Emphasis on items since exam 3

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 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 and what three points about it 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?
What are the three characteristics of object-oriented languages?
What are the four access specifiers and what does each mean precisely?
What is a package and how is it used?
What is the difference between composition and inheritance?
What is upcasting and how can it be specified explicitly?
What is the purpose of "super"?
What is the difference between overriding and overloading?
What is the difference between early and late binding?
What are abstract classes and/or methods?
What is different about array definitions in Java than in C++?
What is the difference between composition and inheritance in concept and implementation?
What is polymorphism and how is it implemented?
What are abstract classes or methods and how are they implemented?
What are interfaces and how are they implemented?
What are named or anonymous inner classes and how are they implemented?
What are try and catch blocks (in relation to Inputs class)?
What is RTTI's instanceof (in relation to Tammy's enhancement)?
How are objects passed and returnedi?
How are windows and applets created?
What are the basic concepts of applet methods init, start, paint, stop, and destroy?
What are Button, Label, TextField, and Panel "widgets" in Swing style?
How are buttons events handled?
How are TextField values set and retrieved?
What is the concept of panels with panels?
What is the difference between checkboxes and a radio buttons?
What is the difference between choice boxes and list boxes?
What is the difference between textfields and textareas?
What is the genereal difference between dialogs and message boxes?
What are some non-flow, non-border layouts?
What is serialization and how is it used?
What is often true of the argument to file-related constructors?
What must enclose most all file-related methods?
What is used from the keyboard to signal end of file and how is it indicted from a readline method?
How should you close an application window?
What is an adapter class and of what use is it?
What two statements have we included in the constructor of a frame type class of an application?
What is the difference between a ButtonGroup add and a Panel add?
For a Swing application, to what are the GUI components directly or indirectly added and how is access to it gained?
What is the difference between how an application and an applet are initialized?
What are a couple of methods of gaining access to the object that caused an event (for example, in actionPerformed)?
What are accelerators and mnemonics?
How can arrays be used with widgets?
What imports are normally used with Swing components?
Why was the dialog handle tested against null in the DialogTest example?
What did we learn about the paintComponent method from the documentation?
What concept was learned from the DataExchangeTest example?

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".
Classes like those from Exam #1.
Classes like those in Access examples.
Classes like those in Polymorphism examples.
A method to input a value from the console.
A method like "contains" or "intersects".
A method like the suggested "evaluate" in the class "Sport".
Core Java examples
Welcome.java
ImageViewer.java
WelcomeApplet.java (and WelcomeApplet.html)
Assignment 4
Athlete.java
<Sport>.java (e.g., Wrestling.java)
Inputs.java
Menu.java
TopAthlete.java (including getWrestlingAthlete())
TestAsgn4.java (including getWrestlingAthlete(String))
Parse.java
A general method to make one of a group of similar widgets (like menu, menuitem, etc.)
Assignment 5 - SEE ALL THE INDIVIDUAL REQUIRED PARTS
An adapter class.
A two-dimensional array of Swing components