Final Exam 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.

Cumulative Final

• This is a cumulative final! Anything from the entire class could be on the exam. See the Exam 1 and Exam 2 topics for more information.
• A slight emphasis will be on new material since exam #2
• A question from exam 1 or 2 will reappear on the final!

Threads

• Reasons to use threads, applications that can benefit from threads
• How to create a thread by implementing Runnable or extending Thread
• How to start a thread
• Problems with race conditions, avoid using synchronized
• How to make a thread wait until notified, wait until threads are done

Focus, JAR Files, Sockets

• How to make a component request focus
• Benefits of a JAR file
• Purpose of the manifest file
• Concept of ports in the context of network socket programming
• Be able to write a client or server that sends/receives data over a socket

JavaFX

• Advantages of JavaFX over Swing
• Purpose of FXML vs. Controller code
• Using the Scene Builder
• Be able to write a short JavaFX program with buttons/labels/textfields

Functional Programming

• Concept of lambda, a nameless function
• Performance enhancements possible using streams and functional programming
• Be able to write an event handler for a GUI using functional programming