Java Programming

At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the role of the Java Virtual machine in achieving platform independence.
- Use the primitive data types and fundamental control flow constructs to write basic Java applications.
- Utilize the Eclipse IDE to develop and debug Java applications and incorporate automated JUnit testing.
- Use the object-oriented paradigm when defining classes
- Be able to define and invoke methods properly
- Create arrays of various data types and loop through them in an application
- Use encapsulation to combine the data and methods within a class.
- Use inheritance and polymorphism to create and use new data types that are specialized versions of existing data types.
- Define both abstract classes and interfaces to create a hierarchy of classes that form the basis for a framework of data types to work with
- Be able to write exception handlers to respond to errors at runtime within a program
- Use the various built in I/O classes to perform various ways of creating input and output within a program
- Use various data types from the Collections Framework to work with various collections of data.
- Work with the client/server model to create applications that are able to communicate over a network.
- Write basic Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) in Java
- Utilize the Java Stream API to process data in a pipelined fashion.