CISC 3115
Spring 2023, Section EWQ6

Instructor: Moshe Lach
lach@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu

Click here for a PDF of the full syllabus.
Please also see the Info and Schedule pages.

Basic Information

• Class meetings: Wednesdays 6:30-10:00 p.m. in 238 New Ingersoll
• Office hours:
  • Wednesdays 5:00-6:00 p.m. in 128 New Ingersoll
  • Thursdays 3:40-4:40 p.m. in 128 New Ingersoll
  • Other times by appointment, either on campus or on Zoom.
• Tutoring hours at the Learning Center: TBA
• There is a class Discord server, which you are encouraged to join. A link has been emailed to you.
  • You do not have to use your real name.
  • Discord DMs are welcome.
• All course material, except for homework, will be posted at the following link, which you may want to bookmark: bit.ly/cisc3115sp23

Course Topics

• Brief prerequisite review: loops, methods, menu-driven programs, parallel arrays, array algorithms, file I/O
• Command line: basic Unix commands, command line arguments
• Objects and references: aliases, parameter passing, wrapper classes, auto-boxing and auto-unboxing, String, StringBuilder, BigInteger, BigDecimal
• Classes: instance variables and methods, constructors, encapsulation, static variables and methods, aggregation, UML diagrams, copying objects, enums
• Exam 1
• Inheritance: superclasses and subclasses, overriding methods, constructor chaining, polymorphism, dynamic binding, the Object class and its toString and equals meth- ods, abstract classes
• ArraysLists
• Exceptions: try, catch, finally, throwing exceptions, declaring exceptions, exception types (checked vs. unchecked), polymorphism and dynamic binding with exceptions, stack trace, defining custom exception types, try-with-resources
• Interfaces: Comparable, Comparator, lambda expressions
• Exam 2
• Collections: Collection, Iterable, Iterator, List, Set, Queue, Deque, Map
• Recursion: tracing recursive code, thinking recursively, mathematical functions, recur- sion involving Strings, recursion involving arrays, recursive helper methods
• If there’s extra time: JavaFX: basic components, event handling, CSS, MVC
• Final exam

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