CMSC 131- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 49 pages long!)

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: CMSC 131
• Professor: Pedram Sadeghian

Document Summary

Java is a high level programming language designed by sun microsystems and released in: java is designed to be portable, meaning it can be written once and run anywhere. This means java code can be run on any machine capable of supporting java without regards to specifications. The first computer program anyone learns is the simple hello world program. This is just a program that prints the line hello world . public class myfirstjavaprogram { public static void main(string []args) { Object oriented- this means that the programming focuses on the object we want to manipulate rather than the logic that allows us to manipulate such objects. For example, a person object has a name, age, gender, etc. Platform independent- this means we can run java on any machine. It is not bound by a platform specific machine like c or c++. Simple to learn- if you understand the basics of oop, you can learn java.