CMPS 060N - Spring 2007

CMPS 060N - Spring 2007

Handouts

• Announcements
• Class forum
• Course Syllabus
• Resources and Guidelines
• Lecture Notes
• Homeworks
• Homework 1
• Homework 2
• Homework 3 Robot.java Room.java Solution
• Homework 4 (NEW) Grid.java GameOfLife.java
• Labs
• Lab 1
• Lab 2
• Lab 3
• Lab 4(Solution: Point.java ClosestPoints.java)
• Midterm / answer key
• Quiz / answer key

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General Class Information

Lecture times:

Tu/Th 2:00 - 3:45pm, Thimann Lecture 001

Lab section times:

The following lab sections are all held in Crown Computer Lab 201:

• Mon 6:50 - 8:00pm
• Tue 10:00 - 11:10am
• Thu 6:00 - 7:10pm
• Fri 9:30 - 10:40am

Instructor:

Name: Wang-Chiew Tan (wctan AT soe)

Office: E2-343B

Instructor Office Hours:

Tue/Thu 4:00 - 5:00pm, in E2-343B.

Teaching Assistants:

Jordan Johnson (jmj AT soe)

Office: E2-392

Office Hours:

Fri 11:30am - 12:30pm

Danni Fu (fud AT soe)

Office: BE 314B

Office Hours:

Tue 12:30pm - 1:30pm
(NOTE: on May 15 and May 22 Jordan will cover these hours.)

Tutor:

Riley Stroud (rileystroud AT gmail (gmail dot com))

Evaluation:

Testing:

• One midterm (1 hr 45 mins), May 3, 2pm - 3.45pm: 25%
• One quiz (1 hr), June 5, 2pm - 3pm: 20%
• Final (3 hrs), June 14, 8am - 11am: 25%

NOTE: The dates of the midterm, quiz and final are fixed and cannot be changed.

Assignments:

• Four (pair) programming assignments: 4% each (total: 16%)
• Four individual lab assignments : 3.5% each (total: 14%)

Resources & Guidelines:

• Course text: 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
  • Here is the tio.jar package.
• Java:
  • A Short History of the Computer
  • Java API Documentation
  • Sun Java Tutorial
  • Bruce Eckel's "Thinking In Java" (free electronic version)
• UNIX:
  • 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 find numerous UNIX tutorials on the web, and feel free to ask for help in the class discussion forum.
  • If you run OS X, this tutorial may be useful to you.
  • 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.)
• Books that may be useful:
  • Java in a Nutshell
  • ...