TeachJava 2002 Program August 5

TeachJava!

Workshop Program: August 3 - August 8, 2002

Monday:

Welcome and Guiding Vision:
- Program design in Java = Program design in Scheme + transformations
The Goals and Non-Goals of TeachJava!
DrJava vs. DrScheme
Summary of Major Differences Between Java and Scheme
Basic Mechanics of Java
- Java data: primitive values and objects
- Java expressions
- Simple Java statements
- Java classes and instance methods
Data-directed Programming in Java
- Review of the structural design recipe from Scheme
- Concrete classes in Java correspond to structures in Scheme
- Using the composite pattern to represent mixed data
- Standard class methods: constructors, toString, and equals
- Using the interpreter pattern to represent structural recursion

Review
- Another composite data definition example: IntFunList
- Using the interpreter pattern to represent structural recursion
Static methods and fields
Java command line interface
Information hiding and the singleton pattern
Type-checking and casting

Imperative Programming with arrays
- Arrays as mutable sequences of fixed length
- Tail recursion on arrays
- Relationship between loops and recursion
- Loop invariants vs. function contracts
GUI Design
- Model-View-Controller Pattern
- Java AWT event model
- Abbreviated roadmap of AWT/Swing component library
- Writing event class listeners as anonymous inner classes