Lectures

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Unit 1: Getting Started

1-1: Course Overview; Computational Problem Solving

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1-2: Programming in Java

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HelloWorld.java

1-3: Procedural Decomposition: Using Methods to Write Better Programs

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code

Unit 1 Practice Test

Unit 2: Imperative Programming I

2-1: Primitive Data, Variables, and Expressions; Simple Conditional Execution

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code

2-2: Definite Loops

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code

Star Wars text-based animation

Unit 2 Practice Test

Unit 3: Imperative Programming II

3-1: Methods with Parameters and Return Values

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code

3-2: Using Objects from Existing Classes

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code

3-3: Conditional Execution

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code

3-4: Indefinite Loops and Boolean Expressions

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code

Unit 3 Practice Test

Unit 4: Processing Collections of Data

4-1: Arrays

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code

4-2: File Processing

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code

4-3: Recursion

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code

Unit 4 Practice Test

Unit 5: Object-Oriented Programming

5-1: Classes as Blueprints: How to Define New Types of Objects

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5-2: Inheritance and Polymorphism

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code

solutions to practice problem

Unit 5 Practice Test

Unit 6: Foundations of Data Structures

6-1: Abstract Data Types

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6-2: Recursion Revisited; Recursive Backtracking

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code

Unit 6 Practice Test

Unit 7: Sorting and Algorithm Analysis

7-1: Fundamentals

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code

7-2: Divide-and-Conquer Algorithms; Distributive Sorting

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code

Unit 7 Practice Test

Unit 8: Sequences

8-1: Linked Lists

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StringNode.java

two simpler versions of StringNode that can be traced using Java Tutor:

• one tracing a call to toUpperCase
• one tracing calls to copy and deleteChar

8-2: Lists, Stacks, and Queues

notes, completed slides on list efficiency

code

Unit 8 Practice Test

Unit 9: Trees and Hash Tables

9-1: Binary Trees and Huffman Encoding

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solutions to traversal problems

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9-2: Search Trees

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a simpler version of LinkedTree that can be traced using Java Tutor

9-3: Heaps and Priority Queues

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9-4: Hash Tables

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code

Unit 9 Practice Test

Unit 10: Graphs

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solutions to traversal problems

solutions to shortest-path problem

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Unit 10 Practice Test

Practice Final Exam

Last updated on July 31, 2026.