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Example Applets from Lectures

 

 Bryn Mawr College
CS 110: Introduction to Computer Science
Spring 2002
Course Materials

 

 Information

Texts  Important Dates  Projects  Lectures  Grading  Links

General Information

Instructor: Deepak Kumar, 248 Park Hall, 526-7485
E-Mail: dkumar@brynmawr.edu
WWW: http://mainline.brynmawr.edu/~dkumar

Lecture Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Room: 338 Park Science Building

Laboratory Assistants:

  1. Ioana Butoi (ibutoi@brynmawr.edu): Tu-Th 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the Computing Center (Guild Hall)
  2. Catherine Chiu (cchiu@brynmawr.edu): Mon-Wed 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the Computing Center (Guild Hall)
  3. Jacqueline Leung (jleung@brynmawr.edu): Mon 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Fri 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m. (Guild Hall)
  4. Ananya Misra (amisra@brynmawr.edu): Tu 6 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in Guild Hall and Wed 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Room 232 Park

Laboratories:

  • CS Mac Bay, Guild Hall (Computing Center)
  • Chemistry/Computer Science Lab, Room 232 Park Science Building

Texts & Software

  • Java for Students, Third Edition, by Douglas Bell and Mike Parr, Prentice Hall, 2002.
  • Java: Getting Wired: A Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Computer Science, by Bryn Mawr College, Spring 2002 Edition.
  • CodeWarrior Pro 6 (or later) for Macintosh, Software by Metrowerks, 2001. This software is installed in all the Laboratories mentioned above.

Important Dates

January 22: First lecture
February 26: Exam 1
April 2: Exam 2
April 30: Last lecture
May 2: Exam 3

Programming Projects & Homework

Homework#1: Create your own home page and post it on the web. Bryn Mawr students can request a web account by clicking here. Bryn Mawr's guidelines for personal home pages is posted here. Haverford students can request one by clicking here. To get credit, post your home page, send e-mail to dkumar@brynmawr.edu with your URL latest by Monday, January 28.

Project#1 is assigned (Due on Tuesday, February 5): Click here for details.
Project#2 is assigned (Due on Thursday, February 14): Click here for details.

Homework#2 (Due on Tuesday, Feb 19 by 2:30 p.m): Write your own version of the growing shrinking person applet and post it on your web page. No need to submit anything, just send Deepak an e-mail when you are finished. Feel free to modify the drawing(s).

Project#3 is assigned (Due on Tuesday, March 26): Click here for details.

Project#4 is assigned (Due on Tuesday, April 9): Click here for details.

Project#5 is assigned (Due on Thursday, April 30): Click here for details.

Lectures

  • Week 1

    Tuesday, January 22:     First class Meeting. What is computer science? Elements of programming: data, sequencing, selection, repetition, methods. Object-Oriented Programming: objects, classes, inheritance. Java and the world wide web.

    Read: Chapter 1 from Bell & Parr. Appendix C from Bell & Parr. Chapter 4 from the Lab Manual.

    Thursday, January 24:     Introduction to the Web, HTML, and web aothoring programs.

    Weekly Homework:     Create your own home page and post it on the web. Bryn Mawr students can request a web account by clicking here. Bryn Mawr's guidelines for personal home pages is posted here. Haverford students can request one by clicking here. To get credit, post your home page, send e-mail to dkumar@brynmawr.edu with your URL latest by Monday, January 28.
  • Week 2

    Tuesday, January 29: A quick introduction to Dreamweaver. Introduction to Java: programming. sequence, selection, repetition, methods, objects, classes. Code Warrior: First Look.

    Read:     Chapters 2 & 3 from Bell & Parr. Chapters 1-3 from the Lab Manual.

    Thursday, January 31:     Applet basics. Introductory graphics: drawing commands.

    Project#1 is assigned (Due on Tuesday, February 5): Click here for details.

  • Week 3

    Tuesday February 5:     Variables and calculations. Pie Chart applet: Version 1.

    Read:     Chapters 4 & 5 from Bell & Parr. Chapters 7 and 8 from Lab Manual.

    Thursday, February 7:     Methods in Java. Version 2 of the Pie Chart program.

    Project#2 is assigned (Due on Thursday, February 14):     Click here for details.

