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• Topic -- link to PowerPoint slides giving more information about the week's material. (Links will become active by the Sunday at the start of the week.) These slides are in roughly the order I'll cover material in class. You can download them by right-clicking on the link. If you print them out, you may want to use the "handouts: 9 slides per page" setting to save paper, or the "handouts: 3 slides per page" to save paper but still leave space to add notes of your own.

  The order of the topics is tentative. Changes may be made right up to the beginning of class. Links will be activated as the material becomes ready.

• MON - FRI -- links to labs and assignments on their due dates. Links will become active at least one week before the due date. Also shows the day of the test. Days when there are no classes have grey backgrounds.

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	Topic	MON	TUE	WED	THU	FRI
January	Course Introduction Course overview; review of top-down programming, NetBeans, source vs. compiled code			6	7	8
	Review of Programming Basics Variables, input, output, conditionals, loops, methods, arrays	11	12 L01 Due	13	14	15 A01 Due
	Data Types Data-type classes, instance variables, constructors, getters, setters, static methods, throwing exceptions, arrays (A02 Video)	18	19 L02 Due	20	21	22 A02 Due
	GUIs and Inheritance Review of GUI; Inheritance in Swing	25	26 L03 Due	27	28	29 A03 Due
February	Inheritance Creating our own derived classes	1	2 L04 Due	3	4	5 A04 Due
	Midterm #1	8	9 L05 Due	10	11 Test	12
	No Classes	Uni. Closed	Winter Break
	Polymorphism and Interfaces What vs. How; Sorting using Comparable and Comparator	22	23 L06 Due	24	25	26 A05 Due
March	Lists The List interface, ArrayList and LinkedList types, Collections class	1	2 L07 Due	3	4	5 A06 Due
	Exceptions Catching exceptions; creating our own exception classes	8	9 L08 Due	10	11	12 A07 Due
	File I/O Reading and writing text files (Videos)	15	16 L09 Due	17	18	19 A08 Due
	Midterm #2	22	23 L10 Due	24	25 Test	26
	Recursion What it is; how to think about it (Videos)	29	30 L11 Due	31	1	2 Good Friday
Apr	Catch-up and Review Bring questions!	5 Easter Monday	6 L12 Due	7 A09 Due