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Dr. W. Brett McKenzie, 210 Gabelli School of Business  E-mail: wmckenzie@rwu.edu Office Tel: (401) 254-3534

Calendar Overview - Spring 10 - 01/24/10

All readings in plain text from: Dann, Cooper, and Pausch, Learning to Program with Alice, 2nd Editon

Week

Date

Topic

Reading

Hands On

Notes

I

 

25 JAN

 

 Introduction and Concepts
  

Install Alice 3.0
Install Alice 2.x
Test Install

E-mail assignment 

Project 0-0

II

01 FEB

 Introduction and Concepts
 Chapter 1
Appendix A

Lab 1

 Project 1 Assigned
III 08 FEB Animations and Story Boards
 Chapter 2

Lab 2-1
Lab 2-2

Labs Due: Sunday, 10:59:59 PM
IV 15 FEB Programming
Chapter 3
Alice 3

Lab 3-1
Lab 3-2

  No Monday Class
Labs Due: Sunday, 10:59:59 PM
 V 22 FEB  Unit Review
Classes & Objects
 		Chapter 4
4-1
Appendix B
 Project Update

Project Rubric
Update due Sunday, 11:59:59 PM
VI 01 MAR  Parameters & Inheritance
 Chapter 4
4-2
4-3  & Tips
Alice 3

Lab 4-1
Lab 4-2
Lab 4-3

PA01 Results
Project Proposal
Warning Grades
VII 08 MAR


Spring Break Assignment

 Project 1 Due Tuesday 09 Mar
 
Install Netbeans
- S P R I N G - B R E A K -
VIII
 22 MAR
 Events

Chapter 5
5-1
5-2 & Tips

Lab 5

Project 2 Assigned

IX 29 MAR Loop
Random Numbers
Unit Review 3, 4

Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Alice 3 Netbeans

Lab 06-1
Project2 Proposal

OO Thinking

 PA02_Movie
X  05 APR Recursion

 Chapter 8
Alice 3 Netbeans
 Lab 06-2

XI 12 ARP

Project


 Alice 3 Netbeans

Lab 7-1
Lab 7-2

Project 2 Due

Project 3 Assigned
XII 19 APR Unit Review 5, 6 7
Variables/Arrays/Lists

 Chapter 9
Alice 3 Netbeans

Lab Summary
OO Systems


XIII 26 APR
Chapter 10
Alice 3 Wrap-up
  Lab 9-1
Lab 9-2
 Lab 10
OO Tools 		Project 3 Proposal Due: Monday 26 April  (evening class)
XIV  03 MAY
  Unit Review 9, 10
 Chapt 8

OO Dev.		 Project 3 Proposal Due: Monday 03 May (day class)
XV 10 MAY   Projects   12 May - last class
Alice Campfire - Final Presentations Sunday, 7:30 PM May 16th

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