Sanjay Goel, School of Business, UAlbany

PH: (518) 442-4925
FX: (518) 442-4975
Email: goel@albany.edu

Business Administration 310b
1400 Washington Ave.
Albany, NY 12222

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MSI 572: Introduction to Java

Download Fall 2001 syllabus: msi572syllabus.pdf

Instructor Information

Name: Sanjay Goel
Email: goel@albany.edu
Phone: (518) 442-4925
Room: BA 310b
Office Hours: M 1:30 - 3:30pm or by appt.

Class Information

Time: MW 10:10am - 12:10pm
Location: BA 209/MIS Lab
Dates: September 4 - October 7 (Contingency Class Date October 9)
Credit(s): 1
Call #: 4662
Available Lab(s): MIS Lab (BA 234), LC4

Course Overview

This course provides an introduction to programming using JAVA language. The course teaches the basic constructs of the language and covers some aspects of object oriented programming. The course will start with a discussion of data types and flow control and then delve into issues like abstraction and inheritance. This is going to be a very fast paced class with a lot of new material in every class. This is a programming class so a lot of effort is required outside of the class in programming assignments. We will spend the first half of the class in the classroom learning the language constructs and use the second half of the class in the MIS lab doing programming. In each class you will get an assignment to complete in the class. Since there may not be enough computers in the lab multiple people will share computers.

Text & Reference Books

Text: Ira Pohl & Charlie McDowell, Java by Dissection, The essentials of Java Programming, Updated Edition. ISBN: 0201751585

Reference: Peter Van Der Linden, Just Java, 2nd Edition

Reference: Allen Vermeulen et. al, The Elements of Java Style.

Grading

Homework: 30%

Class Participation: 10%

Project: 30%

Final Exam: 50%

Course Schedule

Lec.	Date	Time	Topics	Readings	Homework
1	8/27	5:45 - 7	Programming in Java, types, operators, expressions, simple IO, elements of style	Ch 1&2	Ch 2(#11-13)
2	8/29	7:15-8:35	Control Flow and Statements	Ch 3
3	9/5	5:45-7	Object Oriented Paradigm: UML Diagrams	Ch 4	Ch 4(#3,13,20)
4	9/10	7:15-8:35	Vectors, Arrays, and Collections	Ch 4
5	9/12	5:45-7	Strings	Ch 5
6	9/24	7:15-8:35	Data Abstraction	Ch 6
7	9/26	5:45-7	Inheritance	Ch 7
8	10/1	7:15-8:35	File IO/Exceptions	Ch 10
9	10/3	5:45-7	Exam	Ch 11
10	10/8	7:15-8:35	Project Questions
11	10/10	7:15-8:35	Finish Project