignment Out	Assignment Due
27	Aug	Course Overview Introduction to Computer Science		Who Are You?
29	Aug	Problem Solving	Operators and Expressions	Word Problems
31	Aug	Introduction to Java	Objects and Using Them		Introductions
3	Sep	Programming with Objects	Color	Transforming Images		Word Problems
5	Sep	Events Driven Programming	Graphics	Animation		Transforming Images
7	Sep	Making Classes	Defining Classes	Bouncers		Introductions
10	Sep	Loops and Collections	Loops			Bouncers
12	Sep	Loops and Randomness	Grouping Objects	Racers
14	Sep	Inheritance	Inheritance and Subclasses	Smiley	Screen Savers	Racers
17	Sep	Catch-up
19	Sep	Reading from Files	Reading Files	Patterns
21	Sep	Putting It All Together		Name Surfer		Screen Savers
24	Sep	Exam Review
26	Sep	Exam 1
28	Sep	Exam Booster
1	Oct	String Processing	Strings	String Problems
3	Oct	Strings and Complex Loops		String Problems
5	Oct	Exam and Code Review
8	Oct	Fall Break - No Class
10	Oct	Collections: Sets	Sets (handout)	Set Algorithms		String Problems
12	Oct			Collection Problems
15	Oct	Debugging	Loop Invariants	Loop Problems		Collection Problems
17	Oct	Abstracting Algorithms		Algorithms
19	Oct	Composite Objects	Composite Pattern	Algorithms		Loop Problems
22	Oct	Sorting and Comparators	Interfaces and Object Ordering
24	Oct	Matrices		Library	Pixmap Revisited
26	Oct	Matrices and Complex Loops				Library
29	Oct	Collections: Maps	Maps (handout)	Map Algorithms
31	Oct	Choosing Between Collections		Map Problems		Pixmap Revisited
2	Nov	Putting It All Together		Tag Clouds
5	Nov	Exam Review				Map Problems
7	Nov	Exam 2
9	Nov	Code Review			Arkanoid
12	Nov	Basic Recursion	Chapters 70 and 71	Recursive Pictures	Recursive Art
14	Nov	More Recursion	Chapter 72	Directories
16	Nov	Recursion Lab	Chapter 73
19	Nov	Recursion in the Real World		Ray Tracing, Game Trees, Expression Trees		Recursive Art
21	Nov	Thanksgiving - No Class
23	Nov	Thanksgiving - No Class
26	Nov	Web Browsing and Serving	Web Servers	Websta
28	Nov	Building an Interpreter			Final Project	Arkanoid
30	Nov	Lab Period			Optional Problems
3	Dec	Command Line Processing	Unix Commands	Running a Java Program
5	Dec	Photomosaics
7	Dec	Wrap-up				Final Project
11	Dec	Final Exam (9am-12pm)	Details			Optional Problems