COMP1500/7901
Introduction To Programming
(Ipswich)

Administrative

Course profile (pdf)

Dr Ralf Muhlberger

	Ipswich	St Lucia
Room	1-216	78-626
Phone (direct)	3381 1378	3365 3476
Phone (office)	3381 1122	3365 2097
Fax	3381 1121	3365 4999
Email	ralf@itee.uq.edu.au

Lectures

Week 1: 27 July 2004
Slides: Introduction (1up-colour, 6up-BW), Objects (1up-colour, 6up-BW)
Text: Chapters 1 (hints) and 2 (hints).

See also:

Programming at everything2;
Scripting, Programming, the Object Oriented programming paradigm, Java and PHP at Wikipedia.

Week 2: 3 August 2004
Slides: Arithmetic Operators and Iteration: for loops (1up-colour, 6up-BW)
Text: Chapter 3 (hints, quiz, solutions)
See also:

Iteration at everything2.
Iteration at Wikipedia.

Week 3: 10 August 2004
Slides: Coding Algorithms and Complexity (1up-colour, 6up-BW)
Text: Chapter 4 (hints, quiz, solutions, challenge problems).
See also:

Complexity at everything2;
Complexity at Wikipedia.

Week 4: 17 August 2004
Slides: Introducing and Working With Arrays (1up-colour, 6up-BW)
Text: Chapter 5 (hints, quiz, solutions, challenge problems).
See also:

Arrays at everything2;
Arrays at Wikipedia.

Week 5: 24 August 2004
Slides: Data Types, and Methods (1up-colour, 6up-BW)
Text: Chapter 6 (hints, quiz, solutions, challenge problems).

Week 6: 31 August 2004
Slides: Creating Objects (1up-colour, 6up-BW)
Text: Chapter 7 (hints, quiz, solutions, challenge problems).

Week 7: 7 September 2004
Slides: Objects, Arrays and Methods revised (1up-colour, 6up-BW)

Week 8: 14 September 2004
Slides: Introducing Inheritance (1up-colour, 6up-BW)
Text: Chapter 8 (hints, quiz, solutions, challenge problems).

Week 9: 21 September 2004
Slides: Displaying Graphics and Handling Events (1up-colour, 6up-BW)
Text: Chapter 9 (hints, quiz, solutions, challenge problems).

Week 10: 5 October 2004
Slides: Graphical Components (1up-colour, 6up-BW)
Text: Chapter 10 (hints, quiz, solutions, challenge problems).

Week 11: 12 October 2004
Slides: Exceptions and File I/O (1up-colour, 6up-BW)
Text: Chapter 10 (hints, quiz, solutions, challenge problems).

Week 12: 19 October 2004
Slides: Applets and information on the exam (1up-colour, 6up-BW)
Text: Chapter 10 (hints, quiz, solutions, challenge problems).

Practicals

Lab Assessment Booklet (pdf)

Lab Assessment Code (zip archive)

Lab Assessment Record Sheet (pdf)

Assignments

Assignment Booklet (pdf)

Assignment Code (zip archive)

Assignment Submission

Results

Results table for assignments and lab assessments

Other Resources

Local copies of

Sun's Java Documentation and specifically the API
Bruce Eckel's "Thinking In Java book (local copy)
Chapter 5 Design In Construction from the second edition of Code Complete, about how to go about the design of software from specification to implementation.

COMP1500/7901 Introduction To Programming (Ipswich)