Mr. Minich's Classwork Calendar
October 2003
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29

VB -

Per 2 - Finish Ch. 2 "Step-by-Step" exercises on pp. 54-64

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (button Anchor property, Cint function, toString method, most important data types on p. 46, my rules for naming constants, AutoSize property of label, + instead of & for concatenation, downloading graphics from Web)

Java  -

Work on Ch2Proj1

Data St -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (console input)

30

VB -

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (Unicode, counting in binary & hexadecimal)

Java  -

Work on Ch2Proj1

Data St -

Finish Ch. 3 lecture (console input)

Oct 1

VB -

Per 2 - no class

Review online binary & hex calculators

As a class, write a Unicode character & value converter program

Java  -

Review Ch2Proj1 specs

Ch. 1 & 2 Test review

Work on Ch2Proj1

Data St -

Work on Exercises #4, 12, & 13 on pp. 126 & 129

2

VB -

Introduce Ch2Proj1& the interface sketch & method pseudocode planning forms

Java  -

Ch. 1 & 2 Test

Data St -

Finish Exercises #4, 12, & 13 on pp. 126 & 129

3

VB -

Work on Ch2Proj1

Java  -

No class

Data St -

No class

6

VB -

Work on Ch2Proj1 (due Tue 2:30 pm)

Java  -

Submit Ch2Proj1 (due today 2:30 pm)

Runtime grade for Ch2Proj1

Data St -

Finish Ch. 3 lecture (unicode & immutable String objects)

Finish Exercises #4, 12, & 13 on pp. 126 & 129

Runtime grade for above exercises

7

VB -

Review Ch. 2 Practice test

Java  -

Finish runtime grade for Ch2Proj1

Create 3 quiz questions from last night's reading

Take quiz on last night's reading

Data St -

Finish runtime grades for Ch. 3 #4, 12, & 13

Ch. 2 Test post-mortem

Ch. 3 quiz

8

VB -

Ch. 1 & 2 Test

Java  -

Ch. 2 Test post-mortem

Begin Ch. 3 lecture

(data types, overflow, loss of precision)

Data St -

Ch. 3 Test review

Begin Ch. 4 lecture (create a basic web page with an applet tag, compile an applet)

9

VB -

Continue Ch. 2 lecture (variable scope, private vs public variables module-level variables)

Java  -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (long type, BigInteger type, constants, MATH.PI, static methods vs instance methods, Math static methods)

Data St -

Continue Ch. 4 lecture (modify an applet using awt and other interesting graphics-related classes)

Begin to work on p. 183 #8 & 9

10

VB -

Ch2Proj1 runtime grade

Finish Ch. 2 lecture (the focus, TabIndex property, underscore for line continuation, If/ElseIf for radiobuttons, If's for checkboxes, group boxes)

Assign Ch2Proj2

Java  -

See this cartoon

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (Integer static methods, casting, console input, parseInteger)

Data St -

See this cartoon

Continue to work on p. 183 #8 & 9

13

No School

14

VB -

HW check

Finish Ch2Proj2

Introduce Ch2Proj3

Java  -

Finish Ch. 3 lecture (Integer static methods, casting, console input, parseInt)

Data St -

Continue to work on p. 183 #8 & 9

15

VB -

Introduce test plans

Work on Ch2Proj3

Java  -

Work on p. 126 #4

Data St -

Continue to work on p. 183 #8 & 9

Review for Ch. 3 test

16

VB -

Work on Ch2Proj3

Java  -

Per 5 - Work on p. 126 #4

Per 7 - Introduce Ch3Proj1

Data St -

Ch. 3 Test

17

VB -

Work on Ch2Proj3

Java  -

Quiz - Student-created "Ch. 3 Worksheet #4"

Work on Ch3Proj1 (due Mon 2:30 pm)

Data St -

Ch. 3 Test continued (trace code on student-created "Ch. 3 Worksheet #3")

Finish p. 183 #8 & 9

20

VB -

Work on Ch2Proj3 (add If statement as a class)

Java  -

FInish Ch3Proj1

Per 7 - Begin Ch. 4 lecture

Data St -

Begin Ch. 5 lecture

Review Ch. 3 Test if it has been graded

21

VB -

Per 2 - Work on Ch2Proj3 (add If statement as a class)

Per 6 - Introduction to Set

Java  -

Per 5 - Runtime grades for p. 126 #4 (Pair)

Ch. 3 Test review

Continue Ch. 4 lecture

Data St -

HW collect & review

Finish Ch. 5 lecture

Begin Ch. 6 lecture

22

VB -

Overview of HTML/Dreamweaver (upcoming workshop)

Java  -

Ch. 3 Test

Data St -

HW review

Continue Ch. 6 lecture

23

VB -

Per 6 - Overview of Flash

Begin Ch. 3 lecture (menus, access keys, shortcut keys; Checked, Enabled, & Visible properites)

Create Ch3Demo1 (menus)

Java  -

Begin Ch. 5 lecture (if statements)

Data St -

Ch. 5/6 classwork (sample AP questions)

Review classwork

24

VB -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (For loops)

Java  -

Per 7 - Ch. 3 Test Part 3 (tracing code)

Continue Ch. 5 lecture (ternary operator)

Data St -

Begin Ch. 7 lecture (utility & actor classes, cohesion, coupling)

27 End of first quarter

VB -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (more For loops)

Per 2 - Intro to Set

Java  -

Per 5 - Ch. 3 Test Part 3 (tracing code)

Per 7 - Continue Ch. 5 lecture (relational & logical operators, comparing floating-point values with epsilon)

Data St -

HW reading comprehension quiz

Review quiz answers

28

VB -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (more For loops)

Java  -

Continue Ch. 5 lecture (ternary operator, using braces with if's, relational & logical operators, comparing floating-point values with epsilon)

Data St -

Continue Ch. 7 lecture (review cohesion & coupling, side effects, call by value vs call by reference)

29

VB -

Continue Ch. 3 lecture (MDI projects)

Create a Ch. 3 demo program (MDI project with menus modeled on pp. 84+)

Java  -

Per 5 quiz on relational operators

Continue Ch. 5 lecture (nested if statements, String class equals and compareTo methods, null reference)

Data St -

Explain Linux

Begin #1-3 on p. 321

30

VB -

Extend and discuss Ch. 3 demo program (MDI project with menus modeled on pp. 84+)

Java  -

Continue Ch. 5 lecture (switch statement, dangling else, boolean/flag variables, predicate methods, short circuit evaluation, DeMorgan's law)

Data St -

Discuss #1-3 on p. 321

31

VB -

Extend and discuss Ch. 3 MDI demo program (modeled on pp. 89+)

Review Ch. 3 vocab words

Java  -

Possible quiz

Data St -

Erika - explanation of + with String's

Introduce Ch7Proj1

Continue Ch. 7 lecture (changing parameters, class invariants, static methods, static fields, field initializations, scope, shadowing, grep, packages)