From September 22nd, 2006:
Message to potential
attendees
The 5th session started on Feb.
11th,
2008. The advanced topics are covered in the Advanced Java
programming
course. Just like other
online
courses I teach, this course is offered online only. Just
to set the expectation correctly, there
is no real-time webcasting. The dates specified are mostly for
helping people self-pace themselves.How do I get started? What is it
like to take this course?
Since some
people who are taking this online course for the first time are
wondering on how to get started and what it is like to take my online
courses, I decided to clarify them a bit right here. Taking this
course is simple. Basically you do the following:
- Study the presentation slides, resource materials at the convenient time of their choice - the dates specified are only for the guideline.
- Do the hands-on lab. The hands-on lab is a combination of
step-by-step document as well as sample NetBeans projects you can build
and run and see how things work.
- Do the homework - the due date of all homeworks is two weeks after the final class so you have plenty of time to finish them. For each topic, there is a homework. The homework is at the end of the hands-on lab document. The instruction on how to send it and where to send it is also specified there.
- Participate in class email alias for asking and answering questions.
How
to register for
this course
In order to
register for this course, all you have to do is sending
a blank email to the following email alias.
Basically, when you
send a blank email to the above, you are
subscribing our new class alias (javaprogrammingwithpassion@googlegroups.com).
The postings to this alias can be seen from class
forum.
If you have any further questions...
For further questions, please see
course
FAQ below. Please see the FAQ before posting questions or sending
an email directly to me.
Basic Topics and Schedule
Only the topics that have dates will be
covered as part of the course. You need submit homeworks only for
the topics that have dates. The contents of the other topics
will be provided whenever possible.
- Getting started
- Introduction to
Java
technology (jedi,
1, 02) - Feb. 11th, 2008
(week #1)
- Getting to know your Java programming environment (jedi, 1, 03) - Feb. 11th, 2008 (week #1)
- Java programming basics (jedi, 1, 04) - Feb. 11th, 2008 (week #1)
- Learning the basics of Java language
- Getting input from keyboard (jedi, 1, 05) - Feb. 18th, 2008 (week #2)
- Control Structure (jedi, 1, 06) - Feb. 18th, 2008 (week #2)
- Java Arrays (jedi, 1, 07) - March 3rd, 2008 (week #3)
- Command-line arguments (jedi, 1, 08) - March 3rd, 2008 (week #3)
- Working with built-in Java Classes (jedi, 1, 09) - March 3rd, 2008 (week #3)
- Classes and Objects
- Tour of java.lang.* and java.util.* classes - March. 10th, 2008 (week #4)
- Creating your own
Classes
(jedi, 1.10) - March
10th, 2008 (week #4)
- Packages and Java class path - March 10th, 2008 (week #4)
- JavaBeans - March
17th, 2008 (week #5)
- Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts
- Inheritance - March 31st, 2008 (week #6)
- Abstract class and Java Interface
- March 31st, 2008 (week #6)
- Polymorphism - April 7th, 2008 (week #7)
- Learning the advanced features of Java language
- Inner class - April 7th, 2008 (week #7)
- Exception handling (jedi, 2, 02) - April 14th, 2008 (week #8)
- Logging - April 14th, 2008 (week #8)
- IDE
- Collections framework
- Java Collections framework (jedi, 2, 03) - April 14th, 2008 (week #8)
- GUI programming
- Swing(jedi, 2, 07) - April 28th, 2008 (week #9)
- NetBeans GUI Builder (Matisse)
- April 28th, 2008
(week #9)
- I/O & Networking & Database
- Stream
I/O
(jedi, 2, 12) - May 5th, 2008 (week #10)
- Serialization - May 5th, 2008 (week #10)
- Networking API
(jedi, 2.10) - May 5th, 2008 (week #10)
- there is no homework!
- RMI
- Threading
- Threading Basics
(jedi, 2, 12) - May 12th, 2008 (week #11)
- J2SE 5.0 Features
- J2SE 5.0
Language
Feature enhancements - May
19th, 2008 (week #12)
- J2SE 5.0 Generics - May 19th, 2008 (week #12)
- J2SE 5.0 Annotation
- June
2nd, 2008 (week #13)
- J2SE
5.0 Concurrency - June
2nd, 2008 (week #13) - end of the course