Lecture Materials

Introduction and Course Overview; The Programming Process

notes, syllabus, HelloWorld.java

Procedural Decomposition: Using Methods to Write Better Programs

notes, examples

Primitive Data, Variables, and Expressions

notes, examples

Definite Loops

notes, examples

Star Wars text-based animation

slide show: tracing a for loop

slide show: for loop, example 2

Methods with Parameters and Return Values

notes, examples

slide show: methods and method frames

Using Objects from Existing Classes

notes, examples

slide show: objects, references, and assignment statements

Conditional Execution

notes, examples

Indefinite Loops and Boolean Expressions

notes, examples

File Processing

notes (10/17: updated slides on pages 5, 10, and 11)
examples

Arrays

notes (10/31: updated slide on page 19)
examples

Recursion

notes, examples

Classes as Blueprints: How to Define New Types of Objects

notes, examples

Inheritance and Polymorphism

notes, extra notes on abstract classes and methods, examples

Searching and Sorting: An Introduction to Algorithm Analysis

notes, examples

Tackling an Intractable Problem

notes