CSC 216 Online

We are almost entering the fourth full week of the semester. By this time, you should have:

• Completed the first 5 exercises.
• Carefully read all lessons at least through Arrays as Data Buffers. Unless you are a couple of days behind, you should have read through Unit Testing with JUnit.
• Listened to/watched the taped lectures corresponding to any of the topics of the lessons.
  
• Started real work on the first project.
  

Mac users: Your Eclipse installation might break under OS X 10.6. If it does, you'll need to update your Eclipse  to the Cocoa 64-bit version (Galileo). Point the new installation to your existing workspace.

 Click here to get the correct Eclipse download page.

 Many thanks to Timothy Striplin, one of your fellow students, for pointing this out!

The first programming project has been posted. It is due a little over a month from now (September 27). While that might seem like a wonderfully long time away, it's not.

The project requires that you read and understand a substantial amount of code (understand it at least enough to be able to use it). With less than one week into the semester, is there anything you can start on now? YES. Start coding the Passenger class -- most of it is pretty simple and straightforward. The only subtle part is writing a method that parses Passenger information out of a string.

Welcome to CSC 216, Programming Concepts in Java. This course officially begins on Wednesday, August 19.

The purpose of this blog is to provide in-depth class discussion or announcements. We will use Twitter for short comments/

This is the first entry for the Fall, 2009 semester. You should ignore all entries posted before this one. They are not relevant to this semester's work.

I have posted 4 remote exams.

The Wolfware locker is going down tomorrow, so I will lose my email list.  I will continue to post any more announcements to this blog, if there are any more.  If you have any questions please email me.

Your final exam will not be returned as your exams were.  If you would like to review them contact me in a couple of weeks and we will arrange a meeting for you to review the grading. 

You can also find the gradesheet in submit.  Please review your grades, I will be submitting final averages Tuesday evening.

James 

Your final exam is scheduled for Thursday, August 6 from 6:00 - 9:00 pm. Students taking the exam on campus should come to EB1, Room 1007 (same room as before) on Centennial Campus.

There are 14 multi-part questions on 7 pages. Exam question formats are similar to those from your previous tests, though there will be no fill-in-the-blank vocabulary questions. The test is closed books, closed notes, no computers.

The exam is comprehensive. The approximate point breakdown is:

1. Array-based lists: 15 points
2. Inheritance, interfaces, polymorphism: 26 points
3. Design, software engineering, and UML: 13 points
4.  Exceptions: 10 points
5. Linked Lists: 24 points
6. Stacks, queues, composition: 12 points

Project 2 grades have been posted.  I appreciate your patience in waiting an apologized it has taken soo long.

 James 

You can review your exam grades on GradeBook now.

Project 3 has been posted.  Remember you may want to print/save yourself a copy tonight before Wolfware is powered off.

All of you should have already gotten this email, but I wanted to post it again.  I don't believe it will affect much of our schedule.  I will be posted project 3 shortly, so if you play on working on it this weekend you may want to print out a copy. 

(919) 513-0984 

Your second test is scheduled for Wednesday, July 15th from 6:00 - 7:15 pm. If you are taking it on campus, come to EB1, Room 1007 on Centennial Campus.

There are 21 multi-part questions on 5 pages. Test questions vary: vocabulary fill in the blanks (I'll give you a list of potential terms on the exam), short answer and explanations, short code, code fill in the blanks, and methods to define. The test is closed books, closed notes, no computers.

The test covers almost all topics mentioned in the syllabus from June 1st until the end of last week. The approximate point breakdown is:

1. Software engineering, Javadoc, UML, Design  (weeks 5, 6): 22 points
2. Composition, Interfaces, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstract Classes (weeks 7, 8): 43 points
3. GUIs (week 9): 22 points
4. Linked Lists, Inner Classes (week 10): 13 points

Students,

 Yesterday was the roll over date for Wolfware.  This is when they remove Summer 1 classes and create Summer 2 classes.  This process should leave 10 week classes, like our's, alone.  I have send email to Wolfware, I'm hoping this problem will be resolved quickly, normally it is.

 James

I have posted most tests grades. There are about three tests left to post.  Once I have them I will post the average and median, as a comment to this post.