December 2009
Intermediate to advanced
1170 pages
28h 4m
English
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GLOSSARY
- Abstract array
An ordered sequence of items that can be efficiently accessed at random through an integer index.
- Abstract class
A class that cannot be instantiated.
- Abstract list
An ordered sequence of items that can be traversed sequentially and that allows for efficient insertion and removal of elements at any position.
- Abstract method
A method with a name, parameter types, and return type but without an implementation.
- Abstraction
The process of finding the essential feature set for a building block of a program such as a class.
- Access specifier
A reserved word that indicates the accessibility of a feature, such as private or public.
- Accessor method
A method that accesses an object but does not change it.
- Actual parameter
The expression supplied for a formal parameter of a method by the caller.
- ADT (Abstract Data Type)
A specification of the fundamental operations that characterize a data type, without supplying an implementation.
- Aggregation
The has-a relationship between classes.
- Algorithm
An unambiguous, executable, and terminating specification of a way to solve a problem.
- Anonymous class
A class that does not have a name.
- Anonymous object
An object that is not stored in a named variable.
- API (Application Programming Interface)
A code library for building programs.
- API Documentation
Information about each class in the Java library.
- Applet
A graphical Java program that executes inside a web browser or applet viewer.
- Argument
An actual parameter in a method call, or one of the values combined by an ...
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