CS Vocab 5

Arithmetic Operators

java programming language that provide operators that perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

ArrayList

alternative to an array, class manages sequences of objects, grows & shrinks as needed

Column

up and down segments in an array

Garbage

gets rid of objects not being used anymore

List

represents ordered collection of objects, meaning you can access elements in a specific order; arraylist implements list interface -- a way to relate several ideas

Matrix

table with rows and columns, represents arrays

Row

left to right segments in an array

Traverse

doing a loop that visits every element/position, accessing every object stored

Wrapper

cant insert primitive data types into arraylists, so use wrapper class t treat primitive type values as objects

ClassCastException

exception that occurs when you try to imporperly convert a class from one type to snother