PROG10082 Topics

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This is a list of topics covered in this course.

Introductory Material

• Course Overview
• Introducing Java
• Software Installation
• Programming Standards
• Assignment Submission Standards
• Academic Integrity

Basic Syntax and Coding

• Writing your First Program
• Data Types - Numeric
• Arithmetic Expressions
• Shorthand Operators
• Data Types - String, Character
• Casting and Converting
• The Math Class
• Variables and Assignment Statements
• Constants
• IPO Charts
• Programming Style and Standards (and debugging programs)

Input/Output

• Getting User Input (Scanner and input dialog)
• Formatting Output (printf() and String.format())
• *new* Validating User Input with Regular Expressions (need to learn if-statements before doing some of the examples, but you can still learn regex without ifs)

Program Structures

• Relational & Logical Expressions
• Simple Selection Statements
• Using the Conditional Operator
• Multi-sided Selections (if/elseif/else and switch)
• Nested Selections
• Intro to Iteration (while and do-while loops)
• For Loops
• Nested Structures
• Using Loops/Ifs for Data Validation
• Data Validation (RegEx Version)

Arrays

• Intro to Arrays

Methods

• Methods 1
• Methods 2
• Variable Scope
• Methods Overloading

Object Oriented Programming Concepts

• OOP Summary (a quick overview of the lessons below, for students who just want to refresh what they already know)
• Intro to Object Oriented Programming
• Instance Variables (and Accessor/Mutator methods)
• Constructor Methods
• Miscellaneous Topics 1 (objects in memory, overriding equals()

Miscellaneous Topics

• String Processing
• String Comparisons
• Regular Expressions