Lecture 8

September 18, 2008

Quiz - key

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_bMFVDu9yo

Return Lab 6 and discuss comments on Lab 6

A Few Things

Lecture8 Slides -

passing objects as arguments to methods

returning objects from methods

the toString method

the stock class

UML diagram

writing an equals method

how to copy an object

aggregation - occurs when an instance of a class is a filed in another class

course class which has: course name, instructor info, textbook info

Programs we wrote or modified in class. Others are in text

Sept18.java

Sept18V2.java

Stock2.java

StockCompare.java

14 pages of materials on UML (unified modeling language)

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/content/RationalEdge/sep04/bell/

Homework over weekend: study MetricDemo.java and the UML diagrams in the chapter and determine the meaning of the + and – in the UML diagram and of course look at slides and notes. Probable test on Sept 30^th - review during lab on 29^th .