Syllabus

Examples

Programming Assignments

1. Program 1 (due Oct. 2, 2006)
2. Program 2 (due Oct. 30, 2006)
   • program so that you can see expected behavior (there is some debugging output left)To save this, right click. The name of the file is supposed to be CSCBay.exe. To run, you can double click or type CSCBay from the command prompt after changing to the directory where the file is stored. (version of 10/27/2006)

     To find out what items are available in the auction, enter "Show". You must open the auction before bidding. If you enter "End item", you must enter "Start item" before attempting to bid on the associated item. If you close the auction, you must open the auction again before bidding.

   • Hints for necessary methods and instance variables (Microsoft Word format)
   • More hints from Oct. 28
3. Program 3 (due Nov. 13, 2006)
   • program so that you can see expected behavior (updated 10/31/2006)
   • Hints (Microsoft Word format) (updated 11/2/2006)
4. Program 4 (due Nov. 29, 2006)
5. Program 5 (due Dec. 13, 2006)
   • Hints (Microsoft Word format)
   • Sample input file
   • Jar file so that you can see expected behavior
     • Remember to right-click on file and unzip using "jar xvf outp5.jar" at the command prompt in a suitable directory. Make sure that the saved file name is outp5.jar. You can then type "java CSCBayGUIDriver" to run the program. If you get an error message, please refer to the JDK installation instructions (link at the bottom of this page).

Tests

1. September 27, 2006
   • Chapter 2: Sections 1 through 6
   • Chapter 3: Sections 1 through 6 (except for printf method)
   • Chapter 5: Sections 1 through 3, 5
   • Keyboard
2. October 27, 2006
   • Chapter 5: Section 8
   • Chapter 4: Sections 1 through 5 (5th edition) or Sections 1-4 (4th edition) plus handout
   • Chapter 6: Sections 1 through 5, 7, 8
3. November 17, 2006
   • Chapter 7: Sections 1 through 7
   • Chapter 8: Sections 1 through 5
   • Chapter 9: Sections 1 through 6
   • Applet illustrating sorting algorithms (link courtesy of Matt Gibbs)
4. Final Exam Week 2006
   • Chapter 10: Sections 1-6
   • File I/O
     Exceptions
     • IOException
     • ClassNotFoundException
     Text File Input
     • FileReader (constructor)
     • BufferedReader (constructor, readLine(), close())
     • Integer.parseInt(...), Double.parseDouble(...), etc.
     Text File Output
     • FileWriter (constructor)
     • BufferedWriter (constructor)
     • PrintWriter (constructor, print(...), println(...), close())
   • java.io.Serializable interface
     Object File Input
     • FileReader (constructor)
     • ObjectInputStream (constructor, Object readObject(), casting, close())
     Object File Output
     • FileWriter (constructor)
     • ObjectOutputStream (constructor, writeObject(...), close())
   • GUIs (sections marked in green in your textbook)
     • Chapter 3: Sections 9-11
     • Chapter 2: Sections 7-9
     • Chapter 4: Sections 6-9
     • Chapter 5: Sections 9-12
     • Chapter 6: Sections 10-13
     • Chapter 8: Sections 6-7
     • Chapter 9: Sections 7-8
     • Chapter 10: Sections 7-9

Supplemental Reading Material from Head First Java, 2nd edition

• A Trip to Objectville (pdf format, review of classes and objects)
• Serious Polymorphism chapter (pdf format, deals with interfaces and abstract classes)

BlueJ

Dr. Java

bookClasses-8-21-06.zip (Zip file containing Turtle examples from the textbook by Dr. Mark Guzdial at Georgia Tech)

Documentation Guidelines

JDK (Java Development Kit) Installation Instructions

Compilation