Course Lectures:

Week 01

Lecture 01 (01/12): The Best Little Pizza House in Texas Lecture 02 (01/14): OO Pizza Design Lecture 03 (01/16): Java Syntax; Pizza Code

Week 02 (MLK Holiday 01/19: no lecture/lab Monday): make-up labs on Tuesday 01/20/03

Lecture 04 (01/21): OOP Fundamentals; From FP to OOP Lecture 05 (01/23): Object-Oriented Immutable List Structure

Week 03

Lecture 06 (01/26): Composite Design Pattern and List Algorithms Lecture 07 (01/28): Using Helpers; delegation Lecture 08 (01/30): Decoupling Data Structures from Algorithms; The Visitor Pattern

Week 04

Lecture 09 (02/02): Information Hiding and Abstract Factory Design Pattern Lecture 10 (02/04): (Anonymous) Inner Classes Lecture 11 (02/06): More Inner Classes

Week 05

Lecture 12 (02/9): State Pattern and Mutable Linear Recursive Structure (LRStruct) Lecture 13 (02/11): Implementation of LRStruct  Lecture 14 (02/13): LRStruct Visitors - Of OOT and NOOT

Week 06

Lecture 15 (02/16): Hangman's Word - Discussion of Hangman Project Lecture 16 (02/18): Basics of GUI Application in Java Lecture 17 (02/20): Basics of GUI App (cont.)

Week 07

Lecture 18 (02/23): Simple Java Drawing Lecture 19 (02/2 5): Restricted Access Containers and The Strategy Pattern (code) Lecture 20 (02/27): Order Relation and Priority Queue

Week 08 (03/01-03/05): SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS

Week 09

Lecture 21 (03/08): UML Sequence Diagrams for Hangman; Discussion of the Koch Curve project and the lab. Lecture 22 (03/10): Binary Tree Structure Lecture 23 (03/12): Binary Search Tree

Week 10

Lecture 24 (03/15): Koch Curve MVC and Dynamic Class Loading Lecture 25 (03/17): Dictionary (code) Lecture 26 (03/19): "Big Oh"

Week 11

Lecture 27 (03/22): Factories Revisted; Java IOStream; PPT Presentation (by Eric Allen) Lecture 28 (03/24): Array-based Dictionary Lecture 29 (03/26): Hash Table and Hash functions

Week 12

Lecture 30 (03/29): Recursive Descent Parsing Lecture 31 (03/31): Hash Functions; Interpolation Search Lecture 32 (04/02): Splay Tree (code)

Week 13

Lecture 33 (04/05): Introduction to Finite State Machines: A Cheap Calculator Lecture 34 (04/07): Discussion of Games 4 Two. Lecture 35 (04/09): Design Patterns for Games: Published Paper (PDF), PowerPoint Presentation (requires MSFT PowerPoint), (Traditional) Code (all bets are off...)

Week 14

Lecture 36 (04/12): MinMax Principle; Alpha-Beta Pruning Lecture 37 (04/14): Design Patterns For Self-Balancing Trees Lecture 38 (04/16): Design Patterns For Self-Balancing Trees (part 2)

Week 15

Lecture 39 (04/19): Design Patterns For Sorting; Command Pattern, Decorator Pattern and Sort Animation Lecture 40 (04/21): Heap Sort and the Heap Structure Lecture 41 (04/23): Last day of classes! Course Evaluation! Everything you want to know about computing but are too embarrased to ask!