IT 108 Lesson Plans

Lecture 1 Welcome! Basics of HMTL, Unix, Hardware and Software Overview
Lecture 2 Programming Languages, Compilers and Interpreters, Java and Javascript, Unix commands and file permissions (chmod)
Lecture 3 Variables and constants, operators, assignment statements, and functions.
Lecture 4 Conditional Statements: if..else, compound statements (blocks), Loops I
Lecture 5 Loops II, parameters (arguments), Intro to OOP (object oriented programming)
Lecture 6 Classes, Objects, and Constructors, Simple I/O,
Lecture 7 Overloading, Scope, Practice
Lecture 8 Review for Exam I
Lecture 9 Exam I
Lecture 10 Exam postmortem, Functions I
Lecture 11 Functions II
Lecture 12 Switch, Random Numbers
Lecture 13 Applets
Lecture 14 Graphics I, Layout managers
Lecture 15 Graphics II, Events
Lecture 16 Strings I
Lecture 17 Arrays I
Lecture 18 Review for Exam II
Lecture 19 Exam II
Lecture 20 Exam Postmortem/Projects
Lecture 21 Strings II
Lecture 22 Arrays II
Lecture 23 Debugging, More on Unix, Javadoc
Lecture 24 File I/O I, exception handling
Lecture 25 File I/O II, comparison of C++ and Java
Lecture 26 Presentations
Lecture 27 Presentations
Lecture 28 Review for Exam III

Note: Clever students will realize that spending 5 minutes looking over notes is not the same thing as sitting in class for 75 minutes. Class attendance is important! What are your grade goals and career goals?

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