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COM209 Programming in Java

Module 1 Discussion

You are required to write many programs for this course. You find that you are stuck on one and in conversation with one of your classmates you discover that he has code that will solve the problem, the solution is available on the web and that since the book is a standard book used by other universities, the instructor solutions have also been inappropriately posted. Obviously, any of these approaches will help you solve your problem. Is using some or any of the information a violation of the school’s honesty policy and why or why not? Also, provide a reference that justifies your response and cite your response (this means you state in your work where the reference applies – check out Purdue Owl (Google it) if you need some examples.

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Module 2 Discussion

Over the next three weeks you will have the opportunity to develop a learning tool in a manner that will help you better understand the material since it is based on how you would like to see the material presented. Module 2, 3, and 4 assignment follows:

1. Select a topic from the class of your own choosing. Examples would be declaring variables, assignment statements, if statements, looping such as for loops, arrays, etc. Topics cannot be duplicated between students, i.e. check the posts and choose something that hasn’t been done. If you need time to create your topic post and thin someone might “snag” it before you are done, then post your intentions and “reserve” it, i.e. post a note that give your name and the topic you are doing.

2. Topics MUST be something we will be using in class as part of the exercises. Do not select topics that are not part of this course. These topics will not be graded.

3. Assume you are teaching this topic to the rest of the class.

4. Prepare the topic in terms of explaining it to the class meaning you should write about its purpose, how, when and why you use it, its syntax, provide a sufficient number of examples to cover the most useful cases. Examples should be syntactically correct, i.e. the right syntax

5. For week 3, and 4 select a different topic. Weeks 3 and 4 topics must not be a topic that anyone covered in Week 2. You will have to read and make a list of all the topics that were covered in the previous weeks.

6. For all topics, you may use whatever research areas you choose, the book, the internet, etc., for your topic but you may NOT cut and paste the materials. You may paraphrase your resources and you must cite them so we know where they came from but the “write-up” must be in your own words. Provide examples that work, making sure syntax and logic is correct.

7. Your posts to your classmates should provide recommendations for improving\expanding their topic through additional explanation or examples. Do not merely say how you liked it, or how helpful it was (you can say this but it can’t be all you say).

8. The DG points will be based on how thoroughly you cover your selected topics, as well as, the feedback you provide to your classmates.

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Module 3 Discussion

Over the next three weeks you will have the opportunity to develop a learning tool in a manner that will help you better understand the material since it is based on

how you would like to see the material presented. Module 2, 3, and 4 assignment follows:

1. Select a topic from the class of your own choosing. Examples would be declaring variables, assignment statements, if statements, looping such as for loops,

arrays, etc. Topics cannot be duplicated between students, i.e. check the posts and choose something that hasn’t been done. If you need time to create your topic

post and thin someone might “snag” it before you are done, then post your intentions and “reserve” it, i.e. post a note that give your name and the topic you are doing.

2. Topics MUST be something we will be using in class as part of the exercises. Do not select topics that are not part of this course. These topics will not be graded.

3. Assume you are teaching this topic to the rest of the class.

4. Prepare the topic in terms of explaining it to the class meaning you should write about its purpose, how, when and why you use it, its syntax, provide asufficient number of examples to cover the most useful cases. Examples should be syntactically correct, i.e. the right syntax

5. For week 3, and 4 select a different topic. Weeks 3 and 4 topics must not be a topic that anyone covered in Week 2. You will have to read and make a list

of all the topics that were covered in the previous weeks.

6. For all topics, you may use whatever research areas you choose, the book, the internet, etc., for your topic but you may NOT cut and paste the materials.

You may paraphrase your resources and you must cite them so we know where they came from but the “write-up” must be in your own words. Provide examples

that work, making sure syntax and logic is correct.

7. Your posts to your classmates should provide recommendations for improving\expanding their topic through additional explanation or examples. Do not

merely say how you liked it, or how helpful it was (you can say this but it can’t be all you say).

8. The DG points will be based on how thorough you cover your selected topics, as well as, the feedback you provide to your classmates.

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 4 Discussion

Over the next three weeks you will have the opportunity to develop a learning tool in a manner that will help you better understand the material since it is based on

how you would like to see the material presented. Module 2, 3, and 4 assignment follows:

1. Select a topic from the class of your own choosing. Examples would be declaring variables, assignment statements, if statements, looping such as for loops,

arrays, etc. Topics cannot be duplicated between students, i.e. check the posts and choose something that hasn’t been done. If you need time to create your topic

post and thin someone might “snag” it before you are done, then post your intentions and “reserve” it, i.e. post a note that give your name and the topic you are doing.

2. Topics MUST be something we will be using in class as part of the exercises. Do not select topics that are not part of this course. These topics will not be graded.

3. Assume you are teaching this topic to the rest of the class.

4. Prepare the topic in terms of explaining it to the class meaning you should write about its purpose, how, when and why you use it, its syntax, provide asufficient number of examples to cover the most useful cases. Examples should be syntactically correct, i.e. the right syntax

5. For week 3, and 4 select a different topic. Weeks 3 and 4 topics must not be a topic that anyone covered in Week 2. You will have to read and make a listof all the topics that were covered in the previous weeks.

