Information Systems Technology

JAVA

INFO 2153

Course Handbook/Syllabus

Southeast Arkansas College

1900 Hazel Street

Pine Bluff, AR 71603

Contents

Instructor Information........................................................................................... 4

Letter to the Student ............................................................................................ 3

Course Information

Course Description...................................................................................... 5

Grading Procedures.................................................................................... 4

Academic Integrity Policy: Honesty Statement.............................................. 15

Course Leaders

Bill McNew: Information Systems Instructor

Room 6201B

Telephone: 870-543-5979

FAX: 870-543-5927

E-Mail:bmcnew@seark.edu____________________

Office Hours: __Posted on door____________________________

Rob Edleston, Dean, Technical Studies

McGeorge Room 6201F

Telephone: 870-543-5948

FAX: 870-543-5952

E-Mail: redleston@seark.edu

Office Hours: Walk-in

Linda Lewis, Vice President of Academic Affairs

McGeorge Room 6101B

Telephone: 870-543-5906

FAX: 870-543-5952

E-Mail: llewis@seark.edu

Office Hours: By Appointment

Letter to the Student

Welcome to INFO 2173: Visual Basic Programming. I have great hopes for this year’s class. You are about to enter into a sixteen-week journey, and when you finish, you should be able to impress your friends and family with your newfound knowledge.

I have a few expectations of you, as adult students. If you look around you will find that your classes are made up of people from all walks of life. Our classes have men and women of all races and cultural diversity. I expect you to take advantage of the situation by learning and growing from the interaction that you will experience in these classes. You will be in classes with people who work full- or part-time, with parents and grandparents. The average age of our student population is 28 years old. Take advantage of the wisdom of those older than you and the energy of those younger. You will find fresh ideas on how to live life and improve in the area of this subject by keeping an open and active mind. We are living in exciting times, and I hope that you can learn to feel some of that excitement.

I expect you to read all of your assignments, do all of your homework and participate in each class. These actions will not only affect your grade but also produce a learning experience that will add value to your life and mine. You are here to prepare to enter the work world. I will therefore expect you to arrive in class on time, earn your grades, and not quit just because you have a bad day or week. I expect you to respect your fellow students and me, and I will do the same for you. This holds especially true when it comes to asking questions. There are no stupid questions except for those that you don’t ask. If your classmates ask a question that sounds silly to you, show them respect by keeping that opinion to yourself. You may have the opportunity to ask a question someday and would want that same respect.

Let’s get ready and begin our exploration into the world of computer programming.

JAVA

Southeast Arkansas College

Spring 2003 Syllabus

Instructor: William M. McNew, MBA, CNE.

Office: McGeorge Hall

Phone: (870) 543-5979

Email: bmcnew@seark.edu

Grading Scale:

A: 90-100

B: 80-89

C: 70-79

D: 60-69

F: below 60

Introduction: Sun Microsystems recognized in the early 80’s that the next are computers would have a major impact on would be intelligent consumer electronic devices. Sun then began an internal corporate project code named Green in 1991. They came up with a C based language that James Gosling called Oak after an Oak tree outside his lab. Later they discovered that there was already a language called Oak. So when the group went to a coffee shop the name Java was suggested.

Early on the market for intelligent consumer devices was not developing as quickly as Sun had anticipated. Another contract was awarded to another company and the whole project was in danger of being canceled. Then in 1993 the World Wide Web exploded onto the scene and Sun engineers saw an immediate opportunity to add dynamic content and animations to Web pages.

Sun formally announced Java at a major conference in May 1995. Ordinarily, an event like this would not generate much attention. However, the business community was extremely interested because of its potential on the web. Now JAVA is in widespread use across many different platforms from pagers, cell phones, PDAs, and web pages.

Prerequisite: CNET 1133 - ProLogic

Required Text. JAVA, How to Program. Deitel & Deitel. Prentice Hall, © 2003.

Most of the training will focus on book exercises. Students who have a computer at home may install the trainer CD onto their hard drives.

Evaluation: The course grade for the semester will be evaluated on 3 major tests making up 75% of the total grade and daily grades making up the other 25%.

