William M. Pegram
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ITP 120 Section 001 and 002N - Fall 2007 - Schedule

This schedule will be updated with links to homework exercises as the course progresses and the subject matter and dates of lectures and quizzes may change from that shown below.  The most current copy of this schedule can be found on the course web site at www.billpegram.com

Week	Class Topics	Reading/Homework Due
1st 8 weeks	Introduction to Java (sample), Chapter 1 (ppt) Console Intput and Output (sample), Chapter 2 (ppt) Flow of Control (sample), Chapter 3 (ppt) Methods (sample) (craps only)	Assignment 1: Input/Output Assignment 2: While Loops Assignment 3: For Loops Assignment 4: Event Handling
W,Th 10/17-18	Introductions, Course Information
M,T 10/22-23	Review of class and main method structure, use of packages, predefined classes (e.g. String), if, switch, while, and for statements, event programming Defining a class - instance variables and methods Methods that return a value and those that don't local and global variable concept Code sample with multiple classes	Chapter 4.1
W,Th 10/24-25	parameters of a primitive type, call-by-value the this parameter defining an equals method for a class Chapter 4 (ppt) (slides 4.1-4.41) Scope code sample	Chapter 4.1 (cont.)
M,T 10/29-30	Information hiding and encapsulation - public and private modifiers; accessor and mutator methods overloading constructors Overloading code sample Overload with identical signatures code sample Mutator method with constructor code sample Calling mutator method code sample Attempt to access private class members code sample Overloaded constructor code sample	Chapter 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4
W,Th 10/31-11/1	Using overloaded constructors code sample Accessor/mutator code sample Call accessor/mutator code sample StringTokenizer class Chapter 4 (ppt) (slides 4.42-4.62)
M,T 11/5-6	Static methods & static variables Wrapper classes, boxing and unboxing Static methods in wrapper classes Chapter 5 (ppt) (slides 5.1-5.26)	Chapter 5.1
W,Th 11/7-8	References and class parameters Constant null New operator and anonymous objects Static import statements Chapter 5 (ppt) (slides 5.27-5.56)	Assignment 5: Classes I, Chapter 5.2
M,T 11/12-13	Instance variables of a class type Copy constructors Mutable and immutable classes Chapter 5 (ppt) (slides 5.57-5.76)	Chapter 5.3
W,Th 11/14-15	Packages javadoc Chapter 5 (ppt) (slides 5.77-5.93)	Chapter 5.4
M.T 11/19-20	length instance variable arrays and references Chapter 6 (ppt) (slides 6.1-6.36)	Chapter 6.1, 6.2
M,T 11/26-27	for each loop vararg specification enumerated types multidimensional arrays Chapter 6 (ppt) (slides 6.37-6.87)	Chapter 6.3, 6.4
W,Th 11/28-29	overriding a method definition super and this constructors Chapter 7 (ppt) (slides 7.1-7.29)	Assignment 6, Chapter 7.1
M,T 12/3-4	Protected and package access the class Object Chapter 7 (ppt) (slides 7.30-7.63)	Assignment 7: Arrays, Chapter 7.2-7.3
W,Th 12/5-6	Polymorphism Chapter 8 (ppt)	Chapter 8.1
M,T 12/10-11	TBD
Final Exam	Final Exam - MW class 12/12 12-1:50PM, TTh class 12/18 10-11:50

Defining Classes I (sample)
Defining Classes II (sample)
Arrays (sample)
Inheritance (sample)
Polymorphism and Abstract Classes (sample)
Swing I (sample)
Applets (sample)

Assignment 8: Inheritance

Last revised: December 5, 2007