JAVA FUNDAMENTALS

This course introduces the key components of the Java programming language. Starting from first basics, it introduces the essential Java 5.0 language syntax, idioms, and tools required to quickly become productive as a Java developer.

As with all our courses, the syllabus can be tweaked to cover more advanced topics, depending on your needs.

The course is delivered by a seasoned and passionate Java developer with over 17 years experience of writing software for commercial organisations, including 10+ working with Java.

Note that this is only a brief overview of the course content, the actual course goes into a lot more detail:

introduction

• history of Java
• the JVM
• installing the JDK
• Java libraries
• the build and runtime classpath
• compiling and running programs

tools - the Eclipse IDE

• perspectives, views and editors
• workspace
• preferences
• projects
• templates
• short-cuts

basic syntax

• literals
• statements and scope
• Java type system
• expressions
• conditionals
• looping
• strings
• arrays

objects

• classes and objects
• heap versus stack
• access modifiers
• static members
• packaging
• importing
• static initialization (and thread safety)
• constructors, methods, fields
• passing arguments
• overloading
• inheritance
• overriding
• abstract classes
• interfaces
• inner classes
• boxing/unboxing
• exceptions

concurrency
collections
reflection
unit testing

This course is a mixture of presentation, demonstration and plenty of hands-on exercises, and is suitable for anyone new to Java.

A good understanding of programming basics and, ideally, another high-level objected oriented programming language.

Facilities should include a whiteboard or flip chart; a projector for a laptop; and adequate workstations with your preferred IDE installed (although we do recommend Eclipse).

Duration: 3 to 5 days
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