Expectations: Students are required to be in class and on time. Assignments are due on time unless there is a family emergency. Cheating will not be tolerated. There will be no disrespect of the teacher or fellow classmates.

There will be 3 exams that count most of the grade. Daily grades are based on finishing programs in the lab in a timely manner.

The semester grade is based on the following:

25% Test 1

25% Test 2

25% Test 3

25% Daily grades (programs)

Course Description

INFO 2153: JAVA 3 Cr. (3 Lec.)

(Prerequisite: CNET 1133 Computer Programming Logic and Language) This course is designed to help the student create dynamic web page content through JAVA applets and also JAVA applications.

Course and Unit Objectives

History of JAVA and other languages

Upon completion of this course the student will be oriented with :

1. Machine languages

2. History of C++

3. History of JAVA

4. JAVA class libraries

5. FORTRAN, COBOL, Pascal, and Ada

6. BASIC, Visual Basic, Visual C++, C# and .NET

7. Unified Modeling Language

2. Introduction to Java applications

1. A first program in JAVA

2. Modifying our first program

3. Displaying text in a dialog box

4. Another JAVA application:Adding integers.

5. Memory concepts

6. Arithmetic

7. Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators

3. Introduction to Java Applets

1. Introduction to Java Applets

2. Sample applets

3. Drawing strings and lines.

4. Adding floating point numbers

5. Java Applet Internet and World Wide Web Resources

4. Control Statements: Part 1

1. Algorithms

2. PseudoCode

3. Control Structures

4. IF single selection statement

5. If . . .Else selection statement

6. while repetition statement

7. Formulating algorithms

8. Increment and decrement operators

9. Primitive types

5. Control Statements: Part 2

1. Essentials of counter-controlled repetition

2. for repetition statement

3. Examples using the for statement

4. do..while repetition

5. switch multiple-selection statement

6. break and continue statements

7. Logical operators

8. Structured programming

Students will be expected to demonstrate a mastery of academic skills in support of their Information Systems Technology program. Such skills include, but are not limited to:

1. the ability to effectively communicate in written and verbal form.

2. the ability to listen effectively.

3. the ability to use mathematics in support of their job.

4. the ability to use science in problem solving.

5. the ability to market themselves for employment

The assessment of these skills will be embedded in the class activities, routine testing, and homework assignments.

Here are the goals for this semester:

1. to develop opinions on the most efficient way to hammer out code

2. to understand how JAVA satisfies the world of industry.

3. to improve the course by sharing your impressions, opinions, and suggestions

4. to share your life and work experiences to help the class understand your own experiences

5. to understand how programming information from the first half of the book built the foundation for the latter half and more advanced programming procedures.

6. To understand how software designers and developers work together to form alliances that get tremendous amounts of code coordinated and put into useable form.

7. to improve the course by sharing your impressions, opinions, and suggestions

8. to share your life and work experiences to help the class understand real world work environments

Class Projects

Occasionally a project will be done by groups of student programmers who simulate a real-world programming environment by collaborating on a project together.

Sometimes the class may be broken into 3 groups, sometimes 2, depending on class size.

The group will put together a program from beginning to end and each student will work on a different part.

The individual will be graded on the basis of their participation in the group and their willingness to help get things organized and done right.

Grading Procedures

Between three and five examinations will be administered. Each exam will be announced in advance. Tests will consist of true/false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, graphic identification, and essay questions. The following evaluation and grading scale is used:

GRADING SCALE

A 90 - 100%

B 80 - 89%

C 70 - 79%

D 60 - 69%

F 59/Below

EVALUATION

Average Grade from Examinations.......................................................................60%

Homework...........................................................................................................10%

Class Participation (Includes attendance)..............................................................15%

Lab.......................................................................................................................15%

Recommended Reading:

The following text resources will prove helpful to enhance your understanding of the subject.

Resources:

For student resource information, please refer to the resource handout available through your teacher, the Learning Center, Student Services, the Library, or the Book Store. Most information is also available in the SEARK College catalog.

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