CompSci 6 : Fall 2008

Date		Topic	Reading	Classwork	Assignment Due
25	Aug	Course Overview Introduction to Computer Science	Chapter 1	Survey Who Are You?
27	Aug	Problem Solving	Chapter 4	Nim Word Problems
29	Aug	Introduction to Java	Chapter 2
1	Sep	Programming with Objects			Word Problems
3	Sep	Events Driven Programming	Chapter 5	Animation	Introductions
5	Sep	Making Classes	Chapter 3	Bouncers	Transforming Images
8	Sep	References and Randomness	Chapters 2.10, 6.5
10	Sep	Loops and Collections	Chapter 7	Racers	Bouncers
12	Sep	Catch-up
15	Sep	Inheritance	Chapter 10		Racers
17	Sep	Interaction
19	Sep	Reading from Files	Chapter 11	Springs
22	Sep	Exam Review			Breakout
24	Sep	Exam 1
26	Sep	Data Visualization		Name Surfer
29	Sep	String Processing	Chapter 4.6	String Problems	Name Surfer
1	Oct	Strings and Complex Loops
3	Oct	Making Random Text		N-gram
6	Oct	Debugging	Chapters 6.6, 6.7, 8	Loop Problems	String Problems
8	Oct	Code Review
10	Oct	Lab Time
13	Oct	Fall Break - No Class
15	Oct	Collections: Sets	Chapter 16.1	Set Algorithms	Loop Problems
17	Oct	Sorting and Comparitors	Chapter 9	Collection Problems
20	Oct	Collections Lab
22	Oct	Collections Lab
24	Oct	Collections Lab			Collection Problems
27	Oct	Collections: Maps	Chapter 16.2	Map Algorithms
29	Oct	Collections Lab		Collection Problems
31	Oct	Matrices	Chapter 6	Pixmap Revisited
3	Nov	Matrices and Complex Loops		Tag Cloud	Collection Problems
5	Nov	Exam Review
7	Nov	Exam 2			Pixmap Revisited 1-4
10	Nov	Connect Four Lab		Connect Four	Pixmap Revisited 5-6
12	Nov	Code Review
14	Nov	Basic Recursion	Chapter 13	Recursive Pictures	Connect Four Rules
17	Nov	Recursion Lab		Game Trees
19	Nov	Exam Discussion			Connect Four Player
21	Nov	More Recursion		Folders
24	Nov	Recursive Applications		Ray Tracing	Recursive Art
26	Nov	Thanksgiving - No Class
28	Nov	Thanksgiving - No Class
1	Dec	Recursive Applications		Expression Trees
3	Dec	Simulations		Springs
5	Dec	Computability		Computability
12	Dec	Final Exam (2-5pm)			Optional Problems