COMP 1406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Javac, Java Bytecode, Object-Oriented Programming
14 Sep 2017
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In this section we go over the basics of java. You should be familiar with a lot of this material from your previous course (although the details might di_er because of the language). The java tutorials : all of the language basics https://docs. oracle. com/javase/tutorial/java/ nutsandbolts/index. html. Chapter 1 and 2 of dr. lanthier"s notes http://people. scs. carleton. ca/~lanthier/teaching/ Java for python programmers (interactive textbook) http://interactivepython. org/runestone/static/ java4python/index. html. Java is an object oriented language that is based on classes and objects. A class creates a new data type that has both state and behaviour. An object of a class is an instantiation of that data type. Objects have attributes (or _elds) that store data. Should have seen this in comp 1005/1405. Objects have methods (functions) that are part of the classes/objects. Methods typically act on (use and modify) the state of an object. We will spend a lot of time with this in comp 1006/1406.
