Java Programming – Basic Course

1. Java as a programming language

• Linguistic structure
• Automatic memory recovery – garbage collection
• Standard library: java.lang, java.util
• Data types: primitives and classes
• Type safe constants: enum
• Simple variables, vectors, objects
• Initialization: variables, vectors, objects
• Operators: arithmetic, comparative, logical
• Syntax for lambda expressions
• Selective statements: if, switch, ?/:
• Iterative statements: while, do/while, for
• Allocation rates
• Access control: public, private, (package), protected
• Type modifiers: static, final
• Type conversion: generalizing, specializing
• Annotations
• Autoboxing/autounboxing for primitive data types
• Exception handling: use, discard/catch exception items
• Recommendations for good coding practices
• Naming conventions: packages, classes, interfaces, methods, variables, art
• Support for documentation with JavaDoc

2. Object orientation with Java

• Introduction to object orientation
• Encapsulation: objects, classes, methods, attributes
• UML as a tool for OO diagrams
• Class relations: Aggregate, Association, User
• Inheritance, class hierarchies, polymorphism, metadata
• Constructors, abstract methods, abstract classes
• Interface definition and implementation

3. testing of Java programs

• Unit testing background, philosophy
• JUnit4 a framework for testing Java programs
• Test classes
• Test Siter

4. collections framework

• Type-safe collection classes for arbitrary object types
• Overall Collection, List, Set and Map interfaces
• Interfaces for traversal Iterator and ListIterator
• for:each loop for easy traversal of collection classes
• Comparable, Comparator, SortedSet and SortedMap sorting interfaces
• List implementation classes: ArrayList and LinkedList
• Set implementation classes: HashSet and TreeSet
• Map implementation classes: HashMap and TreeMap
• Resource classes Arrays and Collections

5. Currents in Java

• Streams as a concept: data flow between source and destination
• Default startup streams: System.in, System.out, System.err
• File management: FileInputStream, FileOutputStream
• Classes for handling character streams: Reader and Writer
• Store/read data types: DataInputStream, DataOutputStream
• Serialization: ObjectOutputStream, ObjectInputStream

6. Database management with Java

• JDBC architecture
• Addressing the database
• Connecting to database
• Sending SQL statements
• Management of responses from database: ResultSet
• DataSource for general database management
• Three-layer architecture for database applications

7. user interface with Java

• Graphical user interfaces for applications
  – Swing
  – JavaFX
  – JSF
• MVC – Model View Controller
• Overview of the component architecture
• Components used
• Using layout managers
• Event management

8. distribution of Java applications

• JRE – Java Runtime Environment
• Archive types
  – JAR – Java ARchive
  – WAR – Web ARchive
  – EAR – Enterprise ARchive
• Ant/Maven for building Java applications