Week 2 (Jan 27)

Instructions: Read the following sections of the Runestone book. You can open each link in a new tab, or you can click a link, read the section, and then come back to this page.

At a minimum, read the main text of each section. Most activities are optional, so do the ones that will help you learn. The activities in the sections highlighted below are required.

Runestone

2 Using Objects

• 2.1 Objects - Instances of Classes
• 2.2 Creating and Initializing Objects: Constructors
• 2.3 Calling Object Methods Without Parameters
• 2.4 Calling Methods With Parameters
• 2.5 Calling Methods that Return Values
• 2.6 Strings
• 2.7 String Methods
• 2.8 Wrapper Classes - Integer and Double
• 2.9 Using the Math Class
• 2.10 Unit 2 Summary ← Complete activities

3 Boolean Expressions and If Statements

• 3.1 Boolean Expressions
• 3.2 If Statements and Control Flow
• 3.3 Two-way Selection: if-else Statements
• 3.4 Multi-Selection: else-if Statements
• 3.5 Compound Boolean Expressions
• 3.6 Equivalent Boolean Expressions (De Morgan’s Laws)
• 3.7 Comparing Objects
• 3.8 Unit 3 - Summary ← Complete activities

6 Writing Classes

• 6.1 Anatomy of a Java Class
• 6.4 Accessor Methods
• 6.5 Mutator Methods
• 6.6 Writing Instance Methods
• 6.7 Static Variables and Methods
• 6.8 Scope and Access
• 6.9 this Keyword
• 6.11 Unit 6 Summary ← Complete activities