CISC 3115 Introduction To Modern Programming Techniques

The Structure of the Exam

• For all topics, you should be able to trace, analyze, and write Java code.
  • Questions will for the most part consist of:
    • presenting you with a piece of code and asking you what is output — or what the value of one or more variables are — once the code is executed
    • presenting you with a problem description and asking you to write the corresponding code
    • asking you what is wrong with a piece of code and/or asking you to repair it
    • presenting you with a piece of code and asking you to trace the value of one or more variables as the code is executed
  • There may also be some multiple-choice and short answer questions.
• Although you will not be asked for definitions of terms, you should know them as they will be used in the text of the questions.
• While the book is a good supplement, you are only responsible for topics and material in the lecture notes and the various exercises and assignments. These are a great way for you to prepare yourself for the exam.

Review for CISC 1115

• Data input techniques (header/ trailer values, eof)
• First-time and previous-element logic

Classes

• Class definitions
• Behavior/state — instance variables and methods
• Constructors
  • Default constructors
  • Overloaded constructors
    • this and overloading constructor
• References, reference variables and types, primitive variables and type
• Data access — public / private
• Instances/objects — creating, accessing
• Composition
• Arrays of class objects
• Arrays as instance variables of classes
• Static (class) methods and variables
• toString, equals, and read methods

Exception Handling

• Throwing, catching exceptions
• try/catch blocks

CodeLab

• CodeLab — Class Definitions, Exception Handling