CMPS 144 (Computer Science 2)
Fall 2019

Syllabus

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Teaching Assistants

• Office Hours

Test/Quiz Information

• Final Exam: 12:45pm ‐ 2:45pm, Wednesday, Dec. 11
• Test #1: September 18
  Sample Solutions: Temperature.java   Temperature2.java

Homework Assignments

• None yet.

Programming Assignments

• Program #1: Reversible Counter     Sample solution  
• Program #2: KeyPadLock     Sample solution: KeyPadLock1   KeyPadLock2
• Program #3: Arithmetic Expression Evaluation   Sample Solution
• Program #4: Maximum Segment Sum, Recursively   Sample Solution
• Program #5: Prim's Algorithm (Minimum Spanning Forest)  

Lecture Notes

• Software Quality
• Exceptions
• Cloning in Java
• A Development of a Counter Class Hierarchy   folder
• Loop invariants
  • Red/Blue Jar of Marbles Game
  • Introduction to Loop Invariants
  • Searching an Array: Development of Linear and Binary Search Algorithms
• Stacks
  • All About Stacks  
  • First array-based implementation and application: StackOfStrings   FPAE_Evaluator
  • Improvement to generic version: StackOfT   FPAE_Evaluator2
  • Alternative linked-based implementation: Link1   StackViaLink1
• Queues
  • All About Queues
  • Queue (interface)   QueueViaArray   QueueViaLink1   QueueTestApp application
• Recursion-related:
  • Intro. to Recursion
  • Recursive Solutions to Array and String Problems: Three Examples
  • QuickSort: A Recursive Sorting Algorithm
  • TowersOfHanoi
  • BinarySearcher
  • MergeSorterOfInt
• Computational Complexity
  • Big-Oh Examples
• Lists
  • Positional Lists with Cursors
    • All About (Positional) Lists
    • Array-based Implementation of Positional Lists
  • Recursive Lists
• Trees
  • Binary Trees   AVL Trees (optional reading)
  • HeapSort
  • Heaps and Priority Queues
  • Huffman Coding/Compression: Algorithm   Worked Example
• Intro to Parallel Algorithms

Example Programs

• Dale, Chapter 1

Java Resources

• Java Package Hierarchy (i.e., links to all packages)
• Links to particular packages/classes
  • java.lang  :  Math   String
  • java.util :  Scanner   Iterator   ArrayList
• 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).
• How Java Works (how stuff works) (Note that the hyperlinks for downloading JDK, etc., on this page are out of date.)
• Java "home page"
• Java Tutorials
  • The Java Tutorials
  • Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
  • Language Basics
  • Classes and Objects
  • Interfaces and Inheritance
  • Numbers and Strings
  • Arrays
  • Generics
  • Packages
  • How to Make Frames (Main Windows)
• How to Write Doc Comments for the Javadoc Tool
• Using Assertions in Java Technology