Schedule

Week 1

12 January

• Intro to the class
• Intro to Java Programming
• Installing BlueJ – a team project
  • http://www.bluej.org/

14 January

• RAT 1: Lesson 1 of Udacity course
• BlueJ lab
• Team review: Programming in a language you know.
  (make sure your favorite programming language is on your laptop)
  • lightning round handout
    • the route for question 14

Week 2

19 January

• No Class

21 January

• RAT 2: Udacity Lesson 2: Objects
• Objects lab a partner project

Week 3

26 January

• Objects continued

28 January

• RAT 3: Udacity Lesson 3: Classes & Head First Java Ch1 & 2 (no questions about conditionals or loops)
• Lesson Three partner task & homework

Week 4

2 February

• How to implement a class. – Cay’s step-by-step approach.
  • Scratch Space

• more about Classes

4 February

Week 5

9 February

• RAT 4: Udacity Lesson 4 & Head First ch 3

11 February

• lab – Picture Effects
• The Picture Effects Java code zip file

Week 6

16 February

• Yet more practice. Math functions, String functions, reading input from a file.
• xp.txt

18 February

Week 7

23 February

• RAT 5: Udacity Lessons 5 & 6: Decisions & Loops
• M&Ms and Credit Cards

 

25 February

• Cryptography

Week 8

2 March

• Spring Break

4 March

Week 9

9 March

• Intellij recommendation
• Chaco Canyon Game

11 March

• RAT 6: Udacity Lesson 7: Arrays

Week 10

16 March

• demo day Chaco Canyon Game
• ArrayList practice (no xp) In Intellij VCS -> Checkout From Version Control -> GitHub https://github.com/zacharski/Classroom.git   Can you add the missing methods?
• Trinkle Game explanation and walk through

18 March

• Trinkle Game lab day

Week 11

23 March

• first hour – insanely cool algorithms
• second hour – Trinkle Game Lab

25 March

• RAT 7: Udacity Lessons 8 & 9: Classes & inheritance
• Trinkle Game Demo Day
• Battleship game (https://github.com/zacharski/Battleship.git)

Week 12

30 March

• Basic algorithms searching and sorting
• Exercises: exploring Trinke and Scrabble
• Scrabble Word List File

2 April

• Battleship due
• lab to finish Data Structures and Algorithms work

Week 13

6 April

• Cellular Automata and complexity theory
• videos watched in class:
  • Complexity Explorer
• team worksheet on one dimensional CA
• the project writeup

8 April

• lab day

Week 14

13 April

• Pick and Choose
• Final Exam Posted

15 April

• Big O Notation
• Sorting
• Improved Sorting Algorithm Demo
• Sorting Algorithms
• Computer Science Question
• Ranch Sorting – looks much harder than anything we will be doing!
• Bubble Sort Folk Dance

Week 15

20 April

• a

22 April