CECS 277 FINAL EXAMINATION
Date: Friday, December 12, from 8:00 am to 10:00 am in room VEC 419.

Final Exam Study Guide - recommended topics to review for the final study are shown below. You are responsible for the materials covered in the class and reading assignnents in the book.

1.  Chapter 11 -Input/Output Exception Handling
   
   
• checked exceptions
• unchecked exceptions
• Add a throws clause to a method thaat can throw a checked exception
• Throws an exception
• Catching exceptions
• finally clause
• Design your own exception
• Application: Handling Input Errors
• Review lab assignment 3
• Review lecture notes
  
  
2. Threading - Review chapter 21 and the lecture notes in the class.
   

• Running threads
  • Runnable interface - run
  • Thread - start, join, sleep, yield, isAlive, setPriority
• Thread Pools
  • ExcutorService
  • newFixedThreadPool
  • execute
• Terminating threads
• Race condition
• Synchronizing object access
  • Lock
• Avoiding deadlocks
  • Condition
  • await
  • signalAll
• Review lab assignment 6 (problems 2 and 3) and lab assignment 7.
• Review lecture notes
  
  
3. Chapter 20 - Streams and binary input/output
   
   
• Reader (Scanner) and Writer (PrinterWriter)
• Binary input and output
  • InputStream (read) and OutputStream (write)
• Random access
  • RandomAccessFile
  • file pointer
  • seek, length, readDouble, readInt, writeDouble, writeInt
• Object Streams
  • ObjectOutputStream
  • ObjectInputStream
  • Serializable interface
• Review lab assignment 3
  
  
4. GUI - Review chapter 19 and lecture notes in the class.
   
   
   • JPanel
   • Using Layout Mangers
     • SetLayout
     • FlowLayout, BorderLayout, GridLayout
   • Processing text input
   • JLabel, JText, JTextArea, JRadioButton, JCheckBox, JComboBox, and JList
   • ButtonGroup
   • Adding boder around the panel
   • Event handler
     • ActionListerner interface - actionPerformed
     • ItemListener interface - itemStateChanged
   • Font
     • Font class and setFont
     • FontMetrics class - getFontMetrics, getLeading, getAscent, getDescent, getHeight, and stringWidth
     • GraphicsEnvironment.getLoclaGraphicalEnvironment, and getAvailableFonFamilyNames.
     • Class JPanel for displaying text - paintComponent(Graphics g), and repaint
   • Review lab assignment 8
   • Review lecture notes
     
   
   

YOU CAN HAVE ONE 8 x 11 PAGE OF NOTE (ONE SIDE)