CS 61B Labs and Homework

Weekly Labs

Please report errors in the labs to your TA, or, if working from home, simply mail to cs61b@cs.berkeley.edu. Don't use the newsgroup to report errors in the assignment; we generally get email faster.

Week	Lab	Homework
24 August 2009	No lab.	No homework.
31 August 2009	Please fill out our background survey at your earliest convenience. Lab 1: Introductory activities. Preparation: please read over the following before going to lab. Emacs documentation, Simple Unix usage, GJDB debugger documentation.	Homework 1, due 9/7/2009.
7 September 2009	Lab 2: Version control, unit testing. Preparation: please read over our Subversion tutorial and §8 ("Use with Subversion") in the Emacs documentation before going to lab.	Homework 2, due 9/14/2009.
14 September 2009	Lab 3: Standard library classes. Please fill out this short quiz You can resubmit it as often as you want. Preparation: please read over the Java library documentation for the java.util.ArrayList and java.util.LinkedList classes and the java.util.List and java.util.ListIterator interfaces before going to lab.	Homework 3, due 9/21/2009.
21 September 2009	Lab 4: Scanners. At certain points, the lab will ask you to fill out the following quizzes (which you can resubmit as often as you want): Quiz #0 Quiz #1 Quiz #2 Quiz #3 Preparation: Please scan the following before coming to lab: Java library documentation for the java.util.Scanner, java.util.regex.Pattern, java.util.regex.Matcher, and java.io.File classes.	Homework 4, due 9/28/2009.
28 September 2009	Lab 5: Project-related. Quizzes for this lab: Quiz #1 Quiz #2 Quiz #3	Homework 5, due 10/7/2009 (Wednesday).
5 October 2009	Lab 6: Mostly quizzes. Quizzes for this lab: Quiz #1 Quiz #2 Quiz #3	No homework this week, due to test.
12 October 2009	Lab 7: Empirical time estimation.	Homework 6, due 10/19/2009 (Monday).
19 October 2009	Lab 8: Project-related	Homework 7, due 10/26/2009 (Monday).
26 October 2009	Lab 9: Project-related	Homework 8, due 11/4/2009 (Wednesday).
2 November 2009	Lab 10: Playing around with some algorithms	No homework this week.
9 November 2009	Lab 11: Preview of threads and communication	Homework 9, due 11/16/2009 (Monday).
16 November 2009	Lab 12: Getting started on the project	Homework 10, due 11/23/2009 (Monday).
23 November 2009	Lab 13: Work on project	Homework 11, due 12/02/2009 (Wednesday). [Revised 11/27/2009.]
30 November 2009	Lab 14: Work on project or otherwise consult with TAs.	No homework this week.

Projects

• Project #1 specification.. Due: 6 October 2009. (correction posted 10/2/2009).
• Project #2 specification. Due: 2 November 2009.
• Project 3: Reversi. Due: 7 December 2009.

Programming Project Guidelines

We have prepared some useful stylistic guidelines for programming projects. Here is a sample project solution from a previous term, with its project handout. Things were a bit different then. Testing was "by hand", controlled from the makefile, rather than using JUnit.

Solutions

Directories containing code for homework solutions and lab projects are here.

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