Forbidden Features

Java has grown to be a complex language with many features. We don’t have time to teach all of these features in CSE 143, so we have a general rule that submitted work should only use language features and programming concepts taught in the course.

The following features should not be used in assessments.

• return from a void method, break, continue.
• try, catch, and annotations.
• Java 8 features, such as lambdas, streams, and method references.
• Java 11 features, such as local variable type inference.
• toArray and clone.
• StringBuilder, StringBuffer, StringJoiner, StringTokenizer, and the String methods toCharArray, join, and matches.
• Arrays.asList, Arrays.copyOf, Arrays.copyOfRange, and Arrays.sort.
• Collections.copy, Collections.sort.
• LinkedHashMap.