Knowing
what you know and what you need to know is a good exercise in preparing
for a test like the AP.
Find the link to the
College Board AP site on the AP Computer Science
Resources page. Click on
Java
Subset. Read through the document with an eye toward what
you might already know. Send
me an email with answers to the following questions:
- Read the section called "Java Subset":
- Write a short paragraph summarizing the important points made
in the section. Include summaries of the intent of the Java
Subset, I/O, three principles, the size of the Java Subset.
- Read the section called "Language Features:"
- List the primitive types of data used.
- List the arithmetic, arithmetic/assignment ,and
increment/decrement operators used.
- List the relational and logical operators used.
- Which numeric casts are used? Which are not?
- Do some research and discover what string concatenation means.
- How will output be tested.
- What type of arrays will be tested in the A and AB exams.
- List the control structures used in the Java Subset.
- What types of methods will be invoked?
- What is the function of a constructor?
- List the error exceptions that are included in the Java subset.
- Read the Summary table:
- List the language features with which you have
some level of comfort;
- Create another list with the language
features to which you have yet to be exposed. Write your best guess for
the function of at least 10 items.