• How to do a review of this course:

• Look back at the lecture notes posted to the web page.

• Summarize them into a fairly short format.

• Do the same thing for the chapters in the book.

• The final exam will be based on the textbook, my lecture notes, anything I’ve said in lecture and anything from tutorial.

• For this lecture I will be giving tips on how to study for an exam and opening the floor to you the student. If you have anything you need to know send me email or ask me during the lecture.

• For tutorial I have asked the tutors to go over a previous exam with you and, as always, answer any questions you might have.

• Example of how I might review chapter 2.1:
• A Java Program
• class: contains methods
• main: where the application starts
• public static void main(String[] args)
• Java API: Applications Programming Interface
• White Space
• spaces, tabs, newline character
• use to make a program more human readable
• Comments
• one line or multi-line
• can be use to tell the reader what a method or loop does
• gives information not immediately apparent
• Identifiers, Reserved Words, and Literals
• identifiers: class, method or variable name
• should be descriptive to make program more readable
• reserved words: part of Java language and cannot be used as an identifier
• literals: explicit data used in the program
• examples: 3.14159 or "Darrell"

• Writing out notes about the information will help you to remember it.

• What about the parts you don’t completely understand?

• If you solved some assignments by trying different things until it worked then I STRONGLY suggest you dig out those assignments and bring them to lecture (or send me email and I’ll try to incorporate your question into this lecture).

• A few people have given me some suggested topics which I will discuss.

• It is important that you attempt a review before this final lecture.

                Tell me… I forget.
                Show me… I remember.
                Involve me… I understand.