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Grade 12 Notes

Unit 0: HTML, CSS

Binary and Hexadecimal notes

Unit 1: Introduction to Java and its syntax

• 1.0 Introduction
• Java version insanity
• 1.1 Syntax
• Naming variables, classes, methods
• Useful Templates
• 1.2 First Program
  Printing and printf
• 1.3 Variables AND the assignment operator (pdf)
• 1.4 Operators
• Operator precedence
• A great website on pre- and post- incrementing
• 1.5 Data Types (more will be taught later when we do casting and conversions)
• 1.6 Scanner class (We're ignoring this for the Java Graphics course)

Objectives for Unit 1 Read this checklist and make sure that you know it for the quiz.

Unit 2: Flow control

Unit 3: Methods, Arrays, and Strings

• Methods and scope
  
  ★ Methods ★ Scope ★
• 1. Methods (intro)
• Intro to Methods (Leepoint)
• 2. How to recognize methods
• 3. Scope:
• Methods and Scope of variables
• A great page on variables and scope
• Shadowing and Scope of variables
• 4. Methods and Overloading
• Arrays my note
• Arrays CodingBat <- this one is really good
• Arrays Leepoint
• For-each loop Leepoint

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• Strings - main information about strings
• String Builder - list of methods, differences between String and StringBuilder
• String Algorithms - some useful algorithms to use with Strings
  
  
• Casting
• Conversions:numbers to strings. Wrapper classes - converting between numbers, characters and strings. Also wrappers.
  
  

A simple way to have popup input and messages is JOptionPane. Please have a look at the document and see how to use them.
In HSA2 we use simpler form: gc.showDialog() and gs.showInputDialog()

We are going to be using a graphics library, called HSA2, that removes a lot of the complexity of Swing graphics.
We'll learn Swing graphics in grade 12 programming.
You can find the latest HSA2 package on my GitHub . You'll have instructions in class on how to install it (or see the first video below). Download the zip file at home and install on your home computer.

Please proceed to Notes about HSA2 Graphics

Videos about graphics

Go to the Salamander2 youtube channel

The videos discuss how to make ball objects instead of just a bunch of variables, how to make things collide and bounce, how to make arrays and arraylists of balls, how to add and delete balls.

Unit 5: ISP/Final project

Board Games that can be made after we've learned how to program TicTacToe