Introduction to Java Programming 2010–2011 — Laboratory Sessions

Outside official IJP lab sessions, you may find this directory of all Informatics computing labs useful. It also links to the Informatics room booking system, so you can tell which rooms are available when.

There are four Lab Groups. Each group has two lab sessions a week. Each lab is two hours long.

Please check your Semester 1 Timetable, choose your preferred IJP Lab Group and sign up to the group using mysignup.com. Note the mysignup link has now expired; here's the permanent lab group list.

1. IJP 1: Monday and Thursday, 10:00–12:00
2. IJP 2: Monday and Thursday, 14:00–15:50
3. IJP 3: Monday and Thursday, 16:10–18:00
4. IJP 4: Tuesday and Friday, 11:10–13:00

If you miss a lab, or just want some extra help, do feel free to come along to one of the other lab groups.

You should prepare one chapter of Objects First with Java before each lab session, and try the associated exercises. Suggested reading materials and notes are provided for each chapter of the book:

• Chapter One: Objects and classes.
• Chapter Two: Understanding class definitions.
• Chapter Three: Object interaction.
• Chapter Four: Grouping objects.
• Chapter Five: More sophisticated behaviour.
• Chapter Six: Well-behaved objects
• Chapter Seven: Designing classes.
• Chapter Eight: Improving structure with inheritance.
• Chapter Nine: More about inheritance.
• Chapter Ten: Further abstraction techniques.
• Chapter Eleven: Building graphical user interfaces.
• Chapter Twelve: Handling errors.

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