CPIT-305 | Advanced Programming

Khalid Alharbi, Ph.D.

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 11:00AM-12:20AM ^*
Location: FCIT building, office #113

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* Please feel free reach out to me on Teams outside of office hours for questions. I'll try to answer you as quickly as possible, and I'm always happy to set up an ad hoc video/voice call on Teams whenever possible.

Calendar

Week	Topics	Readings	Assignments/Labs
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1 Rajab 12th / January 12th	OOP Review Classes Inheritance Polymorphism Abstract and Concrete methods Static Lecture slides: OOP Review [PDF 📄] An Overview of Data Structures and Collections in Java [PDF 📄]	Java Playground JShell: The Java interactive shell Building a Java application in IntelliJ IDEA Java Language Basics \| dev.java	Lab 1
45%
2 Rajab 19th / January 19th	Exception and Error Handling Types of Exceptions Catching, throwing and propagating exceptions creating custom exception classes Lecture slides: Chapter 7: Exception Handling (Copyrighted slides, available on Teams/Blackboard) Lecture notes: Java Exceptions Hierarchy Java Exceptions	Exceptions \| dev.java Java Exceptions \| K-State Chapter 10 Exceptions: When Things Go Wrong Checked and Unchecked Exceptions in Java	Lab 2
45%
3 Rajab 26th / January 26th	Streams & Files (II) Files Object stream Random Access Files Lecture slides: Lecture notes: Java I/O notes	The Java I/O API \| dev.java	Lab 3
45%
4 Sha'ban 3rd / February 2nd	Java NIO (New Input/Output) API Streams & Files (III) Memory mapping and File Locks Lecture slides: Lecture notes: NIO API		Lab 4
45%
5 Sha'ban 10th / February 9th	Threads (I) What are Threads Thread creation using two methods Thread States Thread Properties Lecture slides: Chapter 12: Threads (Copyrighted slides, available on Teams/Blackboard) Lecture notes: Java Threads	Chapter 14 Threads and Concurrent Programming
45%
6 Sha'ban 17th / February 16th	Lecture slides:
45%
Holiday - No class on Sunday. Midterm exam week [TBD]
7 Sha'ban 24th / March 23rd	Lecture slides:
45%
8 Ramadan 2nd / March 2nd	Lecture slides:
45%
9 Ramadan 9th / March 9th
45%
10 Ramadan 16th / March 16th	Lecture slides:
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11 Shawwal 8th / April 6th	Lecture slides:
45%
12 Shawwal 15th / April 13th	Lecture notes:
45%
Long weekend: No classes on Sunday
13 Shawwal 23rd / April 20th	Lecture notes:
45%
14 Shawwal 29th / May 27th	Lecture notes:
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15 Dhu al-Qa'dah 6th / May 4th	Lab exam and project demo Lecture notes:
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16 Dhu al-Qa'dah 13th / May 11th	Final Exams (Dhu al-Qa'dah 13th-29th / May 11th-25th) Lecture notes:

CPIT-305 Advanced Programming Spring 2025

Advanced object-oriented programming concepts and techniques.

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