TOPICS | As it appears in the AP Guide

1. Hardware/Software Interface
2. Basic Java Syntax and Style
3. Data Types, variables, and arithmetic
4. Review of booleans, conditionals, if-else/switch
5. Strings
6. Arrays
7. Looping with while, do-while, and for. The use of break and return.
8. ArrayList
9. Sorting/Searching --> selection/insertion/merge sort | sequential/binary search
10. Inheritance --> abstract classes and interaces
11. Marine Biology Case Study (like the Minnow Project)
12. DATA STRUCTURES
    • Lists and Iterators (ListNodes)
    • Stacks and queues
    • Recursion
    • Binary Search Trees (BSTs) - Tree Traversals
    • Look-up Tables/Hashing
    • Priority Queues
    • "Big Oh" --> algorithm efficiency