Course Benefits
Class objectives help students become comfortable with the course, and also provide a means to evaluate learning. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- List the benefits and roles of the Java programming language.
- Utilize primitive datatypes, variables, constants, literals, and methods.
- Implement classes and properties, and understand abstraction and encapsulation.
- Differentiate between an application and an applet, and pass parameters to both.
- Use inheritance, interfaces, packages, modifiers, as well as archive files.
- Use operators and expressions to perform calculations and typecasting.
- Control the flow of programs with branching and looping.
- Explore the packages and interfaces in the Java Class Library.
- Explore the java.lang package and use methods from the String and Math classes.
- Change fonts and colors in the display; use Graphics and Image classes to draw to the display.
- Handle key and mouse events.
- Explore the applet architecture, detect and process errors, and explore threads.
- Explore the AWT package and build a GUI interface.
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