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COMP 202: Principles of Object-Oriented Programming II

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September 3, 2008: Zheng Cai is the TA for this course. His office hours are Wednesdays, 4 PM - 6 PM in DH 3003.
August 9, 2008: The lectures and labs for COMP 202 will be held in Sewall Hall 207 (Symonds I teaching lab). Please note that room 207 is in the basement; it is most easily accessible by the staircase into the courtyard (see map cutout; entire Rice campus map; picture of Sewall Hall courtyard;).
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.
April 18, 2008: COMP 202 will be offered in the Fall 2008 semester. Mathias Ricken will be the instructor, supervised by Dr. Stephen Wong. The CRN (course reference number) is 13917.

News last revised Monday, 11-Aug-2008 13:49:07 CDT

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
M 08/25/08	Lec01: Welcome & Administration	Lab01: Hangman project — Model
W 08/27/08	Lec02: Review of List Processing		Learning Styles Questionnaire
F 08/29/08	Lec03: Higher Order Functions

M 09/01/08	Labor Day — no class!
W 09/03/08	Lec04: Generics & Parametric Polymorphism
F 09/05/08	Lec05: Generics & Parametric Polymorphism (cont'd)		HW1: Hangman — Milestone #1

M 09/8/08	Lec06: Generic IList Framework & Example Algorithms	Lab 02: Hangman project — View
W 09/10/08	Lec07: Patterns for Lazy Evaluation
F 09/12/08	Lec08: Patterns for Lazy Evaluation (cont'd)

M 09/15/08	Lec09: Patterns for Lazy Evaluation (cont'd)
W 09/17/08	Lec10: Big "Oh"		HW2: Hangman — Milestone #2
F 09/19/08	Lec11: Dynamic Class Loading

M 09/22/08	Lec12: Programming for Change	Lab 03: Temperature Calculator
W 09/24/08	Lec13: Tree Traversal Algorithms
F 09/26/08	Lec14: Tree Traversal Algorithms (Part 2)

M 09/29/08	Lec15: Tree Traversal Algorithms (Part 3)
W 10/01/08	Lec16: TBA
F 10/03/08	Lec17: Review for Exam 1		HW3: Temperature Calculator

M 10/06/08	Lec18: Review for Exam 1 (cont'd)	Lab 04: Review for Exam 1
W 10/08/08	Exam 1
F 10/10/08	Lec20: Marine Biology Simulation

M 10/13/08	Mid-term recess — no class!
W 10/15/08	Lec21: Marine Biology Simulation (cont'd)	Lab05: Marine Biology Simulation &mdash Milestone 1
F 10/17/08	Lec22: Marine Biology Simulation (cont'd)		HW4: Hangman Refactored

M 10/20/08	Lec23: Design for Self-Balancing Trees
W 10/22/08	Lec24: Design for Self-Balancing Trees (cont'd)
F 10/24/08	Lec25: Design for Self-Balancing Trees (cont'd)

M 10/27/08	Lec26: Design for Self-Balancing Trees (cont'd)	Lab06: Marine Biology Simulation &mdash Milestone 2
W 10/29/08	Lec27: Dictionaries & Hashing		HW5: RiceMBS — Milestone 1
F 10/31/08	Lec28: Dictionaries & Hashing (cont'd)

M 11/03/08	Lec29: Dictionaries & Hashing (cont'd)	Lab 07: Parsing
W 11/05/08	Lec30: Design Patterns for Parsing
F 11/07/08	Lec31: Design Patterns for Parsing (cont'd)

M 11/10/08	Lec32: Design Patterns for Parsing (cont'd)	Lab 08: Games for Two — Milestone 1	HW6: RiceMBS — Milestone 2
W 11/12/08	Lec33: Design Patterns for Parsing (cont'd)
F 11/14/08	Lec34: Sorting

M 11/17/08	Lec35: Sorting (Part 2)
W 11/19/08	Lec36: Sorting (Part 3)
F 11/21/08	Lec37: Games for Two		HW7: Games for Two — Milestone 1

M 11/24/08	Lec38: Games for Two (cont'd)	Lab 09: Games for Two — Milestone 2
W 11/26/08	Lec39: Games for Two (cont'd) Exam 2 handed out
F 11/28/08	Thanksgiving break — no class!

M 12/01/08	Lec40: Games for Two (cont'd)	Lab 10: Review for Exam 2
W 12/03/08	Lec41: TBA
F 12/05/08	Lec42: TBA		HW8: Games for Two — Milestone 2 and Exam 2 due at 11:59 PM

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

Schedule last revised Monday, 11-Aug-2008 13:49:07 CDT