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Introduction to the course
- What this course is about?
- What is Programming?
- Object Oriented vs. Procedural Programming
- What is an algorithm?
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Introduction to UNIX
- What is UNIX?
- Some simple commands
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Introduction to the WWW and HTML
- What is the WWW?
- Why do we need to learn HTML for this course?
- How to make a simple web page
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Basics of Programming
- Data Types
- Functions
- Basic statements
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Java Framework
- Using the Java Framework of classes, functions, and methods (overview)
- Compiling and running a Java Applet
- Debugging errors when compiling
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Using pre-defined objects
- Introduction to a few simple objects and their usage
- Textfields, Textareas, Labels, Buttons, Canvases, Checkboxes
- Example: Objects laid out in an applet; familiarize usage of methods
- Methods vs. Functions
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Inheritance
- What is inheritance; how does it relate to Object Oriented Programming? Why is it useful to separate common things into a separate unit?
- What do Textfields, Textareas, Labels, Buttons, Canvases, and Checkboxes have in common?
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Using inheritance to create new objects
- Use existing objects as superclasses; Using extends
- Constructors
- The bare bones of any object in a .java file
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The Java Applet as an object
- Applet is an object to which other objects can be added
- Layout Managers; BorderLayout, GridLayout
- Assigning a LayoutManager
- Adding objects to a LayoutManager
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Events
- What are Action Listeners?
- Events are objects
- How to implement Action Listeners
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Polymorphism
- What is polymorphism?
- How is polymorphism implemented in Java - Interfaces
- How is a Mouse Event an Interface?
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Putting it all together
- Creating a Java Applet with existing Objects, customized Objects, and Event Listeners
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Midterm
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Graphics
- Graphics as an example of an object that is inherent to Components
- Framework of a Graphics applet
- Example of a simple 1-panel applet with Colored Lines, Filled Rectangles, Arcs (Circles), etc.
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Kaleidoscope
- Building a Kaleidoscope out of colored lines
- Extending it with other shapes
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Using Graphics to make Applets
- Paneled Applet where each panel is some extension of a Canvas or Panel
- Mouse Listeners
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non-Graphical objects; data structures
- The idea of an object was in-fact first though of for data structures
- What is a data structure
- More complicated data structures, such as Vectors and Hashtables
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Building data objects
- A data object consists of variables that hold data and methods that retrieve, save, and manipulate data
- Introduction to private, public, and protected data types
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Putting it all together
- Building an object that holds data, as well as representing something visual
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Exceptions
- What are exceptions
- Exceptions as objects; throw, try, catch, etc.
- A look at some example exceptions
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Javadoc
- How to use Java documentation
- How Javadoc can help in figuring out the relationships between objects
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Debugging
- Methods of debugging
- System.out / System.err
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Java Technologies
- Exciting Java Technologies: JMF, JDBC, Janything
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Final Exam
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