At the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. interpret basic parts of a class definition including attributes, constructors and methods.

2. create an object using its class definition.

3. understand that access modifiers (private, public, etc. ) provide encapsulation.

4. compile and interpret Java source code from command line.

5. input data from command line.

6. interpret wrapper classes and their purpose.

7. illustrate how UML diagrams show the relations between classes.

8. make use of fields and the methods of pre-defined API classes.

9. develop visual applications using swing classes.

10. interpret how inheritance is constructed between classes.

11. illustrate how to override a parent class method in the child class.

12. apply overloading of methods in a class.

13. explain the importance of exception handling and they will able to write their own exception classes.