CS 3802/4802: Java And Interactive Applications For The Web

Instructor: Ian Smith

TA: Roy Rodenstein

Credit Hours: 2

Office Hours: By Appointment

Lectures

March 27: Introduction And Overview
April 1: Simple Programming With Java/Intro To Java Objects
April 3: Using Objects
April 8: Objects Done Right
April 11: Interfaces
April 15: Guest Lecture (LeBlanc): Exceptions
April 18: No Class
April 22: The Case Of The Actual Types
April 24: Applets
April 29: More on Applets
May 1: An Example Plus Using The Network
May 6: Guest Lecture (Stasko/Guzdial) Lecture: Educational Technology
May 8: Guest Lecture (Hudson): FILTERS
May 13: Guest Lecture (Hudson): CUP
May 15: Guest Lecture (Abowd): Java & FCE
May 20: Threads
May 22: Possible Guest Lecture (Hudson): SubArctic

Assignments

Assignments (unless otherwise posted to this page) are due at midnight on the day of this list; i.e. you can work on project 0 until the end of the evening on Wednesday April 3.

There are many and varied student responsibilities for this course.

Assignment Schedule And Information

March 27: Assignment 0 Out
April 3: Assignment 1 Out
April 4: Assignment 0 Due
April 15: Assignment 1 Due
Assignment 2 Out
May 6: Assignment 2 Due
May 13: Code Review Day For Project 3
May 24: Project 3 Due

Update, April 1

I have moved the due date for project zero back one day and added a requirement that you must complete a survey on acmex. Click here for the procedure to access the survey.

We now have a turnin program working on acme. Click here for the turnin procedure.

Projects

The last part of the course will be devoted to students doing projects. You should not feel limited by the descriptions of the projects on this page. If you can think of your own idea for a project, and you clear it with me, you can do that instead. Most of these projects are just ideas from my head; they are not very well formed and in some cases may just be bad ideas. It is going to be to your best advantage to talk to me about any project before going far (or waiting too long!). By the time the code review day hits (May 13) you should not only have your idea worked out fully, but you will need to demonstrate something which shows what you are up to. In other words, you need a working proof-of-concept by that point.

Some ideas for class projects

Extra Info

Here is the java class library API.
Here is the API for people who use browsers without HTML frames.
Bryce Glass pointed me the errata for the Lemay and Perkins book.
This is the Sun Tutorial on Java. This page seems to require Netscape 2.
If you want to use java in XEmacs in the CoC, click here.
Click here to get the page about packages, public, and CLASSPATH.

Ian Smith

Last modified: Mon May 20 17:18:23 EDT 1996