How do I prepare for the exam

Clues for the clueless

1. Check the room and the time: 200 Richards, Monday, April 9, 2007 from 6:00 pm till 9:00 pm.
2. Come to the review session: Thursday, April 5, 2007 from 3:00 till 4:00 pm in 50 Dodge
3. Review what we did in the labs - make sure you understand every labs and have completed all programs.
4. Read all lecture notes, run the programs provided with the lecture notes, understand the programs provided with the lecture notes.
5. Go over the homeworks, make sure you understand how to do the parts of the homework you may not have finished.

What do I need to know?

• Designing classes with containment, union of classes, self-reference, circularly referential data.
• Abstracting over data definitions: abstract classes, derived classes.
• Abstracting over data types: Object, type parameters.
• Overloading constructors: for user's convenience, to assure data integrity, to prevent misuse.
• Defining examples of data for all these classes.
• Designing immutable methods for all kinds of class hierarchies - one task --- one method.
• Designing loops with accumulators.
• Using interfaces to represent function objects: designing the interfaces, designing classes that implement them, using the function objects as parameters.
• Using interfaces to represent data organization and interactions with data: Traversal, data structures such as queues, trees.
• Designing and testing methods that mutate data.
• Designing generic algorithms using traversals and function objects.
• Java loops: while, for, for-each.
• Reading Javadocs, using Java Collections Framework.
• Designing programs for the given interfaces.
• Designing tests for all of these programs.
• Anything else I may have forgotten :)

What should I bring with me?

Required:
• Open mind.
• Design Recipe Index Card.
Optional:
• The textbook and lecture notes.
• Notes I took when reading the text and the lecture notes.
• Etudes and Homeworks portfolio.
• Lab materials: descriptions, solutions, my notes.

Good Luck