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CS 251 Intermediate Programming

• Prof. Patrick Gage Kelley

University of New Mexico

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Contact Info

• Patrick Gage Kelley
• email: pgk@cs.unm.edu
• office: FEC (Farris) 301B
• office hours: Monday 3:00-4:00 PM

Wednesday 2:00–3:00 PM

• website: http://cs.unm.edu/~pgk/251

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Schedule

• Lectures: MWF 11:00-11:50 (required)
• Labs: also required
• Section 1: T 12:00-12:50 — SMLC B59

Section 2: T 15:00-15:50 — ESCP 110 Section 3: T 11:00-11:50 — ESCP 110

• LABS WILL START NEXT WEEK
• You should obtain permission in advance before

attending a different section.

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Office Hours

• You may attend regular office hours without an

advance appointment. If you want to meet with instructor/TA’s at another time, make an appointment by email or in person.

• TA regular office hours are TBA. Let your

TA know about your schedule constraints. However, you can drop in at any TA’s regular

• ffice hours without an appointment.

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Cheating

• Don’t cheat.

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Grading

• 2 Exams (30% total)
• No separate final exam
• Lab Section Participation (15%)
• Programming Assignments/Projects (45%)
• Participation/Discretion (10%)

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Assignments

• There will be several programming assignments,
• f varying lengths, most to be done individually,

and some to be done in teams.

• Deadlines are firm, and should be met exactly.

There will be severe penalties for every second a turn-in is late.

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Topics

• CS 152 Review
• Introduction to Objects
• Methods
• Inheritance
• Interfaces / Polymorphism
• Data Structures
• Maps / Sets
• Recursion
• GUIs

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Course Goals

• Prepare you for CS 351: managing larger projects,

following “best practices,” some team coding

• Get better at Java
• advanced language features
• using the built-in class libraries
• reading docs
• Basic principles of Object-Oriented design
• Some experience designing/thinking about GUIs

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Summary

• Go to class and labs
• Keep up with the websites
• Expect some sort of work each week
• Be proactive!
• Form study groups
• Ask questions
• The TAs are there to help you

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To-do

• Get yourself a CS account
• Go to FEC 307 and talk to George (bring your

LoboCard)

• Get an SSH client, learn to login remotely to the

CS unix machines.

• Learn to: create and change directories, move

and copy files, set file permissions, edit/transfer text files, compile using javac, run compiled java code.