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Java Developer
Course Code JAVADEV

Duration 5 Day Course

Price Available on request

Course Description

Java is everywhere and is as popular as ever. This hands-on course, delivered using Java 11, endeavours to
provide the fundamental skills you need to become a Java Developer. We'll have you build a series of realistic
apps focusing on object-oriented principles from the start.

Note that this is not a beginners course. You are expected to be familiar with programming concepts and have a
little coding experience. If not you should consider our Learn to Code with Java course instead.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the
techniques covered.

Objectives

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

Construct a Java app; perform basic IO

Declare classes; instantiate and use objects
Differentiate between primitives and references; exploit the standard data types
Code decisions and loops
Group data using ArrayList and HashMap
Make the case for and code static fields and methods
Manage numbers and perform computations using the Math and BigDecimal classes
Process Strings and perform pattern matching
Manage exceptions
Hide an object's data and its internal workings
Build objects that are composed of others

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Build objects that inherit state/behaviour from others

Build flexible and scalable apps by exploiting abstraction and polymorphism
Read from and write to files and databases
Build a standalone executable from one or more modules

Target Audience

The Java Developer course is aimed at anyone with a little coding experience seeking to become a Java
Developer, and existing developers seeking to migrate to Java.

Additional Information

Whilst not strictly aligned to it, this course is a good choice for anyone intending to take Oracle's Java SE 11
Programmer I exam. All of the headline exam topics are covered though additional preparation is likely to be
required.

Course Modules

Classes & Objects (11 topics)

◾ What is an object
◾ What is a class
◾ Object-oriented apps
◾ Classes
◾ Fields
◾ Constructors
◾ Methods
◾ Objects
◾ Instantiation
◾ Getting and setting fields
◾ Calling methods

Variables & Standard Data Types (15 topics)

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◾ Instance fields
◾ Default values
◾ Local variables incl. parameters
◾ Primitives
◾ Literals
◾ Default types
◾ Casting
◾ References
◾ Arrays (brief)
◾ Strings (brief)
◾ Primitive wrappers
◾ Constants
◾ Type inference
◾ Varargs
◾ Naming conventions

Platform, App Structure & Basic IO (7 topics)

◾ The Java language

◾ The Java platform
◾ App structure incl. modules, packages, and classes (brief)
◾ The main method
◾ Reading from stdin and writing to stdout
◾ Reading from and writing to a text file
◾ Compilation and execution

Decisions & Loops (7 topics)

◾ Relational and conditional operators

◾ If statements
◾ Switch statements
◾ The ternary operator
◾ While loops
◾ For loops (both kind)
◾ Branching statements (break, continue, return)

Essential Collections (20 topics)

◾ What is an array

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◾ List vs. array

◾ Map vs. list
◾ Generic classes (brief)
◾ Arrays
◾ Declaration and initialisation
◾ Setting and getting elements
◾ Sizing
◾ Iterating
◾ Multi-dimensional arrays
◾ Command line arguments
◾ The ArrayList and HashMap classes
◾ Imports
◾ Adding elements incl. autoboxing
◾ Membership testing
◾ Accessing elements
◾ Changing elements
◾ Removing elements
◾ Sizing
◾ Iterating

Static Members & Enums (6 topics)

◾ What does it mean to be static

◾ Static fields
◾ Static methods
◾ Static context
◾ Static imports
◾ Enums

Numbers & Maths (5 topics)

◾ Strings to numbers
◾ Arithmetic and unary operators
◾ The Math class
◾ The BigDecimal class
◾ Number formatting

Strings & Regex (18 topics)

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◾ STRINGS & REGEX

◾ What is a String
◾ Immutable objects
◾ The String Pool
◾ Strings
◾ Creation
◾ Escape characters
◾ Concatenation
◾ Format Strings
◾ Length
◾ Transformative methods
◾ Search methods
◾ Comparative methods
◾ Java 11 methods
◾ StringBuilder
◾ Pattern matching
◾ Regular expressions
◾ The Pattern and Matcher classes

Exception Handling (8 topics)

◾ What is an exception
◾ Checked vs. unchecked exceptions
◾ Exceptions and the call stack
◾ Try, catch, and finally
◾ Handling multiple exception types
◾ Try with resources
◾ Throwing exceptions
◾ Custom exceptions (brief)

Encapsultation (6 topics)

◾ What is encapsulation
◾ Access modifiers
◾ Private fields and public methods
◾ Getters and setters
◾ Constructors (for controlling instantiation)
◾ The this keyword

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Composition & Aggregation (7 topics)

◾ What is composition
◾ What is aggregation
◾ Composite associations
◾ Aggregate associations
◾ Constructor injection (mandatory)
◾ Setter injection (optional)
◾ The problem with getter methods (refs. vs. copies)

Inheritance, Abstraction & Polymorphism (21 topics)

◾ What is inheritance
◾ The purpose of inheritance
◾ Extending a superclass
◾ Shadowing
◾ Overriding
◾ Subclass constructors
◾ The super keyword
◾ Inheritance polymorphism
◾ Upcasting and downcasting
◾ The instanceof operator
◾ Final classes and methods
◾ The Object class incl. toString, hashCode, and equals (brief)
◾ What is abstraction
◾ The purpose of abstraction
◾ Abstract classes and methods
◾ Extending an abstract class
◾ Interfaces
◾ Implementing one or more interfaces
◾ Extending and implementing
◾ Interface polymorphism
◾ Interface default, static, and private methods

Modern File IO (8 topics)

◾ What is a stream
◾ The different types of stream
◾ The Path class

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◾ Reading all bytes/lines from a file

◾ Writing all bytes/lines to a file
◾ Reading from a file using a buffered stream
◾ Writing to a file using a buffered stream
◾ Parsing a file using a Scanner

Modules (8 topics)

◾ What is a module
◾ Module descriptor
◾ Module requires and exports
◾ Compiling a module
◾ Using jdeps to determine a module's dependencies
◾ Compiling a module that requires other modules
◾ Executing a module
◾ Using jlink to build a custom JRE

Basic JDBC (15 topics)

◾ What is JDBC
◾ Loading the driver
◾ Establishing a connection
◾ AutoCommit
◾ Transaction management
◾ Creating a statement
◾ PreparedStatement
◾ CallableStatementt
◾ Batch updates
◾ Executing a query/update
◾ Processing a ResultSet
◾ Type
◾ Concurrency
◾ Holdability
◾ Closing resources

Prerequisites

Delegates attending this course should be able to define general programming concepts including compilation

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and execution, variables, arrays, sequence, selection and iteration, navigate the filesystem (on the command line
ideally), edit and save text files and browse the web. This knowledge can be obtained by attendance on the pre-
requisite Introduction to Programming course.

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