Introduction to Java Programming

Section One: Introduction to Java Programming

• Stand-alone applications and servlets

• Compiling source code into bytecode

• Overview of class libraries

• 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)

• Java’s object-oriented features

• Instantiating objects from classes

• Aggregation and composition

• Extending existing classes

• Overloading and overriding methods

Section Two: Structure of the Java Language

• Language syntax

• Declaring and initializing variables

• Declaring and using arrays

• Upcasting, downcasting and autoboxing

• Flow control

• Invoking methods and passing parameters

• Conditionals and loops

• Handling exceptions with try and catch

• Defining classes

• Fields (instance data)

• Methods (functions)

• Abstract classes and interfaces

• Organizing classes with packages and modifiers

• Composition vs. inheritance

• Building the components of a Java program

• Leveraging generics with the collections API

• Developing new classes

• Compiling and debugging

Section Three: Developing GUIs

• Foundations of user interfaces

• Basic GUI widgets

• Event-driven programming

• Benefits of a portable windowing library

• Java Foundation Classes (JFC)

• Creating Swing components

• Adding Swing components to containers

• Arranging Swing components using layout managers

• Dialogs and message boxes

• Event handling

• Registering event handlers

• Inner classes and top-level classes

Section Four: Storing and Retrieving Data with File I/O

• Java streams

• Streams, Readers and Writers

• Catching and throwing exceptions

• Formatting text output

• Files and directories

• Reading and writing files

• Creating, deleting and renaming files

• Obtaining directory and file information

Section Five: Working with Relational Databases

• JDBC database access

• Leveraging the JDBC API

• Choosing database drivers

• Connecting to a database

• Improving performance with prepared statements and stored procedures

• Submitting SQL statements

• Retrieving and processing results

• Java Development Tools

• Java Development Kit (JDK)

• Compiler (javac)

• Javadoc utility

• Java Archive (JAR) utility

• Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)