The First Year Tutorial runs for 23 weeks from wk3 of Autumn term to wk25 of Summer term. Although most materials in the tutorial are obviously discussed and demonstrated live, some materials can be provided online.

Warning: The nature of tutorials means that some material will be explained live or on the whiteboard. No notes will be produced for these classes. Students are therefore reminded to turn up and to make sure they are equipped with a pen and paper. Attendance is recorded on academic profiles.

Tutorials are currently held in Fylde College, room C32.

> How to find Fylde C32.

> How to find Engineering LT3.

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Last Year

The syllabus changed this year, but material from previous years is still useful and might be used again.

> Click here for material used in 2008 to 2009 that is also useful.

Weeks 0, 1, 2

No tutorials.

Week 3 (Subclasses)

• Handouts
• Solution

Week 4 (Binary)

• Handouts with answers

Week 5 (Discrete Mathematics)

Material provided in class. Also available at:

• Part 1
• Part 2

Week 6 (Arrays, ASCII and ROT-13)

• Handouts
• Arrays Solution
• ROT13 Solution
• BlueJ

Week 7 (Arrays and Secret Messages)

• Solution

Weeks 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Material covered in class only.

Week 13 (Numeric Conversion)

• Solution

Week 14 (Java Swing Calculator)

• Solution

Weeks 16, 17, 18

Covered by Andrew Molineaux.

Week 19 (Course Recap Discussion)

• Picture of board

Week 20 (Exceptions and Polymorphism)

• Slides
• Exceptions Code
• Equals Method Code
• Also covered Generics. Look this up.

Week 21 (C: Dealing with Strings)

• Slides
• Code

Week 22 (C: Linked Lists in C)

• Screen
• Handouts
• Annotated Class Code

Week 23 (C: Dealing With Formatted Files)

• Screen
• Annotated Class Code (Exercises within)

Week 24 (Exam Assistance)

• No online materials. Past papers on the intranet.

Week 25 (Exam Assistance)

• No online materials. Past papers on the intranet.

No further tutorials after Week 25.

> Students are welcome to contact me for advice after the end of the course and into the subsequent years.

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