Object Oriented Programming in Java

Course Title: Object Oriented Programming in Java

Course No: CACS204

Nature of the Course: Theory + Lab

Semester: 3

Full Marks: 20 + 20 + 60

Pass Marks: 8 + 8 + 24

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

This course covers preliminary concepts of object-oriented approach in programming with basic skills using Java. Control structures, Classes, methods and argument passing and iteration; graphical user interface basics Programming and documentation style.

Course Objectives

The general objectives of this course are to provide fundamental concepts of Object Oriented Programming and make students familiar with Java environment and its applications.

Course Contents

1. Introduction to Java

2 hrs

1.1. Definition, History of Java

1.2. The Internet and Java's Place in IT

1.3. Applications and Applets

1.4. Java Virtual Machine

1.5. Byte Code- not an Executable code

1.6. Procedure-Oriented vs. Object-Oriented Programming

1.7. Compiling and Running a Simple Program

1.8. Setting up your Computer for Java Environment

1.9. Writing a Program

1.10. Compiling, Interpreting and Running the Program

1.11. Handling Common Errors

2. Tokens, Expressions and Control Structures

5 hrs

2.1. Primitive Data Types

Integers

Floating-Point types

Characters

Booleans

2.2. User-Defined Data Types

Declarations

Constants

Identifiers

Literals

Type Conversion and Casting

2.3. Variables

Variable Definition and Assignment

Default Variable Initializations

2.4. Command-Line Arguments

2.5. Arrays of Primitive Data Types

2.6. Comment Syntax

2.7. Garbage Collection

2.8. Expressions

2.9. Using Operators

Arithmetic

Bitwise

Relational

Logical

Assignment

Conditional

Shift

Ternary

Auto-increment and Auto-decrement

2.10. Using Control Statements

Branching: if, switch

Looping: while, do-while, for

Jumping statements: break, continue and return

3. Object Oriented Programming Concepts

9 hrs

3.1. Fundamentals of Classes: A Simple Class

3.2. Creating Class Instances

3.3. Adding methods to a class

3.4. Calling Functions/Methods

3.5. Abstraction

3.6. Encapsulation

3.7. Using 'this' keyword

3.8. Constructors

Default constructors

Parameterized constructors

3.9. More on methods

Passing by Value

Passing by Reference

Access Control

Methods that Return Values

3.10. Polymorphism and Method Overloading

3.11. Recursion

3.12. Nested and Inner Classes

4. Inheritance & Packaging

3 hrs

4.1. Inheritance

Using 'extends' keyword

Subclasses and Superclasses

'super' keyword usage

Overriding Methods

Dynamic Method Dispatch

The Object class

Abstract and Final Classes

4.2. Packages

Defining a Package

Importing a Package

Access Control

4.3. Interfaces

Defining an Interface

Implementing and applying interfaces

5. Handling Error/Exceptions

2 hrs

5.1. Basic Exceptions

5.2. Proper use of exceptions

5.3. User defined Exceptions

5.4. Catching Exception: try, catch

5.5. Throwing and re-throwing: throw, throws

5.6. Cleaning up using the finally clause

6. Handling Strings

2 hrs

6.1. Creation, Concatenation and Conversion of a String

6.2. Changing Case

6.3. Character Extraction

6.4. String Comparison

6.5. Searching Strings

6.6. Modifying Strings

6.7. String Buffer

7. Threads

3 hrs

7.1. Create/Instantiate/Start New Threads

Extending java.lang.Thread

Implementing java.lang.Runnable Interface

7.2. Understand Thread Execution

7.3. Thread Priorities

7.4. Synchronization

7.5. Inter-Thread Communication

7.6. Deadlock

8. I/O and Streams

2 hrs

8.1. java.io package

8.2. Files and directories

8.3. Streams

Byte Streams

Character Streams

8.4. Reading/Writing Console Input/Output

8.5. Reading and Writing files

8.6. The Serialization Interface

8.7. Serialization & Deserialization

9. Understanding Core Packages

3 hrs

9.1. Using java.lang Package

java.lang.Math

Wrapper classes and associated methods

9.2. Using java.util package

Core classes: Vector, Stack, Dictionary, Hashtable, Enumerations, Random Number Generation

10. Holding Collection of Data

3 hrs

10.1. Arrays And Collection Classes/Interfaces

10.2. Map/List/Set Implementations

Map Interface

List Interface

Set Interface

10.3. Collection Classes

Array List

Linked List

Hash Set

Tree Set

10.4. Accessing Collections/Use of An Iterator

10.5. Comparator

11. Java Applications

8 hrs

11.1. About AWT & Swing

11.2. About JFrame (a top level window in Swing)

11.3. Swing components: JLabel, About text component like JTextField, JButton

11.4. Event Handling in Swing Applications

11.5. Layout Management

Flow Layout

Border Layout

Grid Layout

11.6. Using JPanel

11.7. Choice components: JCheck Box, JRadio Button

11.8. Borders components

11.9. JCombo Box & its events

11.10. JList & its events with MVC patterns

11.11. Key & Mouse Event Handling

11.12. Menus in swing

11.13. JText Area

11.14. Dialog boxes in swing

11.15. JTable for Displaying Data in Tabular form

11.16. MDI using JDesktop Pane & JInternal Frame

11.17. Using IDE like Netbeans, JBuilder for building java applications using Drag & Drop

11.18. Adapter classes

12. Introduction to Java Applets

1 hrs

12.1. Definition

12.2. Applet lifecycle methods

12.3. Build a simple applet

12.4. Using Applet Viewer

12.5. Adding Controls: Animation Concepts

13. Database Programming using JDBC

2 hrs

13.1. Using Connection, Statement & Result Set Interfaces for Manipulating Data with the Databases

Laboratory Works

Laboratory works should be done covering all the topics listed above and a small project work should be carried out using the concept learnt in this course. Project should be assigned on Individual Basis.

1.Laboratory Work covering all course topics

Text Books

1.Deitel & Dietel, "Java: How to program", 9th Edition, Pearson Education, 2011, ISBN: 9780273759768
2.Herbert Schildt, "Java: The Complete Reference", Seventh Edition, McGraw-Hill 2006, ISBN: 0072263857

Reference Books

1.Bruce Eckel, "Thinking in Java", 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2006, ISBN: 0-13-187248-6
2.Cay Horstmann and Grazy Cornell, "Core Java Volume I-Fundamentals", Ninth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2012, ISBN: 978-0137081899
3.E. Balagurusamy, "Programming with Java: A Primer", 4th Edition, Tata McGraw Hill Publication, India

Notes:

This syllabus follows the official BCA curriculum of Tribhuvan University. In case of any doubt or revision, the university's published syllabus shall be considered authoritative.

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Course Description

Course Objectives

Course Contents

Laboratory Works

Text Books

Reference Books

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