Translations*

Java Preparation for 6.170

As taught in: January IAP 2006

Image of computer code.

Sample JavaTM code. (Image by Lucy Mendel. Used with permission.)

Instructors:

Corey McCaffrey

Justin Mazzola Paluska

Lucy Mendel

Ray He

Robert Toscano

Scott Ostler

MIT Course Number:

6.092

Level:

Undergraduate

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.


*Some translations represent previous versions of courses.