• Course Syllabus
• Announcements
• Reading Assignments
• TA /proctor Office Hours
• Elements Lab information
• Command Line Arguments in CodeWarrior - instructions
• Instructions for compiling and executing a program  using the jdk
  
• Instructions for using turnin procedure
• Style Rules for programming assignments
  
• Download the free electronic version of Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel
• Slides on exceptions
  

         Class Notes

• August 25 notes
• Aug 27 notes
• Aug 30 - no handout - loops
• Sept 1 notes
• Sept 3 - no handout - example programs with decisions and loops, quiz
• Sept 6 - no class - labor day holiday
• Sept 8 - class cancelled
• Sept 10 notes
• Sept 13 - no new notes - finish the array notes from Sept 10
• Sept 15 - another array example, String notes
• Sept 17 - quiz 2, program example with array of objects: class 1 and class 2
  
• Sept 19 - finish String review, more I/O. Reading assignment for Wednesday: finish reading ch 8
• Sept 21 - no class
  
• Sept 23 - Searching, sorting, and multi-dim arrays.
  
• Sept 27 - Finish sorting, and discuss inheritance. Read pp 275-280 in Thinking in Java.
  
• Sept 29 - Command line arguments, OO Basics and UML.
  
• Sept 30 - Exam 1, Tay 2.006, 7-9 pm
  
• Oct 1 - Why OO?, and OO concepts
• Oct 4 - More on OO Concepts
• Oct 6 - Exceptions
• Oct 8 - more exceptions and Circle.java, CircleMain.java
  
• Oct 11 - Abstract classes and interfaces
• Oct 13 - More on interfaces, examples: Measurable.java, Rectangle.java, RectangleTest.java
  
• Oct 15 - Interface example, Intro to Collections
• Oct 18 - More collections
• Oct 20 - The Set Interface
• Oct 22 - More on Sets
• Oct 25 - Review for Exam 2 (Exam 2: Thursday, Oct 28, 7-9 pm in Tay 2.006)
• Oct 27 - The List Interface
• Oct 29 - discussion of exam 2
• Nov 1 - More on Lists
• Nov 3 - The Map Interface
• Nov 5 - Finish Maps
• Nov 8 - Anonymous Inner Classes
• Nov 10 - Graphical User Interfaces
• Nov 12 - more on GUIs. Examples: FirstGUI.java, FirstGUI2.java
• Nov 15 - Finish GUI Layouts, low-level components
• Nov 17 - low level components. Examples: FirstGUI4.java
• Nov 19 - low-level components, cont'd
• Nov 22 - More low-level components, RadioTest.java
  

Projects

• Program 1 -- due Sept 3 by 5 pm
• Program 2 - due Sept 14 by 5 pm
• Program 3 - due Sept 21 by 5 pm
• Program 4 - due Oct 4 by 5 pm
• Program 5 - due Oct 18 by 5 pm
• Program 6 - due Oct 25 by 5 pm
• Program 7 - due Nov 8 by 11:59 pm
• Program 8 - due Nov 19 by 11:59 pm
• Program 9 - due Dec 3 by 11:59 pm
  

Old Sample Exams

Exam 1, Fall 2001, 10 am class
Exam 1,  Fall 2001, noon class
Exam2, Fall 2001, 10 am class
Exam 2, Fall 2001, noon class
Exam3, Fall 2001
 

Some Useful Links:
The Java 2 API Specification
Sun's Online Java Tutorial
Info about CodeWarrior at CodeWarriorU.com
Tutorials on Java and JBuilder at Java Coffee Break
The argoUML tool
The Java Ranch
A compilation of Java resources by Bruce Eckel
Class Style Guide for coding - borrowed from Mike Scott
The University of Texas Learning Center - tutoring and academic counseling
UT's ACM chapter - tutoring

Less or more relevant things on the Web:
The Dilbert Zone One place to learn about software engineering :)
Bill Gates Dies in Car Accident A moral tale
Specifications Live Forever
If Architects Had to Work Like Programmers
How Stuff Works