Lecture 1

Lecture 1, Mon 09/30

Introduction to CS56 and Java

See also, code here: https://github.com/ucsb-cs56-f19/LECTURE_0930

What did you miss if you missed lab?

ic00: “Pair Partner Matching”
- Finding a pair partner with similar experience
lab00: “Hello World, Gradescope”
- Making sure you can use Java and Gradescope
lab01: A pair lab: Java tools (Ant, JUnit)
- Based on the Rational tutorial: https://ucsb-cs56.github.io/tutorials/rational/, part 00 through 08

Homework for Wednesday, Thursday and next Monday

h01: “Listening to Developers”
- What do new college graduates find when they go into industry?
h02
- HFJ 3,4; JN7 Ch2 pp 19-32; Primitives, References, Instance Variables, Method
h03
- HFJ 5,6: Random, ArrayList, first look at the Java API

New Grads in Industry

Powerpoint:
- Slide Presentation
- View Only version of original slides

What can we do?

Well, the course description says:

CMPSC 56

Advanced Applications Programming (4) CONRAD

Prerequisite: Computer Science 24 and 32 with a grade of C or better

Advanced application programming using a high-level, virtual-machine-based language. Topics include generic programming, exception handling, programming language implementation; automatic memory management, and application development, management, and maintenance tools; event handling, concurrency and threading, and advanced library use.

A few observations:

Note that it says nothing about Java, per se, but it’s always been understood to be the department’s “Java course”.
But, Java as a means to an end, not as the end goal

What is the goal?

Applications Programming
That includes a lot more than just Java

Here’s a link list of some of the things it includes

https://ucsb-cs56.github.io/topics/applications_programming/
I made this list together with folks at AppFolio, a local software employer
A lot of that stuff won’t be in the textbooks!

Where can you find info in this class?

Textbooks
- HFJ - Head First Java, 2nd editino
- JN7 - Java in a Nutshell, 7th edition
- HFDP - Head First Design Patterns (probably won’t be time)
Website: https://ucsb-cs56.github.io
- Especially under https://ucsb-cs56.github.io/topics
- Also, the Rational tutorial https://ucsb-cs56.github.io/tutorials/rational_ex09/

With the time left, let’s look at https://ucsb-cs56.github.io/tutorials/rational_ex09/

Next up (probably not until Wednesday): A pivot from Ant to Maven and look at a Spring Boot webapp.

https://github.com/ucsb-cs56-f19/ucsb-course-search