Core Java - Syllabus

Chapter 1: Object Oriented Programming Concepts

• Introduction.
• OOP Concepts (Basic + Fundamental of OOP).
• Benefits of OOP Programming.

Chapter 2: Introduction to JAVA

• What is java.
• Features of Java.
• Advantages of Java.
• JVM architecture.
• Setting the class path.

Chapter 3: Java Programming

• Java Programming.
• Compiling and Running Java Programs.
• Comments in a Program.
• Command line Argument.

Chapter 4: Java Fundamentals Data Types , Variables and Operators

• Java Tokens, Alphabets (Character Set).
• Keywords, Java Reserved Keywords, Identifiers, Constants, Datatypes, Operators.
• Control-Flow Statements, Decision-Making Statements, Switch and IF else, Looping statements, Break, Continue, Return, Type Casting.

Chapter 5: Classes and Objects

• What are Classes, Declaring a class, Rules for Naming Class
• Creating an Object, Methods, Exploring New Operators,
• Constructors.

Chapter 6: Exploring Methods

• More about main () method.
• Rules for main () method.
• Methods, Method Overloading
• Argument Passing, Call by Reference, Local Variable.
• Access Specifiers and Access Modifiers
• Variable Types

Chapter 7: Inheritance

• Types of Inheritance
• Simple, MultiLevel and Hierarchical
• Method Overriding
• Casting
• Super and this keywords

Chapter 8: Interfaces and Abstract classes

• What are interfaces?
• Interface Members
• Abstract classes Introduction
• Creating references for Interfaces and abstract classes
• Difference between Interfaces and Abstract methods

Chapter 9 : Arrays

• Accessing Elements
• Arrays and Objects
• Array Length

Chapter 10: Java Exception Handling

• Syntax for Exception Handling Mechanism.
• The Try Block, Catch Block, Exception , Checked Exceptions
• The Catch Block (or) Multiple Catch.
• Throw, Throws, The finally Block, User Defined Exceptions.

Chapter 11: Java Threading

• Threaded Application
• Thread states
• Runnable interface and Thread class
• Thread Priority
• Interrupting Threads (sleep(), join())
• Inter thread communication
• Synchronization

Chapter 12: Utility classes

• Collection FrameworkMaps
• Collection Interfaces
• The List Interface and its implementation classes
• The Set Interface and its implementation classes
• The Queue Interface and its implementation classes
• Map and its class
• SortedMap and its classes
• Hash table

Chapter 13: Inner Classes

• Inner Classes
• Member Classes
• Local Classes
• Anonymous Classes
• Instance Initializers
• Static Nested Classes

Chapter 14: Packages

• Predefined Packages
• User defined Packages

Chapter 15: Input/Output Streams

• Overview of Streams
• Bytes vs. Characters
• Converting Byte Streams to Character Streams
• File Object
• Binary Input and Output
• PrintWriter Class
• Serialization
• Reading and Writing Objects
• Basic and Filtered Streams

Chapter 16: Generics

• Introduction
• Simple Generics
• Subtyping in generics
• Wildcards
• Bounded Wildcards

Chapter 17: Reflections

• The reflection API
• How to use reflections
• Advantages of reflections
• Drawbacks of reflections

Chapter 18: Applets

• What are applets
• Life Cycle methods of applets
• Examples using Applets
• Running applets with html file
• Layout Managers

Chapter 19: Java Swings

• Difference between applets and swings
• Pluggable Look and Feel
• Swing API
• Event handling
• Live application demo

Chapter 20: Introduction to JDBC

• The JDBC Connectivity Model
• Types of Jdbc Drivers
• Database Programming (with MSSQL and MYSQL)
• Connecting to the Database
• Creating a SQL Query
• Getting the Results using ResultSet Interface
• SQL Basic Queries
• Statement and PreparedStatement
• Commit and Autocommit, BatchUpdates
• ResultSetMetaData and DataBaseMetaData

Chapter 21: Introduction to RMI

• An overview of RMI
• Writing rmi server
• Writing rmi client
• Creating and deploying the application