COP 3252 - Advanced Java Programming

Lecture Notes, Outlines, and Examples

• Intro to Java
• Summary of basic differences, C++ vs. Java for core intro-programming topics.
  You can see more full notes pages on these intro topics from CGS 3416: Intro to Java course (a non-majors intro course). Use for reference as needed:
  • Core notes page link for the CGS 3416 course
  • Basic Building Blocks of Java
  • Control Structures - Intro, Selection
  • Control Structures - Repetition
  • Java Methods
  • More About Methods (from an earlier version of the non-majors course, when it had a basic C++ pre-req)
• Console I/O (including class Scanner)
• Arrays
  • Arrays - features added in Java 1.5.0
• Classes and Objects
• Strings and StringBuilders
• The javadoc tool
• Inheritance
• Inheritance, Polymorphism, and Interfaces