CMP 326: Programming Methods II
Lehman College, City University of New York
Spring 2014

Instructor: Prof. Megan Owen
E-mail: megan.owen@lehman.cuny.edu
Phone: 718-960-7423
Office hours: Thurs. after class - 2pm, Gillet 137E
Course time: Tuesdays, Thursdays 11:00am - 12:40pm

Announcements:

• Please see the Blackboard announcements for this course for clarification about Question 1 in Problem Set 6.
• The midterm and solutions are available here.
• The midterm reference sheet is now available here.
• I'm very sorry about the problems with running out of time to mark the homework. To prevent this from happening again, all assignments will now have both a target due date, as well as a final due date. The target due date is the day you should have the homework completed by in order to not be behind in the course. The final due date is the last day I will accept that homework for grading.
• You cannot save work on the classroom computers, so bring a storage device (i.e. USB key) or plan to use an online service like dropbox.

Projects

Choose one of the two projects: asteroids or images.

The first part of your chosen project must be submitted on Blackboard by Thurs. April 24 at 11:59pm.

The second part of your chosen project must be submitted on Blackboard by Thurs. May 15 at 11:59pm.

Each part of the your project is worth 15% of your grade. These are substantially longer than the homework problems, so begin working on it early.

Additional practice and extra help with Java

• Piazza - online Q & A forum for discussions about programming. Staffed by the Math Computer Science Learning Center
• Open Labs - every Sat. from 1-4pm in Gillet Hall 221 practice programming with staff from the Math Computer Science Learning Center. Register for a seat on Piazza.
• Additional office hours - Wed. from 1-3pm in Gillet Hall 207 with Maryam Ghaffari Saadat
• http://codingbat.com/java - online, interactive Java coding practice
• http://www.learnjavaonline.org - online, interactive Java coding tutorials

Extra practice problems

• 2D array practice
• Inheritance, polymorphism, and interface practice
• File input and output
• Recursion practice at CodingBat
• For and while loops
• Classes and Objects (solutions)
• GUIs (solutions)
• Short answer (solutions)
• Sample exam from fall 2013 - you will not be asked to find the errors
• Sample exam from fall 2012 - you will not be asked to find the errors

Outline:

Date:	Topics:	Handouts/Slides/Homework:	Reading:	Deadlines:
#1 Tues 28 January	Review of campus computer policy and academic integrity code, Overview of software and hardware, compilers and interpreters, printing and simple functions	Syllabus, Chapter 1 slides	Academic Integrity Policy, Chapter 1
#2 Thurs 30 January	Data types, variables, Java conventions, constants, assignment statements, intro to GUI	Chapter 2 slides, Problem set 1	Section 2.1
#3 Tues 4 February	GUIs
#4 Thurs 6 February	If-else statements, Strings, Scanner	Chapter 3 slides, Problem set 2
#5 Tues 11 February	While loops, for loops, and array basics	Chapter 4 slides
#6 Thurs 13 February	Introduction to classes and objects	Chapter 5 slides, Chapter 5 figures and listings, Problem set 3		Problem set 1 due
#7 Tues 18 February	Switch statement; classes and objects continued			Problem set 1 due
Thurs 20 February	No class. Classes follow Monday schedule
#8 Tues 25 February	Mutators (Setters), Accessors (Getters), and Constructors	Chapter 6 slides, Chapter 6 figures and listings, Problem set 4		Problem set 2 due
#9 Thurs 27 February	Classes and objects continued			Problem set 3 target due date
#10 Tues 4 March	Classes and objects continued	Problem set 5
#11 Thurs 6 March	Classes and objects continued			Problem set 4 target due date
#12 Tues 11 March	Array basics, introduction to Selection Sort	Chapter 7 slides		Problem set 3 final due date
#13 Thurs 13 March	Selection Sort, introduction to Insertion Sort
#14 Tues 18 March	Insertion sort, multidimensional arrays	Problem set 6		Problem set 4 final due date
#15 Thurs 20 March	Review for midterm			Problem set 5 target due date
#16 Tues 25 March	Midterm, Chapters 1-7 Test & solutions
#17 Thurs 27 March	Went over midterm solutions
#18 Tues 1 April	Inheritance RentalUnit.java Apartment.java		Chapter 8 slides
#19 Thurs 3 April	Inheritance cont'd			Problem set 5 final due date
#20 Tues 8 April	Interfaces
#21 Thurs 10 April	Recursion: Merge sort		Chapter 11 slides, Chapter 11 figures and listings
14-22 April	Spring Recess: no class
#22 Thurs 24 April	Recursion: Binary search
#23 Tues 29 April	Recursion: Fibonacci series and Factorials
#24 Thurs 1 May	Recursion: Strings	Problem set 7
#25 Tues 6 May	Streams and File I/O (text files only)		Chapter 10 slides, Chapter 10 figures and listings
#26 Thurs 8 May	Exceptions		Chapter 9 slides, Chapter 9 figures and listings
#27 Tues 13 May	Exceptions continued, review for final exam	Problem set 8
#28 Thurs 15 May	Review for final exam
Tues 22 May	Final exam 11am - 1pm

Java resources:

• Eclipse shortcuts