Lesson Plan

Objectives (Morning)

• Methods with no arguments

• Methods that require a single argument

• Methods that require multiple arguments

• Methods that return values

Objectives (Afternoon)

• Class concepts

• How to create classes

• About instance methods

• How to declare objects

• How to organize your classes

Exercises (Morning)

• Exercises 3, 7, & 8 from chapter 2, section A (pg 63-64)

Exercises (Afternoon)

• Exercises 2 & 3 from Section 2, section B (pg 87)

Demo (Morning)

• Basic elements of a method (pg 48)

• Access modifiers (pg 48)

• Create a basic output method - no args, no return - sample is output (pg 48-50)

• Create a basic method with one argument (pg 53-55)

• Create a basic method with multiple arguments (pg 56)

• Create a method that returns values (pg 57-58)

Demo (Afternoon)

• Object theory - object, instance, inheritance, attributes, methods

• Creating a class - (pg 67)

• Instance variables (pg 67)

• Access to variables (pg 67)

• Instance methods (pg 69)  - get/set

• Declaring objects (pg 71)

• Calling methods on instantiated objects (pg 72)

• Organizing classes (pg 73-79)

• Using constructors (pg 81)