OBJECT-ORIENTED THINKING - Introduction to Java Programming: Comprehensive Version - page 365

CHAPTER

10

O BJECT -O RIENTED

T HINKING

Objectives

To apply class abstraction to develop software (§10.2).

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To explore the differences between the procedural paradigm and
object-oriented paradigm (§10.3).

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To discover the relationships between classes (§10.4).

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To design programs using the object-oriented paradigm (§§10.5-10.6). ■

To create objects for primitive values using the wrapper classes ( Byte ,
Short , Integer , Long , Float , Double , Character , and Boolean )
(§10.7).

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To simplify programming using automatic conversion between
primitive types and wrapper class types (§10.8).

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To use the BigInteger and BigDecimal classes for computing very
large numbers with arbitrary precisions (§10.9).

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To use the String class to process immutable strings (§10.10). ■

To use the StringBuilder and StringBuffer classes to process
mutable strings (§10.11).

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