JAVA Programming - I

Course Title: JAVA Programming - I

Course No: IT 216

Nature of the Course: Theory + Lab

Semester: 3

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

Java's Lineage, An overview of Java, Data types, Variables and Arrays, Operators, Control Statements, Introducing Classes, A Closer Look at Methods and classes, Inheritance, Packages and Interface, Exception handling, Multithreaded programming, Enumerations, autoboxing, and annotations, String handling, Input/output.

Course Objectives

This course aims to develop students' skill in JAVA programming. Students are expected to have the basic knowledge of programming with 'C' language.

Course Contents

1. Java's Lineage

2 hrs

1.1. The Creation of Java

1.2. How Java Changed the Internet

1.3. The Bytecode

1.4. Servlets: Java on the Server Side

1.9. Architecture Neutral

1.10. Interpreted and High Performance

1.11. Distributed

1.12. Dynamic

2. An overview of Java

2 hrs

2.1. Object-Oriented Programming

Two Paradigms

Abstraction

The Three OOP Principles

2.2. Lexical Issues

Whitespace

Identifiers

Literals

Comments

Separators

The Java Keywords

3. Data types, Variables and Arrays

4 hrs

3.1. Java is a strongly Typed Language

3.2. The Primitive Types

3.3. Integers

Byte, short, int, long

3.4. Floating point Types

Float, double

3.5. Characters

3.6. Booleans

3.7. A closer Look at Literals

Integer Literals, Floating-Point literals, Boolean Literals, Character Literals, String Literals

3.8. Variables

Declaring a Variable, Dynamic Initialization, The Scope and Lifetime of Variables

Type conversions and Casting, Casting Incompatible types

3.9. Automatic Type promotion Rules

3.10. Arrays

One Dimensional Arrays, Multidimensional arrays, Alternative Array Declaration syntax

3.11. Scanner Object

4. Operators

4 hrs

4.1. Arithmetic Operators: +,-,/,*,%,++,--

4.2. The Bitwise operators

The bitwise logical operators

The left shift, right shift, Unsigned Right shift, bitwise operator compound assignments

4.3. Relational operators

4.4. Boolean logical operators

Short-circuit logical operators

The ? operator

4.5. Operator precedence

4.6. Using parenthesis

5. Control Statements

5 hrs

5.1. Java's Selection statements

If...., switch....

5.2. Iteration statements

while, do-while, for, the for-each version of the for loop, nested loops

5.3. Jump statements: using break, using continue

6. Introducing Classes

4 hrs

6.1. Class fundamentals

The general form of a class, a simple class

6.2. Declaring objects

6.3. Assigning Object Reference variables

6.4. Introducing methods

Adding a method to the box class, returning a value, adding a method that takes parameters

6.5. Constructors: Parameterized Constructors

6.6. The this keyword: instance variable hiding

6.7. Garbage collection

6.8. The finalized() method

6.9. A Stack class

7. A Closer Look at Methods and classes

4 hrs

7.1. Overloading methods; overloading constructors

7.2. Using objects as parameters

7.3. A closer look at arguments passing, returning objects, recursion, introducing access control, understanding static, introducing final, arrays revisited, introducing nested and inner classes, exploring the string class, using command-line arguments

7.4. Varargs: variable-length arguments

Overloading vararg methods, varargs and ambiguity

8. Inheritance

3 hrs

8.1. Inheritance Basics: Member access and inheritance

8.2. Using super: using super to call superclass constructors, a second use for super

8.3. Creating a multilevel hierarchy

8.4. When constructors are called

8.5. Method overriding

8.6. Dynamic method dispatch: why overridden method?

8.7. Using abstract classes, using final with inheritance

8.8. The object class

9. Packages and Interface

3 hrs

9.1. Packages: defining a package, finding packages and CLASSPATH

9.2. Access Protection

9.3. Interfaces: defining an interface, implementing interfaces, nested interfaces, applying interfaces, variables in interfaces, interfaces can be extended

10. Exception handling

3 hrs

10.1. Exception-handling fundamentals, exception types, uncaught exceptions, using try..catch

10.2. Multiple catch clauses

10.3. Nested try statements

10.4. Throw, throws, finally, Java's built-in exception

10.5. Creating your own exception subclasses

11. Multithreaded programming

4 hrs

11.1. The Java Thread Model

11.2. Thread priorities, synchronization, messaging, the thread class and the runnable interface

11.3. The main thread

11.4. Creating a thread: implementing runnable, extending thread

11.5. Creating multiple threads: using isAlive() and join()

11.6. Thread priorities

11.7. Synchronization: using synchronized methods, the synchronized statement

12. Enumerations, autoboxing, and annotations

3 hrs

12.1. Enumerations

Fundamentals, the values() and valueOf() methods, Java Enumerations Are class types, enumerations inherit Enum

12.2. Type Wrappers: character, Boolean, the numeric type wrappers

12.3. Autoboxing

Autoboxing and methods, autoboxing/unboxing occurs in expressions, autoboxing/unboxing Boolean and character values, autoboxing/unboxing helps prevent errors

12.4. Annotations

Annotation basics, specifying a retention policy, obtaining annotations at run time by use of reflection

13. String handling

3 hrs

13.1. The String constructors, string length

13.2. Special string operators: string literals, concatenation, conversion and toString()

13.3. Character Extraction

charAt(), getChars(), getBytes(), toCharArray()

13.4. String comparison

equals() and equalsIgnoreCase(), regionMatches(), startsWith() and endsWith(), equals() versus ==, compareTo

13.5. Modifying a String

Substring(), concat(), replace(), trim()

14. Input/output

4 hrs

14.1. File: directories, using filenameFilter, the listFiles(), creating directories

14.2. The Autocloseable, Closeable, and Flushable Interfaces

14.3. I/O Exceptions

14.4. The stream classes

14.5. The byte Streams

InputStream, OutputStream, FileInputStream, FileOutputStream, PrintStream, DataOutputStream and DataInputStream, RandomAccessFile

14.6. The Character Streams

Reader, Writer, FileReader, FileWriter, PrintWriter

14.7. The Console Class

14.8. Serialization

Serializable, Externalizable, ObjectOutput, ObjectOutputStream, ObjectInput, ObjectInputStream

Text Books

1.Thinking in JAVA- Bruce Fikal
2.Complete reference for JAVA 2
3.Schaum's outline programming in C++- John Hubbard

Notes:

This syllabus follows the official BIM curriculum of Tribhuvan University. In case of any doubt or revision, the university's published syllabus shall be considered authoritative.https://itcollegenepal.com/bachelor-in-information-management-syllabus/

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