Instructor: Wang-Chiew Tan
Office: E2-343B
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 12:45pm - 2:00pm
Email: wctan .at. cse.ucsc.edu

Teaching Assistant: Bogdan Alexe
Email: abogdan .at. cs.ucsc.edu
(please include the text "60N" in the subject line of mails addressed to the TA)
Office Hours: Mondays 1:45pm - 2:45pm, Baskin Engineering 314B

Teaching Assistant: Guozheng Ge
Email: guozheng .at. soe.ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Thursdays 4:00pm - 5:00pm, Baskin Engineering 314B

Teaching Assistant: Alisa Neeman
Email: aneeman .at. soe.ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2:00pm - 3:00pm, Engineering 2, 385

Textbook: "Java by Dissection" by Ira Pohl and Charlie McDowell
Electronic version of the second edition (not yet published):

• Table of contents
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• The entire text

Class discussion forum: http://apps.soe.ucsc.edu/fora/viewforum.php?f=24

Lab sections: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 6:00pm - 8:00pm in Crown Computer Lab 201

Tentative Class Schedule/Reading:

Date	Topic	Reading
April 4	Overview, Program Fundamentals	Chapter 1
April 6	Statements and Control Flow	Chapters 1,2
April 11	Statements and Control Flow	Chapter 3
April 13	Statements and Control Flow	Chapter 3
April 18	Functional Abstraction	Chapter 4
April 20	Functional Abstraction	Chapter 4
April 25	Functional Abstraction	Chapter 4
April 27	Functional Abstraction	Chapter 4
May 2	Arrays	Chapter 5
May 4	QUIZ 1
May 9	Arrays	Chapter 5
May 11	Arrays	Chapter 5
May 16	Arrays	Chapter 5
May 18	Data Abstraction	Chapter 6
May 23	Data Abstraction	Chapter 6
May 25	Data Abstraction	Chapter 6
May 30	QUIZ 2
June 1	Data Abstraction	Chapter 6
June 6	Review
June 13	FINAL 8:00am-11:00am

Evaluation:

• Two in-class quizzes (midterms)
• May 4th (Thu), 2-3:30pm - 15%
• May 30th (Tue), 2-3:30pm - 15%
• Final Exam: June 13th (Tue), 8am - 11am - 30%
• Four programming assignments - 5% each.
  These assignments can be done individually or using pair programming. If you choose to use pair programming, please send an email mentioning the name of your pair programming partner to the TA (abogdan .at. cs.ucsc.edu).
  Information about pair programming can be found here.
• Five individual lab assignments - 4% each

Lecture notes:

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2 and associated programs: Datatypes.java MakeChange.java Op.java SimpleInput.java StringVsId.java
• Chapter 3 and associated programs: BlockScope.java Ifelse.java Loop.java DayOfWeek.java ForLoop.java Mult.java StringBufferExample.java
• Chapter 4 and associated programs: CoinToss.java DrawingShapes1.java Min2.java Min2Bad.java RunSums.java SquareRoots2.java TestOverload.java Hanoi.java
• Chapter 5 and associated programs: ArrayExample.java MatrixMult.java MultTable.java StringArgs.java
• Chapter 6 and associated programs: AddressBook.java Card.java CardTest.java Change.java ChangeTest.java Contact.java Counter.java Deck.java Node.java Palindrome.java PassingReferences.java Person.java Pips.java PublicPrivateTest.java StringBufferTest.java StringTest.java Suit.java

Lab assignments:

• Lab assignment 1 - Due on April 13
• Lab assignment 2 - Due on April 27
• Lab assignment 3 - Due on May 11
• Lab assignment 4 - Due on May 25
• Lab assignment 5 - Due on June 8

Programming assignments:

• Programming assignment 1 - Due on April 25 and a sample solution: Sort3.java
• Programming assignment 2 - Due on May 9
• Programming assignment 3 - Due on May 23 and GameOfLife.java
• Programming assignment 4 - Due on June 6 and MyStack.java,  RPNEvaluator.java

Accessing your campus UNIX account from your home PC

• You can open a terminal window to your account on unix.ic.ucsc.edu (the campus UNIX system) using a program called an SSH client. You can obtain more information from here or from the class discussion forum.
• Additional directions for working from home.
  Also includes pointers to information on how to install Java and the Eclipse development environment on your home machine, if you choose to do so.

Useful links:

• Java API Documentation
• Sun Java Tutorial
• Bruce Eckel's "Thinking In Java" (free electronic version)