Objectives

• To help students before we start Android development.
• Understanding the basic concepts of methods, class, objects.

Time & Place

1. Time

Session 1 : 7:00 PM ~ 11:00 PM, Friday, April 3rd, 2015 (Total 4 Hours long)

Session 2 : 2:00 PM ~ 06:00 PM, Sunday, April 5th, 2015 (Total 4 Hours long)

2. Place

C4Q: 31-00 47th Ave #1105, Long Island City, NY 11101

People

Friday session : Janneisy, Anna, Madelyn, John, Jose, Jorge(at 8:30pm)

Sunday session : Jorge, Elvis, Ray, Joshelyn, Reinard, Vanice, Anna

Topics

1. Methods

• What is methods?
• Structure of a method (modifier, argument(s), return value)
• Defining a method
• Calliing a method (call stack) (execution flow of a method and main)
• Return types : void and others (what do I do with the return value?)
• pass by value VS pass by reference
• The scope of variables
• Modularizing
• General design : top down design and implementation

2. Class

• What is class?
• What is object?
• Difference between class and object
• Constructor
• static? non-static? (class variables VS instance variables)
• this keyword
• public? private? and getter and setter
• primitives VS references (pass by value)

Structures of this session

This session is 4 hours long.

• methods : 90 mins
• clsss : 90 mins
• practice & implementing class and methods : 60 mins

Personality of this session

• We will not go over for homeworks
• We will just focus on getting the concepts.
• Don't think about getting the right answers or solving the problems. just focus on understanding and getting the concepts.
• For the first 3 hours, we will learn with papers and a white board to visualize the concepts and class & methods structures.
• Visualizing your mind and the structure is the most important. You need papers!
• Again, we will NOT go over for homeworks LOL period

Things to do/bring before coming to this session

• Take minimum 8 hours sleep! No drinking and partying, this is a brain work.
• Your laptop with at least 4 hours battery
• Papers and a pen
• Enthusiasm