Fast Track to Core Java 8 Programming for OO Experienced Developers (TT2104-J8) Training in Malta

Who Should Attend?

This is an introductory-level Java programming course, designed for experienced developers who wish to get up and running with Java, or who need to reinforce sound Java coding practices, immediately. Attendees should have a working knowledge of developing OO software applications (coming from C++, C# or other OO programming backgrounds).

This “skills-centric” course is about 50% hands-on lab and 50% lecture, designed to train attendees in core OO coding and Java development skills, coupling the most current, effective techniques with the soundest industry practices. Our engaging instructors and mentors are highly experienced practitioners who bring years of current "on-the-job" experience into every classroom.

Working in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to:

• Understand not only the fundamentals of the Java language, but also its importance, uses, strengths and weaknesses
• Understand the basics of the Java language and how it relates to OO programming and the Object Model
• Learn to use Java multi-threading and exception handling features
• Understand and use classes, inheritance and polymorphism
• Understand and use collections, generics, autoboxing, and enumerations including new Java features and capabilities
• Become familiar with the concept of functional programming using Lambda Expressions
• Process large amounts of data using the Stream API introduced in Java 8
• Take advantage of the Java tooling that is available with the programming environment being used in the class
• Specific Java 8 features: The new Date API, Lambda Expressions, Streams, Collectors

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

Lesson: The Eclipse Paradigm

• Workbench and Workspace
• Views
• Editors
• Perspectives
• Projects

Session: Getting Started with Java

Lesson: Writing a Simple Class

• Classes in Java
• Class Modifiers and Types
• Class Instance Variables
• Primitives vs. Object References
• Creating Objects

Lesson: Adding Methods to the Class

• Passing Parameters into Methods
• Returning a Value from a Method
• Overloaded Methods
• Constructors
• Optimizing Constructor Usage

Lesson: Language Statements

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

Lesson: Using Strings

• Strings
• String Methods
• String Equality
• StringBuffer
• StringBuilder

Lesson: Specializing in a Subclass

• Extending a Class
• Casting
• The Object Class
• Default Constructor
• Implicit Constructor Chaining

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

Lesson: Using Arrays

• Arrays
• Accessing the Array
• Multidimensional Arrays
• Copying Arrays
• Variable Arguments

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

Lesson: Interfaces and Abstract Classes

• Separating Capability from Implementation
• Abstract Classes
• Implementing an Interface
• Abstract Classes vs. Interfaces

Lesson: Exceptions

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

Session: Java Developer's Toolbox

Lesson: Utility Classes

• Wrapper Classes
• The Number Class
• Random Numbers
• Autoboxing/Unboxing
• The Date Class

Lesson: Enumerations and Static Imports

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

Session: Collections and Generics

Lesson: Introduction to Generics

• Generics and Subtyping
• Bounded Wildcards
• Generic Methods
• Legacy Calls To Generics
• When Generics Should Be Used

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

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

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

Lesson: Collectors

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

Additional Topics: Time Permitting

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

Lesson: Introduction to Annotations

• Annotations Overview
• Working with Java Annotations