Getting Started
- Welcome to this course
- Install Java and NetBeans
- What is Java?
- Source Code Archive
- The Little Book Of Java
- How to use the demo projects in NetBeans
- Java and NetBeans
First Steps in Java
- A first program – Hello world
- Making sense of Java code
- How to open a command prompt in Windows and the Mac
- How to pass arguments to a program
- How to create visual applications
- Compiling Java programs – from source code to bytecode
- Printing text at the system prompt
- Displaying text in visual controls
- Essential features of Java programs
The Fundamentals of Java Programming
- Data Types and Variables
- Constants
- Design and program a calculator in NetBeans
- Packages and imports
- Type conversion
- Primitives and wrappers
- Type casts
- Numeric literals
- Automatic string conversions
- Autoboxing and unboxing
- Strings
- Types and packages
Object Orientation
- What is Object Orientation?
- Classes and objects
- Class hierarchies
- How to create a subclass
- Methods
- Static methods and variables
- Classes and objects
Conditional Tests and Operators
- Operators
- Arithmetic operators
- String equality
- String equality – exceptions to the rule!
- if..else tests
- switch..case
- Logical operators and Booleans
- Compound assignment operators
- Unary addition and subtraction operators
- Operators and test conditions
Arrays and Collections
- Arrays
- Zero-based arrays
- Initializing arrays
- for loops
- Garbage collection
- ArrayLists
- Interfaces
- Generics
- Maps
- Type-safe HashMaps
- ArraysLists, HashMaps and generics
Loops
- for loops revisited
- Enhanced for statements
- while
- while loop to read text file
- do..while
- Multidimensional arrays
- Iterating over multidimensional arrays
- break
- continue
- Disadvantages of break and continue
- Breaking out of a nested for loop
- Labelled break
- Loops
Enumerated types, interfaces and scope
- Enums
- Enums and static constants
- The Enum class
- Debugging code
- Interfaces
- A custom interface
- Scope
- Local variables
- Access modifiers
- Enums and interfaces
Generics and Exceptions
- Introducing Generics
- Strongly-typed lists
- Generic type parameters
- Generic classes
- Generic collections
- Overriding methods
- Overloading methods
- Exceptions
- Catching exceptions
- Exception types
- Generics and exceptions
Files and Serialization
