Java 1 - Al-Quds University - Thierry Coulbois

Java 1

Al-Quds University

First Semester 2002/2003

Introduction

Prerequesites: C.
General Aim of the Course: You will learn in this course: the general concepts of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), some theoretical informations about Java and you will develop practical skills of Java Programming.
Course Outline:
- Introduction:
  - What is Java?
  - Getting started in a Java Development environment (Computer Lab).
  - General Overview
- Classes and Objects:
  - Vocabulary of OOP
  - First Examples of Java Programs
  - Fields, Methods and Constructors
  - Accessor and Mutators
  - Static Members
  - Final Members
- Flow Control in Java
- Inheritance
- Interfaces
- Graphics Programming: Introduction to AWT and Swing
Bibliography
- TextBook:Core Java² Voume 1, C.S. Horstmann and G. Cornell, SUN 2001
- There are a lot of books on Java, some good, some less,...

Organisation

Cours :
The Instructor is D. Thierry Coulbois (e-mail : mailto:coulbois@logique.jussieu.fr, http://www.logique.jussieu.fr/www.coulbois). I do not yet speak a good arabic so please be tolerant with my arabic and accept my english.

My office is in the Math Dept, room 1203. My office hours are wednesday 8am - 3pm. The time schedule is:

Day Time Room

Sunday, Tuesday 11am - 12:30
Computer Lab See Mohammad.

Group Day Time Room

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Exams: There will be a first exam on December the 22 and a second exam on January 11th. Each of them is 20 percent of your mark. There is a project that you have to do by groups of 3 students that will be 30 percent of your mark.

Day	Time	Room
Sunday, Tuesday	11am - 12:30

Group	Day	Time	Room
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Calendar and Documents

This program can change. Check regularly.

WEEK	Course Outline	TextBook pages	Homework	Computer Lab	Documents
October, 27th	Introduction to Java, First Examples	all Chapt 1	Try to install Java on your Computer and write your first program	No Computer Lab	Hello World
November, 2nd	Classes and Objects - Introduction	111-115, 131-134, 135-136, 142-148, 164-165, 300-301	Write a SpaceBody class		class Employee, class SimpleFrameTest
November, 9th	Correction of Space Body Exercice, built-in types	48-50	Write a Student class		class SpaceBody
November, 16th	Variables, String, Flow Control (blocks, `if else`, `for, do, while, switch`), Arrays	51-54, 54-61, 62-65, 67-68, 74-93, 95-109	Look in the Java API documentation for the methods of the String class and of the Math class		Student Class
November, 23rd	Classes and Objects (continued), object, object variables, method parameters	120-122, 148-154
November, 30th	this, giving access to private datas, object construction	137, 158, 139 bottom, 155-163
December, 7th	Object construction, this, Garbage collection and finalize	163-164
December, 14th	Comments, javadoc, Object Oriented Programming, Presentation of Projects	173-177, 177-179			Project
December, 21st	1st Exam: Dec., 22nd
December, 28th	Inheritance, Subclasses
January, 4th	Files and Streams
January, 11th	2nd Exam: Dec., 12th

Links

Java Documentation:

Java's Web Site
Java API documentation (description of all existing classes of the distributed packages).

Last Modified, December, 15th
URL: http://www.logique.jussieu.fr/www.coulbois/alquds/java1/index.html