Assignments for SI 653 sec 1 - Programming II

Programming Style

FYI -> Netscape's Java programming style

Extra Credit:

Enhance your project from last semester and put it in the Fall SI Showcase. (+50 points will be added to your lowest homework grade)
Enter a paper in the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility essay contest ending Dec. 1, 2001. (+20 points will be added to your lowest homework grade.)

Each assignment's due date is given with the assignment. Late assignments should be put in the envelope on the door of 1829 East Hall or under the door of 1213 EECS.

Sep 5 - Read Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, and
Getting Started and Learning the Java Language
Written assignment (Due Thurs. Sept. 6 by 8pm via email):

Programming assignment(Due Wed. Sept. 19 in class):
The purpose of this assignment is to help you remember everything you learned earlier.
Write an applet and an application that show an animation of a dog looking for his bone. At the beginning of a game, the dog and the bone will appear at random locations. The user specifies what direction the dog goes for the first move. The dog will start out in the direction the user specifies, but will change direction randomly at random times, moving until it finds the bone. If the dog hits a wall, it will go in the opposite direction. The program will show the dog looking for the bone and will tell how many moves the dog has made. When the dog finds the bone, the program stops.
Hand in:
1. Hardcopy of the applet and its output
2. Hardcopy of the application and its output
Sep 7 - Read Chapters 4, 7-9, 11 and
Writing Applets and Swing
Sep 12 - Read Chapters 10 and 12 and
Graphics, Layout Managers, and Event Handling
Sep 14 - Read Chapter 13.3 and
Handling Errors Using Exceptions and Threads of Control and Performing Animation
Examples
Sept. 19 - Read Chapers 2.6 and 13 and
Strings and String Buffers and I/O

Programming assignment(Due Wed. Sept. 26 beginning of class):
Pick a web/database project to work on for the rest of the semester. Write an applet that reads a file of data and allows the user to search for items in the data. The first line of the file is the title of the database. The second line will contain the names of the data fields separated by #. Subsequent lines contain data records, with data fields separated by a #. Your applet will read in the title and display it with animation. Then your applet will read in the data and put up a GUI that allows the user to search for information. All fields will be treated as Strings. You decide the topic of the database. You may write your own code or modify the example used in class. ( annotated code)
Hand in: Hardcopy of the applet and its output
Sep 21 - Come to the DIAD for class today and bring your program.
Programming assignment(Due Fri. Sep 29 in class):
Use Forte to compile and run the program you wrote for the last assignment. Write a short essay describing the differences between using an IDE and using Sun's JDK. Tell what you, personally, like and dislike about each.
Forte
Using Forte in the DIAD
Sep 26 - Read the Big-O handout
More about Big-O
Graph of some common functions used with Big-O
Sep 28 - Read Chapter 15.1 - 15.5
Sorting algorithms in Java

Assignment (Due Wed. Oct. 3)
Pick one of the sorting algorithms on the web page for your reading, print it out, and compute its computational complexity(Big-O). Show all your work on the print out.
Hand in:
the printout of the sorting algorithm with all the work you did to compute Big-O. I want to see your g(N), and the values needed for c₀ and N₀, as well as Big-O.
Oct 3 - Read Chapter 15.6 - 15.8

Programming assignment (Due Wed. Oct. 10) - Make your class that holds the data Comparable using one of the fields of the data as the information to compare when sorting. Use one of the sorting algorithms to sort the data after it is read in.
Hand in:
Hardcopy of the applet.
Oct 5 - Read Chapter 16.1 - 16.2
Oct 10
Given the interface we started in class, write the insertAtTail method, and fix the insertAtHead method for the LinkedList class so it will work with the new tail variable we decided we wanted. Test your LinkedList class with the test program.
1. Download all 3 files.
2. Edit only the insertAtTail and insertAtHead methods in the LinkedList class.
3. Compile everything
4. Run the LinkedListDemo
5. If you don't get the right output, goto 2
Due Wed. Oct. 12
Hand in: Hardcopy of your LinkedList class and hardcopy of the output of the test application that I wrote. (If you don't know how to do this, click here.)
Oct 12 - Read Stack ADT and Stack ADT
and Stack tutorial and Stack implemented as an array and Stack implemented as a linked list
1. Add methods to your LinkedList class for deleteHead() and isEmpty(). Write an application that shows that they work correctly. (This is an exercise in testing software.)
  Due Wed. Oct. 19
  Hand in: Hardcopy of your LinkedList class, your test application class and hardcopy of the output of the test application that you wrote.
2. Using good object oriented design, write a class that implements the Stack interface, using the Linked List class. Write an application that uses a Stack to check if all the (), [], and {} in a file match properly. If everything matches correctly, tell the user that everything is ok; else tell the user what the problem is and what line it is on. Your program should end when it finds an error. Start now. :)
  Due Oct. 31
  Hand in: Hardcopy of your Stack class and your application. Email me your source for both.
Oct 17 - Queues - Read Queue tutorial, Queue implemented as an array, Queue implemented as a linked list
Oct 19 - Read Chapter 16.3
Other kinds of trees
Oct 24 - Read Chapter 15.9
Oct 26 - Midterm
Oct. 31 - Read JDBC
Useful information
- Driver types
- List of drivers
- Mapping SQL and Java types
- Sample code
- Short Course on JDBC
- Advanced Tutorial
Create a database using Microsoft Access for the data you used in the earlier project. Write a Java application using the JDBC to allow the user to search the database. Your application must have a GUI that allows the user to search without knowing any SQL and it must display the results of the search. Use good Object Oriented Design so you can reuse your gui in an applet you will write later.
Due Nov. 30 - hand in source code for your application, a screen shot of a query, and a screen shot of the results of the query.
Nov 2 - more JDBC
Nov 7 - Read Networking in Java
Well known ports
OSI network communications reference model
Nov 9 - Read All about Sockets
SMTP rfc
HTTP 1.1 rfc
List of internet protocols
Homework
Due Nov. 14
Nov 14 - come to the DIAD and we will practice "talking" to sockets. See what happens when many clients try to connect to the same server. By the end of class, you should be able connect to everyone else's servers and they should be able to connect to yours.
Print out and hand in the log for your server and the source code.
Nov. 16 - Modify your server so that it can accept more than one client.
Due Nov. 21 - hand in source code for your server.
Nov. 21 - come to the DIAD and connect to each others servers. Have several students try to connect to your server at the same time.
Print out the log for your server and the source code. Put them in my mailbox in the Faculty Lounge on the 3rd floor.
Write a server that connects to your database, reads in SQL queries from a Socket and passes them on to the database (like your database application did).
Due Dec. 7
Nov. 23 -
Homework - have a good Thanksgiving.
Nov 28 - Three tier database applications
Homework - write an applet that connects through a server to your database. It only has to run using appletviewer to run the applet (rather than a web browser) and localhost as the server machine.
Due Dec 7.
Hand in - source code for your server and your applet.
Nov 30 - Java Collections
Dec 5 - Cool Java APIs
Dec 7 - Demo Day (DIAD)
Hand in - source code for your applet and server.
Dec. 12 - Final Exam

Last Updated by S.L Bartlett : Sunday, April 07, 2002, at 19:27:47 EDT