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 methods
Reading Assignment: Chapter 4, focused on Sections 4.1 through 4.3 and Figure 4.4 - Practical Assignment Eight: Implementing and Testing a Doubly Linked List
Objective: Design, implement, and test a flexible node-based data structure
Reading Assignment: Chapter 3, with a focus on Sections 3.2 through 3.5 - Practical Assignment Nine: Combining the Tree and HashMap Data Structures
Objective: Execute, study, understand, and enhance a word counting program
Reading Assignment: Chapters 8 and 10, with a focus on Section 10.1 - Practical Assignment Final: Exploring Open-Source Software
Objective: Download, install, and learn about open-source software on GitHub
Reading Assignment: Entire Textbook and Online Resources
