Advanced Programming (Fall 2019 – CIS 4320)

Syllabus

CRN 12914
Fall 2019

Room: BUSN 320
Contact: ivan@boost-human.com
Meeting Times: TR 9:00 AM -10:20 AM BUSN 320
Office Hours: By appointment only
Book: Building Java Programs
Recommended IDE: Eclipse
Additional Exercises: ReplIt

Grading

Midterm	20%
Final exam	30%
Group project	25%
Individual project(s)	25%
Portfolio	+10%

Class Schedule

Week	Topic	Items Due/Comments
1	Introduction and Programming Foundations	Familiarize yourself with the course goals and contents. IDE Setup. Hello world.
2	Data Types and Control Flow	Concatenation, variables, data types, and type casting
3	User Input and Methods	Scanner
4	Method Types and Parameters	Organization, method types, method calls
5	Boolean Logic	True and False, And & Or
6	Conditionals	If and Else statements
7	Loops	For loops, increment and decrement operators
8	MIDTERM	Thursday, October 17th
9	Loops	While loops
10	Nested Loops	Loops within loops
11	Arrays	Declarations and traversals
12	Polymorphism	Methods with same name and diff params
13	Objects & Encapsulation	Constructors, accessors, and mutators (get/set)
14	One-on-One	Semester individual review
15	Final Project Presentations	Final comments and evaluations
16	FINAL EXAM	Review (Dec 5th). Final (Dec 10th, 10:00 am)

Important Dates

September 2nd – Labor Day, UTEP closed
September 24th – Individual Project 1
October 17th – Midterm
November 1st – Drop deadline
November 19th – Final project due date
November 21st and 26th – One-on-one meetings
November 28th and 29th – Thanksgiving, UTEP closed
December 3rd – Final review. Last day of classes
December 5th – Final Presentations
December 6th – Dead day
December 6th – Portfolio due date
December 10th (10:00 am – 12:45 am) – Final exam

Homework

Group Project

Group Project 1

Individual Projects

Final Exam and Review

Final exam review

Challenges

A set of more challenging exercises (Arrays) for those who enjoy self inflicted academic pain.

Exercises

ReplIt has a set of 114 exercises covering all topics in this class. Click the link here, create an account, and solve any/all exercises for additional practice. ReplIt has integrated tools that will give you immediate feedback on your code.

Other References

w3schools.com has a full interactive tutorial on Java which you can find here. I highly recommend you go over it.

They also offer similar tracks for different languages if you are interested, including Python and PHP.

Portfolio Extra Credit

A professional looking picture. Don’t spend on this, use your career services department, or take one with your phone.
A professional looking URL. The domain is free with some web building tools but it has a few restrictions (e.g. you can have a free domain that looks like this: firstnamelastname .wordpress.com)
A link to an updated LinkedIn profile.
A short paragraph describing your career goals (i.e. pursue a master’s degree, work for X or Y firm or company).
A section or a list with the projects you are most proud of. These should be full projects, and can and should contain those which are done as part of your academic coursework, whether it is for this class or others

Additional Guidelines

No late assignments will be accepted. Please turn in assignments as-is before the deadlines to prevent a cascading effect where you are never able to catch up. Any grade is better than zero grade.
The midterm and final exams are open book, open notes, and you can use the internet to search for information, however, you cannot communicate with your classmates or anyone else in any way online or otherwise. The tests will require coding and will contain quit a few of our “morning questions”, in-class coding exercises, and homework assignments.
Homework will be assigned, however, it will not be graded. You will be able to receive feedback by using some automated tools. Remember, versions of this problems, whether verbatim or with slight variants will appear on your exams.