CS 202: Lecture Topic Outline

(subject to change)

I.  Friday, August 31:  Course Overview

• What is Java?
• Hello World!

II.  Monday, September 3:  Introduction to Classes

• What is Object Oriented Programming?
• Fields and Methods
• Static vs. non-Static
• Public vs. private
• final fields
• Constructors and Initializer Blocks
• this() and this

III.  Wednesday, September 5:  Classes, cont.

• Object model
• Base types vs. Derived Types
• Parameter Passing (References by Value)
• Overloading
• toString

IV.  Friday, September 7:  Extending Classes

• Introduction to Inheritance
• protected
• super()
• Overriding
• super
• Casting
• Reference to objects of Subtype
• final methods and classes
• abstract methods and classes
• Object
• finalize()
• data hiding in good design

V.  Monday, September 10:  Extending Classes, cont.

• Review of Inheritance concepts

• Examples of inheritance: That, More, Benchmark, MethodBenchmark, and RandomBenchmark
  (Note that RandomBenchmark demonstrates the use of import and random number generator.)

VI.  Wednesday, September 12:  Interfaces

• interface
• implements
• extends
• examples, Comparable
• marker interfaces, Cloneable
• Example of Interfaces (Comparable, Cloneable, Collection, Iterator)
  StringSet, StringSetIterator, and StringSetApplication

VII.  Friday, September 14:  Lecture Cancelled

Monday, September 17:  Nested Classes

• Review Interfaces
• Static Nested Classes
• Non-static Nested Classes (Inner Classes)
• Local Inner Classes

VIII.  Wednesday, September 19:  Strings and Arrays

• Review Nested Classes
• Primitive Types
• Logical operators
• Arrays (length, initialization, and multidimensional arrays)
• String and StringBuffer

IX.  Friday, September 21:  Exceptions

• Review Arrays and String vs. StringBuffer
• Method Invocation Stacks
• Checked vs. Unchecked Exceptions
• throw
• try, catch, finally
• throws
• Example of exceptions and a static nested class:  FlameThrower

X.  Monday, September 24:  Threads

• Review Exceptions
• Threads
• Runnable Interface.
• synchronized methods and blocks
• wait(), notify(), notifyAll(), isAlive(), sleep(), currentThread(), interrupt(), join()
• Example of threads:  RunPingPong

XI.  Wednesday, September 26:  I/O Package

• Review Threads
• ByteStreams:  InputStream and OutputStream
• CharacterStreams:  Reader and Writer
• InputStreamReader and OutputStreamWriter
• StreamTokenizer
• Serializable
• Example of Streams:  WordList

XII.  Friday, September 28:  Packages, JavaDoc, and Applets

• Review Streams
• Packages
• JavaDoc
• Applets; a good overview of writing applets (with examples) can be found in Sun's Java Tutorial.

Last Updated:  Friday, September 28, 2001 02:34:52 PM