Introduction to Java programming

Description

Java training course description

A comprehensive introduction of the Java language and environment. It is important to note that the course will assume that the delegates are already familiar with the C language as this enables more advanced features of the Java language to be covered in the course. The course will also give an overview of areas related to programming in Java.

What will you learn

• Describe the Java architecture.
• Write Java applets and applications.
• Debug Java programs.
• Examine existing code and determine its function.
• Use multimedia extensions, the awt, multithreading, exceptions within Java

Java training course details

Java training course contents

• Review of UNIX fundamentals
• What is Java?

What Java is, history of Java, reasons for success. The Java Virtual Machine, Bytecodes, getting up and running with Java, Java resources. Simple Java applications.

• C features in Java

Java data structures, Java flow control, differences from C, arrays, strings and packages.

• OO features in Java

Java classes and objects, inheritance, overloading, packages. Differences from C++.

• Java applets

Applications vs. applets, HTML, the applet tag, applet methods, life cycle, testing and debugging.

• Multimedia applets

Images, sounds, fonts, colours and animation.

• Java products

The JDK in detail, other development environments. Javabeans and JDBC overviews.

• Abstract Window Toolkit

JFC and Swing versus AWT. Event handling (JDK 1.1), GUIs, panels, buttons, lists, scrollbars, text areas, frames…

• Exception handling and multithreading

Handling exceptions. Starting, pausing, stopping threads, producers, consumers, monitoring.

• More standard classes

Java file I/O, Streams, The system class. The networking model, java.net classes.

• Security and Java

Types of attack, the security manager, craplets, securing the network.

• Integrating legacy code with Java