Java Programming (3350703)

Unit-1:  Introduction to Java

• What is Java?
• Background/History of Java
• The Internet and Java's place in it
• Applications and Applets
• Java Virtual Machine
• Byte code - not an executable code
• Procedure-Oriented vs. Object-Oriented Programming
• Basics of OOP: Abstraction, Inheritance, Encapsulation, Classes, subclasses and super classes, Polymorphism and Overloading
• Compiling and running a simple "Hello World" program: Setting Up Your Computer, Writing a Program, Compiling, Interpreting and Running the program, Common errors

Unit-2:  Introduction to language basics in java

• Primitive Data Types : Integers, Floating Point type, Characters, Booleans
• User Defined Data Type
• Declarations
• Constants
• Identifiers & Literals
• Type of Conversion and Casting
• Objects and Wrapper Classes
• Variables : Variable Definition and Assignment, Default Variable Initializations2.9 Command Line Arguments
• Arrays of Primitive Data Types
• Comment Syntax
• Garbage Collection
• Using Operators: Arithmetic, Bitwise, Rational, Logical, Assignment, Conditional, Ternary, Auto Increment and Decrement
• Using Control Statements: Selection Statement (If, Switch), Loops (While, Do-while, for), Jump statements (Break, Continue, return)

Unit-3:  Object Oriented Programming Concept

• Abstraction
• Encapsulation
• Polymorphism & Overloading
• Fundamentals of Classes: A simple class, Creating Class Instances, Adding methods to a class, Calling Functions/Methods
• Using ‘this’ keyword
• Constructors: Default constructors, Parameterized constructors
• More on methods: Passing by Value by Reference, Access Control, Methods that Return Values, Method Overloading, Recursion
• Nested and Inner classes

Unit-4:  Inheritance

• Inheritance: Using ‘extends’ keyword, Subclasses and Superclasses, 'super' keyword usage, Overriding Methods, Dynamic Method Dispatch
• The Object class
• abstract and final Classes
• Packages: Defining a package, Importing a package, Access Controls
• Interfaces: Defining an interface, Implementing and applying interfaces

Unit-5:  Exception Handling & Multithreaded Programming

• Basic Exceptions
• Proper use of exceptions
• User defined Exceptions
• Catching Exception: try, catch
• Throwing and re-throwing: throw, throws
• Cleaning up using the finally clause
• Create/instantiate/start new threads: .Extending java.lang.Thread, Implementing java.lang. Runnable Interface
• Understand thread execution
• Thread Priorities
• Synchronization
• Inter-thread communication, Deadlock

Unit-6:  Handling Strings

• Creation, Concatenation and conversion of a string
• Changing case
• Character Extraction
• String Comparison
• Searching strings
• Modifying strings
• String Buffer
• java.io package

Sr.	Title	Author	Publication	Amazon Link
1	Java: The Complete Reference, Seventh Edition	Herbert Schildt	Tata McGraw Hill
2	Programming with Java	E Balagurusamy	Tata McGraw Hill

• Explain the advantages and basic features of Java.
• Differentiate between POP and OOP
• List important OOP fundamentals
• Write simple programs using java