Syllabus

CS202 Introduction to Object Oriented Programming

Summer 2006
Computer Science Department
California State University, Los Angeles

Lectures:

Tuesday and Thursday 08:30am - 10:10am, in E&T A220

Lab:

Tuesday and Thursday 10:10am - 11:25am, in E&T A220

Instructor:

Chengyu Sun
Email: csun@calstatela.edu
Office: E&T A317
Office Hours: M 2:00-3:30pm and TR 3:30-5:30pm, or by appointment

Course Description:

This is an intermediate programming course. The focus of the course is code development in Java using object oriented concepts and practice, namely, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. We will also cover in details file I/O, GUI programming in Java, and commonly used utility classes and methods such as String and container classes.

Textbook(s):

Java: How to Program (6th Edition), by Deitel and Deitel

Software Tools:

Required - Email and J2SE 1.5.x
Optional - Adobe Acroread and/or MS PowerPoint, and one of the Java IDEs (Eclipse, Netbeans, and JBuilder)

Grading Policy:

Homework and projects 40%, Labs 20%, Midterm 20%, Final 20%

90 - 100
80 - 90
60 - 80
40 - 60
below 40

A
B
C
D
F

Schedule:

Week	Topics	Chapters
1	Administrative issues Programming environments Review of basic language features	1-7
2	More about arrays and recursion	7,15,16
3	Introduction to classes and objects Strings	8 29
4	Encapsulation and inheritance	8,9
5	Polymorphism Collections and wrapper classes	10 19
6	File I/O and exception handling	13,14
7	MIDTERM Advanced OOP Topics	10
8	GUI applications (I)	11, 22
9	GUI applications (II) Introduction to Java2D	11, 22 12
10	Applets	20
11	FINAL

Online Resources:

Class home page - http://sun.calstatela.edu/~cysun/www/teaching/cs202/index.html
THE Java tutorial - http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
Java 2 SE API documentation - http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/overview-summary.html
Code Conventions for Java Programming Language - http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html

Academic Integrity:

Cheating will not be tolerated. Cheating on any assignment or exam will be taken seriously. All parties involved will receive a grade of F for the course and be reported to the Academic Senate.