Teaching Staff

Instructor: Chris Murphy (cmurphy@cs.columbia.edu) Office hours: TBA TA: Swapneel Sheth (swapneel@cs.columbia.edu) Office hours: TBA

Syllabus (Tentative)

Date Topics Covered Reading Notes Assignments Jul 8 Course introduction Review of Java basics       Jul 10 Designing classes NetBeans IDE 8.1 - 8.9     Jul 15 Interfaces and Polymorphism Inheritance 9.1 - 9.5 10.1 - 10.8     Jul 17 Basic Graphics 2.11 - 2.13, 3.9   Assignment #1 due Jul 22 Event Handling Threads 9.6 - 9.10 20.1 - 20.2     Jul 24 More Graphics Software Testing 2.8, 3.6, 5.5, 7.8   Assignment #2 due Jul 29 Graphical User Interfaces 18.1 - 18.4     Jul 31 Networked applications 21.1 - 21.5   Assignment #3 due Aug 5 Exceptions Thread synchronization Data structures 11.1 - 11.6 20.3 - 20.5 15.1 - 15.3     Aug 7 More data structures Advanced topics 15.4, 16.1 - 16.7     Aug 12 Final Project presentations Final Exam review     Final Project due Aug 14 Final Exam

All readings are from Big Java by Cay Horstmann, Third Edition.

Class Policies

Exams There will be an in-class final exam on the last day of classes. No makeup exams will be given.   Grading Grades will be assigned using the following guidelines: Homeworks 35% Final Exam 40% Final Project 25%   Late Policy Because of the tight schedule, it is important that assignments be submitted on time. Late homeworks will not be accepted without previous permission from the instructor.   Academic Honesty Please familiarize yourself with the Computer Science Department's academic honesty policy.