CMPS 144 (Computer Science 2)
Fall 2023

Syllabus

CMPS 144L Lab Course

Teaching Assistants

• Office Hours

Test/Quiz Information

• Final Exam: 12:45pm—2:45pm, Wednesday, December 13   Study Guide
• Test #2 on November 17: Study Guide   Sample solutions
• Quiz on Token-finding   Solution
• Quiz #2 (Stack Cloning)   Sample solution
• Test #1 on October 16: Study Guide
• Quiz #1   Sample Solution

Programming Assignments

• Prog. Assg. #1: Unbounded Natural Numbers
• Prog. Assg. #2: Arithmetic Expression Scanner   Sample Solution
• Prog. Assg. #3: Knight Distances on a Chessboard   Sample Solution
• Prog. Assg. #4: Recursive Split/Coalesce Sorting   non-generic Solution   generic Solution
• (Optional) Prog. Assg. #5: Binary Codeword Trees

Lecture Notes

• Software Quality
• Exceptions
• Cloning in Java
• ArrayLists
• Iterators
• TimeOfDay A work in progress!
• Loop invariants
  • Red/Blue Jar of Marbles Game
  • Introduction to Loop Invariants
  • Multiplication
  • Searching an Array: Development of Linear and Binary Search Algorithms
• Parent/Child class example: TossableCoin (parent)   TossableCoinWithCounts (child)   polymorphism demonstration
• Code Reuse via Inheritance and Generics; Case Study: Sorting
• Development of a Counter Class Hierarchy   source code
• Stacks
  • All About Stacks  
  • Stack (interface)
  • Array-based implementation: StackViaArray
  • Reference/Pointer-based implementation: Link1   StackViaLink1
• Queues
  • All About Queues
  • Queue (interface)  
  • Array-based implementation: QueueViaArray
  • Reference/Pointer-based implementation: Link1   QueueViaLink1
  • Tester Application: QueueTestApp
• Lists
  • Positional Lists with Cursors
    • All About (Positional) Lists
    • Array-based Implementation of Positional Lists
• Comparator-based Sorting using Generics
• Recursion-related:
  • Intro. to Recursion
  • Recursive Solutions to Array and String Problems: Three Examples
  • Recursion: How it Works
  • Recursion: Timing
  • QuickSort:
    • QuickSort: A Recursive Sorting Algorithm
    • Source code
  • BinarySearcher
• Trees
  • Binary Trees   AVL Trees (optional reading)
  • HeapSort
  • Huffman Coding/Compression:
    • Notes on Coding and Data Compression
    • Morse Code Translator
    • Algorithm and Example   Another Worked Example
• Hashing
• Parallel Computing
  • Intro to Parallel Algorithms
  • A Short Introduction to Threads in Java
  • Thread Demonstration
  • Parallel Array Summing in Java
  • Parallel Rank Sort
  • Creating and Starting Threads in Java

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
• Programming with Assertions in Java