Postgraduate Diploma in Java (SE) Programming via Online Distance Learning

Overview of Java and Programming Technologies

Basic computer hardware and software concepts; Basic object technology concepts, such as classes, objects, attributes, behaviors, encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism; The different types of programming languages; A typical Java development environment; Java's role in developing distributed client/server applications for the Internet and the web; The history of the UM - the industry standard object-oriented design language; The history of the Internet and the World Wide Web; Test-driving Java applications;

Java Application Programming

Introduction to Java Applications; Using the javac command to compile Java applications; Using the java command to run Java applications; Displaying Text with printf; Variables and Introducing Arithmetic Operators; Equality and Relational Operators;

Using Classes and Objects

Classes; Objects; Methods and Instance Variables; Declaring Class and Methods; Instantiating an Object of a Class; Declaring a Method with a Parameter; Instance Variables; set Methods and get Methods; Primitive Types vs; Reference Types; Initializing Objects with Constructors; Floating-Point Numbers and Type double;

Control Statements

"if" Single-Selection Statement; "if" … else Double-Selection Statement; while Repetition Statement; Counter-Controlled Repetition; Sentinel-Controlled Repetition; Nested Control Statements; Compound Assignment Operators; Increment and Decrement Operators; Primitive Types; Essentials of Counter-Controlled Repetition; for Repetition Statement; do… while Repetition Statement; switch Multiple-Selection Statement; break and continue Statements; Logical Operators;

Methods

Static Methods; static Fields and Class Math; Declaring Methods with Multiple Parameters; Notes on Declaring and Using Methods; Method-Call Stack and Activation Records; Argument Promotion and Casting; Java API Packages; Generalized Scaling and Shifting of Random Numbers; Scope of Declarations; Method Overloading;

Arrays

Declaring and Creating Arrays; Examples Using Arrays; Enhanced for Statement; Passing Arrays to Methods; Multidimensional Arrays;

Classes and Objects

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

Inheritance

Superclasses and Subclasses; protected Members; Relationship between Superclasses and Subclasses; Creating an Inheritance Hierarchy; Using protected Instance Variables; Using private Instance Variables; Constructors in Subclasses; Software Engineering with Inheritance;

Polymorphism

Polymorphism Examples; Demonstrating Polymorphic Behavior; Abstract Classes and Methods; Polymorphic Processing; Operator instanceof and Downcasting; Allowed Assignments between Superclass and Subclass Variables; final Methods and Classes; Creating and Using Interfaces; Declaring Constants with Interfaces; Common Interfaces of the Java API;

Building Graphical User Interfaces

Understand the design principles of graphical user interfaces (GUIs); Build GUIs and handle events generated by user interactions with GUIs; Understand the packages containing GUI components, event-handling classes and interfaces; Create and manipulate buttons, labels, lists, text fields and panels; Handle mouse events and keyboard events; Use layout managers to arrange GUI components;

Graphics and Java 2D

Graphics and Java 2D; Module Applications; Solutions to Programming Exercises;

Exception Handling

Exception-Handling Overview; 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, Streams and Serialization

Create, read, write and update files; Use class File to retrieve information about files and directories; Understand the Java input/output stream class hierarchy; Understand the differences between text files and binary files; Implement sequential-access and random-access file processing; Use classes Scanner and Formatter to process text files; Use the FileInputStream and FileOutputStream classes; Use a JFileChooser dialog; Use the ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream class;

Recursion

The concept of recursion; How to write and use recursive methods; How to determine the base case and recursion step in a recursive algorithm; How recursive method calls are handled by the system; The differences between recursion and iteration, and when it is appropriate to use each; What geometric shapes called fractals are and how to draw them using recursion; What recursive backtracking is and why it is an effective problem-solving technique;

Searching and Sorting

Search for a given value in an array using linear search and binary search; Sort arrays using the iterative selection and insertion sort algorithms; Sort arrays using the recursive merge sort algorithm; Determine the efficiency of searching and sorting algorithms; Use loop invariants to help ensure the correctness of your programs;

Data Structures

Linked data structures using references, self-referential classes and recursion; The type-wrapper classes that enable programs to process primitive data values as objects; The use of auto boxing to convert a primitive value to an object of the corresponding type-wrapper class; The use of auto-unboxing to convert an object of a type-wrapper class to a primitive value; Creating and manipulating dynamic data structures, such as linked lists, queues, stacks and binary trees; Various important applications of linked data structures; How to create reusable data structures with classes, inheritance and composition;

Generics

Creating generic methods that perform identical tasks on arguments of different types; Creating a generic Stack class that can be used to store objects of any class or interface type; How to overload generic methods with non-generic methods or with other generic methods; Raw types and how they help achieve backwards compatibility; Using wildcards when precise type information about a parameter is not required in the method body; The relationship between generics and inheritance;

Collections

Collections; Using class Arrays for array manipulations; Using the collections framework (prepackaged data structure) implementations; Using collections framework algorithms to manipulate (such as search, sort and fill) collections; Using the collections framework interfaces to program with collections polymorphically; Using iterators to “walk through” a collection; Using persistent hash tables manipulated with objects of class Properties; Using synchronization and modifiability wrappers;

Applets

Executing an Applet in the appletviewer; Executing an Applet in a Web Browser; Applet Life-Cycle Methods; Initializing an Instance Variable with Method init; Sandbox Security Model;

Multimedia

Loading; Displaying and Scaling Images; Animating Images; Image Maps; Loading and Playing Audio Clips; Playing Video and Other Media with Java Media Framework;

Advanced Graphical User Interface

Creating and manipulating sliders, menus, pop-up menus and windows; Changing the look-and-feel of a GUI, using Swing's pluggable look-and-feel; Creating a multiple-document interface with JDesktop Pane and JInternal Frame; Using additional layout managers;

Multithreading

Java Thread Model ; Creating and Running Threads ; Manipulating Thread State ; Thread Synchronization; Volatile Fields vs; Synchronized Methods ; wait and notify ; join and sleep ; The Concurrency API ; Atomic Operations;

Networking

The OSI Reference Model ; Network Protocols ; The Socket Class ; The Server Socket Class ; Connecting Through URL Objects ; HTTP and Other TCP Servers ; Datagram Clients and Servers ; Non-Blocking Sockets;

Databases and JDBC

Relational database concepts; Using Structured Query Language (SQL) to retrieve data from and manipulate data in a database; Using the JDBC™ API of package java.sql to access databases; Using the RowSet interface from package javax.sql to manipulate databases; Using JDBC 4.0’s automatic JDBC driver discovery; Using Prepared Statements to create precompiled SQL statements with parameters; How transaction processing makes database applications more robust;

Java SE8

Lambda expressions; Extension Methods; Annotations on Java Types; Generalization of Target-Type Inference; Access to Parameter Names at Runtime; Changes to Core Libraries; Changes to Internationalization Support; Changes to Java Security and its Platform;

DB SQL Scripts

Introduction to DB SQL Scrips;