Introduction

• How is Java different from C/C++?
• Things you can do in Java
• Why Java?
• Terminologies
• Installing Java
• A Sample Run
• A Few Assignments

Java Language Basics

• Language Basics
• Naming Rules
• Primitive Datatypes and Arrays
• Type Conversion
• Type Casting
• Arrays
• Operators
• Expressions, Statements, Blocks, Methods
• Operator Precedence
• Scope
• Method Overloading
• Recursion
• Call by Value/Call by Reference
• Control Flow
• Strings

OOP in Java

• Object Oriented Programming – The Need
• Association, Composition, Aggregation
• Inheritance
• Composite Types – Lists, Sets and Maps
• Interfaces and Implementation
• Design by Contract
• Classes and Objects
• Constructors
• static methods
• public, private, protected class/methods

Advanced Class Features

• Declare and use static variables and methods
• Declare and use final classes, methods, and variables
• Use abstract methods and interfaces
• Use inner classes
• Classes for Primitive Types
• package private, protected
• Iterators
• abstract classes
• Method Overriding
• Generics

Advanced Java

• Advanced features of Eclipse IDE
• Configuration Management
• Logging
• Debugging
• Reuse - DRY principles
• Unit-testing and Test Driven Development
• Evolving the design - Refactoring
• Javadocs
• Packages
• I/O Streams
• Serialization
• Reflection & Annotations
• Creating your own annotation
• Working with Third Party Libraries

Networking in Java

• TCP/IP stack
• Working with URLs
• Sockets
• UDP and Datagrams
• RMI
• Data formats and Serialization
• REST concepts - what is resource state transfer, why it is important etc

Parallel programming

• The need
• Parallel programming paradigm
• Threads
• Synchronization
• Concurrency objects
• Map/Reduce (an introduction)

Exceptions

• Define exceptions
• Describe the use of the keywords try, catch, and finally
• Describe exception categories
• Identify common exceptions
• Write code to handle your own exceptions

RMI

• What is Remote Method Invocation?
• Understanding the RMI Flow
• The use of the RMI Registry
• RMI - An Example
• Various RMI Tools available
• Alternatives to RMI

XML Parsing

• Introduction to DOM concepts
• Document, Node, NodeList, Element, Attr, Text etc Comment
• Understanding the use of the DOM parser
• Using XPath with DOM
• Understanding the use of SAX parser
• Understanding when to use SAX v/s DOM
• Understanding the STAX parser
• Difference between SAX and STAX parsers

JDBC

• Introduction to Database Concepts
  • ER modelling
  • Handling 1..1, 1..n, m..n relationships
  • Primary and Foreign Keys
  • Normalization
• Creating a database
• Creating Tables
• CRUD Operations on Tables
• Introduction to JDBC
  • Connection
  • Statements
  • ResultSet
  • SQLException
• JDBC Driver Types
• Working with Prepared Statements
• Understanding Datasources
• Preventing SQL Injection Attacks

JUnit and TDD

• Introduction
  • Why do we need to test code
  • Different types of testing
  • Unit testing using JUnit
• A deep dive into JUnit
  • JUnit 5 v/s JUnit 4
  • Getting started using JUnit
  • Using JUnit within Eclipse
  • Assertions
  • Testing for exceptions
  • Test isolation
  • Creating and organizing test fixtures with setUp/tearDown and @Before/@After
  • Creating Test Suites
• Test-Driven Development
  • Best Practices with JUnit and TDD
  • An example of TDD