George Mason University

Computer Science Department

CS 112-001
Introduction to Programming Language

Sam M. Sainju
Room:             430 Sci. & Tech. II
Email:             sainju@jhu.edu
Phone:            (703) 993-1530

Teaching Assistant and Lab Assistant:

Aparna Nagargadde ; Email: anagarga@gmu.edu
Zhaohui Wang; Email: zwange@gmu.edu

Office hours: Monday & Wednesday 7:10-8:10 and by appointment. The course website is at http://cs.gmu.edu/~sainju/cs112

Class meeting: Room # DK 1006 from 4:30 pm – 7:10 pm

Texts

Cay Horstmann Java Concepts 5^th Edition Wiley & Sons 2007

Description: CS 112

This is a 4-credit course on basics of computer programming language.

Grading

In addition to the programming project there will be a midterm and a final exam. Makeups on exams will not be given except for very good reason (as judged by me) and only when arranged in advance. The course grade will be computed from:

1 Programming Project: 20%

Lab work: 10%

Attendance: 05%

Quizzes: 10%

Midterm: 25%

Final: 30%

Total 100%

Course Outline for each week

Week 1: June 4^th and June 6^th

Basics of computer and computer programming, Editor and compiler, machine language, Compiling a simple program and error checks, compiling process.

Types, variables, operators, objects, classes, and methods, return type, number types, constructing objects, accessor and mutator methods

Quiz

Week 2: June 11^th and June 13^th

Levels of abstraction, private and public class, instances

Data types, number, constants, assignment and increment and decrement, arithmetic operations and mathematical functions, string

Quiz

Week 3: June 18^th and June 20^th

Truth table, If then else, comparing, Boolean expressing, while, for, nested loops.

Arrays, List, multi-dimensional array

Quiz

Week 4: June 25^th and June 27^th

Choosing classes, Cohesion and Coupling, accessors, mutators and immutable classes, Precondition & Postconditions, static methods and statics fields, scope.

Review for mid term Exam.

Mid Term Exam on July 27th

Week 5: July 2^nd and July 4^th

Interfaces & Polymorphism

July 4^th (Independence Day holiday)

Week 6: July 9^th and July 11^th

Inheritance and polymorphism

Input and Output (Reading and writing text files)

Quiz

Week 7: July 16^th and July 18^th

Object Oriented Design, Relationships between classes

Recursion and basic data structure (sort and search)

Quiz

Week 8: July 23^rd and July 25^th

Basic data structure continued (search and sort)

Programming Project due: mid night on July 23^rd.

Final Exam review

Final Exam (July 25^th)

Labs:

Science and Tech I, Room # 128,

M W – 3:20pm -4:20 pm and/or 7:20 pm – 8:20 pm