• Describe the use of breakpoints and stepping through code when you are using an IDE like NetBeans for debugging
• Describe the concept of encapsulation and explain its importance to object-oriented programming
• Explain what an instance variable is and how it differs from a local variable
• Explain how static fields and static methods differ from instance variables and regular methods
• Describe a signature of a constructor or method, and explain what overloading means
• List four ways you can use the this keyword within a class definition
• Explain how primitive types and reference types are passed to a method
• Explain what polymorphism is and how it works
• Explain why the toString() method and the equals() method are available to all objects and why you should override these methods
• Describe the access modifiers that you can use for the members of a class
• Describe what the @Override annotation does
• Name the operator that you can use to check whether an object is an instance of a specified class
• Explain when its necessary to use explicit casting when working with objects created from derived classes
• Explain how abstract classes and methods work
• Explain how final classes, methods, and parameters work