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Job Ready Java

by Haythem Balti, Alan Galloway
March 2021
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
15h 31m
English
Wiley
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Appendix BJava Concepts Study List

The following is a list of basic Java concepts that you learned within this book. You should know and be comfortable discussing these topics in preparation for technical interviews and your first days on the job.

VARIABLES

  • What is a variable?
  • What is a variable declaration?
  • What is a variable assignment?
  • What does the final keyword mean?
  • What does it mean to cast a variable?

METHODS

  • What makes up a method's signature?
  • What is a method parameter?
  • What is a method body?
  • What does the static keyword mean?
  • What does the final keyword mean?
  • What does the term override mean?
  • What does the term overload mean?

ARRAYS

  • What is an array?
  • What does an array hold?
  • What are the limitations of an array?
  • Is an array an object?
  • The first value in an array can be found at what index?
  • What is an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException?

MAKING DECISIONS

  • What is a Boolean expression?
  • What is a switch statement?
  • What is an if statement?
  • What is an else statement?
  • What is an else if statement?

LOOPS

  • What is a loop?
  • What is a for loop?
  • What is a for-each loop?
  • What can a for loop do that a for-each loop cannot?
  • What is a while loop?
  • What is a do-while loop?
  • What is the difference between a while loop and a do/while loop?

JAVA/JVM

  • How is the import keyword used?
  • What is a package?
  • What is Javadoc?
  • What is the stack?
  • What kinds of variables are created there?
  • What is garbage collection?
  • How does the garbage collector know when to return memory to the ...
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