CECS 277 FINAL EXAMINATION

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 15 - Java collection Framework
   
   
• TreeSet and HashSet
  • Review chapter 15 (pages 681-685)
    • construct a HashSet or a TreeSet
    • add and remove set elements
    • visit all element in the set using an iterator and for each loop
• TreeMap and HashMap
  • Review chapter 15 (686-691)
    • construct a HashMap or a TreeMap
    • add and remove elements to the map
    • find all keys and values in a map, iterate through the key set and find the values that correspond to the key
• Hash and hash table
• Review chapters 16 (741-744)
• Review lecture notes - Java Collection Framework  pdf 
• Review lab assignments 6,7, and 8.
  
  
2. Threading - Review chapter 21
   

• Running threads
  • Runnable interface - run
  • Thread - start, join, sleep, yield, isAlive, setPriority
• Thread Pools
  • ExcutorService
  • newFixedThreadPool
  • execute
• Review problems 1 and 2 in the lab assignment 9
• Review lecture notes - Threading (word)
  
  
3. Chapter 20 - Streams and binary input/output
   
   
• Object Streams
  • ObjectOutputStream
  • ObjectInputStream
  • Serializable interface
• Review lecture note - Stream and binary input/output pdf (pages 24-33)
  
  
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
   • Event handler
     • ActionListerner interface - actionPerformed
     • ItemListener interface - itemStateChanged
   • Font
     • Class JPanel for displaying text - paintComponent(Graphics g), and repaint
   • Review lab assignment 7 and problem 3 in the lab assignment 9.
   • Review lecture notes
     • UI part 1 (pdf) - Introduction to UI application including event handling
     • UI part 2 (pdf) - Implement other UI components like TextArea, JRadioButton, JCheckBox, JComboBox, and JList.
     • UI part 3 (pdf) - Four options to implement the listener interface
     • Java Graphics (pdf)
       
5. Design patterns
   1. MVC pattern
   2. Factory pattern