COP 6607 Syllabus - Fall 2006

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

• The Scanner Class

• The JOptionPane Class

Using Classes & Objects

• Creating Objects

• The String Class

• The Number Format Class

• The Decimal Format Class

• The Wrapper Classes

• Boolean expressions

• Selection control

  • if-then-else

• Iteration control

  • while loop

  • counter controlled for loop

• The ArrayList<T> Class

  • Methods add, remove and toString

  • The for (each) loop

• JFrames and JPanels

Writing Classes

• Fields or instance variables(data)

• Constructors

• Accessors and Mutators

• Overriding the equals and toString methods

• Methods with Parameters

• More Graphics

Object Oriented Programming

• Static variables and methods

• this

• Interfaces

• Event driven programming using the ActionListener Interface

• Overloading

• The Comparable<T> and Comparator<T> interfaces

ArrayLists of User-defined classes

Introduction to Inheritance and Polymorphism

Sets, Lists and Maps

The Set<T>, List<T> and Map<K,V> interfaces

The HashSet<T>, TreeSet<T>, HashMap<K,V> and TreeMap<K,V> classes

Introduction to Recursion