Lecture 1

Computer Science 523
Advanced Programming

Summer 2014, The College of Saint Rose

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Lecture 1: Introduction and Overview; Java Review
Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Agenda

Welcome to Advanced Programming!
Why take Advanced Programming?
Syllabus and administrative information
Pre-course evaluation
SubmissionBox setup
We will be using a system called "SubmissionBox," developed by software engineering students here at Saint Rose, for the submission of most of your work this semester. We'll start by making sure everyone can log in and submit a test assignment before we move on to the first in-class exercise.

First, everyone will need to come up to get their SubmissionBox account set up (or updated, if you were in previous course of mine that used SB) to be used for this course.

Once your SubmissionBox account is ready to go, create a document (a plain text or Word document, for example) and save it somewhere on your computer. Then log into SubmissionBox, and submit this document under assignment "SBTest". Verify that you received an email confirmation for this submission.
Work through Lab 0: BlueJ Setup
Java review
Lab 1: Java Basics out

Terminology

This section on each lecture's page will list the terms we introduce or review that you should understand after working through the day's readings and assignments and attending the day's lecture.

abstraction
virtual machine
class
Java application
Java applet
method
comments
escape sequences and control characters
Java API
import statements
object construction
local variable
variable declaration
data type
identifier
naming conventions
string concatenation
string literal
primitive data type
mathematical expression
arithmetic operator
order of operations/operator precedence
floating point values
named constant
literal
sequential execution
conditional execution
format string (for printf methods)
format specifier (for printf methods)
repetition
loop construct
infinite loop
pre-test loop
post-test loop
counting loop

Examples

This section will contain links to the examples we study and/or develop during class. All examples are also linked from the "Examples" page, accessible from the "Examples" tab at the top of each page on the course web site.