CMPS 134 (Computer Science I)   Fall 2019

Student File Submission System     

Teaching Assistants

• Office Hours

Textbook

• Building Java Programs: A Back to Basics Approach , by S. Reges and M. Stepp, published by Pearson, 2019. (either of 4th or 5th edition is fine, and no MyLab^TM access code is needed)

Labs

• The Practice-It website
• CMPS 134L web page

Homework

• Assignment #0

Test/Quiz Information

• Final Exam: 8am-10am, Friday, Dec. 13, in LSC 233
• Quiz on Nov. 18 Sample Solutions
• November-December Quizzes: Study Guide   Quiz #2 sample solution
• Test #1: Wednesday, Oct. 9   Tentative Preview  

Programming Assignments

• Java program template
• Programming Assignment #1: Drawing a Checkerboard 
  Sample Solutions (increasingly better): (1) (2) (3) (4)
• Programming Assignment #2: Temperature Table  
  Sample Solutions: Temperatures   TemperaturesBetter
• Programming Assignment #3: Drawing a Variable Size Checkerboard    Sample solution
• Programming Assignment #4: Calendar Date Conversion    Sample solution
• Programming Assignment #5: GPA Application   Sample solution
• Programming Assignment #6: Baseball Game     Solution #1   Solution #2
• Programming Assignment #7: Election     Sample Solution
• Programming Assignment #8: Die Black Jack Competition   Sample Solution

Lecture Notes

• Chapter 1
• Data Representation
• Chapter 2:
  • Powerpoint slides
  • Java's Primitive Data Types
  • Notes on Java's for-loop

Programming Samples

• HelloWorld program
• MeanProgram
• Relevant to Chapter 1:
  • DrawBoxes   DrawBoxes2   Illustrates methods (procedural decomposition)
  • EscapeSequences
  • DrawFigures1  DrawFigures2  DrawFigures3  Illustrates methods (procedural decomposition) and escape sequences in Strings
  • FlowOfControl (illustrates how method calls influence flow-of-control)
• Relevant to Chapter 2:
  • Chapter 2 PP
  • YardsToMeters1   YardsToMeters2
  • GrossNetPay1   GrossNetPay2
  • BMICalculatorApp  BMICalculatorApp2  BMICalculatorApp3  BMICalculatorApp4  BMICalculatorApp5  BMICalculatorApp6 
  • DrawFiguresWithLoops
• Relevant to Chapter 3:
  • DrawFiguresWithLoops2   DrawFiguresWithLoops3   DrawFiguresWithLoops4
  • printf() Examples   More printf()
  • DrawHourGlass   DrawHourGlass2
  • SumOfRangeApp   SumOfRangeApp2
  • BunchOfFuncMethods   BunchOfFuncMethodsClient
  • SqRootTable
  • Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion programs: (each one improves upon its predecessor)
    FahToCel1   FahToCel2   FahToCel3   FahToCel4   FahToCel5
  • String processing:
    • StringDemo (Illustrates use of various methods applied to a String object)
    • Commonly used methods in the String class (Illustrates use of various methods applied to a String object)
    • DateConversionApp
• Relevant to Chapter 4:
  • GrossPayApp
  • Translating a test score to a letter grade
  • Computing max of 2 or 3
  • Ascending3
  • StringUtilitiesF16
  • NameConversion   NameConversion2   NameConversionViaScanner
• Relevant to Chapter 5:
  • PrimeFactorize   prime_nums.txt
  • String Equivalence
  • String Comparison
  • ExceptionHandling (Java application illustrating exception handling)
• Relevant to Chapter 6:
  • Scanner stuff
  • EmployeesGrossPay   employees.txt (sample input file)
  • EmployeesGrossPay2   employees2.txt (sample input file)
  • EmployeesGrossPay3   employees3.txt (sample input file)
• Relevant to Chapter 8:
  • TossableCoin-related classes:
    • TossableCoin1 (basic version)   TossableCoin1App  
    • TossableCoin2 (incorpoates heads- and tails- counting)   TossableCoin2App
    • TossableCoin3 (incorporates bias)  TossableCoin3App
    • TossableCoin4 (introduces toss history capability)   TossableCoin4App
  • UmpireClicker classes:
    • UmpireClicker1 (basic version)
    • UmpireClicker2 (employs advanceCount() method)
    • UmpireClicker3   (employs WrapAroundCounter objects)
    • UmpireClickerApp (for testing)
  • Temperature
  • Six Sided Die Classes
    • SixSidedDie1 (Uses six counter variables)
    • SixSidedDie2 (Uses 6-element array for counting) (relevant to Chapter 7)
• Relevant to Chapter 7:
  • Notes on Arrays
  • ArrayExamples class
  • Naive Sorting
  • TicTacToeGame   PlayTicTacToe
• Relevant to Chapter 12 (Recursion):
  • Introduction to Recursion
• Relevant to Chapter 9 (Inheritance and Interfaces)
  • Counter class hierarchy: web page   Links to Java classes

Java-related Links

• Java Package Hierarchy (i.e., links to all packages)
• Links to particular packages/classes
  • java.lang  :  Math   String
  • java.util :  Scanner   Random   Arrays
  • java.io  :  File
• Java SE 8 JDK download
• jGrasp IDE
• jGrasp Tutorials (198-page pdf file) (links to separate chapters exist on web page at URL specified in previous hyperlink).
• Using "run arguments" in jGrasp
• How to make jGrasp use spaces in place of tab characters
• How Java Works (how stuff works) (Note that the hyperlinks for downloading JDK, etc., on this page are out of date.)