COP 2210 Syllabus – Spring 2009

Introduction

• Quick history of Java

• A Java Program

• OOP terms

Data and Expressions

• Strings

• variables

• assignment

• Some primitive types

  • int and double

  • char and boolean

• Some arithmetic operations

Using Classes & Objects

• Creating Objects

• The String Class

• The Scanner Class

• The JOptionPane Class

• The Number Format Class

• The Decimal Format Class

• The Wrapper Classes

• The ArrayList Class

  • Methods add, remove and toString

  • The for (each) loop

• Frames and Panels

• Boolean expressions

• Selection control

  • if-then-else

• Iteration control

  • while loop

  • counter controlled for loop

Writing Classes

• Fields or instance variables(data)

• Constructors

• Accessors and Mutators

• Methods with Parameters

• More Graphics

Object Oriented Programming

• Static variables and methods

• Subclasses

• this

• super

• Interfaces

• The Comparable and Comparator Interfaces

• Event driven programming using the ActionListener Interface

• Overloading

• Testing

ArrayLists of User-defined classes

Introduction to Inheritance and Polymorphism