CIS220 Schedule

8/23	Introduction
8/25	Event-Driven Programming Problem Solving Techniques	Ch. 1.1-1.5
8/30	Using VB Running a VB Program Practice exercise 1 assigned (intro)	Ch 2
9/1	Variables, Constants and Data Types Memory Concepts Arithmetic, Relational, and Logical Operators Practice exercise 2 assigned (arithmetic)	Ch. 3.1-3.5 Ch 5.2
9/6	Program Planning -- Algorithms, Pseudocode, and Flowcharts Sample Programs	Ch. 3.6-3.8
9/8	Control Structures Sequence Selection Error Checking Practice exercise 3 assigned (selection & iteration)	Ch. 5	P1 Due
9/13	Selection Functions Iteration	Ch. 6
9/15	Finish Iteration Tracing Programs Selection and Iteration Cases Practice exercise 4 assigned (looping)		P2 Due
9/20	Finish Selection and Iteration Cases List Box, Printing, Date/Time Debugger MSDN Search Perfect Number Discussion
9/22	Review Programming discussion Practice exercise 5 assigned (more selection and iteration)		P3 Due
9/27	Mid Term Exam #1
9/29	Exam Discussion
10/4	Subs and Functions Intro Subs	Ch. 7
10/6	Functions
10/11	Parameter passing Practice exercise 6 assigned (simple subs)	Ch. 7	P4 Due
10/13	Parameter passing Parameter Passing Demo	Ch. 7
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10/18	Parameter Recap	Ch. 7	P5 Due
10/20	Scope and Lifetime Variables and Storage Classes Practice exercise 7 assigned (parameter passing)	Ch. 7
10/25	One-dimensional Arrays	Ch. 8	P6 Due
10/27	More Arrays and Practice exercise 8 assigned (simple 1D array)	Ch. 8
11/1	Applied Arrays: sub-arrays Dynamic arrays Merging arrays	Ch. 8
11/3	Applied Arrays: array assignment Applied Arrays: parallel arrays Practice exercise 9 assigned (applied arrays)	Ch. 8	P7 Due
11/8	Review
11/10	Mid Term Exam #2
11/15	Multidimensional Arrays Practice exercise 10 assigned (2D Arrays) Exam Discussion	Ch. 8
11/17	Sequential File access Practice exercise 11 assigned (sequential files)	Ch. 10
11/22	No Class -- Thanksgiving Week
11/24	No Class -- Thanksgiving Week
11/29	Strings, String Methods Practice exercise 12 assigned (getWord)		P8 Due
12/1	Searching Arrays Sorting arrays Practice exercise 13 assigned (searching)
12/6	Object-Oriented Basics Program Discussion		P9a Due
12/8	More Object-Oriented Basics Object-Oriented Example Review		P9b Due
12/15	Final Exam: Section 1: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Section 2: 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM