CMPS 134 (Computer Science I)
Fall 2025

Graduate Teaching Assistants

• Office Hours

Textbook

• Building Java Programs: A Back to Basics Approach , by S. Reges and M. Stepp, published by Pearson, 2019. (either of 4th or 5th edition is fine, and no MyLab^TM access code is needed)

Labs

• Information regarding CMPS 134L including graduate teaching assistant (GTA) office hours

Homework

• Homework #0

Test/Quiz Information

• None yet.

Programming Assignments

• None yet.

Lecture Notes

• Chapter 1
• Data Representation

Programming Samples

• HelloWorld program
• MeanProgram
• Relevant to Chapter 1:
  • DrawBoxes   DrawBoxes2   Illustrates methods (procedural decomposition)
  • EscapeSequences
  • DrawFigures1  DrawFigures2  DrawFigures3  Illustrates procedural decomposition (by using methods) and escape sequences in Strings.
  • FlowOfControl (illustrates how method calls influence flow-of-control)

Java-related Links

• Java Package Hierarchy (i.e., links to all packages)
• Links to documentation for particular packages/classes
  • java.lang  :  Math   String
  • java.util :  Scanner   Random   Arrays
  • java.io  :  File
• Java SE download
• jGrasp IDE
• jGrasp Tutorials (198-page pdf file) (links to separate chapters exist on web page at URL specified in previous hyperlink).
• Using "run arguments" in jGrasp
• How to make jGrasp use spaces in place of tab characters
• How Java Works (how stuff works) (Note that the hyperlinks for downloading JDK, etc., on this page are out of date.)