Java

Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed.

Content:

• 1. Introduction to Java
• What is Java?
• Background/History of Java
• The Internet and Java's place in it
• Applications and Applets
• Java Virtual Machine
• Byte code - not an executable code
• Procedure-Oriented vs. Object-Oriented Programming
• Basics of OOP
• Abstraction
• Inheritance
• Encapsulation
• Classes, subclasses and super classes
• Polymorphism and Overloading
• Compiling and running a simple program
• Setting Up Your Computer
• Writing a Program
• Compiling, Interpreting and Running the program
• Common errors
• 2. Holding Data
• Primve Data Type
• Integers,Floating-Point types, Characters, Booleans
• User define data type
• Declarations
• Constant
• Identifiers, Literals
• Type Conversion and Casting
• Objects and Wrapper Classes
• Variables
• Variable Definition and Assignment
• Default Variable Initializations
• DCommand-Line Arguments
• Arrays of Primitive Data Types
• Comment Syntax
• Garbage Collection
• 3. Controlling the Flow
• Expressions
• Using Operators
• Arithmetic, Bitwise, Relational, Logical
• Assignment,Conditional, Shift, Ternary
• Auto-increment and Auto-decrement
• Using control statements
• Selection statements If, Switch
• Loops and loop options While, do-while, for
• Jump statements Break, continue and return
• 4. Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
• Abstraction
• Encapsulation
• Polymorphism and Overloading
• Fundamentals of Classes
• A simple class
• Creating Class Instances
• Adding methods to a class
• Calling Functions/Methods
• Using ‘this’ keyword
• Constructors
• Default constructors
• Parameterized constructors
• More on methods
• Passing by Value, by Reference
• Access Control
• Methods that Return Values
• Method Overloading
• Recursion
• Nested and Inner classes
• 5. Inheritance & Packaging
• Inheritance
• Using ‘extends’ keyword
• Subclasses and Superclasses
• 'super' keyword usage
• Overriding Methods
• Dynamic Method Dispatch
• The Object class
• abstract and final Classes
• Packages
• Defining a package
• Importing a package
• Access Control
• Interfaces
• Defining an interface
• Implementing and applying interfaces
• 6. Handling Error/Exceptions
• Basic Exceptions
• Proper use of exceptions
• User defined Exceptions
• Catching Exception
• try
• catch
• Throwing and re-throwing
• throw
• throws
• Cleaning up using the finally clause
• 7. Handling Strings
• Creation, Concatenation and conversion of a string
• Changing case
• Character Extraction
• String Comparison
• Searching strings
• Modifying strings
• String Buffer
• 8. Threads
• Create/instantiate/start new threads
• Extending java.lang.Thread
• Implementing java.lang.Runnable Interface
• Understand thread execution
• Thread Priorities
• Synchronization
• Inter-thread communication, Deadlock
• 9. I/O and Streams
• java.io package
• Files and directories
• Streams
• Byte Streams and Character Streams
• Reading/Writing Console Input/Output
• Reading and Writing files
• The Serialization Interface
• 10. Understanding core packages
• Using java.lang Package
• java.lang.Math
• Wrapper classes and associated methods
• Number,Double,Float,Integer,Byte,Short
• Long,Character,Boolean
• Using java.util package
• Core classes
• Vector,Stack,Dictionary,Hashtable
• Enumerations,Random Number Generation
• 11. Holding Collection of data
• Arrays and collection classes/interfaces
• Map/List/Set implementations
• Map interface, List interface, Set interface
• Collection classes
• ArrayList, LinkedList, HashSet and TreeSet
• Accessing collections/use of an Iterator
• Comparator
• 12. Java Applications
• Intro to AWT and Swing
• Working with Frame, windows, graphics, color, fonts
• AWT controls
• Buttons, Checkbox, Choice, List and TextField
• Layout Managers
• Flow Layout, Grid Layout and Border Layout
• JFrame and JPanel containers
• User Interface Events
• Event Classes and Event Listener Interfaces
• Adapter Classes
• 13. Introduction to Java Applets
• What is a Java applet?
• Applet lifecycle methods
• Build a simple applet
• Using AppletViewer
• Adding Controls
• Animation Concepts
• 14. Basic Networking Concepts
• What is a Client/Server Application?
• Manipulating URL’s
• Establishing a simple server
• Establishing a simple client
• Client/Server Interaction using TCP
• Connectionless Client/Server Interaction using Datagram(UDP)