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. Counting Interactions in Software Engineering
15. Event-Driven Programs
16. Designing a GUI Left Middle Right One implementation
17. Java bit operations
18. Random
19. Functional Programming
20. Lazy Evaluation
21. JavaScript
22. The C Programming Language
23. More C and Some C++

Instructions on how to hand in the assignment are here.

• Assignment 1. Given September 12, due September 18.
  
• Assignment 2. Given September 19, due October 2.
  
• Assignment 3. Given October 3, due October 16.
  
• Assignment 4. Given October 26, due November 8.
  Because of mid-term conflicts, there will be no late penalties until after November 11, i.e.

  	Nov 8	Nov 9	Nov 10	Nov 11	Nov 12	Nov 13	Nov 14 or later
  	On time	1 day late	2 days late	3 days late	4 days late	5 days late	6 or more days late
  Usual penalty	No penalty	-5%	-10%	-15%	-20%	-25%	Not accepted
  This time only	No penalty	No penalty	No penalty	No penalty	-20%	-25%	Not accepted

  
  
• Assignment 5. Given November 7, due November 27.
  

Exams

• The midterm will be held October 22, 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 set the date for the Final Exam as December 18 at 9:00am in SSC 2020.

Consulting

The TAs' may also be contacted for short questions at the E-mail addresses below. In these addresses, you must replace "<university>" with "uwo.ca".

Resources

Tutorials

If you have little to no programming experience, it may be worthwhile to try some of the elementary programming tutorials that are available online. It is not important that they use the Java language. The idea is to get comfortable with if statements, loops, and so on. I have heard some good things about these free sites:

• Code Academy www.codeacademy.com
• Khan Academy www.khanacademy.org/cs

Java Documentation

• Java language specification Version 6, Version 7.
• Java standard libraries Version 6, Version 7.
• Java tutorials Language Basics, Classes and Objects

Eclipse

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