CS 342 - Software Design

Exam 1 Topics

Objects 101

• private, protected, default, public
• purpose of access modifiers/restrictions
• inheritance basics
• interface basics
• extends versus implements

Java Language Specifics

• garbage collection
• all non-primitives are references
• all parameters are pass-by-value
• static versus non-static methods

GUI Elements

• event loop ideas
• JButton, JLabel, JOptionPane
• Menus
  • JMenuBar
  • JMenu
  • JMenuItem
• Timers

Threads (if time allows? - most likely this will be pushed back to the final)

• One initial thread is given
• Each additional thread needs an instance of the Thread class
• start()
• run()
• join()
• synchronized

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