JAVA PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP Duration 5 Days

Course Overview

This course is for programmers who need a thorough grounding in the Java programming language. The course covers writing stand-alone applications as well as writing applets that runs in a web page. Audience The course is intended for programmers experienced in other languages who need to be able to understand and write Java classes.

Prerequisites

Programmers should be experienced in using a procedural programming language

such as Assembler, Cobol or PL/I, or experience of Visual Basic. For those programmers who have developed programs in 'C', C++ or C# there is some overlap with Java early on in the course. Knowledge of object-oriented programming or design is not necessary.

Duration

The course uses desk quizzes and hands-on practical exercises to enable the delegate to gain experience in developing Java applications and applets.

Course objectives

• On completion of this course the delegate will be able to:
• create applications and applets
• use Object-Oriented Programming
• techniques
• program for the GUI environment
• write code to handle files
• have a realistic understanding of
• the terms Inheritance,
• Encapsulation and Polymorphism
• understand multi-tasking

Course contents

Introduction to Java Programming

What is Java?;

Applications and applets; Development

Environments; JDK; The Java

Virtual Machine (JVM); Producing,

compiling and executing; Just-In-Time compilation;

CLASSPATH.

Introduction to Object-Oriented

Programming

What is OOP?; Objects andClasses; using Objects; Object

references; Constructors; Accessmodifiers; Packages; Inheritance;

Polymorphism; Encapsulation;OOD; the Java API.

Data types and Operators

Coding a program; Reserved words; Data types, variables and

operators; Statements andexpressions; Strings; StringBuffer;

arrays; arguments to main();garbage collection.

Flow Control

Decision-making; program flow

control; loops.

Classes and Methods

More on objects; passingarguments;

Polymorphism andAbstract classes; constructors and

initialization; accessors and mutators; the this keyword;

interfaces; method signatures;casting and instanceof; static and

final modifiers; overriding andoverloading.

Collections

Sets; Lists; Vectors; Maps.

Exceptions

How exception handling works;

class hierarchy; class wrappers;

try...catch; try...finally; throw and

throws; writing and using

exception handlers; assertions.

Introducing the Graphical User Interface

The AWT; Swing; Frames; Layout

Managers; using Components,

Containers and Panels.

Events and Event Handling

Responding to an event;

Listeners; GUI event; Interfaces;

Adapters.

Menus, Text and Dialogs

Menus and dialogs; Using the

mouse with Pop-up menus; text controls; menu options; labels;messages.

File Handling

The File class; Input and output

streams; Readers and writers;

Standard input and Standard

output; File streams;

BufferedReader class; Object

Serialization; Exceptions.

Applets

Adding controls to applets; the

Applet tag; parameters and

properties; Graphics and paint;

Testing the Applet; Browser

Problems; security restrictions.

Threads

Call stacks; the Thread class and

Runnable interface; Thread

lifecycles; deadlock and

synchronization.

Networking

Protocols; Client - Server; sockets and streams.