Core Java Programming

Introduction to OOP – for non-OOP developers (8h) - optional

• OOP – the need
• Classes & Objects
• Attributes & Object state
• Constructors
• Methods
• Encapsulation
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Method overloading
• Method overriding
• Static attributes, methods and blocks
• Final / constant attributes, methods and classes
• Abstract methods and classes
• Interfaces

Introduction to Java

• The History of Java
• Java’s Key Features
• The Java Virtual Machine
• JRE, JDK
• Understanding classpath, JAVA_HOME
• Eclipse IDE
• Application structures and archiving (jars)
• The First Application

Basic Syntax

• Identifiers
• Comments
• Keywords
• Primitives
• Introduction to classes & objects
•  Packages & imports

Flow control

• Using Operators
• The ‘If-Else’ Statements
• Using ‘While’ Loop
• Using ‘Do-While’ Loop
• Using ‘Index’ Loop
• Break & continue
• Selecting with ‘Switch’ statement
• Dealing with Primitive Casts

Using Arrays

• Creating an Array
• Array Initialization
• Working with Arrays
• Using Multi-dimensional Arrays
• Copying arrays

Java OOP - basics

• The Importance of Encapsulation
• Inheritance
• this, super keywords
• Java Constructors
• Access Modifiers (private, default, protected and public)
• Method Overloading & overriding
• Polymorphism
• The Class ‘Object’

Advanced class features

• The ‘final’ keyword
• Static Members & Methods
• Interfaces & Abstract Classes
• Nested Classes

Exception handling

• Exceptions & errors
• Checked & unchecked Exceptions
• The ‘try-catch-finally’
• Throwing exceptions
• Compile-time Exceptions
• Describing Common Exceptions
• Creating Custom Exceptions

The Java Collection Framework & Generics

• Overview on the JCF
• Collection, List, Set and Map
• Understanding the Implementations
• Sorting collections
• Working with Generics

Latest syntax enhancements

• For-each loops
• Varargs
• Static-imports
• Enums
• Annotations
• Multi-catch
• ARM

Java IO

• Using the File IO
• InputStream/OutputStream
• The Decorator Design Pattern
• Java Serialization
• Readers & Writers
• URLs

Multi-Threading

• Introducing Concurrent Programming
• Creating Java Threads
• Basic thread control
• The ‘synchronized’ Keyword
• Working with wait/notify

Java DB connectivity – JDBC

• Introduction & architecture
• Driver types
• Registering drivers
• Connecting via DriverManager & DB url
• Performing DML operations with Statements
• Querying with ResultSet
• Meta-data objects