Saintleo COM209 All Modules Discussions Latest 2018 November (No Module 7 Discussion)

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 1 Discussion

You are required to
write many programs for this course. You find that you are stuck on one and in
conversation with one of your classmates you discover that he has code that
will solve the problem, the solution is
available on the web and that since the book is a standard book used by other
universities, the instructor solutions have also been inappropriately
posted. Obviously, any of these
approaches will help you solve your problem. Is using some or any of the
information a violation of the school’s honesty policy and why or why not?
Also, provide a reference that justifies your response and cite your response
(this means you state in your work where the reference applies – check out
Purdue Owl (Google it) if you need some examples.

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 2 Discussion

Over the next three
weeks you will have the opportunity to develop a learning tool in a manner that
will help you better understand the material since it is based on how you would
like to see the material presented.
Module 2, 3, and 4 assignment follows:

1. Select a topic from the class of your
own choosing. Examples would be
declaring variables, assignment statements, if statements, looping such as for
loops, arrays, etc. Topics cannot be
duplicated between students, i.e. check the posts and choose something that
hasn’t been done. If you need time to
create your topic post and thin someone might “snag” it before you are done,
then post your intentions and “reserve” it, i.e. post a note that give your name
and the topic you are doing.

2. Topics MUST be something we will be using in class as
part of the exercises. Do not select
topics that are not part of this course.
These topics will not be graded.

3. Assume you are teaching this topic to the
rest of the class.

4. Prepare the topic in terms of explaining
it to the class meaning you should write about its purpose, how, when and why
you use it, its syntax, provide a sufficient number of examples to cover the
most useful cases. Examples should be
syntactically correct, i.e. the right syntax

5. For week 3, and 4 select a different
topic. Weeks 3 and 4 topics must not be
a topic that anyone covered in Week 2.
You will have to read and make a list of all the topics that were
covered in the previous weeks.

6. For all topics, you may use whatever
research areas you choose, the book, the internet, etc., for your topic but you
may NOT cut and paste the materials. You
may paraphrase your resources and you must cite them so we know where they came
from but the “write-up” must be in your own words. Provide examples that work, making sure
syntax and logic is correct.

7. Your posts to your classmates should
provide recommendations for improvingexpanding their topic through additional
explanation or examples. Do not merely
say how you liked it, or how helpful it was (you can say this but it can’t be
all you say).

8. The DG points will be based on how
thoroughly you cover your selected topics, as well as, the feedback you provide
to your classmates.

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 3 Discussion

Over the next three
weeks you will have the opportunity to develop a learning tool in a manner that
will help you better understand the material since it is based on

how you would like to
see the material presented. Module 2, 3, and 4 assignment follows:

1. Select a topic from
the class of your own choosing. Examples would be declaring variables,
assignment statements, if statements, looping such as for loops,

arrays, etc. Topics
cannot be duplicated between students, i.e. check the posts and choose
something that hasn’t been done. If you need time to create your topic

post and thin someone
might “snag” it before you are done, then post your intentions and “reserve”
it, i.e. post a note that give your name and the topic you are doing.

2. Topics MUST be
something we will be using in class as part of the exercises. Do not select
topics that are not part of this course. These topics will not be graded.

3. Assume you are
teaching this topic to the rest of the class.

4. Prepare the topic
in terms of explaining it to the class meaning you should write about its
purpose, how, when and why you use it, its syntax, provide asufficient number
of examples to cover the most useful cases. Examples should be syntactically
correct, i.e. the right syntax

5. For week 3, and 4
select a different topic. Weeks 3 and 4 topics must not be a topic that anyone
covered in Week 2. You will have to read and make a list

of all the topics that
were covered in the previous weeks.

6. For all topics, you
may use whatever research areas you choose, the book, the internet, etc., for
your topic but you may NOT cut and paste the materials.

You may paraphrase
your resources and you must cite them so we know where they came from but the
“write-up” must be in your own words. Provide examples

that work, making sure
syntax and logic is correct.

7. Your posts to your
classmates should provide recommendations for improvingexpanding their topic
through additional explanation or examples. Do not

merely say how you
liked it, or how helpful it was (you can say this but it can’t be all you say).

8. The DG points will
be based on how thorough you cover your selected topics, as well as, the feedback
you provide to your classmates.

