Winter 2026 Schedule Dr. Rodham

This schedule applies to all of Dr. Rodham's CS 240 sections (blended/in-person and online). For blended/in-person sections, the "Video Lecture Topics" column lists lecture topics that will not be covered in class. Students will need to watch the videos on these topics. Entries in this column may be updated throughout the semester depending on how far we get in in-class lectures.

Students in online sections should watch all videos for all topics, including those listed under "Discussion Topics" and any additional topics listed under "Video Lecture Topics".

Week	Day	Date	Discussion Topics	Video Lecture Topics	Deliverable
1	1	Wed Jan 7	Introduction Git Chess GitHub Repository	Git (Watch whatever we didn't cover in class)	Due: Jan 9 - Chess GitHub Repository
2	2	Mon Jan 12	Java Fundamentals Phase 0: Chess Moves
	3	Wed Jan 14	Java Fundamentals (continued) Classes and Objects	Classes and Objects (Whatever we didn't cover in class)
3		Mon Jan 19	No Class - Holiday
	4	Wed Jan 21	Programming Exam Records Interfaces and Abstract Classes	Interfaces and Abstract Classes (Watch whatever we didn't cover in class)	Due: Jan 23 - Phase 0: Chess Moves
4	5	Mon Jan 26	Copying Objects Exceptions Collections		Due: Jan 27 - Programming Exam
	6	Wed Jan 28	Phase 1: Chess Game Input/Output JSON & Serialization
5	7	Mon Feb 2	Inner Classes Generics Lambdas	Generics (Whatever we didn't cover in class) Lambdas (Whatever we didn't cover in class)	Due: Feb 3 - Programming Exam - 1st Retake (if needed)
	8	Wed Feb 4	Design Principles		Due: Feb 6 - Phase 1: Chess Game
6	9	Mon Feb 9	Phase 2: Chess Design
	10	Wed Feb 11	HTTP Curl		Due: Feb 12 - Phase 2: Chess Design
7	11	Tue Feb 17	Monday Instruction Web API Phase 3: Chess Web-API
	12	Wed Feb 18	Writing Quality Code Code Style Checker
8	13	Mon Feb 23	Unit Testing Code Coverage
	14	Wed Feb 25	Relational Databases: Model Relational Databases: SQL
9	15	Mon Mar 2	Relational Databases: JDBC Phase 4: Chess Database		Due: Mar 2 - Phase 3: Chess Web-API
	16	Wed Mar 4	MySQL Securing Passwords
10	17	Mon Mar 9	Debugging Logging Defensive Programming
	18	Wed Mar 11	Console UI Phase 5: Chess Pregame Client HTTP		Due: Mar 11 - Phase 4: Chess Database
11	19	Mon Mar 16	Security: Hashing
	20	Wed Mar 18	Security: Encryption
12	21	Mon Mar 23	WebSocket Phase 6: Chess Gameplay
	22	Wed Mar 25	No Class - Work on Phase 5		Due: Mar 25 - Phase 5: Chess Pregame
13	23	Mon Mar 30	Concurrency		Due: Mar 31 - Programming Exam - 2nd Retake (if needed)
	24	Wed Apr 1	No Class - Work on Phase 6		Apr 1 - Withdrawal Deadline
14	25	Mon Apr 6	Command-Line Builds Deploying Your Chess Server on AWS
	26	Wed Apr 8	No Class - Work on Phase 6		Due: Apr 9 - Phase 6: Chess Gameplay
15	27	Mon Apr 13	Final Exam Review		Apr 17 - 22 - Final Exam