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AP Computer Science A (Mocha)

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Lesson 3.6 Strings and Characters

Description

In this lesson, students will explore concepts related to Strings and characters in Java, such as Strings vs characters, escape sequences, and methods from the Character class.

Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the differences between Strings and characters
  • Examine how characters can be treated as numbers through their ASCII values
  • Practice converting between char values and int values
  • Print out special characters like quotes and new lines using escape sequence chars (such as \n and \")
  • Utilize Character class methods

Activities

These are all the activities included in the lesson

3.6.1 Strings and Characters
3.6.2 Chars are Numbers
3.6.3 Escape Sequences
3.6.4 Character Methods
3.6.5 Is it an Integer?