Date	Topics & Associated Reading	Study Questions & Activities
Wed, Aug 27	Course Overview Hardware/Software Operating Systems The Linux operating system ( Linux/Unix Handout)	Study Questions from the Handout
Thur, Aug 28	Lab 0: Introduction to Linux
Fri, Aug 29	Computer architecture (Reading posted on the course home page here) Hardware Components Fetch Execute Cycle	Study Questions (On line)
Mon, Sept 1	Algorithms,programming, programming languages (Section 1.2) Compilers and interpreters (Section 1.2) Java programs - basic structure and style (documentation, identifiers, naming conventions, and use of white space) (Section 1.1)	Self-Review (p. 28) SR# 1.2 - 1.6; Exercises (pp. 28, 29) EX# 1.1 - 1.6;
Wed, Sept 3	Problem Solving & Program Development (Sections 1.3 & 1.4) Character strings & printing (Section 2.1)	Quiz #1 Self-Review (p. 28) #1.7 Self-Review (pp. 65 - 66) SR# 2.2 - 2.5; Exercises (p. 66 - 67) EX# 2.1 - 2.5
Thurs, Sept 4	Lab 1: Editing, compiling, and modifying elementary Java programs; Introduction to Eclipse
Fri, Sept 5	Introduction to variables and assignment statements in Java (Section 2.2) Primitive data types (Section 2.3) Operators, operator precedence, & expressions (Section 2.4)	Self-Review (p. 66) #SR 2.6 - 2.14; Exercises (p. 67) #EX 2.6 - 2.11
Mon, Sept 8	Expressions, continued Data conversion (Section 2.5) Interactive programs - Scanner class (Section 2.6)	Post lab #1 Due Self-Review (p. 66) SR# 2.10 - 2.15; Exercises (p. 67 - 69) EX# 2.6 - 2.11
Wed, Sept 10	Objects and Classes (Sections 1.5, 3.1)	Quiz #2 Self Review (page 28) #SR 1.8
Thurs, Sept 11	Lab 2: Writing simple programs using expressions
Fri, Sept 12	Lab recap Classes and class libraries (Sections 3.2 & 3.3)	Self Review (pp. 101-102) #3.1 - 3.7; Exercises (pp. 102 - 103) #3.1 - 3.4

NOTE: The reading listed for a given day should be completed before class.