Schedule
CS-141 Introduction to Programming, Fall 2011

Text: Java for Everyone, by Cay Horstmann.

Week		Topic	Readings	Assignment	Comments
1	Aug 29	Introduction	Chp 1: Introduction	Lab 1: light-Bot and Scratch	Classes begin Tues, Aug 30
2	Sept 5	Intro to Java & DrJava	Chp 2: Fundamental Data Types	Lab 2: Printing, Variables and User Input	Labor Day: no classes Monday
3	Sept 12	Strings	Chp 3: Decisions	Lab 3: Working with Binary Numbers and Strings
4	Sept 19	If-Else	Chp 3: Decisions, begin Chp 4: Loops	Lab 4: If-Else and Expert Systems
5	Sept 26	Loops	Chp 4: Loops	Lab 5: Loops
6	Oct 3	Exam on Friday	Review Chps 1-4	Review programming assignments from Chps 1-4	Prof Orr at CCSC-NW Conference, Fri-Sat
7	Oct 10	Nested Loops and (begin) Methods	Chp 5: Methods	Lab 6: Nested Loops
8	Oct 17	Methods	Chp 5: Methods (cont)	Lab 7: Methods	Fri - Mid-semester day. No classes.
9	Oct 24	Methods & Recursion	Chp 5: Methods (cont)	Lab 8: Methods (cont)
10	Oct 31	Arrays	Chp 6: Arrays and Array Lists	Lab 9: Working with Arrays
11	Nov 7	Arrays and ArrayLists	begin Chp 7: Objects and Classes	Lab 10: TicTacToe, etc	Prof Orr at Grace Hopper Conference, Wed-Sat
12	Nov 14	Exam (Wed), Objects and Classes	Chp 7: Objects and Classes	Lab 11: Objects and Classes
13	Nov 21	Objects and Classes (cont)	Chp 7: Objects and Classes Chp 8 Input/Output and Exception Handling (optional) Chp 9 Inheritance (optional)	Lab 12: Final Project	Thanksgiving - no class Thurs or Fri
14	Nov 28	Objects and Classes (cont)	Chp 7: Objects and Classes Chp 8 Input/Output and Exception Handling (optional) Chp 9 Inheritance (optional)	Lab 12: Final Project (cont)
15	Dec 5	Objects and Classes (cont) Final Project is due (Fri)! Review for final exam.	Chp 7: Objects and Classes Chp 8 Input/Output and Exception Handling (optional) Chp 9 Inheritance (optional)	Lab 12: Final Project (cont)
	Final Exams will be Thursday, Dec 15, 9-11am (section 1) and Friday, Dec 16, 9-11am (section 2)