OOP In JAVA Syllabus

Definition, History of Java, The Internet and Java's Place in IT, Applications and Applets, Java Virtual Machine, Byte Code - not an Executable code, Procedure-Oriented vs. Object-Oriented Programming, Compiling and Running a Simple Program, Setting up your Computer for Java Environment, Writing a Program, Compiling, Interpreting and Running the Program, Handling Common Errors.

Primitive Data Types: Integers, Floating-Point types, Characters, Booleans; User-Defined Data Types, Declarations, Constants, Identifiers, Literals, Type Conversion and Casting; Variables: Variable Definition and Assignment, Default Variable Initializations; Command-Line Arguments; Arrays of Primitive Data Types; Comment Syntax; Garbage Collection; Expressions; Using Operators: Arithmetic, Bitwise, Relational, Logical, Assignment, Conditional, Shift, Ternary, Auto-increment and Auto-decrement; Using Control Statements (Branching: if, switch; Looping: while, do-while, for; Jumping statements: break, continue and return).

Fundamentals of Classes: A Simple Class, Creating Class Instances, Adding methods to a class, Calling Functions/Methods; Abstraction, Encapsulation, Using this keyword; Constructors: Default constructors, Parameterized constructors; More on methods: Passing by Value, by Reference, Access Control, Methods that Return Values, Polymorphism and Method Overloading, Recursion; Nested and Inner Classes.

Inheritance: Using extends keyword, Subclasses and Superclasses, super keyword usage, Overriding Methods, Dynamic Method Dispatch; The Object class, Abstract and Final Classes; Packages: Defining a Package, Importing a Package; Access Control; Interfaces: Defining an Interface, Implementing and applying interfaces.

Basic Exceptions, Proper use of exceptions, User defined Exceptions; Catching Exception: try, catch; Throwing and re-throwing: throw, throws; Cleaning up using the finally clause.

Creation, Concatenation and Conversion of a String, Changing Case, Character Extraction, String Comparison, Searching Strings, Modifying Strings, StringBuffer.

Create/Instantiate/Start New Threads: Extending java.lang.Thread, Implementing java.lang.Runnable Interface; Understand Thread Execution, Thread Priorities, Synchronization, Inter-Thread Communication, Deadlock.

java.io package, Files and directories; Streams: Byte Streams and Character Streams; Reading/Writing Console Input/Output, Reading and Writing files; The Serialization Interface, Serialization & Deserialization.

Using java.lang Package: java.lang.Math, Wrapper classes and associated methods (Number, Double, Float, Integer, Byte, Short, Long, Character, Boolean); Using java.util package: Core classes (Vector, Stack, Dictionary, Hashtable, Enumerations, Random Number Generation).

Arrays and Collection Classes/Interfaces; Map/List/Set Implementations: Map Interface, List Interface, Set Interface; Collection Classes: ArrayList, LinkedList, HashSet and TreeSet; Accessing Collections/Use of an Iterator, Comparator.

About AWT & Swing; About JFrame (a top-level window in Swing); Swing components (JLabel, text components like JTextField, JButton); Event Handling in Swing Applications; Layout Management using FlowLayout, BorderLayout, GridLayout; Using JPanel; Choice components like JCheckBox, JRadioButton; Borders; JComboBox & its events; JList & its events with MVC patterns; Key & Mouse Event Handling; Menus in Swing; JTextArea; Dialog boxes in Swing; JTable for Displaying Data in Tabular form; MDI using JDesktopPane & JInternalFrame; Using IDEs like NetBeans, JBuilder for building Java applications using Drag & Drop; Adapter classes.

Definition, Applet lifecycle methods, Build a simple applet, Using Applet Viewer; Adding Controls; Animation Concepts.

Using Connection, Statement & ResultSet Interfaces for manipulating data with the databases.