Final Exam

Date: Friday, May 14, 2004

Time: 4pm -> 6pm

Location: BPS 1240 (All sections of cmsc131 will take the exam in this room)

Content: The final exam will include all the material covered in discussion session, lecture, quizzes, and homeworks including all topics covered in the first two midterms (topics1, topics2) and the following topics:

• two dimensional arrays (of primitives and of objects) and their initialization
• Inheritance ('extends')
• Interfaces ('implements')
• 'super'
• 'this '(as a pointer, and as a method call to call an alternative constructor)
• overriding, overloading, shadowing
• polymorphism
• 'abstract' classes
• 'final' keyword
• 'static' keyword
• access specifiers ('public', 'protected', 'private', and "default")
• 'break' to a label
• Java library classes/interfaces:
  • Object
  • Math
  • Stack
  • Iterator
  • HashSet, TreeSet
  • NumberFormat, DecimalFormat

Note that the exam will NOT cover the following topics::

• GUI (Swing)
• Applets
• Threads
• Big O notation
• Sorting/Searching Algorithms
• Unix
• javadoc
• Eclipse

The final exam questions will follow a style similar to the one used for the two midterms.