Computer Science 245

Programming II: Object-Oriented Design
Spring 2026
Thomas VanDrunen



Meeting time: MWF 12:55-2:05 pm.
Meeting place: MeySci 184

Office hours: Drop-in 3:30-4:30 MWF; also schedule through Calendly
Contact: Meyer 163 ; 752-5692; Thomas.VanDrunen@wheaton.edu
http://cs.wheaton.edu/~tvandrun/cs245


Syllabus
Inventory of practice problems for Programming I and II


Final exam: Thurs, May 7, 10:30 am


Moon's dayWoden's dayThor's dayFrigga's day

Jan 12

Introduction to C
Slides

Jan 14

C functions and build procedures
Slides

Jan 15

Trying out C

Jan 16

Loop invariants
Slides

Jan 19

NO CLASS

Jan 21

First try at analysis
Slides

Project 1 (QS) assigned

Jan 22

Counting comparisons

Jan 23

More on analysis; review of recursion
Slides

Jan 26

Recursive sorting and analysis

Jan 28

Structs
Slides

Jan 29

Structs

Jan 30

Review of OOP concepts
Slides

Project 2 (Calc) assigned

Feb 2

More review of OOP concepts

Project 1 due

Feb 4

Review of linked lists
Slides

Feb 5

Version control systems

Feb 6

Sorting linked lists
Slides

Feb 9

Javadoc and documentation; review of Java GUI components
Slides

Feb 11

Introduction to abstract data types; review of Java Collections
Slides

Feb 12

Adventure game

Feb 13

More ADTs and collections
Slides

Project 3 (HMLLM) assigned

Feb 16

NO CLASS

Feb 18

Review
Slides
Review sheet

Project 2 due

Feb 19

Adventure game II

Project 4 (Adv Game) assgined

Feb 20

TEST

Feb 23

Test retrospective
Slides
Handout/exercise

Feb 25

OO design goals; UML
Slides

Feb 26

Adventure game III

Feb 27

Class extension
Slides

Project 3 due

Mar 2

More class extension

Mar 4

Refactoring
Slides

Mar 5

Adventure game IV

Mar 6

Computer memory and pointers
Slides

Project 4 due

Mar 9

NO CLASS

Mar 11

NO CLASS

Mar 12

NO LAB

Mar 13

NO CLASS

Mar 16

Dynamic allocation
Slides

Project 5 (BitVec) assigned

Mar 18

Dynamic allocation

Mar 19

Dynamic allocation

Mar 20

Bit operations
Slides

Mar 23

Nested classes
Slides

Mar 25

Generics
Slides

Mar 26

Generics

Mar 27

More generics

Project 5 due

Mar 30

Stacks and queues
Slides

Project 6 (RPN Calc) assigned

Apr 1

Stacks and queues

Aor 2

Stacks and queues

Apr 3

NO CLASS

Apr 6

Hashing

Apr 8

Review

Project 6 due

Apr 9

Hashing

Apr 10

TEST

Apr 13

Intro to design patterns; Strategy

Project 7 (No-ifs Calc) assigned

Apr 15

State

Apr 16

Strategy

Apr 17

Adapter and Decorator

Apr 20

Processors and architecture

Project 8 (PsAssem) assigned

Apr 22

Assembly

Project 7 due

Apr 23

Adapter

Apr 24

Function call and return

Apr 27

More function call and return

Apr 29

Function pointers

Apr 30

C-OO

May 1

Review

Project 8