CMPS 144L (Computer Science 2 Lab)
Spring 2024

Syllabus

Teaching Assistants

• Office Hours

Lab Assignments

• Lab #1: Preliminaries and the Temperature Class
• Lab #2: Inheritance (Temperatures, TimeOfDay, SixSidedDie)
• Lab #3: Using Abstract Classes and Their Children
• Lab #4: Partitioning as a Vehicle for Exploring inheritance and loop invariants
• Lab #5: Partitioning with Generics; FPAE Evaluation with Stacks
• Lab #6: Processing FPAE's with Stacks; Shortest Paths with Queues
• Lab #7: Indexed List Via Link1
• Lab #8: Red/Blue Partitioning with Classifiers; Positional Lists with Cursors Utilities
• Lab #9: Recursion
• Lab #10: Binary Search Trees, Heaps, and Family Trees
• Lab #11: Maximum Segment Sum: Asymptotic Running Times
• Lab #12: Huffman Coding and Building a Binary Codeword Tree
• Lab #13: Hashing

Java Resources

• Java download
• jGrasp IDE
• Using "run arguments" in jGrasp
• jGrasp Tutorials (198-page pdf file) (links to separate chapters exist on web page at URL specified in previous hyperlink).
• Java Package Hierarchy (i.e., links to all packages)
• Links to particular packages/classes
  • java.lang  :  Math   String
  • java.util :  Scanner   Iterator   Arrays   ArrayList   Random
• How Java Works (how stuff works) (Note that the hyperlinks for downloading JDK, etc., on this page are out of date.)
• Java "home page"
• Java Tutorials
  • The Java Tutorials
  • Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
  • Language Basics
  • Classes and Objects
  • Interfaces and Inheritance
  • Numbers and Strings
  • Arrays
  • Generics
  • Packages
  • How to Make Frames (Main Windows)
• How to Write Doc Comments for the Javadoc Tool
• Using Assertions in Java Technology