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CS170 - Labs for Section 002                 (not intended for students in other sections)

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• Goal of the lab exercises

  • What the labs are not intended for:

    Lab exercises are not intended to test your knowledge in any material So if you ask for an answer, the TA will give it to you. In other words: there is no excuse for you to do poorly in these lab exercises.

  • What is the labs intended for:

    Working with computers are best learned by example (show me how to do it) The lab exercises put you in new situations where you can learn new skills with the help of TA's

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  • What students should do to get the maximum benefit from the lab exercises:

    Read the related materials (see each lab assignment) before coming to the lab. Do the lab assignment as independently as possible. When you cannot figure out a problem, ask the TA's for help. Remember the solution shown by the TA (this is "hands on" learning)

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• Lecture materials that will be covered in lab sessions (listed here for convenience)

  • Using and Interacting with a computer in general: click here       
  • Using and Interacting with a UNIX computer in the MathCS lab:
    • Listing the content of a directory: click here
    • Navigating the UNIX directory structure: click here
    • Manipulating files: click here
    • Editing files with gedit: click here

  • Using the BlueJ Integrated Development Environment (IDE):
    • Editing Java programs with BlueJ: click here
    • Using BlueJ with an existing Java program: click here
    • Compiling and running Java programs with BlueJ: click here
    • Debugging Java programs with BlueJ: click here
    • External material: A BlueJ Tutorial: click here

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• Lab 1: (Inroduction to UNIX) click here

  Lab reading material: (read them before the lab session) Interacting with a computer (in general) Interacting with a UNIX computer: Navigating through the directory tree

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• Lab 2: (Manipulating and editing files) click here

  Lab reading material: (read them before the lab session) Manipulating files in UNIX Introduction to the gedit editor

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• Lab 3: (Intro to the BlueJ IDE - using BlueJ to compile and run Java programs) click here

  Lab reading material: (read them before the lab session) Editing Java programs with BlueJ Using BlueJ with an existing Java program Compiling and running Java programs with BlueJ

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• Lab 4: (Evaluate a simple expression using If and Switch statements) click here

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• Lab 5: (Print 2 different triangles with For-loops) click here

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• Lab 6: (Debugging using BlueJ) click here

  Lab reading material: (read them before the lab session) Debugging Java programs with BlueJ

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• Lab 7: (Writing methods that make ASCII Art) click here

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• Lab 8: (Scoping rules and Methods) click here

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• Lab 9: (Use an 2-dimensional array to make drawings) click here

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• Lab 10: (Make an Abstract Date Type - Roullete table) click here

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• Lab 11: (Practice recursion) click here

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• Lab 12: (Inheritance) click here