CS 109 Introduction to Computer Programming: Fengwei Zhang

CS 109 Introduction to Computer Programming

Spring 2025 -- Fengwei Zhang

Instructor: Fengwei Zhang

Lecture QQ Group:

Class Time: Monday 10:20PM - 12:10PM
Class Location: Room 107, Teaching Building #1
Office Address: Room 515, South Tower, College of Engineering
Office hour: Monday 16:00pm - 18:00pm
Homepage: http://cse.sustech.edu.cn/faculty/~zhangfw
Email: zhangfw (at) sustech (dot) edu (dot) cn

Course Description

The course aims to cultivate students who have no programming experience before their university study. In this course, we will introduce the fundamentals of object-oriented programming language and programming techniques. The students will be familiar with the popular programming language Java and be able to construct programs for solving general problems.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this class, the student will gain experience in:

Understanding the basic components in a software system and the working mechanism of the Internet and the Web;
Knowing the basic syntax of the Java programming language;
Learning the features of object-oriented programming: abstraction, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism; and
Developing programs to solve real problems using integrated development environments.

Prerequisites

N/A.

Recommended Book

Java: How to Program (8th Edition), P. Deitel, H. Deitel (Java大学教程第八版，2012年出版，图书馆有借)
Book

Lab Sessions

Session Number	Lab Instructor	Student Assistants	Time and Location	Lab QQ Group
Lab-1组	Fengwei Zhang (张锋巍)	Junejie Huang (黄俊杰) Qingquan Zhang (张清泉） Jingyi Wang (王景毅）	Lab Time: Monday, 02:00PM - 03:50PM Lab Location: Room 501, Teaching Building #3

Grading Policy

The grades for the course will be based upon the tables given below

Topics	Grade
Lecture Attendance	3%
Lab Attendance and Exercise	7%
6 Assignments	30%
Project	20%
Final Exam	40%
Total	100%

A+	97 - 100%	C+	77 - 79%
A	93 - 96%	C	73 - 76%
A-	90 - 92%	C-	70 - 72%
B+	87 - 89%	D+	67 - 69%
B	83 - 86%	D	63 - 66%
B-	80 - 82%	D-	60 - 62%
F	0 - 59%

Academic Dishonesty

Please read and fill the Undergraduate Students Assignment Delcaration Form in Chinese and English.

Student Disabilities Services

If you have a documented disability that requires accommodations, you will need to register with the University for coordination of your academic accommodations, or let me know.

Class Schedule

Date	Topic	Assignments & Announcements (tentative)	Slides & Labs
Week 1, 02/17	Introduction to Java Applications, Data Types	Course Overview Blackboard [Link] Scan and join the Lecture QQ group (Lab QQ groups are different) for this course. 下面是理论班QQ群，实验班有另外的QQ群	[CourseOverview] [Slides] [Lab1]
Week 2, 02/24	Control Statements I (including structured programming)	Control Statment Introduction If Else Selection Statement While Statement Counter-Controlled and Sentinel-Controlled Repetition Type Cast and Scope Operators	[Slides] [Lab2]
Week 3, 03/03	Control Statements II (including structured programming)	For Statement Do While Switch Break Continue Statements Logical Operators Structured Programming	[Slides] [Lab3]
Week 4, 03/10	Array	Array Declaration and Creation Array Initialization Rolling Dice Example Enhanced For Statement Two and Multi Dimensional Arrays	[Slides] [Lab4]
Week 5, 03/17	Procedural programming (static methods, APIs)	Why Use Methods Program Modules and Static Methods Details of Methods Method-call Stack and Argument Passing Method Overloading and Command-line Args	[Slides] [Lab5]
Week 6, 03/24	Introduction to OO (Classes, Objects, Methods)	Introduction to Object-Oriented via Car Story Class and Method Declaration Object Creation & Method Calling & Instance Variables & Getter and Setter Constructors Case Study Ⅰ Pet Show Case Study Ⅱ Account Balances	[Slides] [Lab6]
Week 7, 03/31	Strings and Wrapper Classes	String Class String Methods StringBuilder and Wrapper Classes	[Slides] [Lab6]
Week 8, 04/7	Classes, Objects and Methods: A Deeper Look	Designing Classes & Controlling Access to Class Members Data Hiding and This Reference Overloaded Constructors & Setter Getter Methods Composition Static Variables and Methods final Instance Variables and Garbage and PackagesCollection Java Heap Stack Memory	[Slides] [Lab8]
Week 9, 04/14	Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance	Inheritance Introduction Superclass and Subclass A Payroll Application & Overriding Subclass Constructor & Accessing Fields of Superclass Super Keyword and Inheritance Summary	[Slides-part1] [Slides-part2] [Slides-Self-Study] [Lab9]
Week 10, 04/21	Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism	Polymorphism in OOP Polymorphic Behavior Abstract Classes 1 Case Study A Payroll System Using Polymorphism 2 Case Study A Payroll System Using Polymorphism final Methods and Static Binding and Java Interface	[Slides] [Lab10]
Week 11, 04/28	Interface and GUI Programming	Interface Example - Developing a Payable Hierarchy GUI Programming (brief overview)	[Slides] [Lab11]
Week 12, 05/05	No Class	No Class Due to Labor Day Holiday (劳动节)
Week 13, 05/12	Generic Classes and Methods，Generic Collections (ArrayList)	Motivation of generic methods Declaring and using generic methods Bounded Type Parameter and ArrayList Generic classes The “hardest” question about generics Generic Collections	[Slides] [Lab13]
Week 14, 05/19	Exception Handling: A Deeper Look	What exceptions are & How exception handling works Exception class hierarchy & Checked unchecked exceptions Stack traces and chained exceptions	[Slides] [Lab14]
Week 15, 05/26	Project Demo and Course Review		[Slides]
Week 16, 06/01	No Class	No Class Due to (端午节)	[Slides]

Acknowledgement: This course includes material from Dr. Yepang Liu at SUSTech