CS 1025 Home Page

Course Description

• Course Outline
• Course Description from the UWO Calendar
• CS 1025 vs CS 1026 -- which is for you?
  If you have no programmign experience whatsoever, then take CS1026.
  If you have used arrays and subprograms ("functions", "subroutines" or "methods"), then take CS 1025.
  Else, look at these questionnaires.
  • A questionnaire from the department.
  • What I ask students at the beginning of the course.

Class Materials

Class Notes

1. Course Overview
2. Different Points of View
3. Intro to Java I -- variables, loops, arrays
4. Intro to Java II -- functions
5. Intro to Java III -- objects
6. An Object Example
7. More About Classes
8. Top-Down Design Example
9. Intro to Java IV -- exceptions
10. Intro to Java V -- abstract classes and interfaces
11. A Touch of Complexity Theory
12. Algorithms
13. Algorithms II
14. Software Engineering
15. Event-Driven Programs
16. Designing a GUI
17. Random
18. Java bit operations
19. Functional Programming
20. JavaScript
21. Lazy Evaluation
22. The C Programming Language
23. More C and Some C++

• Assignment 1. Given September 13, due September 26.
  Instructions on how to hand in the assignment are here.
• Assignment 2. Given September 27, due October 22 (extended 5 days).
  Instructions on how to hand in the assignment are here.
• Assignment 3. Given October 16, due October 30.
  Instructions on how to hand in the assignment are here.
• Assignment 4. Given November 6, due November 19.
  Instructions on how to hand in the assignment are here.
• Assignment 5. Given November 20, due December 4.
  Instructions on how to hand in the assignment are here.

Exams

• The midterm will be held October 30, in class. No electronic aids will be allowed in the Midterm. You are allowed to bring one single-sided letter-size original handwritten page of notes.
• Practice Midterm
• The registrar has tenatively set the date for the Final as December 18 at 9:00am.

Communications

• Your TAs are Rui Hu <rhu8@uwo.ca> and Esmaeil Mehrabi <emehrab@uwo.ca>.
• Your Professor is Stephen Watt <Stephen.Watt@uwo.ca>.

Consulting

Websites

• OWL Website for CS 1025a

Resources

If you wish to install Eclipse on your own machines, you can by downloading the following. If you have problems installing, you can see the TAs for help. You can also use the first year labs in Middlesex College.

• Eclipse download for Windows, Linux or Mac OS: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads.
  To use it, you unzip the package into any convenient location on your computer.
• Java run time download. A Java environment is needed for Eclipse. You may already have one on your machine. If you don't, then you can get one from http://www.java.com/en/download.

The following can be helpful:

• Installing Java on Windows A Video
• Installing Java on Windows Another Video
• Installing Java on Linux Ubuntu 10.4 and up: The simplest way is to use "synaptic package manager", so go to system/administration/synaptic package manager, (you can find some samples of using "synaptic package manager" via this video) then search "openjdk-6-source" and mark it and then apply to inistall it.
• Installing Java on Mac OS 10.6 and up: Use the Software Update feature (available on the Apple menu) to check that you have the most up-to-date version of Java for your Mac. The following links can help you: A video, FAQ
• Installing Eclipse for all above operating systems Video