Final Review Sheet

General

• Know all the keywords covered so far in the course
• Understand Javadoc and how basic Javadoc comments work
• Understand packages, how to use the import statement to bring a class or package into a program, and that java.lang is automatically part of every program
• Understand how to use the package statement to place a class into a programmer-defined package
• Given Java code with method calls, be able to identify what class a method comes from (or where to start looking)

Files and Streams (Chapter 17)

• Understand what streams are
• input streams vs. output streams
• byte streams vs. character streams
• InputStream, OutputStream, Reader, Writer classes (know which are byte streams and which are character streams)
• class File
• File stream classes (byte and char)
• Buffered streams
• Know how to open an input file and read data from it (read() method)
• Know how to open an output file and write data to it (write() method)

Graphics class, paint() - (Chapter 12)

• Understand the paint() method, which comes from class Component (so every GUI component has the paint method available)
• Understand when paint() is called, and how the programmer can force it to be called specifically (repaint())
• Understand the parameter of paint() -- (Graphics g) -- and what kinds of things can be done with it
• Understand the basics of the helper classes Color, Font, FontMetrics, Polygon
• Understand what kinds of things can be drawn with the Graphics class methods (strings, lines, ovals, rectangles, polygons, etc)
• Understand the difference between the Graphics and Graphics2D classes

GUI Components - (Chapters 13-14)

• Understand the code examples in chapters 13, 14 (we've looked through these in class)
• Understand the common components and containers in the Swing libraries
• Know the three types of top-level containers (JFrame, JApplet, JDialog)
• Know what other basic containers are available, and can be embedded inside other containers -- especially the use of JPanel (these also include things like JTabbedPane, JDesktopPane, JInternalFrame, etc)
• Understand the components discussed in class (i.e. seen in examples in chapters 13, 14) -- be able to recognize various types of components and distinguish between them.
• Be able to differentiate between components and containers
• Understand how event handling works, as well as the basic event handler interfaces discussed and seen in examples:
  • ActionListener
  • ItemListener
  • MouseListener
  • MouseMotionListener
  • KeyListener
• Understand the layout managers discussed and be able to differentiate between them
• Understand the use of inner classes and anonymous inner classes, especially in the building of event handlers (as we've seen in many examples)