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

Session 2 – Saturday January 21^st 2006

· Loops

· Conditional statement

· Input/Output

o Keyboard I/O

o File I/O

· Arrays

o 1D

o 2D

o Memory representation

· Inheritance

o abstract , extends

o overriding, super

o typecasting

· Testing with JUnit