Introduction to Java

• A brief history of Java
• Language features
• Sun and the Java Community Process
• Versions, editions and the SDK
• Java resources

Class Fundamentals

• Classes and objects
• Detailed class structure
• Constructors and instantiating objects
• Static and instance members
• Methods
• Variables
• Using the this reference
• String and StringBuffer

Language Fundamentals

• Basic class structure
• Primitive types
• Identifiers and scope
• Operators
• Logical expressions
• Flow control
• Basic console I/O
• Packages and naming
• Core API overview
• Other APIs

OO Fundamentals

• Simple UML diagrams
• Encapsulation
• Access modifiers
• Inheritance
• Defining subclasses
• Subclass constructors
• Overriding methods
• Polymorphism
• Overloading methods
• Composition
• Inheriting from Object

Using Collections

• Using arrays
• Collection interfaces
• Concrete collections
• Design issues
• Custom collections
• The Arrays and Collections utility classes
• Managing properties
• System properties

Exceptions

• The try, catch, and finally statements
• The Throwable class hierarchy
• Checked and unchecked exceptions
• Declaring and throwing exceptions
• Exception handling
• Designing custom exception classes

Java Stream I/O

• Filtering and the decorator pattern
• Using the File class
• Byte streams using InputStream and OutputStream
• Character streams using readers and writers
• Character encodings
• Buffering

Multithreaded Java Applications

• The Thread class
• Creating threads with Runnable objects
• Thread management
• Thread states
• Monitors and synchronization
• Avoiding deadlock
• Thread communication

Advanced OO Topics and Java

• Interfaces
• Inner classes
• Abstract classes
• Types
• Composition and inheritance
• Single and multiple inheritance