JDEP 183H Fall 2007
Computer Science I
Computer Science I (CSE 155H) is an introduction to problem-solving with computers including problem analysis and specification,
algorithm development, program design, and implementation in a high-level programming language. This course is open to students
in the J.D. Edwards Honors Program.
This document is available at http://www.cse.unl.edu/~myra/classes/jdep183_07/syllabus.html
Course Textbooks:
- Wu, C. Thomas. A Comprehensive Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Java,
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1st Edition, 2008.
Topics to be Covered:
(This syllabus will be updated and expanded as the semester
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sure you have the most current version)
Chapters listed are from our textbook (Wu):
- Introduction and overview of Computers(Chapter 0)
-- August 28th.
- Object Oriented Programming(Chapter 1) -- August 28th, September 4th
- Introduction to Java (Chapter 2) -- September 4th, 6th.
- Numerical Data (Chapter 3) September 6th, 17th
- User Defined Classes (Chapter 4,7) -- September 18th,20th
- Strings (Chapter 9)
- File I/O(Chapter 12)
- Selection (Chapter 5, first part)
- Repetition (Chapter 6)
- Events and GUI Objects (Chapter 14,end of Chapter 5)
- Exceptions (Chapter 8)
- Swing (Chapter 14)
- Arrays (Chapter 10)
- Sorting (Chapter 11)
- Inheritance and Polymorphism (Chapter 13)
- Recursion (Chapter 15)
- Software Testing - BugHunt Lab
Students are expected to attend classes. Announcements regarding
quizzes and labs will be made in class and posted electronically
afterwards. It is the responsibility of students missing classes to
make arrangments to obtain the missed content.
The grading for the class will be as follows:
- 5 Programming Assignments - 30%
Tentative Due Dates (these dates are subject to change):
- HW 1 - Due September 20th
- HW 2 - Due October 16th
- HW 3 - Due November 1st
- HW 4 - Due November 20th
- HW 5 - Due December 11th
(note this is during dead week)*
- Labs and Quizzes- 20%
- Two In Class Exams - 15% each
Tentative Dates:
- Tuesday October 9th
- Thursday November 8th
- Final Exam - 20% Monday December 17th, 3:30-5:30 PM.
Grade assignments are made based on the following:
| A: 93-100 |
A-: 90-92 |
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B+: 87-89 |
B: 83-86 |
B-: 80-82 |
C+: 77-79 | C: 73-76 | C-: 70-72 |
| D+: 67-69 | D: 63-66 | D-: 60-62 |
F: 0-59 |
*See UNL Dead week policies for more information