CS510PIJ Programming in Java --- Fall 97

Sergio Antoy
office: PCAT 115, 725-3009
e-mail: antoy@cs.pdx.edu
page: http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~antoy/
office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 10-11 and by appointment

An introduction to Java, a relatively simple, object-oriented, interpreted, robust, secure, architecture-neutral, portable, multithreaded, general-purpose programming language. We study language features, object-oriented design in Java, the Abstract Windowing Toolkit, a few major library packages, and how to embed applets in web pages.

The student who successfully completes this course should: master the language; understand how to use the language to develop object oriented software; be familiar enough with the AWT and the libraries to both code simple applets and easily find the answers to common questions.

Ability to program fluently in a typed, block-structured language such as C, C++, Ada, or Pascal; basic notions of object-oriented design and programming; knowledge of the Unix operating system sufficient to develop programs.

Textbook: Core Java, second edition, by G. Cornell and C. S. Horstmann, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-596891-7. Class notes are available on line at http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~antoy/Courses/Java/index.html

Midterm and final are close-book, about one hour in length and worth 40% and 50% of the final grade. The project is 10% of the grade.

The computer science office for all administrative requests; the system administration for accounts and system problems; the instructor for course content and management; the page at http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~antoy/Courses/Java/resources/index.html for on-line Java-related web resources.

Week 1 & 2: Introduction and basic elements of the Java language
Week 3 - 6: Libraries and the Abstract Windowing Toolkit
Week 7 & 8: Advanced language features (threads, interfaces, packages)
Week 9 & 10: Some advanced topic(s) to be determined