Notes

Lecture notes for CSC148

The CSC148 Handbook is now available online. This includes some administrative information, and a few supplementary readings.

The entire set of lecture notes for CSC148 is now available online. We will begin following these notes soon after Week 3.

Week 1

• Slides
  • Monday -- postscript pdf
  • Wednesday -- postscript pdf
  • Friday -- postscript pdf
• The history file from Friday's Dr.Java session.

Week 2

• Array example: FunWithArrays.java, Helper.java
• Friday -- postscript pdf
• IOExample.java

Week 3

• A1Driver.java
• FoodItem.java
• HamTester.java
• Hamburger.java
• Order.java
• Pop.java
• Topping.java

Week 4

Catching up on readings from the text book. I encourage you to make liberal use of the index of the text book. If there is something from class that you are not familiar with, you can try looking up the keywords in the index. This will often lead you to the right place in the textbook.

• Chapter 2 -- A good introduction to the OO terminology, and on how to design a class. You should read the whole chapter
• Chapter 3 -- You can breeze through parts of this chapter that talk about the fundamental data types (3.1-3.4). You might want to pay more attention to 3.5 and 3.6 which talk about calling static methods from the Math class, and casting primitive types. Sections 3.7-3.10 are about Strings and Input. You probably want to check them out if want more information about how to read from the Console.
• Chapter 4 -- Omit
• Chapter 5 -- Much of this chapter should be review. Pay attention to seccion 5.2 on comparing values and testing for null. If you are shaky on boolean expressions, read section 5.4 carefully.
• Chapter 6 -- (read 6.1-6.4)
  Covers loops. Although much of this chapter will be familiar to you, there are some great tidbits of information throughout in the sections called "Common Errors", "Quality Tips", and "Advanced Topics". You can igore 6.5 to the end of the chapter for now.
• Chapter 7 -- (read 7.1, 7.2, 7.7, 7.8)
  This chapter uses a lot of terminology that I have not used in class. In reading 7.1, and 7.2 you should focus on the ideas and not worry too much about the terminology. For example, you should find some similarities between the Purse and Coin classes and the classes you are asked to design for A1, but you don't need to know specifically what a UML diagram is. You can more or less skip 7.3 and 7.4 for now. "Advanced Topic 7.1" and Quality Tip 7.3" are worth reading. Section 7.7 and 7.8 which talk about static methods and scoping, are also worth reading.
• Chapter 13 -- (read 13.4-13.6)
  The chapter discusses ArrayLists and Arrays. Sections 13.4-13.6 are on arrays.

Week 5

More readings

• Chapter 11 -- Inheritance. (11.1-11.5, 11.7)
  This is a fairly well-written chapter, and I recommend reading it thoroughly. You can skip the Advanced Topics 11.1 and 11.2, as well as section 11.6 for now.
• Chapter 19 -- Linked Lists (19.1)
  The text implements linked lists using an Interator. We haven't covered Iterators yet, so you won't get much out of this chapter yet. Stick with the notes for working on A2.++

Week 6

More readings

• Chapter 14 -- Exceptions (We didn't cover the finally clause, but you should find it to be fairly straight-forward.)
• Chapter 9 -- Interfaces (9.1-9.3)
• Chapter 18.8 talks about Comparables

Exception example from class

• UseQueue.java
• CircularQueue.java
• Queue.java
• QueueFullException.java
• names

Week7

• Access Specifier slides -- postscript pdf

Week 8

Readings

• Chapter 19.1, 19.2 -- Iterators and Linked Lists

Week 9

Readings

• Chapter 20.5 -- Trees
• Chapter 17 -- Recursion

Review

Slides postscript, pdf

Second year courses postscript, pdf