TCSS143 Spring 2005

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TCSS143 Spring 2005

• Welcome!

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TCSS143 Spring 2005

• Course web page is here http//faculty.washington
  .edu/hanks/Courses/143/s05
• Syllabus, schedule, assignments, slides, code,
  etc.
• Slides will contain all changes / clarifications
  to assignments and other course material, so you
  must keep current on the slides, especially if
  you can't attend class that day.
• Code will be posted to the web site immediately
  after class each session

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Assignments and Grading

• Programming
• in-lab one-hour exercise at the beginning of each
  lab period (total nine)
• four programming assignments (see schedule for
  dates)
• Exams
• final exam at scheduled exam time
• The general model for course work
• lectures come from UWT
• questions and discussion come from everywhere
• assignments and exams will be the same for
  everybody
• assignments and exams will be graded separately
  at each institution
• grading policy (percentages, late days, etc.) may
  be different
• lab sessions, lab support, help sessions, etc.
  will be held separately at each institution

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Instructors

• At UWT
• Steve Hanks Office Pinkerton 307 Office
  hours in lab or by appointment Email
  hanks_at_u.washington.edu
• Greg Ferencko (faculty fellow from
  TCC) Email gferenck_at_tcc.ctc.edu
• At Olympic
• Dondi Hanson Email dhanson_at_oc.ctc.edu
• At Pierce
• John Staneff Email jstaneff_at_pierce.ctc.edu

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Other Resources

• Blackboard forum for general discussion
• late adds to the class, please see Greg
• 390 workshop (primarily for UWT, but available to
  anybody who wants to travel over)

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What Are We Going to Do?

• Continuation of object-oriented programming
  fundamentals
• inheritance
• more classes, more interactions
• programming to interfaces, modularity, design by
  contract
• Swing, GUIs, and event-driven programming
• Data structures both with and without the Java
  collection libraries
• linked lists
• stacks, queues, hash tables, trees
• Recursive programming
• Searching and Sorting

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What's New for This Quarter

• Blackboard discussion group for technical help
  and clarification
• More interaction with the remote sites
• UWT students have to push the button
• remote students volunteer or be called upon
• More shorter exercises
• one-hour lab exercise each week
• four longer programming assignments less closely
  tied to in-class coding
• no midterm exams
• More looking at code and solutions
• we'll discuss the previous lab exercise every
  Thursday
• more examples done in class by the class
  (separately at the remote sites)
• Using BlueJ instead of Textpad (not that you have
  to, but you probably should give it a try)

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03-29

• Deadlines
• Programming exercise today in lab
• Last time
• No such thing
• Today and Thursday
• Short review of some Java / programming concepts
• Larger design problem phone book example from
  text