Instructor: Dr. James Glenn
Office: DS 125d
Work Phone: (410)617-5394
Office Hours: M 1pm-2:30pm, W 9am-9:55am, Th 10:45am-1:30pm, F 11am-11:55am, or by appointment
e-mail:[first initial][last name]@cs.loyola.edu

Course Home Page: http://gunpowder.cs.loyola.edu/~jglenn/202/S2008/index.html

Class Meeting: Lecture MWF 10:00a-10:50a in MH 040, Lab TH 9:25a-10:40a in DS 121

Prerequisites: CS 201 (Computer Science I)

Required Text: A Comprehensive Introduction to Object-oriented Programming with Java by C. T. Wu

Other Resources

• Java 1.5.0 documentation
• Java 5.0 downloads (You want the JDK, not the JRE. NetBeans is not necessary. The JDK 5.0 Update 14 download will suffice; JDK 5.0 is what is installed in the labs, but there should not be any trouble with the latest version.)
• GRASP homepage (install the Java SDK before you install jGRASP; you want the jGRASP exe without the Java JRE; version 1.8.6 is installed in the labs but any later versions should work fine for work on your own PC).

Course Description:
A continuation of CS 201. Emphasizes structured programming skills and introduces advanced programming features including object design and reuse, recursion, and simple data structures using a high-level, object-oriented language.

Specific Educational Objectives of the Course:
At the completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• design graphical user interfaces;
• implement those interfaces in Java programs;
• write event-driven Java programs controlled by those interfaces;
• describe how various data structures can be used to implement various abstract data types (ADTs);
• use implementations of those ADTs in Java programs;
• discuss how the choices of data structures and algorithms affect the running time of those programs;
• design those programs using the principles of object-oriented analysis and design
• use the corresponding features of the Java programming language to implement those designs;
• write Java programs that save data in and read data from files;
• write Java programs that communicate with each other over a network;
• write recursive functions; and
• write multithreaded programs.

Conduct of the Course:
Lectures will be used to introduce and explain new features of Java. Readings from the required textbook will enhance students' understanding of those lectures. Weekly homework assignments (not necessarily done at a computer) will reinforce the concepts discussed in lecture. Those concepts will be put into use during the lab periods when students will work on programming projects or smaller lab assignments. Two midterm exams and a final exam will also be used to evaluate students' progress.

Academic Integrity:
Loyola College Honor Code Statement:

"The Honor Code states that all students of the Loyola Community have been equally entrusted by their peers to conduct themselves honestly on all academic assignments.

The students of this College understand that having collective and individual responsibility for the ethical welfare of their peers exemplifies a commitment to the community. Students who submit materials that are the products of their own minds demonstrate respect for themselves and the community in which they study.

All outside resources or information should be clearly acknowledged. If there is any doubt or question regarding the use and documentation of outside sources for academic assignments, your instructor should be consulted. Any violations of the Honor Code will be handled by the Honor Council"

The Honor Code as is pertains to this class:

• Homework: Students may work on homework in groups no larger than seven. All students in a group must include group members' names on their homework. Although problems may be discussed, copying is forbidden. Any students turning in identical copies will split the grade for that assignment.
• Labs: Labs will be done in groups. All designs and code for the lab should be the work of the pair whose lab it is. Write-ups for labs may also be done in the same groups as long as all members of the group contribute to the work.
• Projects: All designs and code used for programming projects should be the work of only the student submitting the project, except students may ask classmates for help with individual lines of code. If another student is consulted for help with a particular line of code, that student must be acknowledged with a comment on that line of code.
• Exams and Quizzes: Work on exams and quizzes should be solely the work of the student whose name appears at the top of the exam.

Student Athletes:
If you are a student athlete, please provide me with your travel and game schedule indicating when you will need to miss class to participate in athletic events. While travel for athletics is an excused absence, you will need to make up any missed work.

Learning Disabilities:
To request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact the Disability Support Services Office at (410)617-2062. If you have a letter from their office indicating that you have a disability which requires academic accommodations, please present the letter to me so we can discuss the accommodations that you might need in this class.

Grading (weights subject to change):

• Homework: 10%
• Quizzes: 10%
• Lab Assignments: 15%
• Programming Projects: 15%
• Midterm Exams: 10% each (Thu, Feb 21 and Fri, Apr 4)
• Lab Exam: 10% (Thu, Apr 17)
• Final Exam: 20% (Sat, May 3 at 9am)

Final Grades:
Final letter grades will be no worse than those in the following table.

A	A-	B+	B	B-	C+	C	C-	D+	D
93%	90%	87%	83%	80%	77%	73%	70%	67%	60%

Beginning in the Fall 2007 semester, CS courses must be completed with a "C" or higher grade to count as having been completed as a prerequisite. Therefore, CS202 or any other CS course that has CS202 as a prerequisite may be taken only if this course is completed with a grade of C or higher.

Topics:

• review of CS I including arrays, inheritance, GUIs, and recursion
• files and network communications
• threads
• abstract data types, data structures, and the Java Collection Frameworks
• computational complexity
• sorting

Midterm Exams: Thursday February 21st, Friday April 4th, and Thursday April 17th (lab exam).

FINAL EXAM: Saturday, May 3rd at 9am