Below is a list of concepts in Java which students are expected to have covered (in high school or in CS177) before enrolling in CS180M

• Creating classes
  Students can create a class, declare member variables, define methods, and use appropriate import statements to solve simple problems.
  

• Basic inheritance
  Students can extend existing classes as part of a solution to a problem and understand the use of parent constructors.
  

• Selection statements
  Students can use simple and nested if statements and can effectively employ &&, ||, and ! as boolean operators in Java.
  

• Loops
  Students can write for and while loops to iterate over a block of code. Students are familiar with the pitfalls of off-by-one errors and infinite loops.
  

• Methods
  Students can write methods which take as parameters and return primitive values, objects, arrays, or nothing. Students have a basic understanding of pass by value and pass by reference.
  

• Arrays
  Students can create, index into, and resize arrays of primitive values and of objects.