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I post all class materials on the Web, including my lecture slides, as soon as they are ready. If you want to see them earlier, consider looking at last year's CIT591. Here's what you need to know about this older material:

• I update my lecture slides every year; changes are typically (but not always) minor.
• Assignments are usually completely different from year to year.
• The order in which I present topics depends on what assignments I make.

Date	Lectures, Assignments, etc.
Sept 7	Welcome Labs, etc.	Computer safety All I Really Need to Know about Pair Programming I Learned in Kindergarten Chapters 1-3 in the Seefeld book
Sept 9	Introduction to Moore 207, Linux, and BlueJ Introduction to BlueJ	Tutorials and MyDrawing program
Sept 12	Getting ready for Java Just enough Java
Sept 14	Primitives Simple control structures Fibonacci example	Chapter 6 in the Seefeld book
Sept 16		Collatz's Problem Notes on the Collatz Assignment
Sept 19	Classes and objects Using objects	Chapter 13 in the Seefeld book
Sept 21	Introduction to classes and methods Simple style rules
Sep 23		Pig Notes on the Pig Assignment
Sept 26	Additional statement types Error messages	askUser Chapter 9 in the Seefeld book
Sept 28	JUnit Arrays	JUnit Test Infected: Programmers Love Writing Tests Chapter 10 in the Seefeld book
Sept 30		Numeric spell checker Notes on the spell checker
Oct 3	Methods The Java API
Oct 5	Numbers Polymorphism
Oct 7		Sudoku
Oct 10	Exceptions
Oct 12	Abstract classes and interfaces Strings and StringBuilders
Oct 14		Language translation Language translation notes
Oct 17	Fall term break
Oct 19	Operators
Oct 21		Extended language translation
Oct 24	Event loops AWT
Oct 26	Inner classes Swing	Basic Style Rules A commented program and a resultant Javadoc page
Oct 28		SwingExamples.jar -- download and double-click to run The Drake Equation
Oct 31	Subclasses
Nov 2	Namespaces, Scope, and Access Java I/O
Nov 4		Memorization
Nov 7	ArrayLists Java 5 Features
Nov 9	Uncommon Syntax O-O Review
Nov 11
Nov 14		Midterm Exam Midterm Exam, with answers
Nov 16	Model-View-Controller Threads
Nov 18		Lines of Action About BoardGame Testing for a win in Lines of Action BoardGame.zip (flawed) BoardGame2.zip (better) BoardGame3.zip (best)
Nov 21	Style rules Which is better?
Nov 23	No class.
Nov 25	Thanksgiving break
Nov 28	Javadoc comment style Eclipse
Nov 30	Applets Animation	Bouncing Ball Applet (.zip file)
Dec 2		Kaleidoscope
Dec 5	Producer-Consumer Starting Eclipse Recursion
Dec 7	O-O Review	Same as Nov. 9 lecture, plus some Java 5 stuff.
Dec 9	No lab today.
Dec 20	Final Exam 12:00-2:00 402 Logan Hall 249 So. 36th St.	photo: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_bldg.php3?id=71 map: http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/mapsBldgs/view_map.php3?id=223

Key An assignment Software that will be useful in this course A page you should read A PowerPoint document, usually one of my lectures Additional information about the topic Example