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. Inheritance, interface and casting
   Review lecture note
   Inheritance, interfaces, polymorphsim, and clone   (pdf)   (word) - casting (pages 21-23 on pdf document)
   
   
2.  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)
• Lecture note:
  Java Collection Framework  pdf 
  Differences between hashset, treeset and linkedhashset pdf  word
  List, Set and Map  pdf 
  HashSet examples pdf word
  TreeSet examples  pdf  word
  HashMap example  pdf  word
  
  
• Review lab assignment 5.
  
  
3. Chapter 20 - Streams and binary input/output
   

• Lecture note
  Stream and binary input/output pdf 
  • Text input/output
  • Binary input/output
  • Object Streams
    • ObjectOutputStream
    • ObjectInputStream
    • Write/read an object to or from a file
    • Write/read a collection such as array list to or from a file
    • Serializable interface
      
3. Design patterns
   
   Excellent source to review pattern design in Java.
   
   http://www.oodesign.com/
   
   
   • Introduction to pattern design (word)
   • Design pattern (link)
   • Singleton  pdf  word
   • Factory pattern
   • Adapter  pdf  word
   • Decorator pdf  word
   • Command  pdf  word
   • Memento  pdf
   • State  pdf  word
   • Visitor  pdf  word
   • MVC pattern  pdf
   • Observer pattern pdf
     
     Review the lab assignments 6,7, and 8.
     
     
4. Unit testing
   • Introduction to Unit Testing  pdf  word
   • Unit test with Eclipse
   • Review lab assignment 9
     
     
5. Object oriented design
   • CRC card method
   • Cohesion
   • Dependency relationship
   • Coupling
   • Aggregation
   • Inheritance
   • UML relationship symbols
   • Packages