Course:                    Grade 12 Computer Science
School:                     Queen Elizabeth Park
Teacher:                   Mr. Marco
Ministry Guideline:     Computer Studies Guideline 1983

Level :                      Advanced
Prerequisite:             Grade 11 DSC3A1 OR some ADVANCED Programming
Credit Value:             One Credit
Course Code:           DSC 4A1

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Students learn the fundamentals of good program design and modern programming practice. Challenging individual and team projects enable them to develop their problem-solving skills, master the basic concepts of classic programming algorithms, and advance their computer literacy.

This course helps prepare students for the use of computers in various university disciplines, including the sciences, law, and the humanities.Also, this course will prepare students for any computer career at the community colleges. Quite often, a student can skip course( upto a year) if the marks are high enough in the programming courses at the High School Level.

Objectives:

Recommended texts

Thinking in Java, 2nd Edition

COURSE OUTLINE

units

PART A

THEORY - READINGS--from

1.Overview: The Mental Landscape

get these resources

2: Programming in the Small I: Names and Things-

switch command

3: Programming in the Small II: Control

MORE ON LOOPS

skeleton ++

applet skeleton

needed auxiliary files--you must include and compile them so that they can be used for later

TextIO-GUI.java defines an alternative version of the TextIO class. It defines the same set of input and output routines as the original version of TextIO. But instead of using standard I/O, it opens its own window, and all the input/output is done in that window. Please read the comments at the beginning of the file.
ConsoleApplet.java, a class that can be used as a framework for writing applets that do console-style input/output. To write such an applet, you have to define a subclass of ConsoleApplet. See the source code for details. Many examples of applets created using ConsoleApplet are available above. Any project that uses this class also requires ConsolePanel.java and ConsoleCanvas.java.
SimpleAnimationApplet.java, a class that can be used as a framework for writing animated applets. To use the framework, you have to define a subclass of SimpleAnimationApplet. Section 3.7 has an example.
KeyboardAnimationApplet.java, a class that can be used as a framework for writing animated applets, which the user can interact with by using the keyboard. This framework can be used for simple arcade-style games, such as the SubKiller game in Section 6.5. To use the framework, you have to define a subclass of KeyboardAnimationApplet.
Mosaic.java which let's you write programs that work with a window full of rows and columns of colored rectangles. MosaicFrame.java depends on MosaicCanvas.java. There is an example in Section 4.6.
MosaicCanvas.java, a subclass of the built-in Canvas class that implements a grid of colored rectangles.
MessageDialog.java, a class for displaying modal dialogs that contain a message and one, two, or three buttons. From an example in Section 7.7.
TextReader.java, a class that can be used to read data from text files and other input streams. From Section 10.1.

4: Programming in the Large I: Subroutines

5: Programming in the Large II: Objects and Classes

inheritance presentation

examples of inheritance

library files: book , libraryitem, compact disk. libtest

another example

   Time1.java (first version with public fields)
   Time2.java (second version with private fields)
   Time3.java (third version with hours, minutes & seconds combined into one integer)
   TimeStub.java (a stub for the Time class)
Demo Program to test the first version:
    Time1Demo.java
Demo Program to test the second version (or the third version or the stub if you replace Time2 with Time3 or TimeStub inside it):
   Time2Demo.java
Program to show parameter semantics for primitive types and classes; uses Time2:
    ValDemo.java