Programming and Problem Solving

Brendan Shea, PhD

Course materials for an introductory Java programming course, including interactive Colab notebooks, slide presentations, case studies, and autograding tools.

Course Home Page

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Colab Notebooks

#	Topic	Open
1	Hello World & Variables
2	Control Structures & Arrays
3	Algorithms
4	Methods
5	Robust Data & Input Validation
6	Collections
7	Intro to OOP
8	Inheritance & Polymorphism
9	Exceptions
10	Lambdas & Streams

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Slide Presentations

Lecture	Title	Link
11	Modern Software Engineering with Snake: IDEs, Git, GUIs & Agentic Coding	View Slides
12	MVC, Space Invaders & Testing: Structuring Code and Prompts Like a Software Engineer	View Slides

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Repository Contents

• Java_XX_*.ipynb — Colab notebooks for each week (Weeks 1–12)
• reveal_js/ — Reveal.js slide presentations (Lectures 11–12)
• case studies/ — PDF and LaTeX case study readings
• java_autograde/ — Autograding scripts and test JSON files
• src/ — Java source code examples (Pac-Man MVC, Mad Libs GUI)
• syllabus.md / syllabus.pdf — Course syllabus
• final_project.md — Final project requirements