Lecture Notes on 18 Jun 2012

Learning a Computer Language in an Afternoon

* Write the Hello World program

* Characterset - ASCII, Unicode

* Rules for creating variables - set of reserved words

* Types - 8 Primitive types - byte, boolean, char, short,
                              int, long, float, double

* Operators:
    - Arithmetic: + - * / %
    - Comparison: <, <=, >, >=, ==, !=
    - Boolean: &&, ||, !
    - Bitwise: ~ & | ^
    - Shift: <<, >>, >>>

* Expressions and Statements

* Simple Statements - assignments & increment / decrement

* Conditionals: if-else, switch

* Loops: while, do-while, for

* Methods

* Arrays

* Input / Output

* Class