Course Content

Introduction

Review of Java syntax and concepts presented in the followings: –

• Introduction to Java Applications
• Introduction to Classes and Objects
• Control Statements: Part 1
• Control Statements: Part 2
• Methods: A Deeper Look
• Arrays

Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look

• Time Class Case Study
• Controlling Access to Members
• Referring to the Current Object’s Members with the this Reference
• Time Class Case Study: Overloaded Constructors
• Default and No-Argument Constructors
• Composition
• Enumerations
• Garbage Collection and Method finalize
• static Class Members
• static Import
• final Instance Variables
• Time Class Case Study: Creating Packages

Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

• Superclasses and Subclasses
• protected Members
• Relationship between Superclasses and Subclasses
• Creating and Using a CommissionEmployee Class
• Creating a BasePlusCommissionEmployee Class without Using Inheritance
• Creating a CommissionEmployee – BasePlusCommissionEmployee Inheritance Hierarchy
• CommissionEmployee – BasePlusCommissionEmployee Inheritance Hierarchy Using protected Instance Variables
• CommissionEmployee – BasePlusCommissionEmployee Inheritance Hierarchy Using private Instance Variables
• Constructors in Subclasses
• Software Engineering with Inheritance

Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism

• Polymorphism Examples
• Demonstrating Polymorphic Behavior
• Abstract Classes and Methods
• Case Study: Payroll System Using Polymorphism
• Demonstrating Polymorphic Processing, Operator instanceof and Downcasting
• Summary of the Allowed Assignments Between Superclass and Subclass Variables
• final Methods and Classes
• Case Study: Creating and Using Interfaces
• Developing a Payable Hierarchy
• Declaring Constants with Interfaces
• Common Interfaces of the Java API

GUI Components: Part 1

• Simple GUI-Based Input/Output with JOptionPane
• Overview of Swing Components
• Displaying Text and Images in a Window
• Text Fields and an Introduction to Event Handling with Nested Classes
• Common GUI Event Types and Listener Interfaces
• How Event Handling Works
• JButton component
• Buttons That Maintain State
• JCheckBox component
• JRadioButton component
• JComboBox and Using an Anonymous Inner Class for Event Handling
• JList component
• Mouse Event Handling and Adapter Classes
• JPanel Subclass for Drawing with the Mouse
• Layout Managers
• Using Panels to Manage More Complex Layouts

Exception Handling

• Exception-Handling Overview
• Example: Divide by Zero without Exception Handling
• Example: Handling ArithmeticExceptions and InputMismatchExceptions
• When to Use Exception Handling
• Java Exception Hierarchy
• finally Block
• Stack Unwinding
• printStackTrace , getStackTrace and getMessage
• Chained Exceptions
• Declaring New Exception Types
• Assertions

Files and Streams

• Data Hierarchy
• Files and Streams
• Class File
• Sequential-Access Text Files
• Creating a Sequential-Access Text File
• Reading Data from a Sequential-Access Text File
• Updating Sequential-Access Files
• Object Serialization
• Creating a Sequential-Access File Using Object Serialization
• Reading and Deserializing Data from a Sequential-Access File
• Additional java.io Classes
• Opening Files with JFileChooser

Collections

• Collections Overview
• Class Arrays
• Interface Collection and Class Collections
• ArrayList class and Iterators
• LinkedList class
• Collections Algorithms
• Algorithm sort
• Algorithm shuffle
• Algorithms reverse, fill, copy, max and min
• Algorithm binarySearch
• Stack Class of Package java.util
• Class PriorityQueue and Interface Queue
• Sets
• Maps