an attempt has been made to give a detailed scope of syllabus, based on the Council’s scope of syllabus for class X. I have tried to outline how to and what to prepare for the 40 marks Section A of the Question Paper. Hopefully, students will benefit from this.
OOP principles:
Encapsulation: Definition of Encapsulation. Private, Package/Default and Public visibility modes/Access Specifiers, Difference between the three, How does Encapsulation implement Data Hiding, Scope of Instance variables, Function parameters and Local variables, Definition and use with one example each of keywords package and import, How to create a package, Use of wild card ‘*’ in a package statement, Need of common packages java.lang, java.util, java.io.
Inheritance: Definition and use.
Polymorphism: Definition of Polymorphism, Static and Dynamic polymorphism/Early and Late Binding, Static polymorphism is achieved by Function overloading.
Abstraction: Definition and one example.
Why java is an OOP language?
Classes and objects:
Definition of classes and objects with one example and their relation.
Components of a class – Attributes and Methods and their definition.
Class as a reference/user-defined/composite data type.
Creation of an object, the definition and use of keyword new.
Java Basics:
Definition of various tokens.
Definition of Escape Sequences with example.
Three different ways of giving comments in a java program.
Definition of data types, their memory allocation and range, definition of primitive and composite/reference data types, difference between the two, example of each, What are Wrapper classes, Names of wrapper classes for all the primitive data types.
Definition of Typecasting and its use, Definition of Implicit and Explicit typecasting and their difference with one example of each.
Definition of various types of operators with one example of each (mathematical, relational and logical).Difference between assignment and equality operator.
Difference between simple and mixed expressions.
Definition of Source Code, Object Code and Byte code.
Errors:
Definition and use of Exception Handling, Definition and use of Try, Catch and Finally keywords, Difference between Syntax Errors, Runtime Errors and Logical Errors with one example of each, Types of common errors- Array Index Out Of Bound error, Division By Zero error, etc.
Constructors:
Definition of Constructors and their use, Definition of default, parameterized and non-parameterized constructor with one example of each and difference between the three, Definition of Constructor overloading with one example and use.
Methods:
Definition of Methods/Functions and need, Difference between library functions and user-defined functions, Definition and use of Function Prototype/Signature, Function Call and Function Definition, Definition of Pure and Impure Functions with one example and their difference, Definition of Actual and Formal arguments with their difference, Two uses of keyword return, Use of keyword void, Definition of Pass By Value and Pass By Reference methods with one example of each and their difference, Side affects of Pass By Reference method, Definition of Static variables and Static methods and their use, Difference between Instance variables and Static variables, Invoking static variables and methods with the class name, Definition and use of keyword this.
Conditional statements:
Definition and syntax of if, if-else-if and switch -case- default statements with one example of each, Difference between if-else-if and switch case statements, Conversion between if-else-if and switch-case code snippet, Definition and use of default and break statements in switch case statement block, Definition and syntax of Ternary Operator with one example, Conversion of a code snippet containing if-else-if ladder to ternary operator and vice-versa.
Iteration statements:
Definition, syntax and use of for, while and do-while statements with one example of each, Difference between the three with respect to entry-controlled and exit-controlled loops and for known and unknown number of iterations, Conversion of a small code snippet using one type of loop to the other. Jump statements – break and continue, their definition and difference.
Arrays:
Definition and use of arrays, Array as a composite type, Declaration of single dimension arrays, Definition of subscript and subscripted variable, Lower and Upper bound of an array, Initializing an array, taking inputs in an array.Definition of sorting and Searching, Definition of Linear and Binary Search methods and their difference, Definition of Bubble and Selection Sort methods and their difference. A number of programs on single Dimensional Arrays.
Strings:
Definition of a string and its difference with a Character, All string related library functions-their definition, syntax , use and difference with each other. A number of string manipulation programs.
Input/Output:
Definition of stream, Input/Output stream. Input at runtime using BufferedReader class, its object creation, read() and readLine() methods to input data, parsing of string data to various data types. Input using Scanner class, its object creation, nextxxx() and hasNextxxx() methods for various data types, close() method. Output using print() and println() methods, their definition, syntax and difference. Output using PrintWriter class, its object creation and use.
Library Functions:
All String related, Character related and Mathematical library functions mentioned in the syllabus with their definition, syntax and difference with each other. Wrapper classes and their Functions to convert strings to various primitive data types numbers and vice-versa. |
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