SOME OF THESE QUESTIONS WILL BE INCLUDED ON YOUR FIRST EXAM:
• What are the three characteristics of object-oriented languages?
• What are the two parts of a class?
• What is the difference between a class and an object?
• What do public and private mean in terms of parts of a class?
• What is a handle?
• What is a good example to distinguish between a handle and an object?
• What are the eight primitive types?
• What are the sizes and default values of the primitive types?
• What is the difference between arrays in Java and in most other languages?
• What is garbage collection and how does it apply to Java?
• What terminology is generally used in place of data member and member function?
• What does static mean in terms of a class and an object?
• What does the import statement do?
• What library of classes is automatically brought into a program?
• What are the three kinds of comments?
• What is the easier way to deal with operator precedence?
• What are four syntactic ways to say increment a variable i?
• Why is the difference between = and == less of a problem in Java?
• What additional shift operator is available in Java (and what does it do)?
• What is the only ternary operator (and what does it do)?
• What is the only use of the unary comma operator in Java?
• Why does Java not have a sizeof operator?
• What does "Ulcer Addicts Really Like C A lot" have to do with anything?
• What is special about when and how a constructor is called?
• What is overloading (and what is overloaded in Java)?
• How are multiple constructor in the same class distinguished?
• What is the importance of the word "this"?
• What is garbage collection?
• What three points about the above term does your CD text make?
• What is the difference between the finalize and delete methods?
• What does "int a1[]" allocate?
• What must be done to define a ten-element integer array?

POSSIBLE PROGRAMMING SITUATIONS FOR YOUR FIRST EXAM:
• A "Hello, world!" like application.
• A class like "Contest" which emphasizes public vs private and static vs non-static.
• A class like "Point" which emphasizes constructors and accessors.
• A toString method.
• A method like the suggested "contains" in the class "Rectangle".