Foundations of Computer Science H B Woodlawn, 2015-2016

Unit 1: JKarel (8 weeks) Sept-Oct 30

• a. Classes and Objects
  • Inheritance
  • Polymorphism
  • Constructors
  • Instance methods
• b. Algorithms and Control Structures
  • while
  • if
  • for
  • boolean methods
  • void methods
• c. Abstract Classes and Interfaces

Unit 2: Graphics (4 weeks) Nov 2- Dec 4

• a. Built-in Graphics Classes
• b. User-defined graphics classes
• c. Animation

Unit 3: User Interface (6 weeks) Dec 7- Jan 29

• a. Buttons and Listeners
• b. Return methods
• c. Layout Managers
• d. Console I/O--Scanner class
• e. Nested for- loops

Unit 4: Data Storage (8 weeks) Feb 1-April 1

• a. Arrays
• b. Files
• c. Objects in Arrays
• d. Matrices

Extra topic: Computer Number Systems (1 week) April 4-April 15

• a. Binary, Hexadecimal, ASCII

Extra topic: Boolean Algebra (1 week):

• a. Logic, truth tables, gates

Unit 5: Data Processing (6 weeks) Apr 18 -May 27:

• a. Sorting Primitives
  • i. Selection Sort
  • ii. Insertion Sort
• b. Sorting Objects
  • i. Comparable
  • ii. Comparator
• c. Parsing Strings
• d. Recursion

Projects (2 weeks) May 30-Jun10

Extra topics for the year:

• Android Programming and MIT App Inventor
• HTML/CSS and introductory programming, websites
• Hardware building and programming: Arduino, Raspberry Pi

It is nice, but not necessary, to have Java at home. The Java JDK and jGrasp can be downloaded from the web. The TJ packets and shells can be downloaded either from http://academics.tjhsst.edu/compsci/CSweb/index.html.