Unit Title 

Topics Covered (Objectives: The student will gain mastery  of all indicated commands and understand their interaction with the cpu.)

Java in Context or 

More Computer History

Lab:  "The Hello Program"

Getting everything to work.

COMPUTING IN CONTEXT

                                           Chapter 1

The need for portability between platforms, information hiding, encryption, privacy, encaspsulation.

The confusion about Java 1 and Java 2

The swing classes  Jbutton vs Button  

The Java virtual machine, bytecodes versus complete compiling.  Applets and Applications

Review of Computer hardware design, primary and secondary memory, processors, peripherals (the monitor and printer are really files)  Network use vs single-user systems 

Open architecture of computer design and modulation of computer code  (reusable components)

Intellectual property rights.  Stealing is stealing even if electronic.   Ask for permission when using someone else's materials.  Site sources. 

Give credit where credit is due.

The Java Runtime environment (JRE)and the Java development kit (JDK)

How to do the 

"Same Things"

we did in VB

Control Structures in Java

STRINGS and the Input problem

Lab: write the "guessing game"

    too high, too low, etc.  

Lab:  Write Euclids Algorithm for GCF

Sieve of Eratosthenes for finding prime numbers.

                                                    Chapter 2.1-2.4

DATA STRUCTURES int, double, boolean, etc.

A comparison of  for loops and control structures (if)

If-else, while, do while, switch, etc

% for Mod.  Math.pow for ^  ; increment ++, -- ,etc

VB commands and Java commands.

Review of Binary and  Octal number systems

Strings as input using the JOptionPane method which is similar to an Input Box in VB.  This requires the use of the Integer and Double wrapper classes to parse strings for input of int and double.

Arrays of primitives,  Static Arrays

SAVE Euclid as a very useful REUSABLE  CLASS.

PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION

SOME THINGS ARE

"Different"

or 

   "WE'RE not in Kansas any more!"

Lab:  Master arithmetic, Casting of variables, Rounding, Math.floor and

Math.ceil

                                     Chapter 2.5

The need for type casting.  You can be betrayed by arithmetic. Java is a "grown-ups language."  We have to count from zero and we have to be sure where the arithmetic is sent.  Integer arithmetic will cause 5/2 to equal 2.

Round off error (storage of variables)

Rounding errors

(found in grade management programs)

Rounding to the nearest ten or tenth, etc.

Scope of variables & the garbage collector.

Importing calls to Java library classes

AND/OR  Boolean Algebra and DeMorgan's Law

Pre and Post Conditions

Everything is an object  (except primitives)

A together project using gui objects to re-create an earlier

VB program assignment for times table flash cards.

Lab:  Use the javax.swing classes to recreate a flash card program

 for multiplication tables.  Add personality.

Students who finish before classmates may want to make an applet. 

Modify the drawing program on p. 107 with a mouse listener.                   

 Chapter 2.6-2.11

The use of the dot member to access methods of a class. 

VB was Object Oriented all the time! 

In Java properties are called instance variables

Events are called Methods.

Action Listeners show the implementation of one class by another and the use of an abstract inner class.

After this project students who want to may use gui components for projects.  Their use is not required.

   My Pet #1

Our first homemade class

Two files work together:

The Pet class and the TestPet class which contains the "main" and

tests the functionality of your class. Add  personality!

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING DESIGN

How to make a class.  Instance variables,  encapsulation, instantiation, constructors, static variables, method oveloading, accessors, mutators, return types, parameter lists

PROGRAM ANALYSIS

Strings for real!

Labs:  Jumble words, Change last name,

first name format to first name last name

(as needed by the secretaries who type up the graduation program.),

A Jumble guessing game. Twelve Days of Christmas. 

Pig Latin, Palindromes. Conquer Strings!

 Substring concatination, etc

the .equals() method and its necessity.

Arrays of Strings

A Working Class

your choice:

Make a MyFraction class

(use your GCF module for reducing fractions

--reusable code!)

or a MyComplex class that mimics the function of the calculator           

Chapter 4,5

Solve the problems that arise from making a useful mathematical class.

More practice with function overloading with multiple constructors, methods, returns

 NewPet 

Lab:  NewPet an abstract class

Make several classes that extend NewPet.

For example MyDog, MyCat, MyFish

                                                  Chapter 7

Data Abstraction, Array Lists

Encapsulation

The use of super, Overriding a method

The null pointer

"is-a" and "has-a" relationships.

Apply functional decomposition

Properties of ArrayLists so that the TestPet Class can be used to demonstrate polymorphism

John Conway's 

"Game of Life"

Lab:  The Game of Life          Chapter 6

Two dimensional arrays

Concatinate a string to represent the matrix and display on JoptionPane

Analyze the problem of the boundary cases.

Recursion

Lab:  Fibonacci and Factorial  Chapter  8

 A method that calls itself!  

  How powerful!

Sorting and Searching

Lab: Sort, binary search, selection sort, insertion, mergesort, traversals,

deletionsUsing ArrayLists and static arrays                                Chapter 6,8

   STANDARD ALGORITHMS

A comparison of efficiency 

The Big-Oh comparisons

Applets that show efficiency:

University of British Columbia

Rochester Institute of Technology demo

     THE LARGE CASE STUDY

A close encounter with the

GRIDWORLD

LAB:  Set up and use GridWorld

Add classes, constructors, and or methods

 Identify class structure/methods, etc.  Analyze the program structure of the study, the naming conventions and appropriateness of data types.  Black Box testing

REVIEW, REVIEW, REVIEW

Lab: test anything you don't understand

Practice AP tests

Multiple Choice and Free Response Questions from past AP tests.