1. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Park Road, Chak Shahzad Islamabad Tel: (+92-51) 9049-5321
Department of Computer Science
Course Outline Spring 2014
Course Description:
Course Code : OOP (CCS-203)
This course covers the object oriented programming paradigm. The topics covered:
Concepts of object oriented paradigm, encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism,
abstract classes and interfaces, overloading and overriding, exception handling,
packages, object-oriented design, event-driven programming, recursion, use of stacks,
queues and lists from API.
Preferred text books:
1. Absolute Java, 5th Edition, Pearson, 2012, ISBN 13: 978-0-13-283031-7
2. Java The complete Reference (8th Edition), Herbert Schildt, McGraw-Hill, 2011,
ISBN 10: 0070435928
3. Java How to Program, Deitel & Deitel (9E), 2012. ISBN-13: 978-0132575669
Note: You should take at least four Quizzes and Assignments each with following beak
down, 1 before Sessional-I, 2 between Sessional-I and Sessional-II, and 1 between
Sessional-II and terminal paper.
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Topics / sub topics to the covered
Introduction of the course.
Overview of Java. Object Oriented Programming. Principles of OOPAbstraction, Encapsulation and data hiding, Inheritance, Polymorphism
Simple java program, Data types, variables, Arrays
Control Statements
Introduction to classes, declaring objects, class methods
Access Modifiers- public, private
Constructors, constructors with multiple parameters
Overloading methods, passing objects as parameters
Returning objects, Set methods and get methods
Sessional 1
The this keyword, Garbage Collection, finalize() method
Static methods and static fields
Nested and inner classes, Introducing String class
Composition
Inheritance- superclasses and subclasses, protected members
Creating multi-level hierarchy
Constructors in subclasses, method overriding
Sessional 2
Polymorphism- Abstract classes and methods
final methods and classes

2. COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
Park Road, Chak Shahzad Islamabad Tel: (+92-51) 9049-5321
Department of Computer Science
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Packages- importing packages, interfaces
GUI, GUI based input/output with JOptionPane, JFrame, overview of
swing components
Event Handling, JButton, JComboBox, JList, JtextArea
Exception handling- exception types, using try and catch, multiple catch
clauses
Nested try statements, throw, throws
Finally block, chained exceptions
Generics classes and methods
Generic collections
Multithreading- The java thread model, creating a thread, Creating
multiple threads
Using isAlive() and join(),Thread priorities, synchronization, Interthread
communication