Exams have all been graded and you all did very well. I decided to count best five out of six as "the exam", given that time seemed to be against completion. For those who finished all six, kudos: you got some extra credit. Exam scores ranged from 95 to 110. Final grades have been posted on WebAdvisor and I'm pretty sure I emailed everyone their semester grades and/or let you know before you left last night.
Register for the spring term before the end of the fall semester! You will have a better selection of classes and sections if you do. Also, you should be aware that if you wait too long, there is the possibility that a section you want could be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment.
The final exam is written. These are the six problems on the exam. Please prepare accordingly.
As one of the requirements to earn a B- or higher,
I strongly suggest that each student develop a Java solution to the following problems in preparation for the coding portion of the first exam. While I do not promise that the practical part of the exam will be *exactly* the same as any one of these problems, the actual test question will at least be very similar to several of these practice problems.
Your final exam is scheduled in class for December 13th. Next week, we will finish up new material and review the material for the exam. Keep an eye on the blog for test preparation suggestions. Programming problems on exams are often very similar to the end of chapter exercises.
You are to complete exercise 9.3, p336.
Read chapter 9, Strings and Text I/O.
As of dinner time last night, Internet access was restored to the Lincroft campus. The IT staff continues to monitor the situation any signs of instability or trouble and Brookdale email seems to be working just fine now.
You are to create a console application called FlatStanley which represents virtual rectangles.
As one of the requirements to earn an A- or higher in this class, you must complete exercise 7.3 (6th ed, p256; 7th ed, p260) / 8.7 (8th ed, p297).
You are to complete exercise 7.5
Read chapter 8, Objects and Classes.
For those who came to class and took the second exam, the tests are graded and the class average was 93.5% and one student had a perfect score. These scores are significantly improved over the first exam - well done!
Today is the end of the final WebAdvisor monitoring interval. Students with attendance issues, poor homework performance, and/or missing assignments should take this warning very seriously.
Quick reminder that you that you have an exam Tuesday night. Please be on time. You will be taking the written portion of the exam closed book. For the programming part of the test, you may use your textbook as a reference but you may not bring pre-completed code with you. Practice today and tomorrow for the test by working on the exercises at the ends of the chapters and in the exam prep blog posts.
I strongly suggest that each student develop a Java solution to the following problems in preparation for the coding portion of the first exam. While I do not promise that the practical part of the exam will be *exactly* the same as any one of these problems, the actual test question will at least be very similar to several of these practice problems. More than likely, there will be five program options on the test and you'll need to complete four of the five.
Your second exam, on chapters 5 through 7 of the textbook, is scheduled in class for one week from today. The format will be similar to the previous test.
As one of the requirements to earn a B- or higher,
You are to complete exercise 6.8, p228.
You are to complete exercise 6.13
Priority registration is underway! In order to give yourself the best chance of getting all of the classes you need as well as the days and class meeting times you prefer, you should register early.
You are to complete exercise 6.7
Read chapter 7, Multi-Dimensional Arrays.
Read chapter 6, Single-Dimensional Arrays.
Monday is the end of the fourth WebAdvisor monitoring interval. Students with attendance issues, poor homework performance, and/or missing assignments should take this warning seriously.
Screenshots from last night's implementation of RateComparison.java using methods. Note that this was a bit of quick and dirty work on the fly. A more complete and comprehensive treatment would have do while loops to control error handling on the user input etc.
Girl Scouts sell their signature cookies once a year. Each scout receives an order form and
You are to complete exercise 5.25
You are to complete exercise 5.7
I was reviewing today's batch of source code submissions and I noticed that an awful lot of people were not making good use of their whitespace. Please observe the following rules in your code:
Your first exams are all graded and the class average was 82.4% and one student had a perfect score. While there is plenty of room for improvement, this is not a bad baseline. If your personal score is a little less than you would like, keep this in mind: if you have an upward trend in your test results and finish strongly, I tend to weight the later exams sightly more heavily.
Drive-by posting to remind you that you have an exam tomorrow night. Please be on time. You will be taking the written portion of the exam closed book. For the programming part of the test, you may use your textbook as a reference but you may not bring pre-completed code with you. Practice today and tomorrow for the test by working on the exercises at the ends of the chapters and in the exam prep blog posts.
Today is the end of the third WebAdvisor monitoring interval. Students with attendance issues, poor homework performance, and/or missing assignments should take this warning seriously.
Notice to all students:
The first annual Brookdale Community College 5K run/walk to raise money for scholarships for the International Center Study Abroad Program is scheduled for Sunday, October 30th at 9:00 at Thompson Park. The cost is $25, and if you register before the 14th it includes a commemorative T-shirt. All of the donations go to the program.
Instead of me retyping the same comments to many students, I'm listing code critiques here by numbers and me return emails to you reference this list.
You are to write a program which is a modification on exercise 5.17, p 192. You will be writing a method to print a square matrix of randomly generated 1s and 0s, per the instructions in exercise 5.17. In addition, you will need to request and to accept the size of the matrix from the user.
You are to complete exercise 4.21
Notice to all students:
I strongly suggest that each student develop a Java solution to the following problems in preparation for the coding portion of the first exam. While I do not promise that the practical part of the exam will be *exactly* the same as any one of these problems, the actual test question will at least be very similar to one or more of these practice problems.
Overall performance continues to improve! The class average this week was 82.6% and three students earned full credit.
You are to complete exercise 4.12, p 148.
You are to complete exercise 3.6, p 107, modifying the program in listing 3.5 on pages 84 and 85.
Your first exam, on chapters 1 through 4 of the textbook, is scheduled in class for two weeks from tomorrow. Next week, we will review the material for the exam and take a practice test. Keep an eye on the blog this week for test preparation suggestions. Programming problems on exams are often very similar to the end of chapter exercises.