KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY
Stockholm
Sweden
Objects First with Java
A Practical Introduction using
BlueJ
Ric Glassey
[email protected]
Course Contents
• Introduction to object-oriented programming…
• …with a strong software engineering
foundation…
• …aimed at producing and maintaining large,
high-quality software systems.
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Buzzwords
inheritance
responsibility
overriding
iterators -driven design
javadoc encapsulation
cohesion interface
coupling
collection classes mutator methods
polymorphic method calls
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Goals
• Sound knowledge of programming principles
• Sound knowledge of object-orientation
• Able to critically assess the quality of a (small)
software system
• Able to implement a small software system in
Java
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Book
Objects First with Java
A Practical Introduction using BlueJ
David J. Barnes & Michael Kölling
5th edition (ebook/pdf available as part of course)
Pearson Education
ISBN 0-13-249266-0
978 0-13-249266-9
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Course overview (1)
• Objects and classes
• Understanding class definitions
• Object interaction
• Grouping objects
• More sophisticated behaviour using libraries
• Designing classes
• Well-behaved objects - testing, maintaining, debugging
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Demo: Figures Project
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Fundamental concepts
• Object
• Class
• Method
• Parameter
• Data type
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Objects and classes
• Objects
– represent ‘things’ from the real world, or from some
problem domain (example: “the red car down there in
the car park”)
• Classes
– represent all objects of a kind (example: “car”)
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Methods and parameters
• Objects have operations which can be invoked
(Java calls them methods).
• Methods may have parameters to pass additional
information needed to execute.
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Other observations
• Many instances can be created from a single
class.
• An object has attributes: values stored in fields.
• The class defines what fields an object has, but
each object stores its own set of values (the state
of the object).
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State
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Two circle objects
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Demo: Figures Project
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Source code
• Each class has source code (Java code)
associated with it that defines its details (fields
and methods).
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Demo: Lab Classes
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Return values
• All the methods in the figures project have void
return types; but …
• … methods may return a result via a return value.
• Such methods have a non-void return type.
• More on this in the next lecture.
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Concept Review
• Object: Java objects model things from a
problem domain
• Class: Objects are created from classes
• Instance: A single object of a particular class. You
can create multiple instances from a single class
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*Concept Review*
• Method: A way to communicate with objects and
make them do some task
• Parameter: Provides extra information to a method
• Signature: The header of a method explains how a
method can be used, and what it returns
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*Concept Review*
• Method Calling: Objects calling methods of other
objects to communicate
• Source Code: The written program. Defines the
structure and behaviour for a class.
• State: Objects store state. It is the contents of the
fields, and can change over the lifecycle of an object
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*Required Reading*
• Chapter One
• Objects First with Java, 5th/6th Edition
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