Java Programming Core Skills: Level 1

This course is paced to provide a solid foundation in Java™ for programmers without syntax experience in a C-based language. Intensive and hands-on, the course emphasizes becoming productive quickly as a Java programmer. Besides learning the basic structure and syntax of the language, students will also learn object-oriented principles and how they are applied in Java applications. The course then covers the I/O streams and collections API packages. This course is current to Java 7 and uses the Eclipse IDE.

Audience: Programmers who want to move into the Java language, but have no C, C++, or C# background.

Prerequisites: Students should have prior programming experience or taken Java Programming-Basics for Non-Programmers

Course Outline

1. Course Introduction
Course Objectives
Course Overview
Using the Workbook
Suggested References

2. Getting Started with Java
What is Java?
How to Get Java
A First Java Program
Compiling and Interpreting Applications
The JSDK Directory Structure

3. Eclipse
Introduction to Eclipse
Installing Eclipse
Running Eclipse for the First Time
Editors, Views, and Perspectives
Setting up a Project
Creating a New Java Application
Running a Java Application
Debugging a Java Application
Importing Existing Java Code into
Eclipse

4. Datatypes and Variables
Primitive Datatypes
Declarations
Variable Names
Numeric Literals
Character Literals
String
String Literals
Arrays
Non-Primitive Datatypes
The Dot Operator

5. Operators and Expressions
Expressions
Assignment Operator
Arithmetic Operators
Relational Operators
Logical Operators
Increment and Decrement Operators
Operate-Assign Operators (+=, etc.)
The Conditional Operator
Operator Precedence
Implicit Type Conversions
The Cast Operator

6. Control Flow
Statements
Conditional (if) Statements
Adding an else if
Conditional (switch) Statements
while and do-while Loops
for Loops
A for Loop Diagram
Enhanced for Loop
The continue Statement
The break Statement

7. Methods
Methods
Calling Methods
Defining Methods
Method Parameters
Scope
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8. Object-Oriented Programming
Introduction to Object-Oriented
Programming
Classes and Objects
Fields and Methods
Encapsulation
Access Control
Inheritance
Polymorphism
Best Practices

9. Objects and Classes
Defining a Class
Creating an Object
Instance Data and Class Data
Methods
Constructors
Access Modifiers
Encapsulation

10. Using Java Objects
Printing to the Console
printf Format Strings
StringBuilder and StringBuffer
Methods and Messages
toString
Parameter Passing
Comparing and Identifying Objects
Destroying Objects
The Primitive-Type Wrapper Classes
Enumerated Types

11. Inheritance in Java
Inheritance
Inheritance in Java
Casting
Method Overriding
Polymorphism
super
The Object Class

12. Advanced Inheritance and Generics
Abstract Classes
Interfaces
Using Interfaces
Collections
Generics
Comparable

13. Packages
The import Statement
Static Imports
CLASSPATH and Import
Defining Packages
Package Scope

14. Exception Handling
Exceptions Overview
Catching Exceptions
The finally Block
Exception Methods
Declaring Exceptions
Defining and Throwing Exceptions
Errors and RuntimeExceptions

15. Input/Output Streams
Overview of Streams
Bytes vs. Characters
Converting Byte Streams to Character
Streams
File Object
Binary Input and Output
PrintWriter Class
Reading and Writing Objects
Closing Streams

16. Core Collection Classes
The Collections Framework
The Set Interface
Set Implementation Classes
The List Interface
List Implementation Classes
The Queue Interface
Queue Implementation Classes
The Map Interface
Map Implementation Classes

17. Appendix A – Collection Sorting and
Tuning
Sorting with Comparable
Sorting with Comparator
Sorting Lists and Arrays
Collections Utility Methods
Tuning ArrayList
Tuning HashMap and HashSet

18. Appendix B – Java EE Overview
Introduction to Java EE
Java SE Building Blocks
Web Applications
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Additional J2EE APIs
POJO, Dependency Injection, and
Annotations
The Java EE Platform

19. Appendix C – Eclipse Shortcuts
Shortcut Key Sequences
More Shortcut Key Sequences