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Topic	Material	Assignment
Introduction	Introduction to the course Intro to Classes & Objects Which Programming Language to Learn?	Get the Required software and sign-up Join Google Classroom using code umaxt4s. We use Github Classroom for programs, Google Classroom for other assignments.
Intro to Java	Intro to Java Java Class Structure includes packages Coding Standard and Javadoc	Read OODP Chapter 1 Fundamental Java Methods everyone should by able to write Java Coding Standard required in this course Coding Guidelines for all languages
Git	Git material is on the ISP course site. You should study “Intro to Git” and “Git Basics” slides “Using Github” document and slides	Also moved to ISP course site Getting Started Git Questions copy the source file git/git-questions.md and write your answers after the questions.
Java Basics	Primitive Types and Operations String Types, Math Functions, Basic Input/Output Conditionals, Boolean Ops & Switch Arrays, Using Arrays, Multi-dimension Arrays Loops	Read OODP Chapter 1 or Big Java for Java language. See Learning Java for excellent learning sources. Everyone should know the Java basics. Slides are posted for review, but you should learn Java more deeply than that.
Objects and Classes	Intro to Classes & Objects (covered in introduction) Methods, Method Params Static Methods, Packages Mutable and Immutable Objects
Variables & References	Variables Object References and Reference as a Remote Control	You should clearly understand the difference between local variables and attributes, and difference between attributes of an object and static variables.
OO Fundamentals	3 Fundamentals of OOP (and Why OOP?) Also Reference as a Remote Control
Inheritance	Inheritance Using Inheritance & Liskov Substitution Principle	Read BIG Java, Chapter 9.
Polymorphism	Polymorphism	Read BIGJ, section 9.4 (Polymorphism). Let’s Remove Duplicate Code - rewrite Stopwatch tasks to use polymorphism.
Collections	ArrayList Collections Iterators a common design pattern Map	Collections Practice Collections Summary
Interfaces	Interface Interfaces for Sorting Design using Interfaces	Read BIGJ Chapter 10 (Interfaces). Common Interfaces
UML	UML Class Diagram Relationships in UML	UML Practice Read: UML Distilled Chapter 3: Class Diagram Read: https://uml-diagrams.org and Lucidchart Class Diagram Tutorial. Lucidchart offers online diagramming software.
Sequence Diagram	UML Sequence Diagram	Read: UML Distilled Chapter 4: Sequence Diagram Practice
Exceptions	Exceptions Throwing Exceptions	Exceptions Practice Exception Handling Tips from Big Java
Review	Some basic review.	Fundamentals Practice - you should be able to do this without any errors.

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Topics for Second Half of Course

Not covered in this order. We may not be able to cover all this. If you want to be a Java programmer these are all good to know.

Topic	Material	Assignment
Unit Testing	Unit Testing with JUnit Unit Testing in Python	JUnit Method Summary Using Parameterized Tests
Input-Output	Input-Output classes Using I-O classes
Map	Map	Map covered in the Java Tutorial and Big Java section 15.4.
Graphical UI in JavaFX	Intro to Java Graphics JavaFX Intro and Getting Started Steps to Writing a Graphical UI Events and Event Listeners Layout a UI	Lab12 LengthConverter How to create a game with JavaFX and MVC design. PA3-Unit Converter. Currency Converter how to get current exchange rates for your UnitConverter.
FXML	Using FXML in JavaFX to define the UI without code.	Also a video
Event Handling	Events and Event Handling in JavaFX Method References	Oracle’s Event Handling Tutorial or Ebook has most complete explanation of event handling.
Intermediate Java	Abstract Class & Method Anonymous Classes Enum type	The Java Tutorial and Big Java both have sections on all these topics. Method References are useful for Event Handlers in JavaFX, and are used in SceneBuilder.
Generics	Generics and rules for Generic Types	Read Big Java ch 18 on Generics, and Generics in Java Tutorial. Lab: Generics
Recursion	Recursion Visualize Recursion Backtracking Example from Codingbat.com	Read: Big Java, Ch. 13 Recursion Do the assigned recursion problems on Codingbat.com. Lab: Recursive withdraw strategy for Coin Purse. Requires you first rewrite withdraw to use Strategy Pattern.
Design Patterns	Intro to Design Patterns Observer Pattern Factory Methods to create objects Strategy Pattern Singleton a class with only 1 instance All Design Patterns material is in the patterns directory.	Lab: Observers. Starter code: https://goo.gl/obaqHh Lab: Purse with Withdraw Strategy
Threads & Multitasking	Threads	Read: Big Java, Ch 20 Multithreading or Dietel&Dietal slides Threads Homework (also on Google Docs)
Worker Threads	Worker Threads for background tasks in interactive apps.	Starter code for Worker Threads Exercise: https://github.com/jbrucker/worker-threads.git
Frameworks	Intro to Frameworks - do more with less code. Job Post with frameworks.	OCSF Client Exercise Files: ocsf-231.jar, source code, document. TaskServer for OCSF exercise. Its a runnable jar file. Type java -jar TaskServer.jar port where port is the port number the server should listen on. PA4-Flashget URL Downloader A useful app that combines what you learned recently, but not too difficult.
Lambdas & Streams	Lambda Expressions Streams and slides	Read: Java Tutorial for Lambdas, Method References, and Streams. Short lambda tutorial on Geeks site. Look at the Functional Interfaces in java.util.function used for Streams. Try using them! Lab: Streams
Final Project	The last programming assignment is an application of your own design.	1. Submit a well-written Project Proposal, in Google Docs. 2. Schedule at least one TA review of your work in progress during semester. Don’t wait until the end!

Optional Topics

This material is not covered in the regular class, but is useful to know.

If some people are interested we can schedule an extra lab session to learn and practice them.

Topic	Description
Checkstyle	Checkstyle is a program that checks coding style and potential coding errors. KU Checkstyle Rules: ku-checkstyle.xml Checkstyle Home has plugins for IDEs.
Properties	Using Properties for application configuration.
State Machines	State Machines Lab: Syllable Counter Using State Machine UML State Machine Diagram “programming without if”. Programming a state machine
Assertions	Assertions are builtin to Java and Python. They let you specify conditions that should be true and catch errors during development. Microsoft found that adding assertions to code during development greatly reduced bugs. The Java assert command lets you write assertions in code. You can selectively enable or disable them at runtime (without editing the code), so there is no runtime overhead in the final product.
Inner Classes	Inner Classes and nested classes let you define one class inside another one.
Database & ORM	Introduction to relational databases and how to use them in Java. For object-oriented programs, instead of directly accessing the database using an API (JDBC in Java) it is much better to use a framework that automatically maps objects to database elements, called Object-Relational Mapping (ORM). ORMLite is an easy to use framework. Many OOP students have used it in their projects. Database directory contains lots of introductory slides. Introduction to Databases Database Software included embedded and client-server databases Using JDBC this is not recommended, but for background knowledge. ORM is usually much better. Persistence and ORM intro to object-relation mapping, which lets you save and retrieve objects rather than just fields ORMLite Example uses ORMLite and H2 to save contacts to a database. README file explains concepts.
Encrypting Password	You should never store users’ passwords as plain text, and don’t send them over the Internet. Encrypt passwords! Password Encryption describes how. Excellent explanation in Pawat’s OOP2017 project docs. You should write documentation like this!