A First Look

• A Simple Java Class
• Java’s “Hello World” Program

Java Basics

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

Class and Object Basics

• The Object Model and Object-Oriented Programming
• Classes, References, and Instantiation
• Adding Data to 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, StringBuffer, StringBuilder
• Arrays, Primitive Arrays, Arrays of Reference Types
• varargs

Packages

• Package Overview – Using Packages to Organize Code
• import statements
• Creating Packages, package Statement, Required Directory Structure
• Finding Classes, Packages and Classpath

Composition and Inheritance

• Using Composition to 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 & DriverManager
• Class Connection and connecting to 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 Object (non-generic)
• Using ArrayList, HashSet, and HashMap
• for-each Loop
• Processing Items With an Iterator
• More About Generics

The Java Streams Model

• Delegation-Based Stream Model
• InputStream and OutputStream
• Media-Based Streams
• Filtering Streams
• Readers and Writers

Working with Files

• File Class
• Modeling Files and Directories
• File Streams
• Random-Access Files

Advanced Stream Techniques

• Buffering
• Data Streams
• Push-Back Parsing
• Byte-Array Streams and String Readers and Writers

Java Serialization

• The Challenge of Object Serialization
• Serialization API
• Serializable Interface
• ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream
• The Serialization Engine
• Transient Fields
• readObject and writeObject
• Externalizable Interface

Conclusion