Data Structures Using Java

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A Review of Java

Objectives

 A Java code refresher

 Basic structuring of a program into classes

 An introduction to documentation requirements

 A brief look at UML, the Unified Modeling Language

Key Terms

constructor

data payload

encapsulation of data

instance variable

parse

primitive type

religious issues

spaghetti code

static variable

token

UML diagram

Introduction

Rather than try to break down Java into its constituent parts, we show in

Figures 2.1–2.6 the code

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for a complete program, and we will refresh your memory

of Java from that example. This program has two classes and reads a data file of

name-and-course-number pairs and prints that data back to the ...