News:

• New:  Final Exam grades are now available via courseInfo.  Second assignment grades have not been posted yet but will be avaialble shortly.  Final grades will also be available, via courseInfo shortly.
• Final Exam FAQ last updated Tuesday May 23 2001 - 11:00am.
• Final Exam FAQ added..  Any questions I have received regarding the final will be posted in this FAQ.
• Additional Office Hours Added - see below:

 
• Monday May 21 2001 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm if CCB is opened.
• Tuesday May 22 2001 office hours will be extended from 11:30am - 1:30pm.
• Depending on demand, more hours may be added!
• Meet at CCB 21 (regular office) and if necessary, we could find an empty room.
• Tuesday, May 22 2001 office hours will be at the same time however we will meet at CCB 210 (regular office) and look for an available room in order to make up for the cancelled lecture May 10.   This will of course be a review session - come prepared with questions!
• Information regarding the final exam may be found on Professor Franck van Breugel's web site or by following this link.
• Instructor will be away at a conference from Tuesday May 8 2001 (late afternoon) until late night Saturday May 12 2001.  Any email you may leave during this period may not necessarily be answered!
• Office hours will continue during the exam period.  Any changes to the office hour times/dates/additions will be made available on this page.
• There will be no lecture Thursday, May 10 2001.
• Course Evaluations will take place Tuesday May 8 2001 instead of the previously scheduled date of May 3.
• Course Evaluations will take place Thursday May 3 2001.
• Office Hours for Thursday April 26 2001 will be after the lecture, from 2:30 - 3:30 instead of the usual hours of 11:30 - 12:30.
• Office Hours for Thursday April 19 2001 will be after the lecture, from 2:30 - 3:30 instead of the usual hours of 11:30 - 12:30.
• The second assignment is now available from here.
•  drop deadline for Winter (W) Term courses has been extended to Monday, April 16 at 10:00 pm.
• Assignment  Reappraisal Forms are available in PDF format or PostScript format.  If you wish to have your assignment remarked you must submit this form before Aril 25 2001.
• Assignment #2 is not available yet. It will be posted soon - the deadline will be extended accordingly.
• The marks for the midterm will be available shortly electronically (courseInfo 2011 N). Hopefully before midnight April 11.
• Some of the marks for the assignment are available electronically: (courseInfo 2011 A).  The A at the end stands for Assignment.
• Assignment 1  -   Solution to Assignment 1
• Mid-term Exam Notes (last updated April 4 2001)
• Solution to the 2 Induction Practice Quesions

Information

• Text Book and Additional Reference Material

The following links provide information related to the material covered each of the lectures.  The sections covered in the book for each lecture and additional reading material are provided.  In addition, there may also be several practice questions after certain topics have been covered.   Sample questions do not have to be submitted and are not graded - you are not responsible for completing them!!  If you have any questions regarding the sample questions or any of the course material, please leave the instructor email or make arrangements to see the instructor (e.g. during office hours etc.)

• Tuesday, February 27 2001
• Thursday, March 1 2001
• Tuesday, March 6 2001
• Thursday, March 8 2001
• Tuesday, March 13 2001
• Thursday, March 15 2001
• Tuesday, March 20 2001
• Thursday, March 22 2001
• Tuesday, March 27 2001
• Thursday, March 29 2001
• Tuesday, April 3 2001
• Thursday, April 5 2001 (Mid Term Exam)
• Tuesday, April 10 2001
• Thursday, April 12 2001
• Tuesday, April 17 2001
• Thursday, April 19 2001
• Tuesday, April 24 2001
• Thursday, April 26 2001
• Tuesday May 1 2001
• Thursday, May 3 2001
• Tuesday, May 8 2001
• Thursday, May 10 2001 - No Lecture this day.

1st Edition Book

• Chapter 1: Design Principles
• Chapter 2: Analysis Tools
• Appendix A: Java Primer

• Chapter 1: Java Programming
• Chapter 2: Object Oriented Design
• Chapter 3: Analysis Tools

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

I will be maintaining an FAQ section on this page.  There will be several FAQs (one for each assignment, mid-term, final and general course related question s) Any questions I receive I will be posting (along with answers) in the appropriate FAQ.
 

Lecture Notes

Below you will find notes regarding the lectures which may actually be the slides presented in class.

Exceptions
Interfaces (coming soon!)
Tuesday, March 13 2001

• There was some confucsion regarding the correct use of Casting.  The follow ing notes (in PDF format) describe the rules for conversion of one reference type to another.  A detailed description of when an explicit cast is required and when it is not is provided in addition to Java code examples.

Thursday, March 15 2001
Tuesday, March 20 2001
Thursday, March 22 2001

• Example of the "Proper Proof by Induction" covered in the lecture can be found here

Tuesday, March 27 2001
Thursday, March 29 2001
Tuesday, April 3 2001

• Note:  When Using the Comparator Object, there is no need to have keys implement the Comparable interface!  The Coparable interface and the Comparator are two different ways of comparing keys of items in the priority queue.

Tuesday, April 10 2001 & Thursday, April 12 2001
Tuesday, April 17 2001
Thursday, April 19 2001 (no specific notes for this lectureas we will continue (briefly) our discussion of AVL trees).
Tuesday, April 24 2001 (Tentative notes available before the lecture)

• AVL Trees
• Hash Tables

Thursday, April 26 2001 (updated Sunday, April 29 2001 - couple of corrections made)
Tuesday, May 1 2001 (See definitions and examples listed in the book (section 9.1 (1st ed.) / 12.1 - 2nd ed.)
Thursday, May 3 2001 (includes some material covered Tuesday, May 1 2001).
Tuesday, May 8 2001