CORE JAVA Syllabus:

1. Core Java Programming Introduction of Java

• Introduction to Java; features of Java

• Comparison with C and C++

• Download and install JDK/JRE (Environment variables set up)

• The JDK Directory Structure

• First Java Program through command prompt

• First Java Program through Eclipse

2. Data types and Operators

• Primitive Datatypes, Declarations, Ranges

• Variable Names Conventions

• Numeric Literals, Character Literals

• String Literals

• Arrays (One dimensional; two- dimensional)

• Array of Object References

• Accessing arrays, manipulating arrays

• Enumerated Data Types

• Non-Primitive Datatypes

• Defining a class, variable and method in Java

• Method Signature; method calls

• Expressions in Java; introduction to various operators

• Assignment Operator

• Arithmetic Operators

• Relational Operators
 • Logical Operators

• Conditional Operators

• Operator Precedence

• Implicit Type Conversions

• Upcasting and downcasting

• Strict typing

• Type conversion

3. Control Flow statements

• Statements and it's various categories in Java

• if, if-else, if-else-if

• switch case

• for statement (both flavours traditional and enhanced for)

• while and do-while loops

• The continue Statement; labelled continue statement

• The break Statement; labelled break statement

• return statement

4. OOPS and its application in Java

• Classes and Objects

• Defining a class; Defining instance variables and methods

• Creating objects out of a class

• Method calls via object references

• Abstraction

• Interfaces and Abstract classes

• Abstract and non-abstract methods

• extends and implements keywords in Java

• Super class and Sub class

• this keyword, super keyword in Java for inheritance

• Concrete classes in Java

• Polymorphism

• Compile time polymorphism -- Overloading of methods

• Run time polymorphism -- Overriding of methods

• Method Overriding rules and method overloading rules

• Introduction to Object class and it's methods

• Encapsulation

• Protection of data

• Java Bean, POJO

• Getters/Setters

• Memory management in Java

• Heap

• Stack

5. Packages

• Need for packages

• What are packages; package declaration in Java

• Import statement in Java

• How do packages resolve name clashes?

6. Miscellaneous

• Var-Args
 • Reference variables, local variables, instance variables

• Memory allocations to variables

• Double equals operator(==) operator for primitives and objects

• toString() method on an object

7. Statics

• Static variables and methods

• Static imports

• Static initialization blocks; instance intialization blocks

• Static concept in inheritance

8. Constructors

• What are Constructors?

• Properties of Constructors

• Default and Parameterized Constructors

• Rules for constructor implementation

• Constructor Chaining

• this call; super call for constructors

• Constructors for Enumerated Data Types

• Constructors concept for Abstract classes and interfaces

9. Exceptions in Java

• What are Exceptions?

• Need for exceptions

• How can Exceptions be coded in Java?

• API heirarchy for Exceptions

• Types of Exceptions
 • Keywords in Exception API: try, catch, finally, throw, throws

• Rules for coding Exceptions

• Declaring Exceptions

• Defining and Throwing Exceptions

• Errors and Runtime Exceptions

• Custom Exception

• Assertions

• What are Assertions?

• Enabling and disabling assertions in development environment

10. Strings in Java

• What are Strings?

• String heap memory and Constant Pool memory

• Immutability in Strings

• String creation on heap and constant pool

• Method APIs on String; operations on Strings

• Mutability of String Objects - StringBuilder and StringBuffer

• Splitting of Strings and StringTokenizer class

11. Collection Framework in Java

• The Collections Framework

• The Set Interface

• Set Implementation Classes

• The List Interface

• List Implementation Classes

• The Map Interface

• Queue Interface

• Queue Implmentation classes

• Utility classes

• Sorting collections using utility methods

• equals() and hashCode contract in Java collections

• overriding equals and hashCode methods in Java

• New Collections added in Java 1.6

• Primitive wrapper classes and all its method APIs

12. Generics

• Generics for Collections

• Generics for class

• Generics for methods

13. Input-Output in Java

• What is a stream?

• Overview of Streams

• Bytes vs. Characters

• Overview of the entire Java IO API

• Reading a file; writing to a file usinf various APIs

• Reading User input from console

• PrintWriter Class

14. Serialization

• Object Serialization

• Serializable Interface
 • Serialization API

• ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutput

• Transient Fields

• readObject and writeObject

15. Inner Classes

• Inner Classes

• Member Classes

• Local Classes

• Anonymous Classes

• Static Nested Classes

16. Threads in Java

• Non-Threaded Applications

• Threaded Applications

• Process based multitasking Vs Thread based multitasking

• Thread API in Java

• Creating Threads

• States of a Thread

Sychronization for threads; static and non-static synchronized methods; blocks; concept
of object and class locks

Coordination between threads - wait, notify and notifyAll methods for inter-thread
communication

17. Applets

• What are applets?

• Need for Applets

• Applet API heirarchy

• Life Cycle of an applet

• Even Handlers for applets, mouse events, click events

18. Swing GUI

• Introduction to AWT

• Introduction to Swing GUI

• Advantages of Swing over AWT

• Swing API

• Swing GUI Components

• Event Handlers for Swing

• Sample Calculator application using Swing GUI and Swing Event handling

19. JDBC

• What is JDBC; introduction

• JDBC features

• JDBC Drivers

• Setting up a database annd cretaing a schema

• Writing JDBC code to connect to DB

• CRUD Operations with JDBC

• Statement types in JDBC

• Types of Rowset, ResultSet in JDBC

20. Access Modifers in Java

• What are access modifiers?

• Default
 • Protected

• Private

• Public

21. Debugging of Java Programs in Eclipse.