Material and questions from the 2D Graphics "Trail" for CS 5551 Exams
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Here is a hierarchical list of topics:

Overview of the Java 2D API
  * Java 2D Rendering (good overview; overlaps Stroking/Filling Primitives)
  * Coordinate Systems (know how user space is set up)
  * Shapes (good overview of available graphics primitives, i.e. shapes)
  * Text (skip - done better in Working with Text and Fonts below)
  * Images (skip - done better in Manipulating/Displaying Images below)
  * Printing (skip - done better in full section on Printing below)

Displaying Graphics with Graphics2D
   Stroking and Filling Graphics Primitives
   Transforming Shapes, Text, and Images
   Clipping the Drawing Region
   Compositing Graphics (skip, but interesting for doing transparency)
   Controlling Rendering Quality (skip, but important in industry)
   Constructing Complex Shapes from Geometry Primitives
   Supporting User Interaction (could have more detail; the Rectangle
                                class's contains method gives good hit
                                detection in 97% of cases; skip "text" part)

Working with Text and Fonts
   Creating and Deriving Fonts
   Drawing Multiple Lines of Text (skip)

Manipulating and Displaying Images
   Immediate-Mode Imaging with BufferedImage (overview)
   Filtering a BufferedImage (skip, but very useful in image processing)
   Using a BufferedImage for Double Buffering (double buffering is an
                                               important concept - an
                                               image, i.e. contents of a
                                               component is first completely
                                               constructed in an off-screen
                                               buffer and then copied to the
                                               screen - i.e. not drawn to
                                               the screen directly; Swing
                                               does this automatically)

Printing
   Overview of Printing in Java
   Printing the Contents of a Component
   Displaying a Page Setup Dialog (skip, but useful in industry)
   Printing a Collection of Pages (skip, but useful in industry)

Solving Common 2D Graphics Problems (skip, but useful in practice)