Introduction to Java 8 for Developers New to OO Programming (such as C, Mainframe, 4GL)

Session: Java: A First Look

Lesson: The Java Platform

• Java Platforms
• Lifecycle of a Java Program
• Responsibilities of JVM
• Documentation and Code Reuse

Lesson: Using the JDK

• Setting Up Environment
• Locating Class Files
• Compiling Package Classes
• Source and Class Files
• Java Applications
• Exercise: Exploring MemoryViewer
• Exercise: Exploring ColorPicker

Lesson: The Eclipse Paradigm

• Workbench and Workspace
• Views
• Editors
• Perspectives
• Projects
• Tutorial: Working with Eclipse

Lesson: Writing a Simple Class

• Classes in Java
• Class Modifiers and Types
• Class Instance Variables
• Primitives vs. Object References
• Creating Objects
• Exercise: Create a Simple Class

Session: OO Concepts

Lesson: Object-Oriented Programming

• Real-World Objects
• Classes and Objects
• Object Behavior
• Methods and Messages
• Exercise: Define and use a New Java class

Lesson: Inheritance, Abstraction, and Polymorphism

• Encapsulation
• Inheritance
• Method Overriding
• Polymorphism
• Exercise: Define and use Another Java Class

Session: Getting Started with Java

Lesson: Adding Methods to the Class

• Passing Parameters into Methods
• Returning a Value from a Method
• Overloaded Methods
• Constructors
• Optimizing Constructor Usage
• Exercise: Create a Class with Methods

Lesson: Language Statements

• Operators
• Comparison and Logical Operators
• Looping
• Continue and Break Statements
• The switch Statement
• The for-each() Loop
• Exercise: Looping
• Exercise: Language Statements

Lesson: Using Strings

• Strings
• String Methods
• String Equality
• StringBuffer
• StringBuilder
• Exercise: Fun with Strings
• Exercise: Using StringBuffers and StringBuilders

Lesson: Specializing in a Subclass

• Extending a Class
• Casting
• The Object Class
• Default Constructor
• Implicit Constructor Chaining
• Exercise: Creating Subclasses
• Exercise: Defining the Student Subclass

Session: Essential Java Programming

Lesson: Fields and Variables

• Instance vs. Local Variables: Usage Differences
• Data Types
• Default Values
• Block Scoping Rules
• Final and Static Fields
• Static Methods
• Exercise: Field Test

Lesson: Using Arrays

• Arrays
• Accessing the Array
• Multidimensional Arrays
• Copying Arrays
• Variable Arguments
• Exercise: Creating an Array
• Exercise: Defining the Student Array

Lesson: Java Packages and Visibility

• Class Location of Packages
• The Package Keyword
• Importing Classes
• Executing Programs
• Java Naming Conventions

Session: Advanced Java Programming

Lesson: Inheritance and Polymorphism

• Polymorphism: The Subclasses
• Upcasting vs. Downcasting
• Calling Superclass Methods From Subclass
• The final Keyword
• Exercise: Salaries - Polymorphism

Lesson: Interfaces and Abstract Classes

• Separating Capability from Implementation
• Abstract Classes
• Implementing an Interface
• Abstract Classes vs. Interfaces
• Exercise: Mailable - Interfaces

Lesson: Exceptions

• Exception Architecture
• Handling Multiple Exceptions
• Automatic Closure of Resources
• Creating Your Own Exceptions
• Throwing Exceptions
• Checked vs. Unchecked Exceptions
• Exercise: Exceptions

Session: Java Developer's Toolbox

Lesson: Utility Classes

• Wrapper Classes
• The Number Class
• Random Numbers
• Autoboxing/Unboxing
• The Date Class
• Exercise: Using Primitive Wrappers

Lesson: Enumerations and Static Imports

• Enumeration Syntax
• When You Should Use Enumerations
• Using Static Imports
• When You Should Use Static Imports
• Exercise: Enumerations

Lesson: The new Date/Time API

• Introduce the new Date/Time API
• LocalDate, LocalDateTime, etc.
• Formatting Dates
• Working with time zones
• Manipulate date/time values
• Exercise: Agenda

Lesson: Formatting Strings

• StringJoiner
• String.format
• System.out.printf
• The Formatter class
• Using the formatting syntax

Session: Collections and Generics

Lesson: Introduction to Generics

• Generics and Subtyping
• Bounded Wildcards
• Generic Methods
• Legacy Calls To Generics
• When Generics Should Be Used
• Exercise: DynamicArray
• Exercise: Adding Generics to Dynamic Array

Lesson: Collections

• Characterizing Collections
• Collection Interface Hierarchy
• Iterators
• The Set Interface
• The List Interface
• Queue Interface
• Map Interfaces
• Using the Right Collection
• Collections and Multithreading
• Exercise: Using Hashtable and HashMap
• Exercise: Collections Poker
• Exercise: Writing a Collection

Session: Lambda Expressions; Collections and Streams

Lesson: Introduction to Lambda Expressions

• Functional vs OO Programming
• Anonymous Inner-classes
• Lambda Expression Syntax
• Functional Interfaces
• Method references
• Constructor references

Lesson: Java 8 Collection Updates

• Introduce the ConcurrentHashMap
• Lambda expressions and Collections
• Exercise: Functional Collections

Lesson: Streams

• Processing Collections of data
• The Stream interface
• Reduction and Parallelism
• Filtering collection data
• Sorting Collection data
• Map collection data
• Find elements in Stream
• Numeric Streams
• Create infinite Streams
• Sources for using Streams
• Exercise: Working with Streams

Lesson: Collectors

• Creating Collections from a Stream
• Group elements in the Stream
• Multi-level grouping of elements
• Partitioning Streams
• Exercise: Collecting

Session: Java Application Development

Lesson: Introduction to Annotations

• Annotations Overview
• Working with Java Annotations
• Exercise: Annotations
• Exercise: Using Annotations

Lesson: Java Data Access JDBC API

• Connecting to the Database
• Statement and PreparedStatement
• ResultSet
• Executing Inserts, Updates, and Deletes
• Controlling Transactions and Concurrency
• Tutorial: Setup The Derby Database
• Exercise: Reading Table Data
• Exercise: Using JdbcRowSet
• Exercise: Executing within a Transaction