Introduction to Java Programming Training

In this Introduction to Java Programming training course, you gain extensive hands-on experience writing, compiling, and executing Java programs. You will learn to build robust applications that use Java’s object-oriented features. Java is known for reliability, maintainability, and ease of development. Its unique architecture enables programmers to develop a single application that can seamlessly run across multiple platforms. Attend this course and learn to leverage these key features.

• Three to six months of experience in a high-level programming language, such as C, Pascal, or Visual Basic
• You should know how to:
  • Structure data
  • Use variables, flow-control statements, and subroutines
  • Write, compile, and execute a program
• Familiarity with web technologies and object concepts

Introduction to Java Programming Training Delivery Methods

• Learn Java Programming
• After-course instrucor coaching benefit
• After-course computing sandbox included
• Free course exam included

Introduction to Java Programming Training Course Benefits

• Design and build robust, object-oriented applications
• Organise complex data using Java collections
• Access any relational database using JDBC
• Read/write files and handle exceptions

Introduction to Java Programming Course Outline

Introduction to Java Programming
• Stand–alone applications and servlets
• Compiling source code into bytecode
• Overview of class libraries
Object–Oriented Programming with Java
The object paradigm
• Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism
• OO analysis and design: "Is a" and "Has a"
• Designing an OO application step by step
• Diagramming object structure with Unified Modelling Language (UML)
Java’s object–oriented features
• Instantiating objects from classes
• Aggregation and composition
• Extending existing classes
• Overloading and overriding methods
Structure of the Java Language
Language syntax
• Declaring and initialising variables
• Declaring and using arrays
• Upcasting, downcasting and autoboxing
Flow control
• Invoking methods and passing parameters
• Conditionals and loops
• Handling exceptions with try and catch
Defining classes
• Fields (instance data)
• Methods (functions)
• Abstract classes and interfaces
• Organising classes with packages and modifiers
• Composition vs. inheritance
Building the components of a Java program
• Leveraging generics with the collections API
• Developing new classes
• Compiling and debugging
Developing GUIs
Foundations of user interfaces
• Basic GUI widgets
• Event–driven programming
• Benefits of a portable windowing library
Java Foundation Classes (JFC)
• Creating Swing components
• Adding Swing components to containers
• Arranging Swing components using layout managers
• Dialogs and message boxes
Event handling
• Registering event handlers
• Inner classes and top–level classes
Storing and Retrieving Data with File I/O
Java streams
• Streams, Readers and Writers
• Catching and throwing exceptions
• Formatting text output
Files and directories
• Reading and writing files
• Creating, deleting and renaming files
• Obtaining directory and file information
Working with Relational Databases
JDBC database access
• Leveraging the JDBC API
• Choosing database drivers
• Connecting to a database
Improving performance with prepared statements and stored procedures
• Submitting SQL statements
• Retrieving and processing results
Java Development Tools
• Java Development Kit (JDK)
• Compiler (javac)
• Javadoc utility
• Java Archive (JAR) utility
• Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)