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Java Programming Language

5 Day Course
Hands On
Official Curriculum
Code SL-275-SE6

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Getting Started (3 topics)

  • Examine Java Technology
  • Analyze a simple Java Technology Application
  • Execute a Java technology application

Object-Oriented Programming (6 topics)

  • Define modeling concepts: abstraction, encapsulation, and packages
  • Discuss Java technology application code reuse
  • Define class, member, attribute, method, constructor, and package
  • Use the access modifiers private and public as appropriate for the guidelines of encapsulation
  • Invoke a method on a particular object
  • Use the Java technology API online documentation

Identifiers, Keywords, and Types (11 topics)

  • Use comments in a source program
  • Distinguish between valid and invalid identifiers
  • Recognize Java technology keywords
  • List the eight primitive types
  • Define literal values for numeric and textual types
  • Define the terms primitive variable and reference variable
  • Declare variables of class type
  • Construct an object using new
  • Describe default initialization
  • Describe the significance of a reference variable
  • State the consequence of assigning variables of class type

Expressions and Flow Control (7 topics)

  • Distinguish between instance and local variables
  • Describe how to initialize instance variables
  • Recognize, describe, and use Java software operators
  • Distinguish between legal and illegal assignments of primitive types
  • Identify boolean expressions and their requirements in control constructs
  • Recognize assignment compatibility and required casts in fundamental types
  • Use if, switch, for, while, and do constructions and the labeled forms of break and continue as flow control structures in a program

Arrays (6 topics)

  • Declare and create arrays of primitive, class, or array types
  • Explain why elements of an array are initialized
  • Explain how to initialize the elements of an array
  • Determine the number of elements in an array
  • Create a multidimensional array
  • Write code to copy array values from one array to another

Class Design (4 topics)

  • Define inheritance, polymorphism, overloading, overriding, and virtual method invocation
  • Use the access modifiers protected and the default (package-friendly)
  • Describe the concepts of constructor and method overloading
  • Describe the complete object construction and initialization operation

Advanced Class Feature (6 topics)

  • Create static variables, methods, and initializers
  • Create final classes, methods, and variables
  • Create and use enumerated types
  • Use the static import statement
  • Create abstract classes and methods
  • Create and use an interface

Exceptions and Assertions (8 topics)

  • Define exceptions
  • Use try, catch, and finally statements
  • Describe exception categories
  • Identify common exceptions
  • Develop programs to handle your own exceptions
  • Use assertions
  • Distinguish appropriate and inappropriate uses of assertions
  • Enable assertions at runtime

Collections and Generics Framework (9 topics)

  • Describe the general purpose implementations of the core interfaces in the Collections framework
  • Examine the Map interface
  • Examine the legacy collection classes
  • Create natural and custom ordering by implementing the Comparable and Comparator interfaces
  • Use generic collections
  • Use type parameters in generic classes
  • Refactor existing non-generic code
  • Write a program to iterate over a collection
  • Examine the enhanced for loop

Fundamentals (5 topics)

  • Write a program that uses command-line arguments and system properties
  • Examine the Properties class
  • Construct node and processing streams, and use them appropriately
  • Serialize and deserialize objects
  • Distinguish readers and writers from streams, and select appropriately between them

Console I/O and File I/O (3 topics)

  • Read data from the console
  • Write data to the console
  • Describe files and file I/O

Building Java GUIs Using the Swing API (9 topics)

  • Describe the JFC Swing technology
  • Define Swing
  • Identify the Swing packages
  • Describe the GUI building blocks: containers, components, and layout managers
  • Examine top-level, general-purpose, and special-purpose properties of container
  • Examine components
  • Examine layout managers
  • Describe the Swing single-threaded model
  • Build a GUI using Swing components

Handling GUI-Generated Events (6 topics)

  • Define events and event handling
  • Examine the Java SE event model
  • Describe GUI behavior
  • Determine the user action that originated an event
  • Develop event listeners
  • Describe concurrency in Swing-based GUIs and describe the features of the SwingWorker class

GUI-Based Applications (2 topics)

  • Describe how to construct a menu bar, menu, and menu items in a Java GUI
  • Understand how to change the color and font of a component

Threads (6 topics)

  • Define a thread
  • Create separate threads in a Java technology program, controlling the code and data that are used by that thread
  • Control the execution of a thread and write platform-independent code with threads
  • Describe the difficulties that might arise when multiple threads share data
  • Use wait and notify to communicate between threads
  • Use synchronized to protect data from corruption

Networking (3 topics)

  • Develop code to set up the network connection
  • Understand TCP/IP
  • Use ServerSocket and Socket classes to implement TCP/IP clients and servers

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to: Be competent in creating programs in any programming language or have completed the SL-110-SE6: - Fundamentals of the Java Programming Language course - Create and edit text files using a text editor

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