Course Title: Core Java

1 Java Language Basics
 History and features of Java
 Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
 JDK tool(Folder structure-for practical purpose only)
 Structure of java program, compilation and execution of java
program
 Java keywords, Data types
 Java variables- declaration and assigning values to
variables(using assignment statement and Scanner class object),
scope of variables
 Type casting- Implicit and Explicit casting, Operators of java
 Control structures of java –
1)Branching statements- If , if ....else, if ...else if and switch statement
2) Iterative statements- for loop, do... while, while loop, jumping
statements-break and continue statement.

2 Introducing classes and objects
 Introduction : Classes, Objects and methods
 Defining a class, field declaration, method declaration
 Accessing class members, access specifiers in java
 Static variables and methods.
 Method overloading
 Constructor- types of constructor, constructor overloading
 Use of this keyword
 Garbage collection-finalize(), wrapper classes
 Array, types of array, array of object
 Collection-Iterator interface, List interface, ArrayList class,
LinkedList class, Vector class and Stack class.

3 Inheritance, packages and interfaces
 Inheritance- definition, syntax, types of inheritance
 Method overriding, use of super keyword, difference between
method overloading and overriding
 Dynamic method dispatch
 Abstract class and method, use of final keyword
 Interface- defining and implementing interface, implementation
of multiple inheritance using interface, difference between
abstract class and interface.
 Packages- Java API package, Defining and accessing user defined package

4 Exception Handling and Multithreading
 Concept of exception, difference between error and exception
 Types of exceptions-checked and unchecked
 Exception handling using try and catch block
 Multiple catch block, finally block, throws keyword
 User defined exception
 Concept of multithreading in java, Difference between process
and thread
 Creating thread by extending Thread class and by
implementing Runnable interface
 Life cycle of thread,Thread class methods- start(), run(),
yield(), suspend() ,resume(), sleep(), wait(), notify(), stop()
 Thread synchronization

Reference books-
1. Herbert Schildt, Java2: The Complete Reference, Tata McGraw-Hill

2. Object Oriented Programming with JAVA Essentilas and Applications , Mc Graw Hill
3. Core and Advanced Java, Black Book- dreamtech
4. Programming with JAVA- E Balagurusamy