Java for Non-Programmers

Dive Into® Series Training: Java™ for Nonprogrammers

(5-Day Corporate On-Site Training Course)

Java How to Program, 7/e
	ISBN: 0132222205 © 2007 pages: 1596 Buy the Book!

Note: We customize every course to the client's unique needs at no additional charge. Any topics can be selected from Java How to Program, 7/e. Please see the detailed table of contents for more information.

We teach this course from our book Java How to Program, 7/e—the world's all-time, best-selling Java textbook.

Overview

This introductory course teaches people with little or no programming experience how to program in an object-oriented manner with the Java programming language. Topics include introductory object-oriented programming, algorithmic thinking, problem solving, control statements, primitive types, operators, keyboard input, screen output, methods (user-defined and API), single-subscripted arrays and strings. The course offers extensive laboratory experience. Solutions are provided for laboratory exercises. The course includes approximately 60% lecture and 40% laboratory exercises. After taking this course, students will be prepared to take Java for Programmers.

Prerequisites

Little or no previous programming experience
General familiarity with your operating system environment
Ability to create and edit text files

In this course, you will learn

Java Standard Edition (Java SE) 5.0
To build, compile and run applications with the Java Development Kit (JDK) version 5.0
To write clear, elementary Java programs
To use the Java interpreter to run Java applications
To understand algorithmic thinking and apply it to programming
Problem-solving techniques
To read, write, and debug Java programs
To write programs using object-oriented programming techniques including classes, objects and inheritance
To perform keyboard input and screen output
To code with arithmetic, increment, decrement, assignment, relational, equality and logical operators
To code control statements (if, if...else, switch, while, do...while and for)
To use primitive types
To use basic graphical user interface (GUI) components and graphics techniques
Write user-defined methods
Understand and manipulate single-subscripted arrays (arrays are Java objects)
Pass single-subscripted arrays to methods
Process strings (strings are Java objects)

Pricing

$12,995 lecture fee (for up to 20 students)
plus materials (approximately $75 per student)
plus instructor travel reimbursement

For more information about this course, please e-mail us or call (978)-823-0130.

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