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 4 Discussion

Over the next three
weeks you will have the opportunity to develop a learning tool in a manner that
will help you better understand the material since it is based on

how you would like to
see the material presented. Module 2, 3, and 4 assignment follows:

1. Select a topic from
the class of your own choosing. Examples would be declaring variables,
assignment statements, if statements, looping such as for loops,

arrays, etc. Topics
cannot be duplicated between students, i.e. check the posts and choose
something that hasn’t been done. If you need time to create your topic

post and thin someone
might “snag” it before you are done, then post your intentions and “reserve”
it, i.e. post a note that give your name and the topic you are doing.

2. Topics MUST be
something we will be using in class as part of the exercises. Do not select
topics that are not part of this course. These topics will not be graded.

3. Assume you are
teaching this topic to the rest of the class.

4. Prepare the topic
in terms of explaining it to the class meaning you should write about its
purpose, how, when and why you use it, its syntax, provide asufficient number
of examples to cover the most useful cases. Examples should be syntactically
correct, i.e. the right syntax

5. For week 3, and 4
select a different topic. Weeks 3 and 4 topics must not be a topic that anyone
covered in Week 2. You will have to read and make a listof all the topics that
were covered in the previous weeks.

6. For all topics, you
may use whatever research areas you choose, the book, the internet, etc., for
your topic but you may NOT cut and paste the materials.

You may paraphrase
your resources and you must cite them so we know where they came from but the
“write-up” must be in your own words. Provide examples

that work, making sure
syntax and logic is correct.

7. Your posts to your
classmates should provide recommendations for improvingexpanding their topic
through additional explanation or examples. Do not

merely say how you
liked it, or how helpful it was (you can say this but it can’t be all you say).

8. The DG points will
be based on how thorough you cover your selected topics, as well as, the
feedback you provide to your classmates.

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 5 Discussion

Please post your
initial response by midnight Thursday and your responses to your classmates by midnight
Sunday.Over the last several weeks you have been developing code as part of the
assignments. You may not actually
realize this but during this time you have been developing a coding and testing
strategy that helps you complete the assignments. Please share with your classmates how you
have approached applying your design to the coding and testing phases. That is, you should thoroughly describe your
coding style (how you use spacing, indentation, naming conventions, etc.), how
you select your testing parameters and design your code to support
testing.

Programming is a combination
of design, coding, and testing – all for the expressed purpose of ensuring your
have met the customer’s requirements.
This module’s discussion is all about how you go about delivering code
that the customer will accept.

Also, find a reference
source that supports or refutes your particular approach to coding and/or
testing, i.e. what are others saying you are doing right or should be doing differently. Reference MUST be an academic article (use the
online library for this), not an internet article that is someones opinion.

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 6 Discussion

By Thursday midnight,
please post response to the following:

Having developed code
as part of your assignments for the last two weeks, you most likely have had
code that didn’t work as you expected at first.
Debugging code is another aspect of Computer Science that contains a
modicum of “style”, i.e. how one approaches it often differs between
programmers.

For this post, please
discuss your style or methodology of debugging.
How do you begin, what steps do you take to isolate the problem, how
well has it worked for you, what type of problems are easy for you to isolate
and which ones have given you more trouble?

By Sunday midnight,
please respond to at least 2 of your classmates. Please ensure your response meets the
criteria of thoughtful, insightful, responses.

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 7 Discussion

We will take a break
from the usual weekly discussion to give you a chance to “catch up”
or clean-up your other assignments.

To receive full credit
for this week’s discussion you MUST send me an email that outlines the
following:

1. What assignments you have outstanding, i.e.
you need to work on in some fashion

2. Your strategy for completing these over the
next two weeks.

3. If you are caught up or ahead of schedule,
explain how you will maintain that status throughout the next 2 weeks.

There is no
requirement for peer posts this week.

COM209 Programming in Java

Module 8 Discussion

As you complete this
course, I would like you to reflect and respond to the following question.

As you know the course covered several topics,
some directly related to each other, and others a bit of a departure.

1.) Which of the topics did you find most help
and why?

2.) Which of the topics did you not care for
or think they should have been separately discussed, part of another course,
not at all, etc.?

3.) What would you have wanted to see in the
course, if you were “king/queen”?

I am looking for honest, well thought-out,
defensible responses. I have my own thoughts on this but would like to see
where I compare and contrast with the student population.