Lecture 10 Objectives [Nov 09] prev next

MUSICAL COMPOSITION: Samuel  Barber, Adagio for Strings

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At the end of today's class you should

HAVE READ:

• [177-194] from Wednesday's reading
• [194-208]

KNOW:

• The core concept of Information hiding
• The core concept of Encapsulation
• The this concept
• The core concept of the linked list as presented in class and in examples.

BE ABLE TO:

• Write class definition that represents the List of Student Values
• Write prepend method that adds a Student to the beginning of a List of Student Values
• Write search method that determines if a Student is in a List of Student Values

DAILY QUESTION:

• Write the public boolean equals (Student otherStudent) method that determines whether two Student objects are to be considered equivalent.

Sample Exam Question:

Write a method that returns the number of Strings in a List of String values. Note that the class ListOfString values was presented in class.  Hint: this is going to be an instance method of the class representing the List of String Values.