Mehran Sahami Handout #2
CS 106A September 24, 2007
CS 106A Syllabus
(subject to change)
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
September 24
Welcome to CS106A
Administrivia
Meet Karel the Robot
26
Programming with Karel
Control structures in Karel
Read: Karel, Chapters 1-3
28
Problem-solving in Karel
Program decomposition
The idea of an algorithm
Read: Karel, Chapters 4-6
October 1
Introduction to Java
Classes and objects
The Program class hierarchy
Read: Java, Chapters 1-2
3
Variables, values, and types
Arithmetic expressions
Read: Chapter 3
5
Control statements
Boolean expressions
Read: Chapter 4
Due: Assignment #1
8
Methods
Using parameters
Read: Chapter 5
10
Pseudorandom numbers
The RandomGenerator class
Read: Chapter 6
12
Stylistic expectations
Engineering for reuse
Using javadoc
15
The acm.graphics package
The collage graphics model
Read: Chapter 9.1-9.3
Due: Assignment #2
17
More graphics
Event driven programming
Read: Chapter 9.4
Read: Chapter 10.1–10.4
19
Character data
The Java String class
Read: Chapter 8.1-8.4
22
String manipulation
Problem-solving with strings
Read: Chapter 8.5
24
Objects and memory
More on parameter passing
Read: Chapter 7
Due: Assignment #3
26
File processing
Exception handling
Read: Chapter 12.4
