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 8: Monday

• Reading assignment:
  • Read through Tuesday's lab on design. Read Chapter 12.
• Discussion questions:
  • Exercises R10.5 and R10.12 on inheritance.

Week 8: Tuesday

• Programming Project #6 is due at the beginning of lab.

Week 8: Wednesday

• Reading assignment:
  • Scope, Cohesion, Packages: Read any sections of Chapter 8 (omitting section 8.10) that you haven't read yet.
• Discussion questions:
  • Review Exercises R8.28 - R8.30 and R8.32.

Week 8: Friday

• Reading assignment:
  • Sorting: Read Chapter 14, Sections 14.1 - 14.3.
  • Using Comparable, Arrays and Collections: Read Chapter 14, Section 14.8.
  • Read the Chapter Summary and list of Classes, Objects, and Methods introduced in Chapter 14.

Looking Ahead:

• Discussion questions for Monday of Ninth Week will be Review Exercises R14.2, R14.10 - R14.12.

Looking Ahead:

• The Final Programming Project is due at the beginning of class on Friday of Tenth Week.

Week 9: Monday

• Reading assignment:
  • No new reading assignment.
• Discussion questions:
  • Review Exercises R14.2, R14.10 - R14.12.

Week 9: Tuesday

• There is no lab entrance assignment for Lab 9.
  • Come prepared to work on the Final Programming Project

Week 9: Wednesday

• Reading assignment:
  • Applets: Read Chapter 2 Sections 2.11 - 2.13 .  Also, read Chapter 3, Section 3.9
• Discussion questions:
  • No discussion questions today.

Week 9: Friday

• Reading Assignment:
  • Graphical User Interfaces: Read Section 9.6 in Chapter 9 and Sections 10.9 - 10.11 in Chapter 10
• Discussion questions:
  • No discussion questions today.

Looking Ahead:

• The Final Programming Project is due at the beginning of class on Friday of Tenth Week.

Week 10:

• Reading assignment:
  • Read Chapter 11 - Exception Handling

Week 10: Tuesday

• Finish the Applet Mini-Lab before going to lab.

Week 10: Wednesday

• Reading assignment for Wednesday of Tenth Week:
  • No new reading assignment. We will work on final projects in class today.

Week 10: Friday

• There is a list of exam topics available.
• You may want to review the document on writing methods (Word document) that was available before the midterm.
• Some practice on writing methods is also available.
• Some review questions are available on-line to look at for today.

• The Final Programming Project is due at the beginning of class on Friday of Tenth Week.
  Note: You can find the class documentation for all standard Java classes (the Java API) available online at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/.

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