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The following series of 16 exercises was written by Davin Pearson under the supervision of Neville Churcher. The purpose of these exercises is to teach the Java language to students who have a background in the C language and UML constructs. Exercises 7 and 10 were adapted from material originally written by, respectively, Neville Churcher and Andy Cockburn of the University of Canterbury Department of Computer Science. All of these tutorial materials fall under the GNU Free Documentation License.

A set of fully worked answers to the exercises is available here.

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Exercises

1. Java for C programmers.

q1.pdf

2. Methods, properties and constructors

q2.pdf and PersonTest.java

3. Parameters and return values

q3.pdf and CitizenTest.java

4. References in more detail

q4.pdf and DogTest.java

5. Public versus private

q5.pdf, SavingsAccount.html and SavingsAccountManager.java

6. Static versus non-static

q6.pdf, CartoonTest.java and CartoonCharacter.java

7. Conditional constructs

q7.pdf, Iffy.java

8. Looping constructs

q8.pdf, LoopTest.java

9. Arrays

q9.pdf, ArrayTest.java, ArrayPrint.html, ArrayPrint.class and ArrayTest2.java

10. Exceptions

q10.pdf, Student.java and BadRandom.class

11. Inheritance

q11.pdf, AnimalTest.java and StarWars.java

12. Run-time type information

q12.pdf and ShapeTest.java

13. Polymorphism

q13.pdf

14. Interfaces

q14.pdf and InterTest.java

15. Introduction to Packages

q15.pdf, A.java, B.java, C.java and D.java.

16. Advanced Packages

q16.pdf, X.java, Test.java, List.java, Node.java, IsNodeObject.java, IntegrityException.java and ListTest.java