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- Week 1: Introduction – Programming and Java  
- Week 2: Algorithms and Static Methods  
- Week 3: Basic Data Concepts, Variables  
- Week 4: The for Loop, Managing Complexity, Array Basics  
- Week 5: Introduction to Parameters, Return Values, and basic objects (Strings and Scanners); Review of topics to date, Exam 1  
- Week 6: Conditional Execution: if/else, Cumulative Algorithms  
- Week 7: Text Processing, Methods with Conditional Execution, throw exceptions  
- Week 8: The while Loop, Files and Arrays, Fencepost Algorithms, The boolean Type
- Week 9: User Errors, Assertions and Program Logic; Random numbers; Exam 2  
- Week 10: File-Reading, Token- and Line-Based Processing, File Output; 
- Week 11: Array-Traversal Algorithms, Reference Semantics; 
- Week 12: OO Programming, Object State and Behavior, Constructors; 
- Week 13: Course review; 
- Week 14: Final Exam Week.



Textbook
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The textbook for this course is *Building Java Programs,* 5th edition, by Stuart Reges and Martin Stepp. 

Computer Equipment
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You will need access to a desktop or laptop computer with the appropriate software. 

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Grading scheme
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See Ungrading

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Exam dates
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(tbd)


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