Part 1

Summary Outline

Chapter 4 - Programming Fundamentals

• Java Comments(C++-Style Commnets, C-Style Comments, Special Javadoc Comments).
• Java Statements, blocks, indentifiers, keywords.
• Java Literals (integer, floating point, boolean, character, String).
• Primitive data types (boolean, char, byte, short, int, long, float, double).
• Variables (declare, initialize, output).
• System.out.println() vs. System.out.print().
• Reference Variables vs. Primitive Variables.
• Operators (Arithmetic Operators, Increment and Decrement Operators, Relational Operators, Logical Operators, Conditional Operator(?:), Operator Precedence).

Chapter 5 - Getting Input from Keyboard

• Discussed two ways of getting input from the user by using the classes:
  • BufferedReader
  • JOptionPane
• Brief overview of packages.
  • Groups related classes in Java.
  • Classes inside packages can be used by importing the package.

Chapter 6 - Control Structures

• Decision Control Structures
  • if
  • if-else
  • if-else if
  • switch
• Repetition Control Structures
  • while
  • do-while
  • for
• Branching Statements
  • break
  • continue
  • return

Chapter 7 - Java Arrays

• Arrays
  • Definition
  • Declaration
  • Instantiation and constructors (brief overview - to be discussed more later)
  • Accessing an elment.
  • The length field.
  • Multidimensional Arrays

Chapter 8 - Command-Line Arguments

• Command-line arguments
  • How to access the arguments.
  • How to convert String arguments to integer using Integer.parseInt method.
  • How to pass command-line arguments in Netbeans.

Chapter 10 - Creating your own Classes

• Defining your own classes
• Declating Fields(instance, static/class)
• Declaring Methods(accessor, mutator, static)
• Returning values and Multiple return statements
• The this reference
• Overloading Methdods
• Constructors (default, overloading, this() call)
• Packages
• Access Modifiers (default, public, private, protected)

Chapter 11 - Inheritance, Polymorphism, Interfaces

• Inheritance (superclass, subclass)
• Using the super keyword to access fields and constructors of superclasses.
• Overriding Methods
• Final Methods and Final Classes
• Polymorphism (Abstract Classes, Interfaces)

Chapter 12 - Basic Exception Handling

• Defined what exceptions are and some sample exceptions we encountered along the way.
• How to handle exceptions by using the try-catch-finally block.

Course Outline

Part 2

Chapter 1a - Introduction to Computers, the Internet, and the Web.

• Introduction
• What is a computer?
• Comptuter organization.
• Evolution of Operating Systems.
• Personal , Distributed and Client/Serve Computing.
• Machine Languages, Assembly Languages and High-level Languages.
• History of C++.
• History of Java.
• Java Class Libraries.
• FORTRAN, COBO, Pascal and Ada
• BASIC, Visual Basic, Visual C++, C# and .NET
• The Internet and the World Wide Web
• Basics of a Typical Java Environment
• General Notes about Java and this book
• Thinking About Objects: Introduction to Object Technology and the Unified Modeling Language.
• Discovering Design Patterns: Introduction

Chapter 2a - Exceptions and Assertions

• What are Exceptions
  • Introduction
  • The Error and Exception Classes
  • An Example
• Catching Exceptions
  • The try-catch Statements
  • The finally keyword
• Throwing Exceptions
  • The throw keyword
  • The throws keyword
• Exception Categories
  • Exception Classes and Heirarchy
  • Checked and Unchecked Exceptions
  • User-Defined Exceptions
• Assertions
  • What are assertions?
  • Enabling and Disabling Assertions
  • Assert Syntax

Chapter 3a - Advanced Programming Techniques

• Recursion
• Abstract Data Types
  • Stacks
  • Queues
  • Sequential and Linked Representation
  • Java collections

Chapter 4a - Tour of the java.lang Package

• The Math class
• The String and the StringBuffer Class
• The Wrapper Classes
• The Process and the Runtime Class
• The System Class

Chapter 5a - Text-Based Applications

• Command-Line Arguments and System Properties
• Reading from Standard Input
• File Handling
  • Reading from a File
  • Writing to a File

Chapter 6a - Sorting Algorithms

• Sorting
• Insertion Sort
• Selection Sort
• Merge Sort
  • Divide-and-Conquer Paradigm
• Quick Sort
  • Divide-and-Conquer Paradigm

Chapter 7a - Abstract Window Toolkit and Swing

• Abstract Windowing Toolkit (AWT) vs. Swing
• AWT GUI Components
  • Fundamental Window Classes
  • Graphics
  • More AWT Components
• Layout Managers
  • The FlowLayout Manager
  • The BorderLayout Manager
  • The GridLayout Manager
  • Panels and Complex Layouts
• Swing GUI Components
  • Setting Up Top-Level Containers
  • A JFrame Example
  • A JOptionPane Example

Chapter 8a - GUI Event Handling

• The Delagation Event Model
• Event Classes
• Event Listeners
  • ActionListener Methods
  • MouseListener Methods
  • MouseMotionListener Methods
  • WindowListener Methods
  • Guidelines for Creating Applicaitons Handling GUI Events
• Adapter Classes
• Inner Classes
• Anonymous Inner Classes

Chapter 10a - Networking

• Basic Concepts on Networking
  • IP Address
  • Protocol
  • Ports
  • The Client/Server Paradigm
  • Sockets
• The Java Networking Package
• The ServerSocket and the Socket Class
• The MulticastSocket and the DatagramPacket Class

Chapter 11a - Applets

• Applet Definition
• Creating Applets
• Applet Methods
  • The Applet Life Cycle
  • The paint Method
  • The showStatus Method
  • Playing Audio Clips
• Applet HTML Tags

Chapter 12a - Advanced I/O Streams

• General Stream Types
  • Character and Byte Streams
  • Input and Output Streams
  • Node and Filter Streams
• The File Class
• Reader Classes
  • Reader Methods
  • Node Reader Class
  • Filter Reader Classes
• Writer Classes
  • Writer Methods
  • Node Writer Classes
  • Filter Writer Classes
• InputStream Classes
  • InputStream Methods
  • Node InputStream Classes
  • Filter InputStream Classes
• OutputStream Classes
  • OutputStream Methods
  • Node OutputStream Classes
  • Filter OutputStream Classes
• Serialization
  • The transient Keyword
  • Serialization: Writing an Object Stream
  • Deserialization: Reading an Object Stream