Reading Assignments, Discussion Questions, and Programming Projects will be listed here in chronological order by due date, i.e., with the most recent ones at the bottom of the list.

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Week 1: Tuesday

• Lab Entrance Assignment for Lab 1:
  • Buy the textbook and bring it to lab. (You may also wish to buy a USB drive for backups unless you plan to back up your work to a machine in your room.)
  • Read Chapter 1 of Java Concepts (the textbook for the course). Much of it should be review if you took CS 105. You may skip Section 1.5, but be sure to read Sections 1.6 - 1.7 (including Common Errors 1.1 and 1.2) before lab. You do not have to type in a program (we will do that in lab), even though some of the reading may not seem to make much sense until you do, but it will help the first lab go more smoothly for you if you have made a first pass at the reading.
• Discussion questions: Be prepared to answer any of today's discussion questions.

Week 1: Wednesday

• Reading assignment:
  • Review Sections 1.6 - 1.7 and read Section 1.8 and the Chapter Summary at the end of Chapter 1.
  • Constructing Objects and Invoking Methods :Read Chapter 2, from the beginning through Section 2.7.
• Discussion questions:
  • Review Exercises R1.10 and R.1.12.

Week 1: Friday

• Reading assignment:
  • Testing: Read Section 2.8.
  • Public Interface for a Class:
    • Read Reading Class Docmentation.
    • In Horstmann, read Section 2.9, including Productivity Hint 2.1 on p. 52. Note that in BlueJ, you can quickly get to Sun's Java API documentation by selecting "Java Class Libraries" from the Help menu.
    • Objects vs. References: Read Section 2.10.
  • Chapter Review: Read bullets 1 - 25 in the Chapter Summary (pp. 66 - 67).
  • Read the class documentation for AquaFish, Aquarium, and AquaSimGUI. Also read the Concept sections in the Mini-Lab: Creating Fish in an Aquarium.
• Discussion questions:
  • Read the source code for the initial version of the AquariumController class. How many constructors does it have? How many methods? What kinds of statements do you find in the constructor(s); in other words, what type of behavior is found there? What type of statements can be found in the method(s), or what type of behavior might you put there in the future?
  • Where in the AquariumController source code is the statement that constructs an Aquarium object? Compare this with the specification for the Aquarium constructor in the Aquarium class documentation. How do you explain the differences between the class documentation specification and the actual code?
  • Do Review Exercises R2.10 - R.2.11.
• We will be doing a mini-lab, so bring your USB drive to class, or be prepared to transfer files to and from the computer in your room if you have one.

Looking Ahead:

• Programming Project #1 is due at the beginning of Lab 2.
  You can start Programming Project #1 anytime after finishing Lab 1: Getting Started with BlueJ.

Week 2: Monday

• Reading assignment:
  • Numeric Values: Read Sections 4.1 and 4.2, through the middle of p. 128.
  • Strings: Read Section 4.6. Skip the Advanced Topics and Random Fact at the end of the section.
  • If Statements (Decisions): Read Sections 5.1 through 5.4. Skim the long code examples; if not everything makes sense to you, don't worry about it. We haven't talked about writing methods in a class yet (Chapter 3), although we'll come to that soon. Skip the Advanced Topics.
  • Read the Concept sections in the Mini-Lab: A Whirl of Color.
• Discussion questions:
  • Review Exercises R2.1 - R.2.9.

Week 2: Tuesday

• Lab Entrance Assignment for Lab 1:
  
  • Reading assignment:
    • Review of Alternatives: Review Sections 5.2 - 5.4
  • Complete Monday's minilab, including all Stop and Think questions.
• Programming Project #1 is due at the beginning of lab. As always, bring a USB drive if you have one.

Week 2: Wednesday

• Reading assignment:
  • More on Conditions and Logic: Review Common Error 5.2 on p. 181 ("Dangling else") and Section 5.4, especially Common Errors 5.3 and 5.4. I also recommend reading Advanced Topic 5.3, and Section 5.4.4 on De Morgan's Law. Read Section 5.5, including Quality Tips 5.3 and 5.4, and the Chapter Summary.

Week 2: Friday

• Reading assignment:
  • For Loops: Read Sections 6.2 and 6.3. Skip Quality Tip 6.1 on p. 213, but read the Common Errors 6.3 and 6.4, and Quality Tip 6.2 on pp. 214 - 215.
  • Read the Concept sections in the Mini-Lab: Keep on Moving.
• Discussion questions: R5.5 - R5.6, R5.8 - R.11, R5.13, and R5.14 (pp. 194 - 195).

Looking Ahead:

• Programming Project #2 is due at the beginning of Lab 3.
  You can start Programming Project #2 anytime after finishing Lab 2: Talking Robot.

Week 3: Monday

• Reading assignment:
  • ArrayLists: Read Sections 7.2 - 7.3, including Common Error 7.3. Ignore any references to arrays for now; we'll come back to them.
• Discussion questions:
  • R7.7 - R7.9.

Week 3: Tuesday

• Reading assignment:
  • The "for each" loop: Read Section 7.4.
• Lab Entrance Assignment:
  • Exercises R6.2 and R.6.3 on p. 238. You should bring these, neatly typed, to lab.
• Programming Project #2 is due at the beginning of lab.

Week 3: Wednesday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read the Concept sections in the Mini-Lab: More Fish!.

Week 3: Friday

• Reading assignment:
  • Implementing Classes: Read Chapter 3 through Section 3.5.
• Discussion questions:
  • Do the version of Wednesday's Student exercise with an if statement.
  • Do Exercise 1 in the Grid Plotter lab.

Looking Ahead:

• Programming Project #3 is due at the beginning of Lab 4.
  You may start it anytime after finishing Lab 3 (Histogram) and the More Fish! mini-lab.
• Programming Project #4 will be due at the beginning of class on Friday of Week 4.
  You may start it anytime after finishing the in-class exercise on Friday of 3rd Week.

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