Topics Covered in PIC20 JAVA Programing

Classes in Java
• instance variables
• constructors
• instantiating objects
• class variables
• scoping rules
• variable hiding
• overloading
• final variables
• static variables
• finalizers

Inheritance
• extends keyword
• protected access
• super and subclass
• method overriding
• dynamic binding
• final methods
• final classes
• abstract methods
• abstract classes

JComponents
• JApplet
  • init
  • start
  • paint
  • stop
  • getContentPane
  • setBackground
  • setSize
  • setLayout
  • add
• JPanel
• JFrame
  • with a main defined
  • show
  • setSize
  • setBounds
• JButton
• JTextField
• JLabel
• JTextArea
• ScrollPane
• JSlider
• JList
• JOptionPane
• JComboBox
• JMenuBar
• JMenu
• JMenuItem (with setMnemonic())
• JCheckBoxMenuItem
• JToolTip
• JCheckBox
• JRadioBox
• JWindow
• JTable
• JFileChooser (only covered somtimes)

Related Classes
• Font
• Graphics
• Color

Event Handling
• ActionListener
• ItemListener
• ChangeListener
• KeyListener (KeyAdapter)
• MouseListener (MouseAdapter)
• MouseMotionListener (MouseMotionAdapter)

Exception Handling
• try
• catch
• catch(...)
• how it relates to inheritance

Simple MultiThreading
• Thread class
• start
• proper way to stop a thread (dont use method Thread.stop)
• wait and notify
• Runnable interface
• run
• sleep
• Timer class

Multimedia
• Image class
• ImageIcon class
• AudioClip class