Practical Assignments

Computer Science 101, Fall 2019

• Practical Assignment Zero: Installing and Configuring Software Engineering Tools

  Objective: Install and use software engineering tools like Docker and Git
  Reading Assignment: Various web sites and handouts for software tools

• Practical Assignment One: Implementing and Testing a Swapping Program

  Objective: Continue to explore GitHub, Gradle, JUnit, and the Java language
  Reading Assignment: Chapter 1, focusing on Sections 1.1 through 1.3 and 1.8 and 1.9

• Practical Assignment Two: Implementing and Testing a Statistics Calculator

  Objective: Practice using Java constructs, like loops, to perform calculations
  Reading Assignment: Chapters 1 and 2, with a focus on Sections 1.3 through 1.9

• Practical Assignment Three: Repairing and Testing a Sorting Algorithm

  Objective: Repair a Java program that uses loops to perform array sorting
  Reading Assignment: Chapter 3, with a focus on Section 3.1

• Practical Assignment Four: Implementing and Testing Encryption Algorithms

  Objective: Create a Java program that uses loops to perform data encryption
  Reading Assignment: Chapter 3, with a focus on Code Fragment 3.8

• Practical Assignment Five: Experimentally Evaluating a Repeating Algorithm

  Objective: Run an experiment to compare the performance of repeating methods
  Reading Assignment: Chapter 4, with a focus on Sections 4.1 through 4.3

• Practical Assignment Six: Further Experimental Study of Iteration and Recursion

  Objective: Compare the performance of two arithmetic computations
  Reading Assignment: Chapter 5, with a focus on Sections 5.1 through 5.5

• Practical Assignment Seven: Investigating a Logarithmic Growth Rate for Sorting

  Objective: Run an experiment to compare the performance of three sorting methods
  Reading Assignment: Chapter 4, focusing on Sections 4.1 through 4.3 and Figure 4.4