Introduction
to Interactive Programming
by Lynn Andrea
Stein
A Rethinking
CS101 Project
1 Well, OK, there are a few details left out of or glossed over in these charts, but it's mostly true that these files specify legal Java.
2 Truth in advertising: A class body contains fields and methods only, no freestanding code, except for static and instance initializers, which are outside the scope of this course.
3
Strictly speaking, subclasses inherit non-private fields and
methods only if they are in the same package as their superclasses.
If a subclass is in a different package, it does not inherit fields
and methods that are of default visibility either.
Additionally, constructor methods are never inherited directly
(though they are available through the super(...)
construct).
4 Fields can also be transient or volatile. Methods can be native. These keywords are outside the scope of this course.
5 Exceptions that are subclasses of java.lang.RuntimeException need not be declared in the throws clause of a method.
6 An extended form of declarations and definitions allows multiple names to be declared or defined with a single type. The format of this is type nameDecls; where nameDecls is a comma-separated list of names or assigments.
7 These charts correspond only to top level class and interface declarations. Member classes may also be static or not, public, protected, private or default.
© 1999 Lynn Andrea Stein
This chapter is excerpted from a draft ofIntroduction to Interactive Programming In Java, a forthcoming textbook from Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. It is a part of the course materials developed as a part of Lynn Andrea Stein's Rethinking CS101 project at the MIT AI Lab and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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