A First Java Program

January 20th, 2016

Slides

Text Book Reading

• 2.1 - 2.9

Lecture Code

• Player
• Driver
• Student
• Course

In Class Exercise

Suppose the Registrar needs us to develop a system that will help them register students for courses.

Object-Oriented Design/Programming

• Class
• Attributes/Instance Variables
• Methods
• Object (Instance of a Class)
• Access Modifier (public or private)
• Encapsulation - Control access to data (attributes)
• Constructor (Type of method)

Java Conventions

1. Class names are upper case.
2. Variable names are lower case.
3. Method names (except for constructor) are lower case.

Java Key Words

• Words that have special meaning (i.e. can't use them for class/variable/method names)

Take-home Exercise

• Do (or work on) Inlab 1.
• Read over Outlab 1 and maybe draw a picture like the lecture today where instead of making a Student Class, you now have a GroceryItem Class.