Class Notes

• Introduction to programming
  • What is Computer Programming?
  • Why learn Computer Programming?
  • The Software Development Process.
• Program Design
  • Some problems.
  • Pseudo-code and the first problem.
  • What can computers do?
  • The second problem, if.
  • The third problem, while.
• Introduction to Java
  • About Java
  • Java Architecture
  • Some Links
  • Editors and the Edit - Compile - Execute Cycle
  • Finishing this Section
• Beginning Java Programming
  • Language Terms.
  • Hello World finally!
  • A first program
  • Syntax Errors
  • A Second Program
• Programming in the Small
  • Section Introduction
  • Primitive Data Types
  • Constants, Variables and Identifiers
  • Output
  • Reading ints and floats.
  • Writing the code.
• A closer look at numeric data and Data types.
  • Introduction
  • Integers
  • Floating point types.
  • Conversion and Coercion
  • An Example: F to C conversion.
  • An Example: Compound Interest
• Repetition
  • Section Goals
  • Introduction to the while loop.
  • Relation Operators
  • The while loop in more detail.
  • Example: Counter Controlled loops.
  • Example: Event controlled loops
• Logical Operators and Basic If
  • Section Goals
  • Boolean Background
  • If and If-Else
  • A few examples
• Basic file input
  • Section Goals
  • Try/Catch.
  • File Input.
  • An Example.
  • A Second Example.
• Strings and Characters
  • Intro
  • Characters
  • Character Math
  • Character Methods
  • Strings and String I/O
  • String Methods
• A data project.
  • intro
  • The Data Set
  • Reading in the Data
  • Refactoring MakeScanner
  • Parsing the input, part 1
  • Parsing the input, part 2
  • Conclusion
• Other control structures
  • Section Intro
  • A New Data Set
  • The for Loop
  • The do-while Loop
  • Refactoring the Code
  • The switch Statement
• Clean Up and Conclusions
  • Section Intro
  • Scope and Lifetime
  • Design Methods
  • Writing to a File
  • Conclusions