Introduction to Java Programming Classroom Live Austin, TX July 06, 2021

Course Overview

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

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

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

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

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 J
• ava Archive (JAR) utility
• Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)

Prerequisites

• Professional programming experience in C, C++ or C#® is required. Knowledge of Object-Oriented concepts is required.