Computer Science 225
Advanced Programming

Spring 2017, Siena College

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Agenda

• Welcome to Advanced Programming!
• Announcements
  • Syllabus
  • Read over Horstmann chapters 1-7 for Monday (review mostly!)
  • If your group has not yet completed Lab 0: Java Refresher, you have until start of your lab period next week to wrap it up
• Course summary: Java, UML, object-oriented design
• Programmer vs. Software Engineer
• Object-oriented programming
  • back to Smalltalk 80, supported in many modern languages
  • Abstract data types
    • a collection of elements (fields) and operations on them
    • information hiding
    • Java classes support this
  • Inheritance
  • Dynamic binding
• OO Paradigm characteristics
  • data encapsulation
  • polymorphism
  • information hiding
  • abstraction
• Characteristics of software
• Introduction to Homework Project 1: Chutes and Ladders simulation (details in Blackboard)