Course 3393.501A:
Bioinformactics and Practice 1 (JAVA)

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University
Instructor: Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang
TA: Joo-Kyung Kim (Room : 301-417, Tel : 880-1835)
Classroom: 18-114
Time: Fri 15:00-17:00
Objectives
- To understand the principles of computer programming with JAVA
- To be able to read and understand JAVA Platform, Standard Edition 6 API Specification
- To understand Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) paradigm

Textbook
• Java: An Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming 4th edition, Walter Savitch, Prentice Hall, 2005.
References
1. JAVA Platform, Standard Edition 6 API Specification
2. Head First JAVA 2nd edition, Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates, O'Reilly, 2005.
3. Thinking in JAVA 4th edition, Bruce Eckel, Prentice Hall, 2006.
4. Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language
5. How to Write Doc Comments for the Javadoc Tool
6. Eclipse, an open source JAVA IDE
7. BlueJ, a Java IDE specifically designed to learn and teach object-oriented programming and Java
Evaluation:
Two exams (60%)
Programming assignments and projects (35%)
presence, participation in discussion (5%)

Schedule

Topic	Lecture notes
1. Introduction to Computers and JAVA	Chapter 1
2. Primitive Types, Strings, and Console I/O	Chapter 2
3. Flow of Control	Chapter 3
4. Defining Classes and Methods	Chapter 4
5. More About Objects and Methods	Chapter 5
6. Arrays	Chapter 6
Mid-term Exam (April 27)
7. Inheritance	Chapter 7
8. Exception Handling	Chapter 8
9. Streams and File I/O	Chapter 9
10. Dynamic Data Structures and Generics	Chapter 10
11. Recursion	Chapter 11
Final Exam (June 15)

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Last Update: May. 30, 2007.