General

• The marks allotted for each question are an excellent indicator of the time and effort required
  • It is a long exam and you will run out of time if you write half a page for a question worth two marks
  • Be brief, concise and get to the point

• In reading time you should probably go through and mark the questions which you are going to do first (the easy ones)
  • If you are going to run out of time, you want it to be on questions which you don't know the answers to, rather than the easy ones

• Understand all tutorials, assignments etc.

• Do past exams
  • http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/ - Library Resources - Exam papers - CP - CP2003
  • The complete URL is http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/Resources/Reserve/CPindex.html

• Read the relevant parts of the textbook to get a different perspective

• Review with other students at least once in the days before the exam

• Answer all questions on the exam. You don't lose marks for answering wrongly.

• Check your answers - read everything over again carefully if you have any time left at the end

• Generally you should find out what exam aids you can bring (calculators etc.)
  • You can't bring any special exam aids to CP2003 this year

Specific

• There are thirty-four (34) questions on the exam
  • 5 True/False
  • 16 Short Answer Questions
  • 1 four-part Short Answer - Comparison of Concepts Question
  • 9 Programming-related questions (2 in which you have to write actual code)
  • 3 relating to Running Java Programs

Topics

• Object-Oriented Programming Paradigm
  • Classes and Objects
  • Encapsulation
  • Polymorphism
  • Internal states and services of an object/class

• Introduction to Java
  • Characteristics of the Java language
  • Class libraries
  • Performance issues

• Java Primitive Types
  • Compiling Java
  • Arrays
  • Command-Line Parameters
  • Strings
  • Vectors
  • Understand how literals, primitive types etc. work
  • Memory allocation
  • Instance and Class Member variables
  • Various Java keywords
  • Basic Java programming concepts

• Java Input/Output
  • Streams, readers and writers
  • Buffered readers etc.
  • Writing to, and reading from, files and standard input/standard output
  • Exceptions

• Object Oriented Characteristics of Java
  • Understand the OO concepts of inheritance, objects, classes, access controls etc.
  • Be able to identify and explain these in a typical Java program

• Java Abstract Classes, Interfaces and Inner Classes
  • Understand the difference between abstract classes and interfaces
  • Understand why we need to use these things
  • Understand the relationship between inner and outer classes

• Event Driven Programming and Java GUIs
  • The fundamental properties of Graphical User Interfaces
  • Events
  • The Java GUI framework (components, containers, layout managers etc.)
  • AWT and Swing packages (not necessary to know all the AWT and Swing classes and methods)
  • The anatomy of a frame
  • Know all about listeners
  • Graphics class and painting
  • paint(), repaint(), update() and paintComponent() functions
  • Fonts

• Network Programming
  • JRMI basics
  • Sockets, Clients and Servers and how to wrap readers and writers around sockets (assignment 3)
  • Basics of Applets and how the fit into the grand scheme of Java (no need to know the html aspects of applets)

• Threads
  • Thread basics
  • Be able to comprehend threaded programs
  • wait(), notify() and notifyAll()
  • Thread synchronization

• JavaScript
  • Understand the basic concepts of JavaScript
  • Less need to really understand the html aspects of JavaScript

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