| Yes | 13 |
| No | 0 |
| no response | 3 |
Have you taken Comp170 (Introduction to Programming) here at Loyola?
| Yes | 12 |
| No | 4 |
With what Java programming environment are you must comfortable?
| VisualCafe | 1 |
| BlueJ | 10 |
| JDK | 1 |
| Forte | 0 |
| JBuilder | 2 |
| other | 1 |
| Topic | "1" | "2" | "3" | "4" | "5" | mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arrays | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3.44 | |
| Linked Lists | 4 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 2.25 | |
| Stacks | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2.06 |
| Queues | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2.12 |
| Trees | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2.19 | |
| Recursion | 1 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2.88 |
| The difference between a reference to an object and the object itself. | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3.31 |
| Analysis of running time | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2.38 | |
| Sorting | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2.56 | |
| Strings | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 3.69 |
| Garbage Collection | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2.44 | |
| Parameters | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3.25 |
| classes in Java | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3.31 |
| "extending" a class | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2.88 |
| Input/Output in Java | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 2.88 | |
| Running Applets | 1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3.00 |
| Writing Applets | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2.69 | |
| An "interface" | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2.50 |
| int vs. Integer | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2.56 | |
| "Object" | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 3.00 |
| "Vector" | 3 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2.69 |
| Exceptions | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2.62 |