CSE 1002: Software Development II (Spring 2024)

General info

Instructor

Ryan Stansifer

Office hours

Check my WWW page for up to date information.

Lectures

Class meets at two different times at 10am and at 11am in OLC 129.

Lab sections

The teaching assistants are Joshua Breininger (jbreininger2018@my.fit.edu), Candice Chambers (chambersc2017@my.fit.edu), and Mahbuba Perveen (mperveen2019@my.fit.edu). Lab sections meet on TR at 9:30am, 11am, and 12:30pm (OEC 228). The teaching assistants hold office hours at the Student Success and Support Center in the Henry Building.

There is another WWW page for weekly lab assignments.

Overview

We review basic Java programming and recursion, introduce object-oriented programming and generics. We introduce data defined by the programmer and pre-defined data structures like stacks and queues. We review sorting and algorithmic analysis---both analytic and empirical. We assign programming exercises in various application domains like image processing, audio synthesis, Monte Carlo methods, and web programming.

Prerequisites

Basically, the prerequisite for cse1002 is the ability to read and write Java programs using static methods and fields. Students should already know most of the Java statements, operators, and primitive types.

Textbook

There is no required textbook. Here are number of excellent books for learning to program in Java. The recommended textbook for the class is:

Sedgewick

Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne. Introduction to Programming in Java: An Interdisciplinary Approach, second edition. Addison-Wesley, 2017. ISBN-13 978-0-672-33784-0, 758 pages.

The textbook is a subset of a more comprehensive introduction to programming and computer science. It is listed below.

Sedgewick

Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne. Computer Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Addison-Wesley, Boston, 2017. ISBN-13 0-13-407642-3, 1146 pages.

A 20-part lecture series by Robert Sedgewick is available for about $30 at informit.

The book by Bloch is much like this course in teaching how to use Java well, as opposed to just what are the Java language features. Java in a Nutshell is an excellent reference for all things Java.

Bloch	Joshua Bloch. Effective Java, third edition. Addison-Wesley, 2018.
Evens	Ben Evans and David Flanagan. Java in a Nutshell, seventh edition. O'Reilly, 2018.

Notes from the Textbook

Lecture Topics and Notes

Reference Material

Extra Practice

Grading and assignments

There will be three in-class midterms and a final exam. Tests will make up 60% of the total grade. Programming assignments make up the other 40%. Every week there will be programming assignments in lab and attendance is noted. It expected that you are in lab thinking, coding, asking, helping, testing, and submitting the assignments. We have extended due dates to accommodate students the need extra help, not for procrastinating. It is not possible to make-up missed assignments. However, we drop some low scores to compensate for the occasional absences.

For each student the numeric scores for the assignments and exams are recorded. If you have any question about your standing in the class, or if some score has been recorded wrong, please contact me or the lab instructor in a timely fashion.

We tend to grade exam questions and projects using the entire scale and not just the top end, so scores look lower than you may be used to. Since the tests are not standardized, your grade is determined mostly by how you do compared to the rest of the class, not by the magnitude of your numeric scores. The average numeric score is roughly equivalent to a B- letter grade. Hence, the approximate way to tell how you are doing in the class is: above average numeric score means A or B, below average means C or D. The letter grade for the class will be assigned at the end of the semester. Cutoffs based on the weighted sum of these numeric scores will determine the letter grade. Sometimes we have to make some very tough choices; invariably someone in the class must receive the highest B, the highest C, etc in the class. Your best strategy is to not make it close, i.e., study! Students are expected to take the common final exam at the regularly scheduled time during finals week.

Projects

Important Notices

Academic Support

Cheating

Title IX

Calendar and Important Dates

Syllabus

• Introduction:
  • What is a Computer Science?
  • What is a computer? RAM, disk, CPU, ALU, registers, memory hierarchy
  • What is an operating system? Interface layers: hardware, operating system, application
  • What is the Java platform?
  • Programming languages and translators
  • Development of Java programs, IDEs
  • Files, streams, pipes
• Java language review
  • Data types, Unicode,
  • declarations, statements
  • Characters and text, arrays
  • subprocedures, recursion
• Object-oriented programming
  • Classes as data structures
  • Static versus non-static
  • Sharing and mutable
  • Records. Tutorial on records at dev.java
  • Extending classes, subclass polymorphism, inheritance
  • Overriding and dynamic dispatch
  • Abstract classes
  • Interfaces. Tutorial on interfaces at dev.java
• Exception handling. Tutorial on exceptions at dev.java
  • try/catch
  • Checked and unchecked exceptions
  • try/catch/finally
  • try resource statement
• Generics, parametric polymorphism. Tutorial on generics at dev.java
  • Generic classes
  • Generic methods
  • Generic interfaces: Comparable and Comparator
• Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Java collection classes. Tutorial on the collection cases at dev.java
  • Linked lists, stacks and queues
  • Algorithms analysis, big-oh, tilde notation, empirical and mathematical
  • Sorting (bucket, selection, insertion, merge), searching (binary search)