CMPS 134 (Computer Science I)
Fall 2023

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

• Homework #0

Test/Quiz Information

• Final Exam: 8:00am—10am, Thursday, December 14 at LSC 334   Study Guide   Dice Game Sample Solution
• Test #2: 3pm Nov. 20: Study Guide   Sample Solutions
• Quiz on Prog. Assg. #4   Sample Solutions   Solutions embedded in Java program
• Test #1: 3pm Oct. 11: Study Guide   Sample Solutions
• Quiz on Prog. Assg. #2: Sample solution
• Quiz on Prog. Assg. #1: Sample solutions

Programming Assignments

• Programming Assignment #1: Drawing a Checkerboard
  Sample solutions (with increasing use of procedural decomposition):
  DrawCheckerBoard1   DrawCheckerBoard2   DrawCheckerBoard3
• Programming Assignment #2: Purchase Calculator   Sample Solution
• Programming Assignment #3: Wind Chill   Sample Solution
• Programming Assignment #4: Field-Terminated Strings   Sample Solution
• Programming Assignment #5: Date Difference   Sample Solution
• Programming Assignment #6: Nearly (Dice Game)   Sample solution
• Programming Assignment #7: Spinner

Lecture Notes

• Chapter 1
• Data Representation
• Chapter 2:
  • Powerpoint slides
  • Java's Primitive Data Types
  • Notes on Java's for-loop
• Chapter 3:
  • Java's Scanner class

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:
  • YardsToMeters1   YardsToMeters2
  • GrossNetPay0   GrossNetPay1   GrossNetPay2
  • BMICalculatorApp  BMICalculatorApp2  BMICalculatorApp3  BMICalculatorApp4  BMICalculatorApp5  BMICalculatorApp6 
  • DrawFiguresWithLoops
• Relevant to Chapter 3:
  • DrawFiguresWithLoops2   DrawFiguresWithLoops3   DrawFiguresWithLoops4
  • BunchOfFuncMethods   BunchOfFuncMethodsClient
  • printf() Examples   More printf()
  • SqRootTable
  • 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)
    • Calendar Date Conversion: Lecture Notes   DateConversionApp
• Relevant to Chapter 4:
  • Notes on if-else statements
  • GrossPayApp
  • Translating a test score to a letter grade
  • Computing max of 2 or 3
  • Ascending3
  • StringUtilitiesF16
• Relevant to Chapter 5:
  • PrimeFactorize   prime_nums.txt
  • PrimeFactorize_F22
  • String Equivalence
  • String Comparison
  • ExceptionHandling (Java application illustrating exception handling)
• Relevant to Chapter 6:
  • Java's Scanner class
  • 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)
  • Six Sided Die Classes
    • SixSidedDie1 (Uses six counter variables)   SixSidedDieApp
    • SixSidedDie2 (Uses 6-element array for counting) (relevant to Chapter 7)
• Relevant to Chapter 7:
  • Notes on Arrays
  • ArrayExamples class
  • Elementary Sorting Algorithms
  • HeapSort (source code)   sample input file
  • TicTacToe (illustrating use of a two-dimensional array)

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 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.)