Overview

Prerequisites

• Some object-oriented programming experience in a language such as C++, C# or Visual Basic .NET.
• Students without previous object-oriented programming experience may enroll in the course. Deitel will provide reading and lab assignments to be completed prior to the start of the course

Course Outline

Introduction

Review of Java syntax and concepts:

• Introduction to Java Applications
• Introduction to Classes and Objects
• Control Statements: Part 1
• Control Statements: Part 2
• Methods: A Deeper Look
• Arrays

Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look

• Time Class Case Study
• Controlling Access to Members
• Referring to the Current Object's Members with the this Reference
• Time Class Case Study: Overloaded Constructors
• Default and No-Argument Constructors
• Composition
• Enumerations
• Garbage Collection and Method finalize
• static Class Members
• static Import
• final Instance Variables
• Time Class Case Study: Creating Packages

Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

• Superclasses and Subclasses
• protected Members
• Relationship between Superclasses and Subclasses
• Creating and Using a CommissionEmployee Class
• Creating a BasePlusCommissionEmployee Class without Using Inheritance
• Creating a CommissionEmployee – BasePlusCommissionEmployee Inheritance Hierarchy
• CommissionEmployee – BasePlusCommissionEmployee Inheritance Hierarchy Using protected Instance Variables
• CommissionEmployee – BasePlusCommissionEmployee Inheritance Hierarchy Using private Instance Variables
• Constructors in Subclasses
• Software Engineering with Inheritance

Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism

• Polymorphism Examples
• Demonstrating Polymorphic Behavior
• Abstract Classes and Methods
• Case Study: Payroll System Using Polymorphism
• Demonstrating Polymorphic Processing, Operator instanceof and Downcasting
• Summary of the Allowed Assignments Between Superclass and Subclass Variables
• final Methods and Classes
• Case Study: Creating and Using Interfaces
• Developing a Payable Hierarchy
• Declaring Constants with Interfaces
• Common Interfaces of the Java API

GUI Components

• Simple GUI-Based Input/Output with JOptionPane
• Overview of Swing Components
• Displaying Text and Images in a Window
• Text Fields and an Introduction to Event Handling with Nested Classes
• Common GUI Event Types and Listener Interfaces
• How Event Handling Works
• JButton component    
• Buttons That Maintain State
• JCheckBox component  
• JRadioButton component
• JComboBox and Using an Anonymous Inner Class for Event Handling
• JList component
• Mouse Event Handling and Adapter Classes
• JPanel Subclass for Drawing with the Mouse
• Layout Managers
• Using Panels to Manage More Complex Layouts

Exception Handling

• Exception-Handling Overview
• Example: Divide by Zero without Exception Handling
• Example: Handling ArithmeticExceptions and InputMismatchExceptions
• When to Use Exception Handling
• Java Exception Hierarchy
• finally Block
• Stack Unwinding
• printStackTrace , getStackTrace and getMessage
• Chained Exceptions
• Declaring New Exception Types
• Assertions

Files and Streams

• Data Hierarchy
• Files and Streams
• Class File
• Sequential-Access Text Files
• Creating a Sequential-Access Text File
• Reading Data from a Sequential-Access Text File
• Updating Sequential-Access Files
• Object Serialization
• Creating a Sequential-Access File Using Object Serialization
• Reading and Deserializing Data from a Sequential-Access File
• Additional java.io Classes
• Opening Files with JFileChooser

Generics

• Motivation for Generic Methods
• Generic Methods: Implementation and Compile-Time Translation
• Additional Compile-Time Translation Issues: Methods That Use a Type Parameter as the Return Type
• Overloading Generic Methods
• Generic Classes
• Raw Types
• Wildcards in Methods That Accept Type Parameters

Collections

• Collections Overview
• Class Arrays
• Interface Collection and Class Collections
• ArrayList class and Iterators
• LinkedList class
• Collections Algorithms
• Algorithm sort
• Algorithm shuffle
• Algorithms reverse, fill, copy, max and min
• Algorithm binarySearch
• Stack Class of Package java.util
• Class PriorityQueue and Interface Queue
• Sets
• Maps

Multithreading

• Thread States: Life Cycle of a Thread
• Thread Priorities and Thread Scheduling
• Creating and Executing Threads
• Runnable s and the Thread Class
• Thread Management with the Executor Framework
• Thread Synchronization
• Unsynchronized Data Sharing
• Synchronized Data Sharing—Making Operations Atomic
• Producer/Consumer Relationship without Synchronization
• Producer/Consumer Relationship: ArrayBlockingQueue
• Producer/Consumer Relationship with Synchronization
• Producer/Consumer Relationship: Bounded Buffers
• Producer/Consumer Relationship: The Lock and Condition Interfaces
• Multithreading with GUI: Performing Computations in a Worker Thread
• Multithreading with GUI: Processing Intermediate Results with SwingWorker