Programming in Java Language

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1. Introduction

• Components of a program: data and algorithms
• Brief historic introduction to programming: from binary code to component oriented programming
• Compilation vs. Interpretation
• Programming paradigms: imperative, logic, and functional programming
• Introduction to Java

2. Data and operators

• Basic data types
• Arrays
• Introduction to input and output
• Comments
• Operations with data
• Casting between data types
• Enumerates
• Objects as data structures

3. Control flow statements

• Decision-making statements
• Loop statements

4. Utility classes

• Input classes
• String class
• Math class

5. Methods

6. Introduction to classes and objects

• Attributes and methods
• Encapsulation
• Composition

7. Algorithms with arrays

• Search
• Sort (basic)