CSC148 Ramp-up workshops – Spring 2006

Session 1 – Saturday January 14^th 2006

· Primitive data types

o declaring and initializing variables

· Defining your own type: Classes

o class declaration, instantiation

o components of a class (methods, variables)

o public, private modifiers

o method overloading

o wrapper classes

· Commenting and Javadoc

· Instance vs. Static Data and Methods

· main method

· Java memory model (representation, stack frame, static space, heap space)

· String class and String operations

o == vs .equals

· Math class and function calls