Lecture 2

Computer Science 523
Advanced Programming

Summer 2014, The College of Saint Rose

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Lecture 2: More Java Basics; File I/O; Methods
Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Agenda

Announcements
Continuing with last week's examples
- conditionals
- formatting output
- repetition
Random numbers in Java
File I/O
Methods
Lab 1: Java Basics continues
Lab 2: Lottery Simulator out

Terminology

random numbers
Monte Carlo methods
files
plain text files
output file
input file
methods (a.k.a., functions, procedures, subprograms, subroutines)
method call
method header
method body
parameters (a.k.a., arguments)
formal parameter
actual parameter
return type
return value

Examples