JAVA Programming Course

Course Overview

The Java Programming Language course teaches students  object-oriented platform independent programming, exception handling, file input/output (I/O) operation, threads and networking, creating graphical user interfaces (GUI), Developing GUI Application and Applets, Database programming using JDBC. Programmers familiar with object- oriented concepts can learn how to develop Java application. The course uses the Java 2 Software Development Kit (SDK). This course is offered on Red Hat Linux/Windows.

Pre-Requisites

Familiarity with data processing concepts and Programming techniques. Understand object-oriented principles. Create or compile simple programs in a language, such as C or C++.

Target Audience

Programmers who are interested in adding the Java programming language to their list of skill and students who are preparing for the Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform exam.

Course Outline

v  Declarations and Access Control

v  Flow control, Assertions, and Exception Handling

v  Garbage Collection

v  Language Fundamentals

v  Operators and Assignments

v  Overloading, Overriding, Runtime Type and Object Orientation

v  Threads

v  Fundamental Classes in the java.lang Package

v  The Collections Framework

v  I/O Streams and File Handling

v  GUI programming with AWT and Swing

v  Socket Programming

v  Database Programming using JDBC

v  Using Java Beans

Course Syllabus

v  Getting Started with Java

Ø  List the key features of the Java programming language

Ø  Describe the Java Virtual Machine

Ø  Use the Java Application Programming Interface(API) on-line documentation

Ø  New: Operators and assignments

Ø  Identifiers, Keywords and Types

Ø  Distinguish between member and automatic variables

Ø  Describe the initialization of member variables

Ø  Recognize and correct a “Possible reference before assignment” compiler error

Ø  Distinguish between legal and illegal assignments of primitive types

Ø  Recognize Boolean expressions and state the requirement for these in control constructs

Ø  Recognize assignment compatibility and required casts in fundamental types

Ø  Make appropriate use of if, switch, for, while, and do constructions and the labeled forms of break and continue

Ø  Declare and create arrays of primitive, class or array types

Ø  Explain why and show how to initialize the elements of an array

Ø  Write class constructors and invoke particular constructors using new with arguments

Ø  Invoke overloaded methods and constructors

Ø  Use sub classing

Ø  State the benefits of encapsulation in object oriented design and write code that implements tightly encapsulated classes and the relationships "is a" and "has a".

Ø  Write overriding methods in a sub class and describe execution flow when executing an overridden method

Ø  Invoke overridden methods and describe how the method is chosen

Ø  Develop overriding methods and invoke overridden methods

Ø  Invoke overridden constructors

Ø  Describe the use of Collections

Ø  Exceptions

Ø  Tips for handling runtime exceptions

Ø  Describe Exceptions Catagories

v  Designing Front End with Java Applet and Frame

Ø  Building GUIs

Ø  Describe the Abstract Windowing Toolkit(AWT) package and its components

Ø  Explain containers, components and layout managers and how they work together to build a GUI

Ø  Use the flow, border, grid and card layout managers to achieve a desired dynamic layout

Ø  Use the frame and panel containers

Ø  The AWT Event Model

Ø  Write code to handle events that occur in a user interface

Ø  Determine the user action that originated the event from the event object details

Ø  Determine how and when to use the appropriate adapter class to select a subset of event handlers for an event listener

Ø  Identify the key AWT components

Ø  Use the AWT components to build user interfaces for real programs

Ø  Java Foundation Classes

Ø  Identify the key features of Java Foundation Classes

Ø  Explain containers, components and how they work together to build Swing GUI

Ø  Write, compile and run a basic Swing application

Ø  Using the different border to the components and containers to make a attractive interface

Ø  Introduction to Applets

Ø  Multiple Threads

Ø  Streams I/O and Files

Ø  Socket Programming

Ø  Create a minimal TCP/IP server and a minimal TCP/IP client

Ø  Create a minimal UDP server and a minimal UDP client

v  Database Programming with Java

Ø  Database Programming with JDBC

Ø  Connecting to Databases

Ø  Working with databases

Ø  Invoking Remote Methods from remote server using RMI

Ø  Building Reusable Software Components with Java Beans

Ø  Server Side Programming for Java Applets using Servlets.

Ø  Building HTTP Servlets and Generic Servlets

Ø  Packaging and deploying Java applications and applets