1. CSE 115
September 12, 2008

2. Announcements Exam 1 is today
When is Exam 2 – check out schedule on website…
Lab 2 all pieces to be turned in by end of day today (Friday)
Lab 3 posted for next week

3. Lesson Plan
Exam 1
References and Variables

4. References We sometimes need a way to refer to the objects we create
We need to store a reference to the object
When we evaluate new Object(), the value that is produced is actually a reference to the object that was created.
If we can find a way to hold onto that reference, we can refer to the object that was created.

5. Variables Variables are named storage
There are two parts to creating a variable …
We need to give the variable a name
We should give the variable name that makes sense in the context of the program