CMPS 144 (Computer Science 2)
Spring 2022

Syllabus

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Graduate Teaching Assistants

• Office Hours

Test/Quiz Information

• Final Exam: Preview
  5:15pm, Monday, May 16 (Section 31)
  10:15am, Thursday, May 19 (Section 1)
  
• May 4/5 Quiz Sample Solutions: May 4   May 5
• Test #1: March 9/10. Preview  

Programming Assignments

• Prog. Assg. #1: Complex Numbers    Sample Solution
• Prog. Assg. #2: Complex Numbers with Generators    Sample Solution
• Prog. Assg. #3: Building Expression-Trees from Expression-Strings
    Sample solutions: ExprTreeCompound   ExprTreeBuilder
• Prog. Assg. #4: Slider Puzzle Configuration
• Prog. Assg. #5: Solving the Slider Puzzle   SliderPuzzleSolver (solution)
• Prog. Assg. #6: Recursive Saddleback Search

CMPS 144L Lab Course

Lecture Notes

• Software Quality
• Exceptions
• Cloning in Java
• ArrayLists
• Iterators
• Development of a Counter Class Hierarchy   folder
• Code Reuse via Inheritance and Generics; Case Study: Sorting
• Loop invariants
  • Red/Blue Jar of Marbles Game
  • Introduction to Loop Invariants
  • Multiplication
  • Searching an Array: Development of Linear and Binary Search Algorithms
• Comparator-based Sorting using Generics
• 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
• Recursion-related:
  • Intro. to Recursion
  • Recursive Solutions to Array and String Problems: Three Examples
  • Recursion: How it Works
  • Recursion: Timing
  • QuickSort: A Recursive Sorting Algorithm
  • RecursionExamples
• 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
• Computational Complexity
  • Big-Oh Examples
  • Gries Online Resource
  • Analysis of Selection and Insertion Sort Algorithms
  • Wikipedia Big O entry
• 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   Arrays
• 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