CS 110/L Fall 2009
Algorithms and Programming

CS 110/L Links:

• The Syllabus contains an abstract about the course its objectives, textbooks, and method of grade evaluation. The course syllabus is consistent with the Computer Science Department's Comp 110/L Student Learning Outcomes..
• Reading assignments.
• Lecture notes.
• Schedule for assignments.
• Resources.

Web CT will be used in this class for announcements, and discussions. You can also monitor your grades in the class. Web CT info:

• Web CT login. Use this to create your myWebCT account (one time) and thereafter to login to WebCT.
• How to use WebCT disucssion pages.

Reading Assignments

• Chapters 1,2, 3, Introductions
• Chapters 4, 5, 6, Structured statements, pictures, arrays.
• Chapter 12 up to and including 12.4, 12.7, Strings, text and file input/output
• Chapter 11, Classes, methods
• Chapater 7, Drawing
• Chapter 13.1, HTML
• Chapter 15, Speed - performance

Lecture Notes

• Printing lecture notes
• How to print in Comp 110 lab
• How to approach lab assignments
• Example of problem solving with P4

• Introduction and history
• Types, expressions, and variables
• Class, methods, and scope
• Structured Statements: boolean expressions, conditional branching, and repetitive loops.
• Arrays, Pictures, Pixels
• Strings, tokenizers, input / output, menus, Scanner Shows how to read from a file.
• Errors, exceptions, and File i/o Using PrintWriter to write to file.
• Classes, modifiers, overloading, and overridding, Frame, Graphics updated 11/17/2009
• Polymorphism, HTML, javadoc
  JavadocExample.java -- you can generate the on-line javadoc documentation for this file with Dr. Java
• Recursion and performance
  MazeTurtle example files directory. If you want to "play" with this you need to download all 3 files.

  Schedule

  Task	Due Date	Description
  Project 1	9 / 10 / 09	StarTurtleP1.pdf project specification. StarTurtle.java starter file.
  Project 2	10 / 1 / 09	TurtleTag.pdf project specfication. Turtle.java starter file.
  Project 3	10 / 22 / 09	SecretInRed.pdf Decrypt.java starter file. encryptedPicture.png image file. Encrypt.java starter file -- updated 10/13/2009
  Midterm (25%)	10 / 29 / 09	Study guide
  Project 4	11 / 24 / 09 changed	SecretMessage.pdf update #1 terence.txt input data file example of encryption and decryption Example of problem solving with P4
  Project 5	12 / 8 / 09	View2d.pdf project specification update #1 posted 11/17/2009 Test files: test1.v2d , test2.v2d , and test3.v2d . Comp110Window.java
  Final (35%)	12 / 15 / 2009 8 - 10 am

  Resources

  • How to install Java JDK, Dr. Java, bookClasses on your own computer system.