Introduction to Computer Programming with Java

• History, background, need and use of computer languages
• Types of Java applications
• About JVM
• About J2SE, J2ME & J2EE
• Features of Java

Structure of Java Programs

• Introduction to classes
• Methods
• Variables & Objects
• Data Types (classes)

Program Designing

• Flow of the program
• Flow charts
• UML (notations)
• Class Diagrams & Sequence Diagrams
• Requirement gathering & use cases
• Naming Conventions
• Design Patterns

Flow control

• if/else, switch statments
• loops for, while, dowhile
• transfer of flow by method invocation

Optimization

• Memory usage
• Programming efficiency & reusability
• Performance
• Reducing redundancy
• Code Readibility & Maintenance

 Designing methods

• Identifying & defining input & output
• Visibility
• Pass by value, Pass by reference
• Returning values
• Scope of the variables
• Static methods
• Final methods
• Synchronized methods

Object Oriented Programming

• Designing Classes
• Attributes, fields, constants, globals
• Getters/Setters
• Constructors
• Non-static methods
• Objects
• Encapsulation
• Polymorphism
• Inheritence
• Abstract Classes
• Interfaces
• Method over-loading
• Method over-riding
• Wrapper classes

 Data Structures

• Arrays
• Variables & Constants
• Stacks and Queues
• Others

Multithreading

• Resource sharing
• Efficiency
• Pros & Cons
• Atomicity & Syncrhonization

Java Collection framework

• Lists & ArrayLists
• HashMaps
• HashTables
• Vectors
• Sets
• LinkedLists
• Others

Troubleshooting

• Debugging
• Problem diagnosis (Exception identification)
• Implementing solutions

Exception Handling

• Checked & Unchecked Exceptions
• try/catch
• Throwing exceptions
• Custom exceptions
• Exception wrapping

 File Handling

• File Input/Output Streams
• Streams
• Buffers
• Text files
• Binary files
• Reading, displaying and 'modifying' images

Miscellaneous & Other Topics