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This guide was written by Andrea Tartaro, a former CS15 TA. We encourage you to use it -- you'll find it extremely helpful!

Packages, Classes and Variables

• Defining a Package
• Importing a Package
• Defining an Interface
• Extending an Interface
• Object Class
• Defining a Class
• Extending a Class
• Implementing an Interface
• Base Data Types
• Declaring a Variable
• Instantiation Statement
• Declaring an Array
• Accessing an Array
• Using super
• Using this
• Thread Class

Methods

• Defining a Method
• Defining Methods that Accept Parameters
• Constructors
• return Statement
• Overloading a Method
• Calling A Method
• Sending Parameters to a Method

Modifiers

• Visibility Modifiers
• public Classes and Interfaces
• Defining abstract Methods and Classes
• final Classes, Methods and Variables
• static Methods and Variables
• synchronized Methods

Operators

• Assignment Operator
• Arithmetic Operators
• Increment and Decrement Operators
• Boolean Operators
• Logical Operators
• Cast Operator

Flow of Control

• if Statement
• if-else Statement
• if-else-if Statement
• switch Statement
• for Statement
• while Loop
• do-while Loop
• break Statement
• continue Statement

Exceptions

• Throwable Class
• throw Statement
• throws Statement
• try-catch-finally Structure

Miscellaneous

• Comments
• Program Schematic
• Keywords
• Valid Identifiers

Sources I used to help me write this reference guide:

• Deitel & Deitel, Java How to Program. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1997.
• James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy Steel, The Java Language Specification. Addison-Wesley, 1996.
• Various friends. Thanks Dan, Danny, Shoe and Moter!
• Started reference guide by Brian McDonald and David Mendenhall.