Incremental Java

Introduction

• Teaching Programming
• What is Programming?
• Behind the Curtain: A Peek at a Java Class
• Boxes and Values
• Multiple Boxes
• Boxes Have Types
• Primitive Types
  • Introduction
  • Int
  • Double
  • Char
  • Boolean
• Variable Names
  • Identifiers: Giving Names to Boxes
  • Java Style Variable Names
  • Descriptive Variable Names
  • Whitespace
  • Declaring Primitive Variables
  • Initializing Primitive Variables
• Declaring Variables in a Java Program
• Expressions and Evaluations
  • Expressions
  • Evaluating Expressions
  • Side Effects
  • Associativity
  • Precedence
  • Logical Operators
  • Equality Operators
  • Relational Operators
  • Integer Division
  • Modulus Operator
  • Mixed Type Expressions
  • Initialization, Again
  • Side Effecting Expressions: Increment/Decrement
• Introduction to Objects using Strings
  • Math Strings
  • Objects and Strings
  • Declaring Object Variables
  • Strings are Immutable
• Assignment Statements
  • Assignment Statements
  • Compound Assignment Statements
• Printing to Screen
• A Simple Class
  • A Simple Class
  • A Java File

Exercises

• Associativity and Precedence
• Guess what's printed?

Design, Edit, Compile, Run, Debug

• Overview
• Edit
• Compile
• Run
• Debug
• Integrated Development Environment
• Summary

Objects

• Review of Objects
• Abstraction
• Object Users and Class Designers
• Classes and Objects
• Objects Respond to Commands (i.e., Methods)
• Method Signatures
• Objects are Containers for Instance Variables
• Constructors, Part 1
• Arguments and Method Calls
• Testing a Class
• Parameters and Method Definitions
• Local Variables, Scope, and Lifetime
• Constructors, Part 2
• Writing a Class Definition
• Testing a Class, Part 2
• Private Methods
• Overloading Methods
• Interfaces
• Inheritance
  • Basic Inheritance
  • Can Only Extend One Class
  • Overriding Methods
  • Dynamic Dispatch
  • Constructors and Inheritance
  • Abstract Classes
  • Object: The Mother of All Classes
• Accessing Instance Variables from Parameters
• Static Methods

Control Flow

• What is Control Flow?
• Conditions
• DeMorgan's Theorem and Negating Conditions
• Blocks
• Conditional Statements
  • if
  • if-else
  • Style: Indenting if, if-else, and method bodies
  • Nested if
  • Dangling Else
  • Prioritized if
  • switch
  • Conditional Expressions (Question Mark, Colon)
• Adding Conditional Statements to a Class
• Implementing equals() using instanceof
• Loops
  • Introduction to loops
  • while loops
    • while: Syntax and Semantics
    • Example: Printing 1 to num
    • Example: Printing 0 to num - 1
    • Example: Sum 1 to num
    • Definite and Indefinite Loops
    • Counting Iterations
    • Looping Variables
    • No Iterations
  • do-while
  • for
  • Comma Operator
  • Loop postconditions
  • Example: print num stars
  • Nested loops
  • Infinite loops
  • break and continue
  • Equivalence of loops
  • Style: Indenting loops
• Adding Loops to a Class

Container Classes

• What is a container?
• API
• ArrayLists
  • Introduction to ArrayLists
  • ArrayList API
  • Learning about ArrayList with a test class
    • Test Class with ArrayList
    • Printing a List Backwards
    • Swapping Two Elements in an ArrayList
    • The Problem With Swapping Ints
    • Reversing an ArrayList
  • Example: Dean's List
• Arrays
  • Why Arrays? An Introduction to Arrays
  • Arrays: Length vs. Index
  • Array Idioms
    • What's an Idiom?
    • Copying Arrays
    • Better Way to Copy Arrays
    • Remove and Shift
    • Insert and Shift
• Implementing a Simple ArrayList