CMPS 144/144L (Computer Science 2)
Intersession 2024

Syllabus

Programming Assignments

• Prog. Assg. #1: Polynomial
• Prog. Assg. #2: KeyPadLock
• Prog. Assg. #3: Slider Puzzle Configuration
• Prog. Assg. #4: Outdegree-1 Graphs
• Prog. Assg. #5: Solving the Slider Puzzle
• Prog. Assg. #6: Binary Codeword Tree Builder

Lab Assignments

• Lab #1:
  • Activity #1: Complete the Temperature Class
  • Activity #2: Complete the TimeOfDay Class
• Lab #2: 3-Color Partitioning
• Lab #3: Inheritance/Child Classes
• Lab #4: Using Abstract Classes for Sorting and Partitioning
• Lab #5: Using Stacks to Process FPAE's
• Lab #6: Shortest Paths using a Queue; Indexed List via Link1
• Lab #7: Red/Blue Classifiers and Recursion
• Lab #8: More Recursion
• Lab #9: Binary Search Trees and Hash Tables

Lecture Notes

• Software Quality
• Exceptions
• Cloning in Java
• ArrayLists
• Iterators
• Loop invariants
  • Red/Blue Jar of Marbles Game
  • Introduction to Loop Invariants
  • Multiplication
  • Searching an Array: Development of Linear and Binary Search Algorithms
• Inheritance
  • Inheritance Example: Coin and Descendant Classes
  • A Different example using same abstraction: TossableCoin (parent)   TossableCoinWithCounts (child)   polymorphism demonstration
  • Development of a Counter Class Hierarchy   source code
  • Code Reuse via Inheritance and Generics; Case Study: Sorting
• 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
• 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

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