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Fast Track to Java for OO Developers Training in Shawnee, Kansas

Skills Gained: Understand Java's importance, uses, strengths and weaknesses.

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What you'll learn

Skills Gained: Understand Java's importance, uses, strengths and weaknesses. Understand Java language basics Write, compile, and run Java programs. Understand and use classes, inheritance, polymorphism. Create well designed classes and use them in your Java programs. Use composition and delegation to create objects from other objects. Understand & use packages to organize code. Understand interfaces, their importance, and their uses. Use interfaces to implement abstraction. Learn good Java coding style. Create well structured Java programs. Compile and execute programs with the JDK development tools and with an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) of your choice Use the core Java libraries (java.lang, java.util) Understand & use exceptions for error handling. Understand the basics of using JDBC, and use it to access databases from Java Use the Java Collections Framework Be aware of, and use the new features of Java Understand and use basic I/O streams (Optiona

Prerequisites

Suitable for programmers with existing experience in other OO languages such as C++ or C#. It builds on the knowledge that Object-Oriented programmers already possess to provide an accelerated approach to learning the Java programming language and good Java programming practice.

Course Outline

Session 1:

A First Look (Accelerated)

A Simple Java Class

Java’s “Hello World” Program

LABS:

Hello World: A Simple Application

Session 2:

Java Basics

Language and Platform Features

Program Life Cycle

The Java SE Development Kit (JDK)

LABS:

Working with the Development Environment

Session 3:

Class and Object Basics (Accelerated)

Classes, References, and Instantiation

Adding Data to a Class Definition

Adding Methods (Behavior)

LABS:

Exploring Types and Object Instances

Writing and Using a Class Definition with Fields and Methods

Session 4:

More on Classes and Objects (Accelrated)

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

LABS:

Encapsulation / Access Protection

Writing and Using Constructors

(Optional) Static Members

Using the Debugger

Session 5:

Flow of Control (Accelerated)

Branching: if, if-else, switch

Iteration: while, do-while, for, break, continue

LABS:

Flow of Control / Data Validation

Session 6:

Strings and Arrays (Accelerated)

String, StringBuffer, StringBuilder

Arrays, Primitive Arrays, Arrays of Reference Types

varargs

LABS:

Using Strings and Arrays

Session 7:

Packages

Package Overview - Using Packages to Organize Code

import statements

Creating Packages, package Statement, Required Directory Structure

Finding Classes, Packages and Classpath

LABS:

Using Packages to Organize Code

Session 8:

Composition and Inheritance (Accelerated)

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

LABS:

(Optional) Working with Composition

Using Inheritance to Specialize Classes

Session 9:

Interfaces (Accelerated)

Using Interfaces to Define Types

Interfaces and Abstract Classes

LABS:

Using Interfaces to Remove Implementation Dependencies

Session 10:

Exceptions

Exceptions and the Exception Hierarchy

try and catch

Handling Exceptions

Program Flow with Exceptions

finally

LABS:

Throwing and Handling Exceptions

Session 11:

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

LABS:

Connecting and Querying using JDBC

Inserting and Updating with JDBC

Session 12:

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

LABS:

Using Lists and Generics

Using Sets

Session 13:

Additional Java Features

Assertions

Type-safe Enums

Annotations

Additional Features in Java 6 and Java 7

Session 14:

I/O Streams (Optional)

Readers and Writers

Filter Streams

InputStreams and OutputStreams

Converting Between Streams and Readers/Writers

New I/O (NIO) APIs

LABS:

Using FileReader/FileWriter

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