Sample JavaTM code. (Image by Lucy Mendel. Used with permission.)
Instructor(s)
Corey McCaffrey
Justin Mazzola Paluska
Lucy Mendel
Ray He
Robert Toscano
Scott Ostler
MIT Course Number
6.092
As Taught In
January IAP 2006
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Highlights
This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of the month.
Course Description
This course focuses on introducing the language, libraries, tools and concepts of JavaTM. The course is specifically targeted at students who intend to take 6.170 in the following term and feel they would struggle because they lack the necessary background. Topics include: Object-oriented programming, primitives, arrays, objects, inheritance, interfaces, polymorphism, hashing, data structures, collections, nested classes, floating point precision, defensive programming, and depth-first search algorithm.