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This calendar provides the lecture topics, relevant problem set and reading assignments, and assignment and exam dates. Unless otherwise indicated, the readings are from the course textbook, Big Java®, by Cay S. Horstmann (John Wiley & Sons, 2001).


DAY #	TOPICS	PROBLEM SET #	READINGS	PROBLEM SET # DUE


	Objects and Java^®


1	Course Overview and Introduction to Java^®	1	Ch. 1


2	Lab: Interactive Development Environment, Forte	1	Ch. 2


3	Data Types, Variables, Operators, Control Structures	1	Ch. 3


4	Control Structures	1	Ch. 5, 6


5	Classes	1	Ch. 2	PS 1 Due


6	Lab: Classes	2


7	Methods	2	Ch. 7, pp. 281-297


8	Arrays, Vectors	2	Ch. 13	PS 2 Due


	Program Structure


9	Lab: Static Members	3	Ch. 7, pp. 297-304


10	Lab: Recursion	3	Ch. 17


11	Scope, Access	3	Ch. 7, pp. 304-328	PS 3 Due


12	Inheritance, Packages	4	Ch. 9, 11


13	Lab: Interfaces, Inner Classes


	QUIZ #1	4	Ch-6 pp. 251-286


	Graphical User Interfaces


14	Introduction to the Swing Toolkit	4	Ch. 4


15	Swing Components	4	Ch. 12	PS 4 Due


16	Lab: Event Delegation Model	4	Ch. 9, pp. 380-386; Ch. 10


17	Lab: Swing 2D API	5	Ch. 4, pp. 140-150


18	Swing 2D Transformations	5		PS 5 Due


	Numerical Methods


19	Lab: Root Finding	6	NR 347-368*


20	Integration, Differential Equations	6	NR 129-139*


21	Matrix Methods	6		PS 6 Due


22	Lab: Linear Systems	7	NR 32-42*


	Data Structures


23	Lab: Introduction to Data Structures: Stacks and Queues	7	Ch. 19, pp. 757-766


24	Case Study: A Postfix Calculator	7		PS 7 Due


25	Lab: Exceptions and Inner Classes	8	Ch. 14


26	Lab: Linked Lists	8	Ch. 19, pp. 738-757


	QUIZ #2


27	Lab: Trees	8	Ch. 20, pp. 787-798


28	Binary Search Trees


	Java^® I/O (Streams)


29	Streams	8	Ch. 15	PS 8 Due


30	Lab: Streams	9


	Sorting and Searching


31	Lab: Hashing	9	Ch. 20, pp. 775-787


32	Java^® Collections Framework	9	Ch. 20	PS 9 Due


33	Lab: Sorting Algorithms	10	Ch. 18


	Threads and Web


34	Threads	10	Ch. 21


35	Lab: Threads	10


36	Multimedia	10		PS 10 Due


37	Java^®’s Cousins: C++ and C#


	FINAL EXAM

* NR - Numerical Recipes in C (Press et al.) to optionally supplement class notes.

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