| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 15 (Th) | No class | ||
| January 20 (T) | About the course (Notes) | 1 | |
| January 22 (Th) | Objects and classes; a little about Java basics (Notes) | 2 | |
| January 27 (T) | Java basics, continued (Notes) | 3.1-3.7 | |
| January 29 (Th) | Inheritance in Java (Notes) | 3.8-3.9 | |
| February 3 (T) | Inner classes; generics; enumerations (Notes) | 3.10-3.12 | |
| February 5 (Th) | Exceptions (Notes) | 3.13-3.16 | Quiz 1; Homework 1 (design) |
| February 10 (T) | No class | ||
| February 12 (Th) | No class | ||
| February 17 (T) | Strings and arrays (Notes) | 4-5 | Homework 1 (code) |
| February 19 (Th) | Sorting, searching, and manipulating arrays (Notes) | 6 | Quiz 2; Homework 2 (design) |
| February 24 (T) | Sorting and searching, continued; GUIs in Java (introduction) (Notes) | 7 | Homework 2 (code) |
| February 26 (Th) | Multithreading (introduction) (Notes) | 8 | |
| March 3 (T) | Midterm exam (Review in HTML, PDF) | ||
| March 5 (Th) | No class | ||
| March 10 (T) | Spring break | ||
| March 12 (Th) | Spring break | ||
| March 17 (T) | Array-based stacks and queues (Notes) | 9 | Homework 3 (design) |
| March 19 (Th) | No class | ||
| March 24 (T) | Linked lists (Notes) | 10 | Homework 3 (code) |
| March 26 (Th) | Iterators (Notes) | 11 | Quiz 3; Homework 4 (design) |
| March 31 (T) | Graphics in Java (Notes) | 12 | Homework 4 (code) |
| April 2 (Th) | List-based stacks and queues; priority queues (Notes) | 13-14 | Quiz 4 |
| April 7 (T) | No class | ||
| April 9 (Th) | No class | Homework 5 (design) | |
| April 14 (T) | Recursion (Notes) | 16 | |
| April 16 (Th) | More recursion; trees (Notes) | 17 | Quiz 5; Homework 5 (code) |
| April 21 (T) | Binary search trees; heaps (Notes) | 18, 23 | Homework 6 (design) |
| April 23 (Th) | Files and I/O (Notes) | 20 | Quiz 6; Homework 6 (code) |
| April 28 (T) | Networking and sockets in Java; RMI (Notes) | 21 | Homework 7 (design) |
| April 30 (Th) | Course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | 15, 19, 22 (skim) | Homework 7 (code) |
| May 7 (Th), 8:30am | Final exam (Review in HTML, PDF) | ||
| May 11 (M) | Homework 8 (design and code) |