Lab Syllabus

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Lab Locations	Lab Instructions	Submission Policy	Grading Policy
Textbook	Java on your machine	Academic Honesty	How To Find Your Scores

WARNING: In order to get any credit, you must hand in the hypothesis section before you start the lab proper.

Lab Syllabus

Lab #	Date	Topic	Reading
1	Aug 29/30	Introduction	1.1,1.2,1.3
2	Sep 3/4	Program Structure, simple output	1.4,1.5
3	Sep 5/6	Variables, Assignment and Output	2.1,2.2,2.3
4	Sep 10/11	Arithmetic Expressions	2.4
5	Sep 12/13	Classes/Methods	2.5,4.1
6	Sep 17/18	Input, Output, and Method Modifiers	8.1,8.2,8.3
7	Sep 19/20	Boolean Type/Conditional Statements	3.1,3.2,3.4
8	Sep 24/25	Repetition/Loops	3.6
9	Sep 26/27	Methods
10	Oct 1/2	The String Class	2.2, 2.5, 4.6
11	Oct 3/4	More Strings
12	Oct 10/11	More Loops
13	Oct 15/16	Arrays	6.1, 6.2
14	Oct 17/18	For Loops	3.8
15	Oct 22/23	Random Number Generators	2.6
16	Oct 24/25	2-D Arrays
17	Oct 29/30	Files
18	Oct 31/Nov 1	Constructors/Inheritance	4.1,4.2,4.3,4.4,7.1
19	Nov 5/6	Error Detection and Correction
20	Nov 7/8	Selection Sort	6.3
21	Nov 12/13	Creating Web Pages
	Nov 14/15	LAB EXAM
22	Nov 19/20	Sequential Search
23	Nov 26/27	Binary Search
24	Nov 28/29	Creating Java Applets
25	Dec 3/4	More Applets

Lab Locations

Here are the site hours and locations for this semester.

Getting Java

To install the JBuilder IDE on your machine, purchase a copy of JBuilder from Inprise (www.inprise.com) and then install it on your machine. We are currently using JBuilder 3.5

WARNING:Please make sure that you have the correct version of the IDE. Incompatibilities between versions may make it impossible to do the assigned labs.

Textbook

The required textbook is:

Java Software Solutions, Foundations of Software Design, 2nd edition
Authors: John Lewis and William Loftus
Publisher: Addison Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-57164-1

Lab Instructions

Each lab assignment is broken down into 4 major components. Each lab may have all or only some of the components, e.g., Lab 1 has one component. The components are:

Assigned Reading - these consist of sections of the textbook
Hypothesis (a pre-lab to be done and handed in before the lab)
Lab
Post Lab or Conclusion/Analysis (to be done after the lab)

For each lab, the hypothesis must be completed before the lab. If a lab is submitted without the hypothesis, it will not be counted. We intend to make the labs available at least 2 days before they are due.

After a hypothesis is submitted, the system will send you (via e-mail) a password that will tell you where the associated lab assignment can be found. The password consists of the filename without the prefix. For example, if you submit the hypothesis for Lab 2 and the password returned is output, then the lab assignment for Lab 2 can be accessed by replacing the word hypothesis by output in the location i.e. the url now reads .../102/S2001/Labs/lab2/output.html instead of .../102/S2001/Labs/lab2/hypothesis.html.

This means that:

it will take a little while after the submission of a hypothesis before you will receive the password. E-mail can take some time depending on the system and network load.
you should check the e-mail address on your submissions. The password will be sent to the e-mail address that you supply.

Submission Policy

Each hypothesis is due the day before the lab, i.e., if Monday's lab covers Lab 11, then the hypothesis for lab 11 is due by 11:59pm on Sunday
The lab is due on the day that it is scheduled, i.e. Monday's lab must be submitted by 11:59pm on Monday.
If a lab report is required, then it is due on the Monday (lab section 01) or Tuesday (lab section 02) after the lab, at 11:59pm.
Late labs will NOT be graded.
If you have a valid reason for not being able to complete a lab or hypothesis, please contact the instructor BEFORE the due date.

Academic Honesty

All students are expected to adhere to the college policy on academic honesty as listed in the Student Handbook. Lab assignments and exams are to be done individually.

Grading Policy

There is no separate grade assigned for the lab part of the course. Instead, The lab is worth 25% of the grade in the whole course. The 25% is broken down as follows:

lab exam - 60% of the lab grade, so 15% of the overall grade
labs - 40% of the lab grade, so 10% of the overall grade. Each individual lab is graded out of four points.

Finding Your Lab Scores

To find your lab scores, you have to know your ALIAS exactly, especially the case of the letters. You use the ALIAS to tell the browser (Netscape Navigator/Communicator) which file to look at. Up above in the little line on the top of this page, you should see the URL (specifying where this page is). It should look like this:

http://www.cs.lafayette.edu/~glennj/102/F2001/Labs/index.html

For Dr. Glenn's lab section, you need to replace the rest of the line after the Labs/ with your Scores/ALIAS.html. For example, if your ALIAS is Pumpkin, you would then set the line to look like:

http://www.cs.lafayette.edu/~glennj/102/F2001/Labs/Scores/Pumpkin.html

For Dr. Anderson's lab section, replace the rest of the line after www.cs.lafayette.edu/ with courses/intro/Labs/Scores/ALIAS.html. For example, if your ALIAS is Pumpkin, you would want to set the line to look like:

http://www.cs.lafayette.edu/~penny/courses/intro/Labs/Scores/Pumpkin.html

If you have problems, or can't find your score file, please see the instructor.