Java Execution

Data types and Arrays

Operators

Control Statements 

• If
• Nested if
• If-else-if
•  Switch
• Nested switch
• While
• Do-while
• For
• For-each
• Iterating over multidimentiaonal arrays
• Nested loops
• Break/labeled break
• Continue/labled continue
• return

• Writing a source file
• Variables in a class
• Object references
• ‘new’ operator
• Instantiation of a class (what happens on the heap)
• Constructor
• Methods in a class
• Method-local variables
• Multiple constructors
• 'this' keyword
• Garbage collection
• Finlize() method

• Primitive parameters
• Object references as parameters
• Overlaoding methods
• Returning objects
• Access controls
• Static methods
• Effect of ‘final’ on variables
• Arrays as parameters
• Var-arg methods
• Overloading vararg methods
• Var-arg ambiguity
• Command-line arguments
• Nested Classes

• Introducing need of inheritance
• Concept of Super and Sub classes ( Parent-child, Base-derived)
• Access controls for variables and methods in inheritance
• Assigning sub-class object to superclass reference
• Using ‘super’ to access superclass members
• When is super-class’s constructor called
• Multi-level hierarchy
• Method overriding
• Dynamic method invocation
• Abstract classes
• ‘final’ to prevent inheritance
• Object class

• Defining a package
• Changes required in classpath to find correct class
• Access control in package structure
• Import statements
• Interface definition
• Implementing interfaces
• Assigning objects to interface’s variable
• Nested interfaces
• Variable in interfaces
• Interface hierarchy

• Try
• Catch
• Multiple Catches
• Finally
• Nested try
• What, if exception is unhandled
• Throw
• Throws
• Exception Hierarchy
• Custom exception classes
•  Chained exceptions

• Java Threading Model
• Thread class and Runnable Interface
• Main thread
• Creating threads using Thread Class and Runnable interface
• Multiple threads
• Inter thread communication
• IsAlive()
• Join()
• Other thread related methods
• Yield()
• Notify()
• notifyAll()
• wait()
• sleep()
• Synchronization

• Synchronizing methods
• Synchronizing on an object

• Declaring and using enumerations

• Wrapper classes
• Autoboxing in method invocations
• Autoboxing in assignaments

• Console Input
• Console output
• Writing to files
• Streams

• Transient
• Volatile
• Strictfp
• instanceOf
• native methods
• assert
• static import
• this()

• Immutable nature of Strings
• String class’s methods
• StringBuffer class
• StringBuilder class

• Wrapper classes
• Runtime class
• System class
• Object class
• Class class
• Math class
• Enum class
• CharSequence interface
• Iterable Interface
• Comparable interface
• Java.lang.reflect package

• File class
• Byte Streams
• Character Streams
• Console Class
• Serialization

• Overview
• Collection Interfaces
• Collection Classes
• Set, Tree, Queue
• Sorted, Ordered
• Maps
• Equals and hashCode methods
• Comparable and Comparator
• Iterators
• Collection Algorithms
• Legacy Collection Class

• StringTocknizer
• Date
• Calendar
• Locale
• Formatter
• Scanner
• ResourceBundle

• Networking basics
• Ports, Datagrams
• Connecting to an URL
• A simple client-server program

• Appletviewer and HTML
• Applet lifecycle
• A simple Applet class
• An Applet banner
• Parameter passing to Applet

• Delegation Event model
• Events, sources, listeners
• Event classes
• Source classes
• Listener interfaces
• Listener Adapters
• Inner classes and anonymous inner classes

• Introduction to database drivers
• Loading driver
• Table creation
• Firing simple SQL queries on the database
• Resultset and metadata

• Pattern class
• Matcher class

• Introduction to RMI
• A program invoking method on remote machine

• MVC pattern
• Some examples of Swing programs