CIS26 (Object-Oriented Programming)

This is the web page for CIS26 (OOP, instructor Prof. Neng-Fa Zhou). The goal of this course for the students is to understand object-oriented design and programming concepts and master the core part of the Java language.

• Class hours: 3:30-4:45 Tuesday and Thursday (room New Ingersoll 234)
• Office hours: 5:00-6:0 Tuesday and Thursday (room N1161)
• Textbook:
  The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, 4th Edition
• Reference books:
  • Big Java: Programming and Practice, by Cay S. Horstmann, Wiley, 2002.
    
  • A Programmer's Guide to Java (tm) Certification -- Khalid Azim Mughal, Rolf Rasmussen, 2000.
    
  • Core Java 2, Volume I -- Fundamentals, by Cay S. Horstmann and Gary Cornell, Prentice Hall, 1999.
    
  • Introduction to Programming Using Java : An Object-Oriented Approach, by David M. Arnow, Gerald Weiss, Addison-Wesley, 1998.
  • Java 2 Exam Guide, Barry Boone & William Stanek, McGraw-Hill, 2000.
  • The Java Programming Language (Java Series), by Ken Arnold, James Gosling, Addison-Wesley, 1997.
  • Object-Oriented Programming with Java, by David J. Barnes, Prentice Hall, 2000.
• Grading
  
  • Homework: 20%
  • Midterm exam: 30%
  • Final exam: 50%
• Programming assignments

  There is a homework assignment every two weeks. You are encouraged to submit your homework in paper in a stapled unit. All homework in paper will be checked and returned. You can also submit your homework by email, but email submissions will not be returned.

• Java online resources: Java Compiler (J2SDK 1.5), Language Specification , API , Tutorial , JavaWorld , Servlet , FAQ

Syllabus

• Procedural programming in Java
  • Homework 1 (Due ) Quick sort
• Introduction to object-oriented design and programming
• View classes as abstract data types
  • Int class
  • Rectangle class
  • Stack class
  • Queue class
• Object-oriented programming in Java (Classes, Methods, Messages, and Instances)
  • Assignment 2 ( Due )
  • Built-in classes
    • Boolean, Character, Byte, Short, Integer, Long, Float, Double, String & StringBuffer
• Interfaces, Inner classes, and Packages
• Collections
• Inheritance
  • Assignment 3 ( (Due ) )
• Midterm exam ()
• I/O
  • Echo.java
  • CopyTextFile.java
• Assignment 4 ( (Due ) )
• Graphics programming with AWT (Components & Graphic & Layout managers)
  • TestDrawString.java
  • TestImage.java
• Assignment 5 ( Due )
• Event handling
  • TestEvent.java
  • TestImageCards.java
  • PicSelector.java
• Applets
• Animation
  • DigitClock.java
  • Greeting1.java
  • AnimatedImage.java
• Concurrent and network programming in Java
  • PingPong.java
  • Clocks.java
• A comparison of Java, C++ and C#
• Final exam ()
  • Sample Final Exam