Lecture 8

Question 1

When do you get an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundException?

Answer 1

When you try to access an element of an array, that is not yet initialized or doesn’t exist (due to too little memory allocation).

Question 2

What is JavaDoc

Answer 2

A formalized way of commenting your code

Question 3

What JavaDoc “Elements” do we use and what for?

Answer 3

@author: name of the programmer (at the start of the program)
@param: specifies parameters in a method
@return: specifies what a method returns
@throws: specifies what exceptions a method throws and what this exception “means” (a.k.a. when is it thrown)