====== Welcome to Week 5 ======

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==== Tuesday ====

  * Any questions from Friday's lab?
  * Today's Topics: typecasting, final variables, exceptions, javadoc 
  * Part 2 of the pet trainer homework assignment... is due on Friday.
    * https://moodle.vassar.edu/course/view.php?id=19557#section-3
  * Midterm exam - if we have one a week from Friday, 10/8, I can return them before Fall Break.


 **Lecture Notes** 
  * {{ :courses:cs102-2021-01:102-week5.pptx |Week 5 lecture notes}}
  * {{ :courses:cs102-2021-01:xtester.java.txt |this wiki doesn't like to upload java files like XTester.java}}
  * [[https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/Integer.html|A useful link for XTester updates]]
  * {{ :courses:cs102-2021-01:dontwanttobenegativebutthatargumentisnegativeexception.java.txt |Another java file, probably for Thursday}}
==== Thursday ====

  * NEW: Our final exam date is set: Thursday, 12/16 at 5PM, but Location is still TBD
    * But what about the midterm? (your notes, review session, special requirements?)
  * [[https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/IllegalArgumentException.html|An exceptional link (wink)]]
  * {{ :courses:cs102-2021-01:dontwanttobenegativebut.zip |more code for our discussion on Exceptions}}
  * {{ :courses:cs102-2021-01:102-week5part2.pptx |Lecture notes on exceptions}}
  * note to self - generate javadoc on the factorial project.

==== Friday's Lab and homework assignment ====

  * Main moodle page - https://moodle.vassar.edu/course/view.php?id=19557


 **Apropos of nothing**
  * [[https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/10/high-return-activity-raising-others-aspirations.html|Nothing is impossible]]
  * [[https://www.getrevue.co/profile/shift-happens/issues/moire-no-more-688319|Moire Patterns & Fast Fourier Transform in digital pictures]]
  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kVS2nebKSs|The sound of the carriage return + line feed]]