Aug 29: Here are the results!


QUESTIONNAIRE

PLEASE NOTE: filling out this questionnaire does not constitute signing up for this class. To sign up for this class, you must be officially registered for the class through the university.
Your First Name:

Your Last Name:

Your Preferred Nickname, if any:

Your Preferred Email Address:

The email address will be used by the instructor, if necessary, to contact you between lectures.

Do you understand the course policy on Academic Honesty?
Yes No

We will make use of the course webpage for many aspects of this course. Much of the information on that page will only be available to current students in the class. Furthermore, we will use the web for submitting assignments and for viewing your grades. For these reasons, we ask that you create an identity and password for use in this course. You may choose whatever username and password you wish. Please note that:

  • For your username, please use only alphanumeric characters (e.g., letters and numbers)
  • For your password, you may choose any combination of letters, numbers and symbols, however no spaces should exist.
  • Please remember both the username and password which you choose. For both username and password, upper and lower case letters are not treated as the same. You must remember any capitalization you use.
  • The username and password has nothing to do with any of your existing computer accounts. In fact, for security it is wise that you pick a password which is different from any other passwords which you use elsewhere.
    • Choose a username:

    Choose a password:

    Please Retype your password:

    Note: This password will not be made active until the results of this questionnaire are processed by the instructor. At a later time, if you forget the password or wish to change it, please contact the instructor.

    Finally, we ask several questions in order to gather information about familiarity with topics for students entering the class. This will help us in providing adequate support during the semester and perhaps in selecting material to be covered in the course.

    Have you taken Comp170 (Introduction to Programming) here at Loyola?

  • Yes No

  • If yes,
    Who was your instructor?

  • If no,
    Where did you take the equivalent course?
    Was this course taught using Java? Yes No
    • With what Java programming environment are you must comfortable?
    VisualCafe BlueJ JDK Forte JBuilder Other:
    For each of the following topics/algorithms, please express your familiarity based on the following scale:
  • 1 = never heard of it
  • 2 = sounds vaguely familiar
  • 3 = definately seen it (although maybe not recently)
  • 4 = quite comfortable
  • 5 = could explain it to others
    • Some of these topics were likely covered in prerequisite courses, however many of them will also be introduced in this class.
    General Programming Topics
    Arrays 1 2 3 4 5
    Linked lists 1 2 3 4 5
    Stacks 1 2 3 4 5
    Queues 1 2 3 4 5
    Trees 1 2 3 4 5
    Using Recursion 1 2 3 4 5
    The difference between a reference to an object
    and the object itself.    		 1 2 3 4 5
    Analysis of running time 1 2 3 4 5
    Sorting algorithms 1 2 3 4 5
    Working with strings 1 2 3 4 5
    Garbage Collection 1 2 3 4 5
    Java Specifics
    Passing parameters to methods in Java 1 2 3 4 5
    Defining new classes in Java 1 2 3 4 5
    Defining a subclass which "extends" another class 1 2 3 4 5
    File Input and Output in Java 1 2 3 4 5
    Running Applets in Java 1 2 3 4 5
    Writing Applets in Java 1 2 3 4 5
    Using an interface in Java 1 2 3 4 5
    The difference between int and Integer in Java 1 2 3 4 5
    The class Object 1 2 3 4 5
    The class Vector 1 2 3 4 5
    Throwing an Exception in Java 1 2 3 4 5

    Last modified: 30 August 2002