Creating Your First Java Classes

• Features of the Java Programming Language
• Java Program Types
• Saving a Java Class
• Compiling a Java Class
• Running a Java Class
• Modifying a Java Class

Using Data

• Commenting
• Declaring Variables
• Declaring Named Constants
• The Scope of Variables and Constants
• Data Types
  • Integer
  • Boolean
  • Char

• Displaying Data and Performing Arithmetic

Using Methods, Classes, and Objects

• Creating Methods
• Adding Parameters to Methods
• Creating Methods That Return Values
• Creating a Class
• Creating Instance Methods in a Class
• Declaring Objects and using their Methods
• Using Constructors

Making Decisions

• The if and if… else structures
• Equivalency Operator
• Nesting if and if … else statements
• Using Logical AND and OR (&& and ||) Operators
• Switch statement

Looping

• while Loops
• for Loop
• do …while Loop
• Nested Loops

Characters, Strings, and the StringBuilder

• Manipulating Characters
• Declaring and Comparing String Objects
• Comparing String Values
• Converting Strings to Numbers

Arrays

• Declaring and Initializing an Array
• Declaring and Using Arrays of Objects
• Manipulating Arrays of Strings
• Searching an Array
• Passing Arrays to and Returning Arrays from Methods

Advanced GUI Topics

• Using Color

• Using Layout Managers
  •  BorderLayout
  •  FlowLayout
  •  GridLayout
  •  CardLayout

• Using the JPanel Class
• Creating JScrollPanes
• Events and Event Handling

• Using Menus
  • JCheckBoxMenuItem
  • RadioButtonMenuItem