Course Lectures:

Week 01

Lecture 01 (01/13): The Best Little Pizza House in Texas Lecture 02 (01/15): OO Pizza Design Lecture 03 (01/17): Java Syntax; Pizza Code

Week 02 (MLK Holiday 01/20: no lecture/lab Monday): make-up labs on Tuesday 01/21/03

Lecture 04 (01/22): OOP Fundamentals; Immutable List Structure; code Lecture 05 (01/23): Immutable List Structure (cont.)

Week 03

Lecture 06 (01/27): Composite Design Pattern and List Algorithms Lecture 07 (01/29): Using Helpers; delegation Lecture 08 (01/31): Decoupling Data Structures from Algorithms; The Visitor Pattern

Week 04

Lecture 09 (02/03): Information Hiding and Abstract Factory Design Pattern Lecture 10 (02/0 5): (Anonymous) Inner Classes Lecture 11 (02/07): More Inner Classes

Week 05

Lecture 12 (02/10): State Pattern and Mutable Linear Recursive Structure (LRStruct) Lecture 13 (02/12): Implementation of LRStruct Exam #1 tonight! Lecture 14 (02/14): LRStruct Visitors - Of OOT and NOOT

Week 06

Lecture 15 (02/17): Hangman's Word - Discussion of Hangman Project Lecture 16 (02/19): Basics of GUI Application in Java Lecture 17 (02/21): Basics of GUI App (cont.)

Week 07

Lecture 18 (02/24): Simple Java Drawing Lecture 19 (02/2 6): Restricted Access Containers and The Strategy Pattern (code) Lecture 20 (02/28): Order Relation and Priority Queue (code)

Week 08

Lecture 21 (03/03): Discussion of the Koch Curve project and the lab. Lecture 22 (03/05): Binary Tree Structure Lecture 23 (03/07): Binary Search Tree

Week 09 (Spring Break: 03/10-03/14: no lectures and no labs)

Week 10

Lecture 24 (03/17): Koch Curve MVC and Dynamic Class Loading Lecture 25 (03/19): Dictionary (code) Lecture 26 (03/21): "Big Oh"

Week 11

Lecture 27 (03/24): Java IOStream; PPT Presentation (by Eric Allen) Lecture 28 (03/26): Array-based Dictionary Lecture 29 (03/28): Hash Table and Hash functions

Week 12

Lecture 30 (03/31): Advanced Hash Functions. Lecture 31 (04/02): Recursive Descent Parsing; Exam #2 tonight; get a siesta! Lecture 32 (04/04): Splay Tree (code)

Week 13

Lecture 33 (04/07): Interpolation Lecture 34 (04/09): Discussion of Games 4 Two. Lecture 35 (04/11): Design Patterns for Games: Published Paper (PDF), PowerPoint Presentation, Code

Week 14

Lecture 36 (04/14): MinMax Principle; Alpha-Beta Pruning Lecture 37 (04/16): Design Patterns For Sorting Lecture 38 (04/18): Heap Sort and the Heap Structure

Week 15

Lecture 39 (04/21): Command Pattern, Decorator Pattern and Sort Animation Lecture 40 (04/23): Design Patterns For Self-Balancing Trees Lecture 41 (04/25): Self-Balancing Trees (part 2). Last day of classes! Course Evaluation! Everything you want to know about computing but are too embarrased to ask!