6. For all topics, you may use whatever research areas you choose, the book, the internet, etc., for your topic but you may NOT cut and paste the materials.

You may paraphrase your resources and you must cite them so we know where they came from but the “write-up” must be in your own words. Provide examples

that work, making sure syntax and logic is correct.

7. Your posts to your classmates should provide recommendations for improving\expanding their topic through additional explanation or examples. Do not

merely say how you liked it, or how helpful it was (you can say this but it can’t be all you say).

8. The DG points will be based on how thorough you cover your selected topics, as well as, the feedback you provide to your classmates.

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Module 5 Discussion

Please post your initial response by midnight Thursday and your responses to your classmates by midnight Sunday.Over the last several weeks you have been developing code as part of the assignments. You may not actually realize this but during this time you have been developing a coding and testing strategy that helps you complete the assignments. Please share with your classmates how you have approached applying your design to the coding and testing phases. That is, you should thoroughly describe your coding style (how you use spacing, indentation, naming conventions, etc.), how you select your testing parameters and design your code to support testing.

Programming is a combination of design, coding, and testing – all for the expressed purpose of ensuring your have met the customer’s requirements. This module’s discussion is all about how you go about delivering code that the customer will accept.

Also, find a reference source that supports or refutes your particular approach to coding and/or testing, i.e. what are others saying you are doing right or should be doing differently. Reference MUST be an academic article (use the online library for this), not an internet article that is someones opinion.

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Module 6 Discussion

By Thursday midnight, please post response to the following:

Having developed code as part of your assignments for the last two weeks, you most likely have had code that didn’t work as you expected at first. Debugging code is another aspect of Computer Science that contains a modicum of “style”, i.e. how one approaches it often differs between programmers.

For this post, please discuss your style or methodology of debugging. How do you begin, what steps do you take to isolate the problem, how well has it worked for you, what type of problems are easy for you to isolate and which ones have given you more trouble?

By Sunday midnight, please respond to at least 2 of your classmates. Please ensure your response meets the criteria of thoughtful, insightful, responses.

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Module 7 Discussion

We will take a break from the usual weekly discussion to give you a chance to “catch up” or clean-up your other assignments.

To receive full credit for this week’s discussion you MUST send me an email that outlines the following:

1. What assignments you have outstanding, i.e. you need to work on in some fashion

2. Your strategy for completing these over the next two weeks.

3. If you are caught up or ahead of schedule, explain how you will maintain that status throughout the next 2 weeks.

There is no requirement for peer posts this week.

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Module 8 Discussion

As you complete this course, I would like you to reflect and respond to the following question.

As you know the course covered several topics, some directly related to each other, and others a bit of a departure.

1.) Which of the topics did you find most help and why?

2.) Which of the topics did you not care for or think they should have been separately discussed, part of another course, not at all, etc.?

3.) What would you have wanted to see in the course, if you were “king/queen”?

I am looking for honest, well thought-out, defensible responses. I have my own thoughts on this but would like to see where I compare and contrast with the student population.

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 1 Exercises

For this module you are to complete the following assignments:

Chapter 1: Complete Exercises 7 and 9.

Chapter 2: Complete Exercise 11.

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Box no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Assignment Box maybe linked to Turnitin.).

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 2 Exercises

For this module you are to complete the following assignments:

Chapter 3: Complete Exercises 7 and 8.

Chapter 4: Complete Exercise 8.

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Box no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Assignment Box maybe linked to Turnitin.)

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Module 3 Exercises

For this module you are to complete the following assignments:

Chapter 5: Complete Exercises 5 and 7.

Chapter 6: Complete Exercises 3 and 9.

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Box no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Assignment Box maybe linked to Turnitin.).

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 4 Exercises

For this module you are to complete the following assignments:

Chapter 7: Complete Exercises 4 and 5

Chapter 8: Complete Exercises 4

Chapter 9: Complete Exercise 6

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Box no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Assignment Box maybe linked to Turnitin.).

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 5 Exercises

For this module you are to complete the following assignments:

Chapter 10 Complete Exercises 3 and 4.

Chapter 11 Complete Exercises 3.

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Box no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Assignment Box maybe linked to Turnitin.).

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 6 Exercises

For this module you are to complete the following assignments:

Chapter 12 Complete Exercises 6 and 8.

Chapter 13 Complete Exercises 6.

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Box no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Assignment Box maybe linked to Turnitin.).

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 7 Exercises

For this module you are to complete the following assignments:

Chapter 14 Complete Exercises 3, 6, and 7

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Box no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Assignment Box maybe linked to Turnitin.).

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 8 Exercises

For this module you are to complete the following assignments:

Chapter 15 Complete Exercises 1, 2 and 3

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Box no later than Sunday 11:59 PM EST/EDT. (This Assignment Box maybe linked to Turnitin.).