Intermediate Java Programming

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Class Description

Class Overview

Class Goals

• Chiefly, learn to program effectively in the Java language.
• Understand the Java software architecture, and the design decisions which make Java software portable, efficient, secure and robust.
• Learn how to configure a simple Java development environment.
• Know the grammar, data types and flow control constructs of the Java language for simple procedural programming.
• Understand Java as a purely object-oriented language, and implement software as systems of classes.
• Implement and use inheritance and polymorphism, including interfaces and abstract classes.
• Design appropriate exception handling into Java methods, and use the logging API appropriately.
• Understand the structure of streams in Java, and learn how to use streams to manage file I/O.
• Learn how to use Java Serialization to internalize and externalize potentially complex graphs of objects.
• Build unit tests for Java classes using JUnit.

Class Outline

1. Review of Java Fundamentals
   1. The Java Architecture
   2. Forms for Java Software
   3. Three Platforms
   4. The Java Language
   5. Numeric Types
   6. Characters and Booleans
   7. Enumerations
   8. Object References
   9. Strings and Arrays
   10. Conditional Constructs
   11. Looping Constructs
   12. Varargs
2. Object-Oriented Software
   1. Complex Systems
   2. Abstraction
   3. Classes and Objects
   4. Responsibilities and Collaborators
   5. UML
   6. Relationships
   7. Visibility
3. Classes and Objects
   1. Java Classes
   2. Constructors and Garbage Collection
   3. Naming Conventions and JavaBeans
   4. Relationships Between Classes
   5. Using this
   6. Visibility
   7. Packages and Imports
   8. Overloading Methods and Constructors
   9. JARs
4. Inheritance and Polymorphism in Java
   1. UML Specialization
   2. Extending Classes
   3. Using Derived Classes
   4. Type Identification
   5. Compile-Time and Run-Time Type
   6. Polymorphism
   7. Overriding Methods
   8. The @Override Annotation
   9. Superclass Reference
5. Using Classes Effectively
   1. Class Loading
   2. Static Members
   3. Statics and Non-Statics
   4. Static Initializers
   5. Static Imports
   6. Prohibiting Inheritance
   7. Costs of Object Creation
   8. Strings and StringBuffers
   9. Controlling Object Creation
   10. Understanding Enumerated Types
   11. Stateful and Behavioral Enumerations
6. Interfaces and Abstract Classes
   1. Separating Interface and Implementation
   2. UML Interfaces and Realization
   3. Defining Interfaces
   4. Implementing and Extending Interfaces
   5. Abstract Classes
7. Collections
   1. Dynamic Collections vs. Arrays
   2. UML Parameterized Type
   3. Generics
   4. Using Generics
   5. The Collections API
   6. The Collection<E> and List<E> Interfaces
   7. The ArrayList<E> and LinkedList<E> Classes
   8. Looping Over Collections: Iterable<E>
   9. Collecting Primitive Values: Auto-Boxing
   10. Using Wildcards with Generic Types
   11. Iterators and the Iterator<E> Interface
   12. Maps and the Map<K,V> Interface
   13. Sorted Collections
   14. The SortedSet<E> and SortedMap<K,V> Interfaces
   15. The Collections Class Utility
   16. Algorithms
   17. Conversion Utilities
8. Exception Handling
   1. Reporting and Trapping Errors
   2. Exception Handling
   3. Throwing Exceptions
   4. Declaring Exceptions per Method
   5. Catching Exceptions
   6. The finally Block
   7. Catch-and-Release
   8. Chaining Exceptions
   9. try-with-resources
9. Inner Classes
   1. Passing Behavior
   2. Inner Classes in GUI Programming
   3. Named Inner Classes
   4. Outer Object Reference
   5. Static Inner Classes
   6. Anonymous Inner Classes
10. The Java Streams Model
    1. Delegation-Based Stream Model
    2. InputStream and OutputStream
    3. Media-Based Streams
    4. Filtering Streams
    5. Readers and Writers
11. Working with Files
    1. File Class
    2. Modeling Files and Directories
    3. File Streams
    4. Random-Access Files
12. Advanced Stream Techniques
    1. Buffering
    2. Data Streams
    3. Push-Back Parsing
    4. Byte-Array Streams and String Readers and Writers
13. Java Serialization
    1. The Challenge of Object Serialization
    2. Serialization API
    3. Serializable Interface
    4. ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream
    5. The Serialization Engine
    6. Transient Fields
    7. readObject and writeObject
    8. Externalizable Interface
14. Automated Unit Testing with JUnit
    1. Automated Testing
    2. JUnit and Related Tools
    3. The @Test Annotation
    4. The Assert Class Utility
    5. Test Runners
    6. Lifecycle Methods

Class Materials

Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• Students must be able to write, compile, test, and debug simple Java programs, using structured programming techniques, strong data types, and flow-control constructs such as conditionals and loops.

Courses that can help you meet these prerequisites:

• Introduction to Java Training
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) Training with UML

Technical Requirements

Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.

• Instructor-led Online course technical requirements and setup instructions.
• WebEx system requirements for Instructor-led Online delivery option.
• Onsite course technical requirements and setup instructions.

Potential Follow-on Classes

• Advanced Java Programming
• Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) Training with UML