Philip Chan
242 Engineering Complex, 674-7280

Office Hours: MW 1-3pm (or by appointment)
Course WWW Page: http://www.cs.fit.edu/~pkc/classes/cse1001/

The goal of this course is to introduce software development with a high-level programming language. With Java, you will learn how to solve problems on a computer using control structures, data structures, and methods in packages.

Book and Software

• W. Savitch (2005). Java: An Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming, 4/E. Pearson Prentice Hall.
• Free Compiler: JDK 6
• Free Integrated Development Environment (IDE): BlueJ [recommended for this course], netBeans, Eclipse
• Other Compiler and Integrated Development Environment (IDE): Borland's JBuilder [Java Pro's IDE award 2003], JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA [Javaworld's IDE award 2003], Sun's Java Studio Creator, Microsoft's Visual Studio (J++), Xinox' JCreator

Topics

• Introduction (Ch1)
• Types and Console I/O (Ch2)
• Flow Control (Ch3)
• Classes, Objects and Methods (Ch4-5)
• Arrays (Ch6)
• Streams and File I/O (Ch9.1-3)
• Recursion (Ch11)

Prerequisites

• High school math (algebra, trigonometry...) [should not concurrently be taking MTH 0111 Algebra, MTH 1000 Precalculus, or MTH 1801 Trigonometry]
• Basic English (should not concurrently be taking ESL courses)

• Homework assignments (50%), Test 1 (15%), Test 2 (15%), and Final exam (20%)

Policies

• Students are encouraged to help each other on assignments, but plagiarism (copying) is prohibited [rule of thumb: don't send your code to others].
• Late assignments are accepted, but 20% is deducted for each day.
• Documentation constitutes 10% of each programming assignment.