Beginner Java Training outline

• A First Lk
• A Simple Java Class
• Java's "Hello World" Program

Java Basics

• Language and Platform Features
• Program Life Cycle
• The Java SE Develpment Kit (JDK)

Class and object Basics

• • The object Model and object-oriented Programming
  • Classes, References, and Instantiation
  • Adding Data t a Class Definition
  • Adding Methods (Behavior)

More on Classes and objects

• • • Accessing data, the "this" variable
    • Encapsulation and Access Control, public and private Access
    • Constructors and Initialization
    • static Members of a Class
    • Scopes, Blocks, References to objects

Flow of Control briefly due to attendee experience]

• • • Branching: if, if-else, switch
    • Iteration: while, do-while for, break, continue
    • Strings and Arrays
    • String, String Buffer, StringBuilder
    • Arrays, Primitive Arrays, Arrays of Reference Types
    • var args

Packages

• • • Package overview - Using Packages to organize Code
    • import statements
    • Creating Packages, package Statement, Required Directory Structure
    • Finding Classes, Packages and Class path

Compositing and Inheritance

• • • Using Composition t Deal With Complexity
    • Composition/HAS-A, Delegation
    • Using Inheritance and Polymorphism to share commonality
    • IS-A, extends, Inheriting Features, overriding Methods, Using Polymorphism

Class object

• • • Abstract Classes
    • Interfaces
    • Using Interfaces to Define Types
    • Interfaces and Abstract Classes

Exceptions

• • • Exceptions and the Exception Hierarchy
    • try and catch
    • Handling Exceptions
    • Program Flow with Exceptions
    • finally

JDBC

• • • JDBC basics
    • JDBC Architecture
    • Using JDBC drivers &Driver Manager
    • Class Connection and connecting t a database
    • Class Statement and executing SQL statements
    • other statement types
    • Driver types

Java Collections and Generics

• • • The Collections Framework and its API
    • Collections and Java Generics
    • Collection, Set, List, Map, Iterator
    • Autoboxing
    • Collections of objects (non-generic)
    • Using Array List, HashSet, and HashMap
    • for-each Loop
    • Processing Items with an Iterator
    • More Abut Generics

Additional Java Features

• • Assertions
  • Type-safe Enums
  • Annotations
  • Additional Features in Java 6 and Java 7
  • Conclusion