Monday, August 21, 2006

Recognizing Object Oriented Syntax Literals, Intrinsic Data Types, and Variables

Topics

• Recognizing elements of syntax:
•     Classes as Data Type
•     Object declarations
•     Object creation using the keyword new
•     Function calls and sending arguments to a function
•     Function definitions inside a class
•     Function parameters
• First intro to Sun's documentation
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• Definition of a statement
• Sequential execution of statements
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• Constants - numeric (integer and floating point), character, String, boolean
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• Naming variables - identifiers
• Intrinsic Data Types - internal representation of data inside the computer
•     Bits and Bytes
•     Binary integers - byte short   int    long
•     Floating point numbers - float     double
•     Characters - char
•         The ASCII character set
•         The Unicode character set
•     Decisions  - boolean 
•     String Class
•     Objects and Object references

Readings

Wu fourth edition: Sections 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 cover objects and methods.  Sections 1.6 and 1.7 cover the concepts of compiling a program.   Sections 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 cover Literals, Data Types and Variables.