Relevant Reading Material
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Java Collections. On the first read, skip Aggregate operations, method referrences and Interoperability
Java Collections
Collections are containers that groups together mutliple elements, e.g., lists, sets, queues. Collections also provide some operations on their grouped items such as, retrieve, manipualte etc.
The Java Collections Framework is a unified architecture that contains the following
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Interfaces - The ADTs.
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Implementations - Implemtations of the ADTs.
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Algorithms - Computations on the ADTs, like sorting, shuffling etc.
Traversing collections
There are many ways to traverse. We will a couple today and more later (aggregate operations).
Iterator
Iterator is an interface. We will focus on 2 of the 4 methods in the interface
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hasNext()is there one more element -
next()get the next element
Java I/O
TBD.
Regular Expressions
TBD.