Java Training: Beginning Java Application Development

Course Number: JAV-100
Duration: 5 days
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Java Training Overview

Accelebrate's Beginning Java Application Development training course teaches aspiring Java programmers the skills they need to successfully write their first applications in Java.

We also offer an Intermediate Java Programming course and an Advanced Java Programming course.

Location and Pricing

Most Accelebrate courses are taught on-site at our clients' locations worldwide for groups of 3 or more attendees and are customized to their specific needs. Please visit our client list to see organizations for whom we have recently delivered training. These courses can also be delivered as live, private online classes for groups that are geographically dispersed or wish to save on the instructor's or students' travel expenses. To receive a customized proposal and price quote private training at your site or online, please contact us.

In addition, some courses are available as live, online classes for individuals. To see a schedule of online courses, please visit http://www.accelebrate.com/online_training/?action=categorygroup&page=java.

Java Training Prerequisites

This Java^® training course can be tailored for audiences ranging from first-time programmers to experienced OO developers seeking to learn Java. It is strongly recommended that all course attendees have similar levels of experience.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This Java training course is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 20 minutes.

Java Training Materials

All students for this Java training course receive a copy of O'Reilly's Head First Java, and related courseware.

Software Needed on Each PC

Core 2 Duo or faster processors with at least 3GB RAM
Any operating system that supports Java 1.6 or later (1.7 or later recommended)
JDK 6 or 7
The Java tool the students are likely to use after the class (Eclipse 3.6 or later is recommended recommended)

Java Training Objectives

To teach attendees the fundamentals of Java programming and how to use Java to write applications
To teach attendees core object-oriented concepts, including classes, packages, objects, methods, properties, abstraction, polymorphism, inheritance, encapsulation, and more

Java Training Outline

A First Look

A Simple Java Class
Java's "Hello World" Program

Java Basics

Language and Platform Features
Program Life Cycle
The Java SE Development Kit (JDK)

Class and Object Basics

The Object Model and Object-Oriented Programming
Classes, References, and Instantiation
Adding Data to a Class Definition
Adding Methods (Behavior)

More on Classes and Objects

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

Flow of Control[briefly due to attendee experience]

Branching: if, if-else, switch
Iteration: while, do-while, for, break, continue

Strings and Arrays

String, StringBuffer, StringBuilder
Arrays, Primitive Arrays, Arrays of Reference Types
varargs

Packages

Package Overview - Using Packages to Organize Code
import statements
Creating Packages, package Statement, Required Directory Structure
Finding Classes, Packages and Classpath

Composition and Inheritance

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

Interfaces

Using Interfaces to Define Types
Interfaces and Abstract Classes

Exceptions

Exceptions and the Exception Hierarchy
try and catch
Handling Exceptions
Program Flow with Exceptions
finally

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

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

Additional Java Features

Assertions
Type-safe Enums
Annotations
Additional Features in Java 6 and Java 7

Conclusion

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