The Structure of the Exam

• The exam will consist of:
  • 50%-60% multiple choice questions from the test bank
  • 40%-50% of other questions
    • For all topics, you should be able to trace, analyze, and write Java code.
    • There may also be some short essay questions asking you to explain a concept, technique, etc.
    • Some of these questions will be coming directly from the labs; others will be new material.
• You are only responsible for topics and material in the lecture notes and the CodeLab exercises / labs. The latter are a great way for you to prepare yourself for the exam.

Topics

The exam covers Lectures 1-4. Here is a detailed breakdown of the topics

Classes

• Class definitions
• Behavior/state — instance variables and methods
• Encapsulaiton
• Constructors
  • Default constructors
  • Overloaded constructors
    • this and overloading constructor
• References, reference variables and types, primitive variables and type
• Data access — public / private
• Instances/objects — creating, accessing
• Composition
• Delegation / leveraging
• toString, equals, copy constructors, and read methods
• scoping rules
• Static (class) methods and variables
• Arrays of class objects
• Arrays as instance variables of classes
• Immutable and immutable classes

CodeLab, Labs

• Lab 01 (exercises and labs)

Test Banks of Questions

• Lecture 01 - Motivating Classes
• Lecture 02 - Classes I
• Lecture 03 - Classes II
• Lecture 04 - Classes III
• Lab 1