====== Week 1 ======

  * Introductions and Overview

  * Syllabus

  * About our authors/books/libraries
    * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Liskov|Barbara Liskov]] //Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design//
    * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bloch|Joshua Bloch]] //Effective Java//
    * [[http://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft/javaprecisely/|Peter Sestoft]] //Java Precisely//

  * First peek at a tested, graphical, animated, interactive game (Java application): BlobWorldFun
    * Live demo!
    * brief code overview
    * quick look at Javalib web pages

  * How do we get there (and beyond) from here? 
    * with abstraction, specification, and object-oriented design
    * by not taking precious time during the semester learning a new language

  * Let's get started!  
    * Lecture notes: {{courses:cs203-201301:203-introduction.pdf|203-introduction.pdf}}