Midterm Exam #2 Topics

The exam is open book and open notes and you are free to use a calculator or whatever other computing devices you feel may aid you, but it is not open-neighbor. You can use a computing device and the Internet to access Blackboard/online books/notes/course website, but not to compile/run programs or to communicate with others online.

Files

• Using the File class to get properties of a file or path
• Reading and writing text files
• Reading and writing binary files
• Using serialization and storage using a binary file

Images and Drawing

• Drawing shapes, lines
• Changing colors
• Displaying an image
• Overriding paint or paintComponent
• Using repaint()

Patterns

• Be familiar with these patterns, be able to identify or select the appropriate pattern for a problem
• Adapter
• Bridge
• Singleton
• Factory
• MVC
• Strategy
• Command
• Proxy
• Observer

Swing

• Displaying a JFrame
• Familiarity with buttons, textfields, labels, textarea, panels, checkbox, radio button, list
• Using flowlayout, gridlayout, borderlayout
• Layout within layout using JPanels
• Listening to button clicks (ActionListener)
• Different ways to add a Listener: separate class, in JFrame class, inner class, anonymous class
• Handling mouse clicks
• Handling keyboard input
• Advantages/disadvantages of using an IDE for GUI design