Course 471 Java Programming Introduction

You Will Learn How To

• Build robust console and GUI applications using Java's object-oriented features

• Design flexible object models using object-oriented principles

• Create robust applications using Java class libraries

• Organize complex data using Java collections

• Develop platform-independent GUIs

Hands-On Experience

You are provided with an in-class computer dedicated for your sole use

• Developing an object-oriented model with UML notation

• Creating Java objects and calling their methods

• Structuring data with the Java collections API

• Developing platform-independent user interfaces

• Creating portable GUIs with Swing components

• Adding event handling to GUIs

Course Content

Module 1 : Introduction to Java Programming

• Stand-alone applications and servlets

• Compiling source code into bytecode

• Overview of class libraries

Module 2 : Object-Oriented Programming with Java

The object paradigm

• Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism

• OO analysis and design: "Is a" and "Has a"

• Designing an OO application step by step

• Diagramming object structure with Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Module 3 : Java's object-oriented features

• Instantiating objects from classes

• Aggregation and composition

• Extending existing classes

• Overloading and overriding methods

Module 4 : Structure of the Java Language

Language syntax

• Declaring and initializing variables

• Declaring and using arrays

• Upcasting, downcasting and autoboxing

Module 5 : Flow control

• Invoking methods and passing parameters

• Conditionals and loops

• Handling exceptions with try and catch

Module 6 : Defining classes

• Fields (instance data)

• Methods (functions)

• Abstract classes and interfaces

• Organizing classes with packages and modifiers

• Composition vs. inheritance

Module 7 : Building the components of a Java program

• Leveraging generics with the collections API

• Developing new classes

• Compiling and debugging

Module 8 : Developing GUIs

Foundations of user interfaces

• Basic GUI widgets

• Event-driven programming

• Benefits of a portable windowing library

Module 9 : Java Foundation Classes (JFC)

• Creating Swing components

• Adding Swing components to containers

• Arranging Swing components using layout managers

• Dialogs and message boxes

Module 10 : Event handling

• Registering event handlers

• Inner classes and top-level classes

Module 11 : Storing and Retrieving Data with File I/O

Java streams

• Streams, Readers and Writers

• Catching and throwing exceptions

• Formatting text output

Module 12 : Files and directories

• Reading and writing files

• Creating, deleting and renaming files

• Obtaining directory and file information

Module 13 : Working with Relational Databases

JDBC database access

• Leveraging the JDBC API

• Choosing database drivers

• Connecting to a database

Module 14 : Improving performance with prepared statements and stored procedures

• Submitting SQL statements

• Retrieving and processing results

Module 15 : Java Development Tools

• Java Development Kit (JDK)

• Compiler (javac)

• Javadoc utility

• Java Archive (JAR) utility

• Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)