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Computer Cartography/Advanced Cartography Lecture Schedule, Fall 2012

Date	Topic All labs meet in AS 003	Readings (in Learning Java)
Aug. 28	Intro to hardware
30	Intro to Java programming	Preface, Ch. 1
Sept. 4	Trigonometry review
6	Lab 1: Intro to Java and Eclipse (due 9/13)	Ch. 2
11	Assignment in Java and Mathematical expressions in Java	Ch. 4
13	Lab 2: Finding the circumference along a parallel (due 10/02)	Lots of good stuff in chapters 16-19 Importing JAR Files into a project (focus on the Import section in this link) Simple User Interface example
18	NO CLASS
20	Java decision structures	Ch. 4 Using a switch statement example
25	Coordinate systems	Using methods example
27	Map projections in GIS
Oct. 2	Lab 3: Projecting coordinates (due 10/23)
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18	MIDTERM	Sample questions for the midterm
23	Lab 4: Building a color mixer (due 11/6)
25	Display technology Color Systems	Ch. 19, Setting up your own web page and using HTML
30	Java arrays and loops	Ch. 4
Nov. 1	Java classes and objects	Ch. 5, Simple class demo, Simple methods demo
6	Lab 5: Simple line drawing (due 11/20)
8	Raster data structures	Ch. 20 Using JAR files
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15	Establishing class hierarchies
20	Lab 6: Selecting shapes (due 12/4)	A Simple Animation applet
22	NO CLASS	Hill shading and 3D rendering of DEMs Perspective mapping transformations
27	Java collections	Ch. 11
29	Digital elevation models
Dec. 4	Some other common GIS development languages
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Wednesday Dec 19	FINAL EXAM, 3:30pm � 5:30pm	Sample questions for the final