  • Week 4

    Tuesday, February 12:     More on methods in Java. The Person applet using methods. Event-driven programming. Introduction to sliders. The Test Slider applet.

    Read:     Chapter 6 from Bell & Parr.

    Thursday February, 14:     Using sliders interactively. Colors in Java. Writing a color picker applet. The person applet (version 2), The color swatch applet.

    Read: Chapters 11 & 13 from the Lab Manual.

    Homework#2 (Due on Tuesday, Feb 19 by 2:30 p.m):     Write your own version of the growing shrinking person applet and post it on your web page. No need to submit anything, just send Deepak an e-mail when you are finished. Feel free to modify the drawing(s).
  • Week 5

    Tuesday, February 19:     Selection: If and switch statements.

    Read:     Chapter 7 from Bell & Parr. Chapters 10, 15, and 16 from the Lab Manual.

    Thursday, February 21:     Buttons in GUI's. Generating Random numbers.Example applet: Using a button to draw a random dot.
  • Week 6

    Tuesday, February 26:     Exam 1 is today.

    Thursday, February 28:     No Class today.
  • Week 7

    Tuesday, March 5:     Quick Review. Text fields in GUI's. Containers, panels, and layout managers.

    Read:     Chapter 17 from Bell & Parr. Also, Chapters 13 to 18 from Lab Manual.

    Project#3 is assigned (Due on Tuesday, March 26):     Click here for details.

    Thursday, March 7:     Review of Exam 1. Using Panels to design interfaces.
  • Week 8

     No Classes this week. Spring Break!!
  • Week 9
    Project#3 deadline is extended to March 26.
    Tuesday, March 19:     The Car Loan calculator applet: Designing user interfaces, doing computations, using methods, declaring variables, etc. An exercise on good applet design (plus a post spring break review).

    Thursday, March 21:     Loops in Java: while, do, for-loops. Writing iterative programs. The Prime Classes Applet.

    Read:     Chapter 8 from Bell & Parr
  • Week 10

    Tuesday, March 26:     Designing applets. Computations using loops.
    The random dots applet. The Days applet.

    Project#4 is assigned (Due on Tuesday, April 9):     Click here for details.

    Thursday, March 28:     More on designing applets.
  • Week 11

    Tuesday, April 2:     Exam 2 is today.

    Thursday, April 4:     Arrays in Java.

    Read:     Chapter 13 from Bell & Parr.
  • Week 12

    Tuesday, April 9:     Arrays in Java. Passing arrays as parameters. Writing simple array processing operations: compute the smallest/largest element of an array, mean of a set of data stored in the array, etc.

    Wednesday, April 10:     Ananya's TA hours for today will be from 4 to 6 p.m.

    Thursday, April 11:     Strings in Java. The palindrome applet.

    Read: Chapter 15 from Bell & Parr.

    Project#5 is assigned (Due on Thursday, April 30):     Click here for details.

  • Week 13
    Tuesday, April 16: Finish Version 1 of Project#5 by today. Object-oriented programming. Creating your own Java classes. Using the Canvas widget. PlayBalloon Applet

    Read:     Chapters 9, 10, and 12 from Bell & Parr. Review Chapter 17 also.

    Thursday, April 18:     Using canvases. Sorting arrays. Canvas Example Applet


  • Week 14

    Tuesday, April 23:     Sorting arrays. Analysis of sorting algorithms. Finding Anagrams.

    Thursday, April 25:     Images and Sounds in Java. The Sound Player Applet, the Photo Album Applet.

    Read: Chapter 20 from Bell & Parr.
  • Week 15

    Tuesday, April 30:     Wrap up of course.

    Thursday, May 2:     Exam 3 is today.

Grading

All graded work will receive a grade, 4.0, 3.7, 3.3, 3.0, 2.7, 2.3, 2.0, 1.7, 1.3, 1.0, or 0.0. At the end of the semester, final grades will be calculated as a weighted average of all grades according to the following weights:

Exam 1: 15%
Exam 2: 15%
Exam 3: 15%
Projects: 45%
Homework: 10%
Total: 100%

Links

 

Created by dkumar@brynmawr.edu on January 17, 2002.