Computer Science 225
Advanced Programming

Spring 2020, Siena College

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Instructor and Course Information

Texts

There is no primary required text for the course. Our readings and references will be from online sources.

Other readings may also be assigned from freely available sources.

Course News

• That's it! Thank you for helping to make the best of a very unusual semester.

Related Information and Links

• Style Guide for CSIS 225 Programs
• METAL: Map-Based Educational Tools for Algorithm Learning, which will provide some real-world data sets and visualization capabilties for examples and labs
  • Highway Data Examiner (HDX)
  • METAL Graph Repository
• Git- and GitHub-related links:
  • Using git on your own computer
    • If you have a Mac set up to run Java, you likely already have everything you need. You can issue the same commands used at the Git Bash prompt in the lab to your Mac's Terminal application.
    • If you have Windows, you likely will need to install Git Bash.
  • To change your default git editor from vim to the more user-friendly nano, you can issue this command in the terminal where you run git:

    git config --global core.editor "nano"
    

  • There's a Free O'Reilly book about GitHub that you might find helpful. Check it out!
  • There are several error messages and other situations that arise commonly when using our Git and GitHub workflow. A document describing common situations and their solutions can be found here. Please make corrections, suggestions, or requests for solutions to additional problems by submitting Issues and/or Pull Requests to that file's repository.
• Java
  • Java API documentation
  • Java download page to install or update Java on your own computer
  • BlueJ home page for documentation and installation on your own computer
  • [Bailey Textbook and Structure Package Documentation], [Code on GitHub]
• Less relevant, but more fun: [XKCD] [Dilbert] [Fox Trot]