| Date | Topics | Reading | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 14 (Th) | No class | ||
| January 19 (T) | About the course (Notes) | 1 | |
| January 21 (Th) | Objects and classes; a little about Java basics (Notes) | 2 | |
| January 26 (T) | Java basics, continued (Notes) | 3.1-3.7 | |
| January 28 (Th) | Inheritance in Java (Notes) | 3.8-3.9 | |
| February 2 (T) | Inner classes; generics; enumerations (Notes) | 3.10-3.12 | |
| February 4 (Th) | Exceptions (Notes) | 3.13-3.16 | Quiz 1; Homework 1 (design) |
| February 9 (T) | No class | ||
| February 11 (Th) | No class | ||
| February 16 (T) | Strings and arrays (Notes) | 4-5 | Homework 1 (code) |
| February 18 (Th) | Sorting and searching (Notes) | 6 | Quiz 2 |
| February 23 (T) | Sorting and searching, continued (Notes) | Homework 2 (design) | |
| February 25 (Th) | Multithreading (Notes) | 8 | Homework 2 (code) |
| March 2 (T) | No class | ||
| March 4 (Th) | Array-based stacks and queues (Notes) | 9 | Quiz 3 |
| March 9 (T) | Midterm exam (Review in HTML, PDF) | ||
| March 11 (Th) | GUIs in Java (Notes) | 7 | Homework 3 (design) |
| March 16 (T) | Spring break | ||
| March 18 (Th) | Spring break | ||
| March 23 (T) | No class | ||
| March 25 (Th) | Linked lists and iterators (Notes) | 10, 11 | Homework 3 (code) |
| March 30 (T) | List-based stacks and queues; priority queues (Notes) | 13-14 | |
| April 1 (Th) | More about GUIs in Java (Notes) | Homework 4 (design) | |
| April 6 (T) | Graphics in Java (Notes) | 12 | Quiz 4; Homework 4 (code) |
| April 8 (Th) | Recursion (Notes) | 16 | Homework 5 (design) |
| April 13 (T) | Trees; binary search trees (Notes) | 17, 18; also the Wikipedia article on binary search trees | Homework 5 (code) |
| April 15 (Th) | Heaps (Notes) | 23; also the Wikipedia article on heaps | Quiz 5 |
| April 20 (T) | Files and I/O (Notes) | 20 | Homework 6 (design) |
| April 22 (Th) | Command-line arguments; networking and sockets in Java (Notes) | 21 | Quiz 6; Homework 6 (code) |
| April 27 (T) | Networking and sockets in Java, continued; RMI (Notes) | ||
| April 29 (Th) | Course wrap-up and evaluations (Notes) | Homework 7 (design) | |
| May 5 (W) | Homework 7 (code) | ||
| May 10 (M), 8:30am | Final exam (Review in HTML, PDF) | Homework 8 (design and code) |