COMP 202: Principles of Object-Oriented Programming II — Fall 2008

Resources

Exam Resources

NEWS

April 20, 2008: COMP 202 has been scheduled for Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10:00 AM to 10:50 AM, and a mandatory lab will be held on Mondays from 3:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The locations for the class and the lab are yet to be determined.
April 18, 2008: COMP 202 will be offered in the Fall 2008 semester. Mathias Ricken will be the instructor, supported by Dr. Stephen Wong.

CONTACT

Please send all questions and comments to: comp202 at rice dot edu (replace the "at" with "@" and the "dot" with "." — this was necessary to reduce spam).

Please preface all subject lines with "COMP202: " (example: "COMP202: How do I write powerful programs with very little code?")

SCHEDULE

This is a tentative schedule for the topics to be covered in lecture, labs and assignments. This schedule will be revised as necessary and is given only as a reference for past topics and a guideline for future topics.

Assignments are given on the day after the previous assignment was due. Homework 1 is assigned on the first day of class.

Assignments are due by the BEGINNING of class on the due date, i.e. at 9:59 AM.

Date	Lecture	Lab	Assignment Due	Video
M 08/25/08	Lec01: Welcome, Administrivia and Reviews!	Lab01: Hangman project — Model
W 08/27/08	Lec02: Review of List Processing
F 08/29/08	Lec03: Higher Order Functions

M 09/01/08	Labor Day — no class!
T 09/02/08		Lab02: UML Sequence Diagram; Hangman Project — View & Controller
W 09/03/08	Lec04: Design Patterns Lazy Evaluation		HW01: Hangman — Milestone #1
F 09/05/08	Lec05: Design Patterns for Lazy Evaluation

M 09/8/08	Lec06: Design Patterns for Lazy Evaluation	Lab 03: Koch Curve Model
W 09/10/08	Lec07: Generics and Parametric Polymorphism		HW02: Hangman — Milestone #2
F 09/12/08	Lec08: Generic IList Framework

M 09/15/08	Lec09: Dynamic Class Loading	Lab 04: Koch Curve MVC
W 09/17/08	Lec10: Examples Algorithms on Generic Lists		HW 03: Koch Curve - Milestone #1
F 09/19/08	Lec11: Binary Tree Structures and Process Flow Modeling

M 09/22/08	Lec12: Tree Traversal Algorithms	Lab 05: Tournament Tree MVC
W 09/24/08	Lec13: Traversing Binary Trees
F 09/26/08	Lec14: AP Marine Biology Simulation

M 09/29/08	Lec15: Rice Marine Biology Simulation	Lab 06: RiceMBS
W 10/01/08	Lec16: Big "Oh"; Introduction to Design Patterns for Self-Balancing Trees		HW 04: Koch Curve - Milestone #2
F 10/03/08	Lec17: Design Patterns for Self-Balancing Trees (cont.)

M 10/06/08	Lec18: Design Patterns for Self-Balancing Trees: Insertion Algorithm	Lab: Working on Chat program
W 10/08/08	Lec19: Design Patterns for Self Balancing Trees: Deletion Algorithm
F 10/10/08	Lec20: Review for Exam 1		HW05: Tournament Tree

M 10/13/08	Mid-term recess — no class!
W 10/15/08	Lec21: More Review for Exam 1	Lab07: Review for Exam 1
F 10/17/08	Exam 1 in class

M 10/20/08	Lec23: Dictionary and Hashing
W 10/22/08	Lec24: Discussion of Exam 1. Hashing
F 10/24/08	Lec25: More on Hashing

M 10/27/08	Lec26: Design Patterns for Parsing
W 10/29/08	Lec27: Design Patterns for Parsing (cont.)		HW06: Chat Program, Milestone 1
F 10/31/08	Lec28: Design Patterns for Parsing (cont.)

M 11/03/08	Lec29: Design Patterns for Parsing (cont.)	Lab 08: TreeN and Visitors
W 11/05/08	Lec30: Design Patterns for Parsing (conclusion) Lec31: The Best Little Tic-Tac-Toe Game in Texas
F 11/08/08	Discussion of Games 4 Two; Lec 32: Design Patterns For Games

M 11/10/08	Exam 2 Review	Lab 09: Stream IO and Tokenizing	HW07: Chat Program, Milestone 2
W 11/12/08	Lec. 33: Min Max Principle
F 11/14/08	Lec 34: Alpha-Beta pruning

M 11/17/08	Lec 35: Review of Sorting Framework and Sort Animation	Lab 10: Recursive Descent Parsing	HW08: Final Project, Milestone 1
W 11/19/08	Lec 36: Merge Sort and Quick Sort
F 11/21/08	Lec 37: Heap Structure and Heap Sort	Lab14: Heaps and Priority Queues

M 11/24/08	Lec 38: Card Game design
W 11/26/08	Lec 39: Card Game (cont.) Exam 2 handed out		HW09: Final Project, Milestone 2
F 11/28/08	Thanksgiving break — no class!

M 12/01/08	Lec40: Design of the Game of Life	Lab 15: Work on GalaxyBall
W 12/03/08	Lec41: Treaps and 3-Tiered Enterprise Architectures
F 12/05/08	Card Game Design Presentations		Exam 2 due, 11:59 PM

F 12/12/08	GalaxyBall Tournament (10 AM)

Last Revised Friday, 02-May-2008 19:45:34 CDT