Day 1 Lesson Plan

First Day Stuff

30 min

• Introductions
• Syllabus
• Clean Code Introduction (6 mins)
• Questions?

Activity 1: Basic Java Syntax

1 hour

• Brief introduction to classes and objects (work with neighbor(s))
• Short lecture with handouts:
  • Java Language Overview
  • Example program
• Q/A

Lunch

• Get Lunch
• Watch Clean Code-Remake (54m)

Activity 2: Introduction to IntelliJ

30 mins

• Code palindrome example in IntelliJ (work in pairs)

Activity 3: Variables and Designing a Java Class

1 hour

• Design a Circle class (work in groups)

Activity 4: More Practice with IntelliJ

30 mins

• Code Circle class from Activity 3 (work individually)
• source code

Activity 5: Coding Exercise

1 hour

• Students: create GitHub login if you do not yet have one.
• Write program to read and process list of GPAs.
• See programming activity 1
• Students: Make sure students commit at the end of the day.